I can't recommend
@dsquareddigest.bsky.social The Unaccountability Machine strongly enough as an explanation of how systems work and when they don't - now available in the US -
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo... - (and I believe blurbed by Brian Eno for the UK paperback which I haven't seen).
The Unaccountability Machine
Longlisted for the 2024 Financial Times Book of the Year. How life and the economy became a black box—a collection of systems no one understands, producing outcomes no one likes. Passengers get bump...
MAGA wants to break down any understanding of systems and replace it with belief in conspiracies.
Systems are complex but include us, so we can exert some influence and work to change them. Conspiracies are simple and exclude us, so they can change them as needed to work against us.
