The Assassins' Gate: When Ideology Replaced Reality — The Iraq Occupation
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world.
This episode explores The Assassins' Gate by George Packer as a systems-level analysis of epistemological and bureaucratic decision-making systems.
The discussion examines how institutions process information, how incentive structures shape perception, how feedback loops break down, and why organizations sometimes become unable to accurately perceive reality despite possessing enormous resources and power.
The analysis explores bureaucratic rivalry, intelligence filtering, postwar planning failures…
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