Gregory's Server@luis_in_brief @adamgreenfield Same. re the Post Office scandal. The thing went on because people were so easily gaslit to think they had made errors, all the time.
I learned the word “slapdash” here…
I never lived in the US as an adult so I can’t compare. I think diligence I have encountered in Latin contexts, including postcolonial, comes from bureaucratic zeal that simply doesn’t exist here. (And I have seen more of in the US come to think of it, I have been to the DMV, lol)
@janet @adamgreenfield yeah, it's hard for me to to cross-cultural comparisons, but in the US's regulatory culture there is definitely a very related learned helplessness around technical regulation: "we'd like to be diligent, but that would require understanding tech and we can't possibly do that"