Estelle Platini<p>"Modern civilisation has a number of extremely delicate and highly interconnected components whose graceful degradation is effectively impossible."</p><p>It is "much easier to break things than to build them up. The government administrations of Britain, France and Germany for example, were set up at a time in the nineteenth century when the rising middle classes demanded a properly functioning state[…]. It took perhaps a generation for professional, neutral public services to fully emerge."</p><p>"Forty years of globalised neoliberalism have broken our societies, our economies and our political systems, and we no longer have the ability to put them back together."</p><p><a href="https://braveneweurope.com/aurelien-the-end" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">braveneweurope.com/aurelien-th</span><span class="invisible">e-end</span></a></p><p><a href="https://techhub.social/tags/civilService" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>civilService</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/statehood" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>statehood</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/bureaucracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bureaucracy</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/complexity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>complexity</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/risk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>risk</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/digitalization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>digitalization</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/quantification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quantification</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/technocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>technocracy</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/quantitative" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quantitative</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/repair" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>repair</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/mitigation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mitigation</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/redundancy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>redundancy</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/resiliency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>resiliency</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Deregulation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Deregulation</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Economics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Economics</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/EUPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EUPol</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/EU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EU</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Europe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Europe</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/institutions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>institutions</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/institutionsDeceive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>institutionsDeceive</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/finance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>finance</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/globalisation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>globalisation</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/NeoLiberalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NeoLiberalism</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Privatisation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Privatisation</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/technique" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>technique</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/technoCriticism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>technoCriticism</span></a></p>