1. • Economic-administrative rationality has:

     • silenced or distorted lifeworlds,

     • delinguistified or distorted authentic politics,

     • reduced people to metrics.

   • The result:

     • opaque rule-by-rules,

     • professional–managerial closure,

     • legitimacy without responsibility,

     • “zombie democracies” shambling along without genuine authorship.

The implicit thesis tying this together

Legitimacy cannot survive where:

• law is insulated from interpretation,

• citizens are spectators rather than co-authors,

• discourse is replaced by optimization,

• and history is treated as noise rather than context.

In that condition, democracy persists formally while collapsing existentially—people follow rules they didn’t shape, justified by procedures they can’t interrogate, administered by systems that don’t speak their language.

Which is, frankly, a cheery note to end on.