W15Reptilocracy 🦎🏛️ Case Study 1
Teaser
We’ve all sat through the mandatory compliance video that the executive suite desperately needed to watch.
TLDR
The people writing the rules of conduct are completely insulated from following them.Context
Every corporate worker and civil servant knows this exact dynamic. The HR department rolls out a mandatory, unskippable seminar on “respectful communication,” while the executive board runs entirely on intimidation, backstabbing, and screaming matches. A legislature drafts national anti-harassment laws inside a chamber that actively operates like a hostile work environment.
The panel targets this staggering lack of self-awareness. Power loves to enforce behavioral standards on the vulnerable, treating compliance as something the lower tiers must be taught.
But the rule-makers never see themselves in the training materials. They view ethics and conduct as administrative burdens for the public to absorb, completely oblivious to the fact that their own daily behavior is the perfect case study for everything the system claims to oppose.
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).