Running on Legacy Systems

How the West Drifted, Glitched, and Left Its Own Foundations Unmaintained

These three essays examine a problem the West struggles to admit: not collapse, not conspiracy, but neglect. Our political and democratic systems were built for a different world — and while that world changed, the systems were left largely untouched. What follows traces how that lag emerged, how it’s exploited, and why renewal matters more than rupture.

• The Entropical West
  Exploring how history, memory, and inherited temperament quietly pull the Western world out of alignment — leaving it fractured precisely when coherence matters most.

  https://www.ericwigartauthor.com/p/the-entropical-west

• When Civilisation Runs on an Old iPhone
  Using a simple metaphor to explain how democracy and the postwar economic order weren’t broken — they were left unpatched, creating the perfect conditions for exploitation.
  https://www.ericwigartauthor.com/p/when-civilisation-runs-on-an-old

• The Unpatched West
  A sober argument for renewing democratic systems before neglect hardens into redesign by others — without tearing down what still works.

  https://www.ericwigartauthor.com/p/the-unpatched-west-time-to-renew

If neglect rather than malice is the deeper problem, where do you think responsibility actually sits — with institutions, leaders, or ourselves?