Managed Into Acceptance

Power stopped looking like authority the moment it learned to disguise itself as expertise.

Before the Dome, control didn't require force. It required rhythm. In the late nineties,

something shifted. Not with laws or revolutions, but with attention itself.

Convenience became the organizing principle of an entire society. Speed replaced depth. Efficiency replaced

resilience. Decision-making drifted out of public view and into technical spaces nobody ever

entered. Financial instruments. Regulatory language. Data models no one voted on and few

understood. Glass walls and neutral colors became the aesthetic of influence.

Power accumulated through markets, lobbying frameworks, and philanthropy that rewrote policy