by James Lyons-Weiler, PhD, Popular Rationalism, ©2025 (May 18, 2025) — In today’s bureaucratic vernacular, resilience has become a euphemism for public tolerance of failure. Institutions now invoke the word to imply that a strong society absorbs harm, accepts uncertainty, and trusts authority—regardless of evidence. But this is not resilience. It’s submission. True resilience in a free […]