Cognitive-Memetics · Reptilocracy
W21The Self-Certified Certificate
Denied is the only outside verdict on file. Compliance writes the checklist and signs the approval.
Reptilocracy
Power fantasies as a diagnostic tool.
Exaggerated scenes that surface fear, stress, status games, and the psychological fitness question.
Cognitive-Memetics · Reptilocracy
W20Stability Is a Setting
Red Impulsiveness and Reality Detachment get handled as a messaging problem first. The public readout is updated so the board deck can still show Leadership Confidence: Stable.
Cognitive-Memetics · Reptilocracy
W19Public Money, Private Leverage
A concentrated group tracks the rules and presses for the next exception. The cost is spread so thin that almost nobody follows every transfer.
Cognitive-Memetics · Reptilocracy
W18Insert Vote, Receive Same
Slogans multiply while gatekeepers keep the decision range narrow. Recurring failure then looks like the public picked badly.
Cognitive-Memetics · Reptilocracy
W17Charisma On, Empathy Off
Power redesigns the role so care for the people who bear the cost looks like a bug. Once it is gone, emotional distance gets sold as toughness and maturity.
Cognitive-Memetics · Reptilocracy
W16Photo-Op Readiness
The system expects you to do awful things. It just demands that you schedule them around the cameras.
Cognitive-Memetics · Reptilocracy
W15Case Study 1
We’ve all sat through the mandatory compliance video that the executive suite desperately needed to watch.
Cognitive-Memetics · Reptilocracy
W14The False Fork
It doesn’t matter which option you pick. The toll is collected before you ever reach the door.
Cognitive-Memetics · Reptilocracy
W13A Brighter Future
They always promise a brighter future. They just leave out the part about who actually gets to walk into it.
Cognitive-Memetics · Reptilocracy
W11Democracy — Annual Renewal
You keep voting for a door out. The system keeps sending you a receipt from the room you’re still trapped in.