By Charles Hugh Smith
OfTwoMinds.com
November 12, 2026
Any reform that will be acceptable to the system's precariously balanced dependents will leave its structure and incentives untouched.
The most difficult part of my framework to grasp is the keystone: our system has reached its limits. The difficulty is that this is impossible to understand if one is embedded in the system's beliefs of how the world works and wedded to the system's sclerosis via self-interest.