Foma

Classification Post-war institutional foma Status: Collapsing Primary Function: Moral anesthetic for a power-driven world The Claim After 1945, humanity outgrew raw power. Law replaced force. Institutions replaced empires. Rules replaced conquest. War would be managed, restrained, civilized. Justice would be global. History had learned. This was the story. The Structure of the Foma The second half of the twentieth century produced an elegant illusion: Courts without enforcement Laws without sovereigns Institutions without teeth Justice without consequences A world order in which power voluntarily constrained itself - not because it had to, but because it had matured. ...

A parable of optimism and overdrafts, told through a half-abandoned building on the Corrib.

Canada is unraveling, but not in the noisy pantomime style of Britain. Its fragility is quieter, bureaucratic, and brittle. For decades, the country held together by scaffolding rather than stone — institutions, slogans, and borrowed myths that looked solid but were never deeply believed. The Rise and Fall of the Canadian Foma 1. The Birth of the Story (1867–1945) Confederation stitched together east and west under Britain’s umbrella. The founding foma was simple: Canada is a nation, bilingual, polite, and different from America. The glue was empire, church, and the frontier myth. ...