Urbanisation, technology, prosperity and bureaucratisation all enable the degrading of feedbacks within our societies.

The day is slipping away and I have run out of time for discretionary reading.  Capturing so that I can come back to Creating insular information bubbles by Helen Dale.  The subheading is A civilisation of broken feedbacks generates expanding social dysfunction: IV

As discussed in a previous essay, urbanisation, technology, prosperity and bureaucratisation all enable the degrading of feedbacks within our societies.

They also permit the generation and propagation of networks—coordinated via toxic ideas—that further undermine feedbacks. The dysfunctional policy responses to Covid combined poor and suppressed feedbacks from the pathologies of bureaucratisation with dysfunctional narrative-peddling—so feedback-suppressing—mainstream media.