A civilizational game of Jenga

Civilizations are complex machines, invariably run by people who don’t fully understand them.

They’re generally also equipped with safety devices, in the form of rules, customs and informal understandings, designed to keep things from going off the rails. …

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But most of our politicians were products of political machines, which, whatever their flaws, had a vested interest in society holding together and a deep firsthand understanding of people and institutions.

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