The Problem of Institutional Capture and the Corruption of Reform: How Systems Absorb Critique and Integrate Opposition Into Themselves
How Satirists Engage How Institutions Neutralize Threats Through Incorporation
Captured Reform: How Institutions Absorb Their Critiques Into ThemselvesFinancial reform becomes financial complexity; citizenship reform becomes restriction intensification; infrastructure critique becomes optimization rhetoric. Systems absorb opposition. Satire treating reform rhetoric skeptically reveals institutional capture of critical energy.SOURCE