This Facetist diagnostic essay confronts the obvious yet systematically denied failure of corrupted human systems. Through a multi-domain synthesis (philosophical, economic, historical, psychological, and biological), it argues that parareal abstractions — rules, ideologies, economic models, and nutritional dogmas — distort perception so severely that humans cannot recognize or correct obviously failing structures. Reality is movement, equilibrium nonexistent outside of artificial models. Formalized rules select for dark triad actors, self-organization is disrupted, and psychopathy functions as nature’s corrective. Historical patterns (fiat currency collapses, collectivist experiments) and contemporary examples (Keynesian failure, Energiewende, nutrition myths, political repetition) confirm that evidence and rational reform consistently fail. Only time, crisis, or collapse forces acknowledgment. The paper concludes that transparent, decentralized, voluntary parallel structures offer the only viable path forward, prioritizing movement over Utopian control. This diagnosis acknowledges its own likely rejection as part of the phenomenon it describes.
Kai Hermann Kayser (Sun,) studied this question.