Tag: Political Communication

Red Lines in Blue Ink: The Systemic Cost of Ruling by Rhetoric

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When a government starts borrowing the language of its opponents, it doesn’t just change how it speaks — it changes what it sees. This piece examines how political rhetoric can quietly rewrite purpose, distort priorities, and weaken trust, revealing the hidden cost when systems start ruling by story instead of by substance.

Legitimacy Theatre: When Systems Perform Progress

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Systems that perform progress confuse complexity for competence. This article decodes how legitimacy becomes theatre — a choreography of mimicry, incentives, and selective attention that rewards motion over meaning.

GDP ≠ User Metrics: UX Strategy for a Broken Democracy

A man sits in a dimly lit room, gazing thoughtfully toward the window, illuminated by the glow of his laptop and soft daylight filtering through curtains.

Budgets and dashboards share the same flaw — they measure what’s easy, not what matters. The Budget vs the Thermostat examines how political storytelling and vanity metrics have turned democracy into a failing design system optimised for optics instead of outcomes.