The Telos Gap: When Harm Has No Owner

from Mechanism Realism · host Elias Kunnas

Why can a society see a real, recurring harm and still fail to repair it? This episode introduces the Telos Gap: the institutional failure mode where damage is visible, measured, and discussed, but no actor has the mandate, budget, authority, incentive, KPI, constituency, or procedural trigger to fix it. The result is an ownerless harm: everyone can see the problem, but no one is structurally responsible for turning it into a repair object.The Telos Gap

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