How would a transition framework withstand deliberate obstruction, and what would show that protection changes power? This Critique examines Bichara Sahely’s proposal through three questions: planning for hostile incumbents, testing causal claims and giving living coordination practical institutional support. Its suggested revisions remain subject to evidence, lawful authority and independent review. Read More
Can harmful institutions be replaced without sacrificing the services that keep people alive? This Debate weighs Bichara Sahely’s transition framework against entrenched financial power, operational dependence, unequal costs and successor capture, asking whether formal safeguards can deliver lasting protection and effective public accountability. Read More
How can societies dismantle harmful power while keeping water, energy and other essential services dependable? This Deep Dive explores Bichara Sahely’s framework for separating life-enabling functions from their controllers, connecting transition protection, civil commons, living coordination and safeguards that keep successors answerable and replaceable. Read More
What would make the Missing Bridge framework clear, testable and useful in practice? This Critique accompanies the applied paper with questions about causal claims, workable measures, institutional responsibility and the difference between failed delivery and a failed explanation. Read More
How should immediate relief and systemic change relate? This Debate accompanies Putting the Missing Bridge to Work, inviting scrutiny of evidence, feasibility and responsibility while keeping the people who need protection now at the centre of the discussion. Read More
How can we move from treating repeated harm to changing the conditions that produce it? This Deep Dive accompanies Bichara Sahely’s applied framework, connecting housing, food, work, education, ecology and finance with care, recovery and accountable change. Read More
Can the Missing Bridge become easier to understand without losing its causal discipline? This constructive critique examines the framework’s language, five guiding questions, practical usability and safeguards against metaphor, reductionism and self-confirming explanation. Read More
How can statutes, credit systems and institutional rules become embodied without confusing social arrangements with biological mechanisms? This debate tests the causal bridge linking rules to living conditions, load, capacity, regulation, repair and future life-capacity. Read More
What if our institutions measured success by the life-capacity they protect and enlarge rather than by money, output or activity alone? This Deep Dive follows the five-step causal bridge from rules and conditions through load, capacity, margin, regulation and repair to future life-capacity. Read More
A constructive critique of Artificial Intelligence and the Epistemic Commons, asking: How can a civilization think with AI without being thought for by it? Read More
