The only unbreakable system is the one that never stops evolving.
Every structure built to last eventually faces collapse if it does not adapt. Progress requires systems that treat permanence as fragility and change as necessity.
Systems, whether political, economic, or organizational, often fail not because they are poorly designed, but because they refuse to evolve. The temptation to codify order into rigid frameworks—laws, hierarchies, routines—offers comfort but slowly suffocates growth. Stability becomes stagnation. What appears unshakable is, in reality, brittle. The only framework that endures is the one that keeps questioning itself, dismantling its own assumptions, and rebuilding stronger forms from the fragments.
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