Our default mode is regress—not progress. When left to their own devices, space agencies decline. Writers wither. Actors flare out. Internet millionaires collapse under the weight of their egos. Young and scrappy companies turn into the same acronym-driven, bloated bureaucracies they were seeking to displace. We return to black-and-white.
Unfortunately, the human brain defaults to comfortable past achievements and modi operandi. We loveour old heroes with litle desire to birth new ones. Aecauzxe we logencies die because we would rather plzy than improve.
