Every institution humans create eventually petrifies. That is not a failure mode; it is the default setting. Given enough time, the original purpose fades into the background and the institution’s real function becomes something else entirely: providing elites with plush, risk-free jobs and offering stakeholders leverage to bludgeon others with process. The mission statement survives only as a decorative plaque in the lobby. Often, if we are honest, that mission was never all that important to begin with.
That is precisely why renewal cycles matter. And no, renewal does not mean reshuffling titles, rebranding departments, or moving the same people into slightly different offices with slightly different PowerPoint decks. A real renewal cycle means destruction. Tear down what no longer serves its time so something else can emerge—or accept that nothing needs to replace it at all. Sometimes absence is an improvement.
Ancient mythologies understood this far better than modern bureaucrats. Ragnarök in Norse myth is not a tragedy but a reset. The Hindu Trimurti places destruction alongside creation and preservation, not as a moral failing but as a necessary function of existence. The wheel only turns because things end. Destruction, in these traditions, is not evil. Stagnation is.
Individual humans would do well to absorb that lesson. Sometimes life requires a radical cleanout. Burn the old scripts. Drop the dead weight. Accept the temporary chaos rather than cling to slow suffocation. The same logic applies at every scale: cities, states, countries, international institutions, corporations, and every other form of human cooperation. Anything allowed to calcify long enough will eventually rot from the inside.
If Trump ends up doing nothing more than smashing a few of these petrified institutions beyond repair, history will treat him kindly. He does not need to build monuments. He does not need to design replacements. Clearing the plate is enough. Sometimes the most constructive act is demolition—followed by silence.
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