Most failures are not loud.
They don’t announce themselves with alarms or apologies. They don’t arrive as singular, dramatic events. Instead, they settle into place through procedure—through forms completed correctly, meetings minuted accurately, and decisions deferred in ways that feel reasonable at the time.
No one breaks the rules.
No one behaves monstrously.
And yet, harm occurs.
This is the kind of failure that rarely attracts accountability, because it doesn’t resemble what we’ve been taught...
