There is a funny ritual modern politics still performs with a straight face.

People vote. Governments win. Flags stay raised. Parliaments open. Courts issue rulings, and the news anchors keep calling it a democracy.

And yet across the world, more and more people are living through the same feeling: the machinery is still running, but it no longer answers to them.

unpacked that failure, and what may come after it, here: https://blog.humanode.io/world-still-wants-democracy-it-does-not-trust-the-delivery-system/