Seeing people bring up parts of my “current constitutional crisis is the catastrophic failure of a complex system” thesis, so I’m going to elaborate on it here. This will be somewhat unorganized but here goes:
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Josh Chafetz
1/ I wonder if there's a complement to Mettler's _Submerged State_ thesis: the successful state thesis. In brief: American government has *in many ways* been so successful for so long that Americans have forgotten why they need it, making anti-government rhetoric more appealing.
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So! Lostbelts, the conceit of Part 2, is that there is an Alien God trying to introduce alternate branches of history onto the "main timeline" of the FGOverse, and presumably take over the entirety of human history for its own nefarious ends.
1) near misses
2) complacency or institutional arrogance
3) institutionalized deviance