The powerful intentionally put degenerates and idiots into subordinate positions of power to secure their loyalty. People who are promoted beyond their competency are dependent upon the mercy of their superiors, who ensure loyalty. That's how idiots dominate entire structures of power.
Secondly, the people who are in command try to always inoculate themselves from consequences. The more they inoculate themselves, the less feedback they get, the more disconnected they become from reality, and the less experienced and adaptable they become.
Repeated decade after decade, you end up with a power system dominated almost entirely by loyal retards; and power-brokers who are completely separated from reality that might as well be retards.
This is how these power systems die. Go back even 10 years, and although the Cathedral had strains and problems; it wasn't wildly incompetent and narcissistic. Clinton, Obama, Blair, Bush, they are all shocked at how bad the administration of the Cathedral seems to be going. But go back 50 years. The Cathedral was far more sophisticated, professional, and careful. Go back 100 years, and you'll find that even the mid-level administrators were all competent. The power-brokers were damn near geniuses in their techniques at manipulation.
This is what the death-rattle of an institution looks like: bumbling, defensive, paranoid, and panicky.
You misunderstand how these systems work.
The powerful intentionally put degenerates and idiots into subordinate positions of power to secure their loyalty. People who are promoted beyond their competency are dependent upon the mercy of their superiors, who ensure loyalty. That's how idiots dominate entire structures of power.
Secondly, the people who are in command try to always inoculate themselves from consequences. The more they inoculate themselves, the less feedback they get, the more disconnected they become from reality, and the less experienced and adaptable they become.
Repeated decade after decade, you end up with a power system dominated almost entirely by loyal retards; and power-brokers who are completely separated from reality that might as well be retards.
This is how these power systems die. Go back even 10 years, and although the Cathedral had strains and problems; it wasn't wildly incompetent and narcissistic. Clinton, Obama, Blair, Bush, they are all shocked at how bad the administration of the Cathedral seems to be going. But go back 50 years. The Cathedral was far more sophisticated, professional, and careful. Go back 100 years, and you'll find that even the mid-level administrators were all competent. The power-brokers were damn near geniuses in their techniques at manipulation.
This is what the death-rattle of an institution looks like: bumbling, defensive, paranoid, and panicky.