#burningtree — Public Fediverse posts

"This follows a pattern that institutional theorist Ivan Illich spent his career documenting: institutions form around liberating ideas, then gradually transform those ideas into tools of control, all while maintaining the original liberating rhetoric. The people within these institutions can't see the transformation because recognizing it would require questioning their own position within the power structure."

#BurningTree, 2025

https://gist.github.com/burningtree/d4aa172470293bdf2939c993cf48bbd4

#IvanIllich

"When years of engagement can be erased in 24 hours because someone points out an uncomfortable power dynamic, there was never really intellectual engagement - just conditional tolerance that evaporated when ideas became inconvenient."

#BurningTree, 2025

https://gist.github.com/burningtree/d4aa172470293bdf2939c993cf48bbd4

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#ContextCollapse #PowerDynamics

"When years of engagement can be erased in 24 hours because someone points out an uncomfortable power dynamic, there was never really intellectual engagement - just conditional tolerance that evaporated when ideas became inconvenient."

#BurningTree, 2025

https://gist.github.com/burningtree/d4aa172470293bdf2939c993cf48bbd4

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#ContextCollapse #PowerDynamics

"When years of engagement can be erased in 24 hours because someone points out an uncomfortable power dynamic, there was never really intellectual engagement - just conditional tolerance that evaporated when ideas became inconvenient."

#BurningTree, 2025

https://gist.github.com/burningtree/d4aa172470293bdf2939c993cf48bbd4

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#ContextCollapse #PowerDynamics

"When years of engagement can be erased in 24 hours because someone points out an uncomfortable power dynamic, there was never really intellectual engagement - just conditional tolerance that evaporated when ideas became inconvenient."

#BurningTree, 2025

https://gist.github.com/burningtree/d4aa172470293bdf2939c993cf48bbd4

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#ContextCollapse #PowerDynamics