futuresclerosis

/ˌfjuːtʃərskləˈroʊsɪs/nounVerified New

Institutional hardening that prevents imagining or funding the future.

Budgets are memoirs of past commitments; the system can describe everything it already does and nothing it might do. The sclerosis is not corruption — it is memory displacing imagination.

Etym. — *future* + *sclerosis*.

Rel. — pensioncrouch · declinocracy

Novelty check: NEW · checked 2026-11-04

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