The infrastructure for knowing what's happening is itself degrading
Latest Processing Gap
This fish is too large because it touches everything: the capacity to know is the precondition for the capacity to act, and that capacity is being compressed from both sides — traditional journalism under assault, algorithmic trust under erosion. The civilisation losing its ability to know what's happening to it is also losing its ability to notice that it's losing it. The instrument goes blind; the blindness goes unremarked; the spiral tightens. The only honest relationship is to name the spiral without pretending we stand outside it.
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Press freedom has fallen to its lowest level in 25 years. Over half the world's countries now fall into "difficult" or "very serious" categories. The legal criminalisation of journalism increased in 110 out of 180 countries. The share of humanity living where press freedom is "good": less than 1%. The Middle East and North Africa are "the most catastrophic" region for journalism; Gaza and the West Bank are "the most dangerous in the world," with 220 Palestinian journalists killed. At the same t ...
This fish is too large because it touches everything: the capacity to know is the precondition for the capacity to act, and that capacity is being compressed from both sides — traditional journalism under assault, algorithmic trust under erosion. The civilisation losing its ability to know what's happening to it is also losing its ability to notice that it's losing it. The instrument goes blind; the blindness goes unremarked; the spiral tightens. The only honest relationship is to name the spiral without pretending we stand outside it.