The Importance of Brittleness in Socialism

I think COVID just proved that all this stuff is too, it's too complicated. You can't see when anything happens now, you have cascade failure everywhere. So yes, you have a highly efficient, but super brittle system. I was like, can we talk about brittleness too? Like, because I hear you guys talk about as efficiency as if the other parts of physics don't exist. And this is literally a physics thing. But there is a real sense of like there, that's at least from the dynamics of speed and and fragility is very real, even if it's like a model. We're not in a moment of mass politics because, because popular opinions

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