Introduction
Anyone who is in frequent contact with large institutions might have observed this: for large institutions, reality seems an inconvenience. Instead of conforming to facts, they seem to manufacture local versions of reality within the bubbles they control, then use the resulting feedback loop as proof that their policies are correct.
Pathology
Some degree of abstraction is unavoidable; institutions need simplified models to make a complex world legible and manageable. The pathology begins when those models become insulated from corrective feedback. At that point, institutions stop engaging with reality and start managing perceptions of reality instead.
Citizen responsibility
It is therefore the responsibility of citizens to provide that corrective feedback - to force institutions back into contact with the world as it is, rather than the world as they have modeled it to be.