The corruption and decay of our institutions is tragic especially because, I believe, we are entering a time in history when our institutions will be more important than ever. And I fear too many of them are too far gone to be up to the challenge.
It’s depressing, but I hold out hope that maybe enough people will realize this and try to turn them around.
In many cases this may mean creating better, almost entirely independent/different institutions.
Ones where coersion is unnecessary and unfavorable
I agree. My concern is that things are changing too fast for new institutions to help us. Building new institutions takes time and building trust in those institutions takes even longer.
However, it is possible that in the age of instant communication an institution could go through that process much quicker.
"Build more prisons, got it" -govt probably
any books/articles that you recommend talking about this topic?
