Tag: institutional betrayal
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We Need to Talk About How Power Protects Itself
You know that sinking feeling when you realize the people who were supposed to protect you are actually protecting each other? Yeah. Let’s sit with that for a second. Maybe a few more seconds. I’ve been thinking a lot about this lately—how institutions that claim to stand for justice are often riddled with people covering…
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“Not Leadership Material”: How Institutions Crush the Vians of the World (Yugen and Real-Life Betrayal)
If you’ve ever watched someone far less ethical leapfrog into a promotion above you, you know the peculiar mix of rage and self-doubt that follows. You start wondering: In Yugen, Vian is the kind of person any sane order would want to promote: disciplined, gifted, fiercely loyal. Instead, he’s systematically sabotaged and discarded. And that’s…
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Why Rotten People Rise
Why Rotten People Rise
Janessa Keeling 