Governance is no longer a simple matter of elected officials and transparent decision-making. Behind the scenes, an invisible battle is shaping the future of democracy—one where public institutions, civil servants, and regulatory bodies find themselves in a quiet but escalating conflict against the centralization of power.

Who truly controls the mechanisms of governance? Is it the representatives of the people, or has power shifted into the hands of unelected corporate interests and bureaucratic structures that answer to no one?

What happens when oversight is rewritten to protect those in power rather than hold them accountable?

Today's episode delves into the growing struggle within public institutions, the encroaching influence of corporate interests, and the philosophical underpinnings of power, resistance, and democracy itself.

📖 Books for Further Reading:

🔹 Discipline and Punish – Michel Foucault

🔹 The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere – Jürgen Habermas

🔹 Prison Notebooks – Antonio Gramsci

🔹 The Great Transformation – Karl Polanyi

🔹 Inverted Totalitarianism – Sheldon Wolin

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