The emergent politics of a thing will get worse the more that the system is going through contraction.

· Bits and Bobs 1/22/24

Politics will be at their lowest when things are growing, and they will be at their default level for the organization when resources are static.

Politics in a given system are heavily influenced by politics in that system in the past; a bad period of brutal politics can leave battle scars, dead bodies, graveyards that echo through into the future.