W13Reptilocracy 🦎🏛️ A Brighter Future
Teaser
They always promise a brighter future. They just leave out the part about who actually gets to walk into it.
TLDR
The public provides the mandate. The insiders take the exit.Context
We know the routine. A company demands wage freezes to secure a “brighter future,” then quietly pays out massive executive bonuses the moment the quarter ends.
A city passes a public levy to save local infrastructure, but the funds immediately vanish into private consultant fees. The public endures the sacrifice. The insiders collect the reward.
The panel targets this exact bait-and-switch. Political and corporate momentum is always built on the backs of a tired majority marching toward a promised light.
But the exit is never built for the crowd. The public simply provides the energy to keep the machine running, while the managers quietly step through a side door.
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).