Much of the article and comments here can be explained the death of good faith. People no longer believe in competent, benevolent power, and a process of matura

Much of the article and comments here can be explained the death of good faith. People no longer believe in competent, benevolent power, and a process of maturation that challenges power in acceptable ways. Instead we build "systems". We pretend these systems are equitable. They merely hide power and force it to become malevolent, incompetent and terrified of challenge. We call this stagnation "progress"