Good day from a country running on sirens. In this episode, we track the pattern behind the nonstop headlines: force standing in for legitimacy, spectacle replacing governance, and the growing demand that people disbelieve what they can see with their own eyes. A few recent flashpoints, one deadly, others openly disputed, make the mechanism hard to ignore, and the official story keeps slipping against the evidence.
But there’s another thread: the wobble. Quiet defections, procedural mutinies, local officials refusing to play along, and small symbolic moves that signal something bigger than partisan noise. If this is an accelerating system, it’s also one that may be starting to crack, and the question is what happens when consent finally stops coming for free.
