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  "content_md": "Ireland likely isn’t unique in having to grapple with these issues.\n\n> What is therefore horrendously bleak is that the tragedy of the Irish State has little to do with nobody trying; it is that the trying does not matter, because there is nothing to try against. You can hosepipe the courage, competence, and eighty-hour weeks of the best managers in the world into a system with no agency or accountability, and the system will absorb every ounce of that energy and deliver nothing, while exhausting everyone who tried. All the while forgetting the whole thing by the next morning. Frustratingly, the architecture of our State doesn’t even resist reform the way a strong and mortal enemy resists attack. It dissolves it by dispersing it through the millions of state-backed tentacles.\n\n[Irelands Delivery Inability - by Sinéad O’Sullivan ↗](https://butthistime.com/p/irelands-delivery-inability?r=233ko&triedRedirect=true)",
  "content_html": "<p>Ireland likely isn’t unique in having to grapple with these issues.</p>\n<blockquote><p>What is therefore horrendously bleak is that the tragedy of the Irish State has little to do with nobody trying; it is that the trying does not matter, because there is nothing to try against. You can hosepipe the courage, competence, and eighty-hour weeks of the best managers in the world into a system with no agency or accountability, and the system will absorb every ounce of that energy and deliver nothing, while exhausting everyone who tried. All the while forgetting the whole thing by the next morning. Frustratingly, the architecture of our State doesn’t even resist reform the way a strong and mortal enemy resists attack. It dissolves it by dispersing it through the millions of state-backed tentacles.</p></blockquote>\n<p class=\"source\"><a href=\"https://butthistime.com/p/irelands-delivery-inability?r=233ko&amp;triedRedirect=true\">Irelands Delivery Inability - by Sinéad O’Sullivan ↗</a></p>",
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