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{{a|design|}}Modern dogma writ large. In the mortal, unlistened-to words of tiresome Victorian librettist [[Otto Büchstein]], ''[[La Vittoria della Forma sulla Sostanza]]''.<ref>Literally, “The Victory of Form over Substance”. Never popular.</ref> | {{a|design|}}{{quote|“There’s nothing like a crisis to highlight the difference between [[performative governance]] and ''actually governing''.” | ||
:—Attributed to Andrew Exum, ''The Atlantic''}} | |||
Modern dogma writ large. In the mortal, unlistened-to words of tiresome Victorian librettist [[Otto Büchstein]], ''[[La Vittoria della Forma sulla Sostanza]]''.<ref>Literally, “The Victory of Form over Substance”. Never popular.</ref> | |||
This disposition that ticking a box — fulfilling a formal requirement to have taken a step, followed a process, or sublimated an intractable hazard into a parametrised, traffic-light renderable [[key performance indicator]] should generate any comfort other than a false one, feeds on, just as it nourishes, related dogmas: of ''cost'' reduction, at all cost, that all unknowns can be known, that all vestiges of risk can neutralised, bifurcated, cauterised and ''eliminated'' to leave a pure, crystalline residue of concentrated ''reward''. That [[The End of History and the First Man - book review|history is at an end]], that the universe can be brute-force computed, and the fact that it hasn’t yet is a minor inconvenience that we can tide over just as long as we check of few boxes and keep a clear audit trail. | This disposition that ticking a box — fulfilling a formal requirement to have taken a step, followed a process, or sublimated an intractable hazard into a parametrised, traffic-light renderable [[key performance indicator]] should generate any comfort other than a false one, feeds on, just as it nourishes, related dogmas: of ''cost'' reduction, at all cost, that all unknowns can be known, that all vestiges of risk can neutralised, bifurcated, cauterised and ''eliminated'' to leave a pure, crystalline residue of concentrated ''reward''. That [[The End of History and the First Man - book review|history is at an end]], that the universe can be brute-force computed, and the fact that it hasn’t yet is a minor inconvenience that we can tide over just as long as we check of few boxes and keep a clear audit trail. | ||