“Coach tactics of intimidation, coercion, and bullying in college sports are vast, and, we argue, core to the institution’s #culture of control and discipline over exploited players.”

#coaching #leadership #management #institutions

https://www.publicbooks.org/its-just-scary-abuse-and-power-in-college-football/

Where @ethanz tells us about the cultural power of #DontLookUp:

"But there’s something Don’t Look Up gets right. Many of our #institutions are failing us. The experts don’t know what to do. The feelings of terror and helplessness lead people to behave strangely and unpredictably. McKay doesn’t offer us a solution to an ongoing #apocalypse, but this #film, at its best, offers us a moment of #empathy. Look past the machinations of the politicians and the media stars, and look towards the people in the background trying to make sense of a reality that no longer makes sense, disrupted by #COVID or #climatechange or by a slide into #authoritarianism. If there’s a solution to this polycrisis, this interconnected mess of apocalyptic threats, it’s in the #groups working to live through this scary moment, not through the politicians or celebrities who’ll get to escape to their bunkers or spaceships."

https://ethanzuckerman.com/2025/04/04/science-on-screen-dont-look-up/

In #America everyone speaks of the cost of the 'grocery' and the #Tariff ...
But nobody seems to take the MAIN problem into consideration

All
... truly all
#TRUMP actions
have been aimed at weakening and damaging #America
first trump attacked the #Institutions and the #Governament
dismantel it
then trump damaged the #Army eliminating capable officers
Then attacked the #Allies
now tanking the US #Economy

No Trump action has been in 'favor' of the #USA
...
Nobody asks questions ?

From @drjaredwesley.substack.com "Some #Conservative leaders in the West are refusing to do the hard work of building bridges across provinces. Instead, they are undermining national #institutions, elevating regional #grievances, and offering what we might call #performative #disengagement. The tactic may win headlines and satisfy the base, but it weakens the broader Conservative project at a critical moment in our country’s history."

#canpoli #abpoli

https://open.substack.com/pub/drjaredwesley/p/western-defeatism?r=4t3klr&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

The lifecycle of Rome was: Republic, Empire, then a millennia of Theocratic State, before capitalist #institutions tolerated #governance, economic #innovation, and #culture exchange by the #subaltern #counterpublic in their midst.

If that pattern of #history is applied to the #American Republic, the Creepy Weirdos intend to speed-run…all of it.

“Of all of the #American legal #institutions now facing sustained attack, none would seem better positioned to push back against Mr. Trump’s strongman tactics than this class of wealthy and politically connected firms, known collectively as Big Law.”
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-law-firms/

"Lost trust? A lost future!" - Futurist Jim Carroll

Let's talk about trust - or rather, the lack of it.

Somewhere along the way, I came across the 2025 Edelman Trust Barometer 2025 - it's worth a look.

The fact is, it's a pretty depressing read! They call it a crisis of grievance. As I've been saying - that tracks.

What are the findings? 3 key facts.

Fact 1: Majority hold grievances against government, business, and the rich
Sixty-one percent globally have a moderate or high sense of grievance, which is defined by a belief that government and business make their lives harder and serve narrow interests, and wealthy people benefit unfairly from the system.

Fact 2: Widespread grievance is eroding trust across the board
Those with a high sense of grievance distrust all four institutions (business, government, media, and NGOs).

Fact 3: Hostile activism is seen as a legitimate tool to drive change
To bring about change, 4 in 10 would approve of one or more of the following forms of hostile activism: attacking people online, intentionally spreading disinformation, threatening or committing violence, damaging public or private property. This sentiment is most prevalent among respondents ages 18-34 (53 percent approve of at least one).

The report makes plain that over a decade of crises have helped to fuel this crisis of grievance.

So where does it leave us? We are witnessing nothing short of a societal transformation – one driven by a profound crisis of grievance that threatens to reshape our institutions, our economy, and our very future! And we all know we are living through this in real-time, since we know that a mindset of grievance is driving a lot of the change swirling around us right now.

What can we conclude? Several things. Keep reading!

**#Trust** **#Grievance** **#Inequality** **#Activism** **#Future** **#Leadership** **#Change** **#Economy** **#Institutions** **#Transformation**

Original post: https://jimcarroll.com/2025/03/daily-inspiration-the-acceleration-of-grievance-lost-trust-a-lost-future/

A quotation from Kim Stanley Robinson

All of our governments are flawed, most of them disastrously. It’s why history is such a bloody mess.

Kim Stanley Robinson (b. 1952) American writer
Red Mars, Part 2 “The Voyage Out” [Arkady] (1992)

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/robinson-kim-stanley…

"When the very #institutions that made US #innovation possible are being systematically dismantled, it’s not a “political” story anymore. It’s a story about whether the environment that enabled all the other stories we cover will continue to exist.
We’ve always covered the intersection of #technology,innovation,& #policy…But what happens when the fundamental systems that make all of those conversations possible [#democracy] start breaking down?"
@mmasnick
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/03/04/why-techdirt-is-now-a-democracy-blog-whether-we-like-it-or-not/

'The #orphanage is part of a huge system of state institutions all over #Russia. Most of those who grew up in Belskoye Ustye when I first volunteered there were far too #institutionalised – #illiterate , unable to cook or take care of themselves – to have any chance of living independently, or even quasi-independently.

When they turned 18, they were dispatched to places known as “#adult #institutions” where they would spend the rest of their lives.'

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/feb/25/holidays-in-hell-summer-camp-with-russias-forgotten-children

[Article] Richard Ferrand, candidat poussé par Macron au Conseil constitutionnel

L’homme qui « à titre personnel » souhaite que le chef de l’État puisse se représenter pour un troisième mandat - ce qui nécessite un changement constitutionnel - est en passe de devenir président de l’institution censée protéger ladite…
https://www.blast-info.fr/articles/2025/richard-ferrand-candidat-pousse-par-macron-au-conseil-constitutionnel-tW3XMvSPSRij04-Pjxy_bQ #Institutions #Justice #Politique

We had our first meeting to discuss the book On Tyranny, by Timothy Snyder.

We covered the first two lessons, "do not obey in advance" and "defend institutions."

We hear a lot about the first, but not so much about the second. Institutions can't defend themselves -- they're made of people, have been developed over a period of time, and have hopefully been improved with trial and error and with the changing of the times to fit what society and government need (even if they can sometimes be slow moving and bureaucratic).

And as we are seeing, they are fragile and can easily be toppled.

One member of our group mentioned how in times of oppression in Eastern Europe, people developed their own institutions -- secret churches, for instance, or a radio show. Clandestine publishing is another example.

Unfortunately, the institutions that issue documents, are responsible for infrastructure, or deal with safety are different types of institutions that probably cannot appear in an ad hoc form.