W9Reptilocracy 🦎🏛️ Thanks For Your Taxes
Teaser
Ordinary people carry the financial risk while leaders fund attractive but destabilising overseas adventures masked as necessary security.
TLDR
We drop in our income contribution while the box quietly buys more chaos overseas. The system calls it policy, but it feels like backing a fund that makes the world hotter and then sells us fire insurance.Context
This scene shows misaligned incentives in large systems: ordinary people carry the financial risk, while a narrow leadership layer enjoys status, contracts, and “overseas adventures.” Narrative control masks this by wrapping interventions in abstract language about security, influence, or stability, so paying for escalation feels responsible rather than optional.
Time horizons stay short, leaders focus on the next news cycle or election, not on the long-term blowback we are underwriting. “We fund the game and live with the score.” Without psychological fitness filters for honesty about costs, restraint under status pressure, and the courage to say no to attractive but destabilising moves, institutions keep promoting people who treat geopolitics as a prestige hobby bought with other people’s lives and money.
BUT WHY:
This is part of an experiment: we are keeping count of how many scenes it takes before we agree that leaders with real power should prove they are psychologically fit to hold it.
By turning our instincts and hive habits into animals, the project asks why we still let untested nervous systems run entire societies.
In a world where one unstable nervous system can scale to entire institutions, this project treats Reptilocracy as the cartoon diagnosis and points to one concrete step: the Change.org petition (Stronger Checks and Balances: Psychological Fitness for Australia’s Top Leaders).