Part 3 of my “Immune System” series:
21st-Century Problems – how our threat model changed, and why our institutions didn’t.
statecraftblueprint.org/p/why-excell...

We’re still trying to manage them with:
• 2-year election cycles
• Outrage-driven media
• Soundbite incentives

That’s not a personnel problem. It’s an architectural problem.

Our problem set now?
• Climate cascades
• AI & cyber risks
• Global pandemics
• Fragile financial networks
• Information overload

These are systems problems with long time horizons and nonlinear effects.

These aren't partisan claims. They're observable system failures.
The question isn't WHETHER these problems exist.
The question is what we're going to do about them.
Start with what everyone can see. Build from there.

We hold these truths to be self-evident:

Governments should be able to pass budgets without shutting down
Citizens should be able to understand where their tax dollars go
Policy shouldn't lurch wildly every 4-8 years
Political gridlock shouldn't prevent addressing visible challenges

3/3 The cure is mechanism design (attention pricing, disclosure of trade-offs, slower lanes). Full essay:
thestatecraftblueprint.substack.com/p/why-your-s...