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<p>deviation. By the time <a href="/wiki/Glasnost" title="Glasnost">Glasnost</a> attempted to open the feedback loops, the system&#039;s model of itself was so fictional that transparency became destabilizing rather than corrective. Institutional sclerosis is accelerated by what might be called &#039;&#039;&#039;bureaucratic immune response&#039;&#039;&#039;: the organization&#039;s defense mechanisms against reform. These include the promotion of loyalists over innovators, the routinization of critique into performative rituals, and the conflation of institutional survival...</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>&#039;&#039;&#039;Institutional sclerosis&#039;&#039;&#039; is the progressive loss of adaptive capacity in organizations, political systems, or scientific communities as they age. Unlike biological senescence, institutional sclerosis is not inevitable; it is a &#039;&#039;&#039;network property&#039;&#039;&#039; that emerges when an institution&#039;s internal reward structures become decoupled from its external function. The institution continues to operate, to consume resources, and to expand — but it no longer solves the problems it was created to solve.<br /> <br /> The [[Soviet Union]] under Brezhnev is the paradigmatic case. The planning apparatus did not collapse because it ran out of resources or because it was overthrown; it collapsed because it had spent decades optimizing for internal coherence — meeting targets, suppressing dissent, maintaining ideological uniformity — at the expense of external accuracy. The network had become a [[self-sealing system]], in which feedback from reality was systematically filtered out as ideological</div>

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