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Drift Is the Default State
By Cliff Potts, CSO, and Editor-in-Chief of WPS NewsBaybay City, Leyte, Philippines — May 27, 2026 Institutions Do Not Remain Neutral on Their Own There is a persistent belief that institutions, once designed with safeguards, will maintain those safeguards unless deliberately dismantled. History suggests the opposite. Institutional drift is not an anomaly. It is the default condition. Absent…
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What Gets Measured Becomes the Mission
By Cliff Potts, CSO, and Editor-in-Chief of WPS NewsBaybay City, Leyte, Philippines — May 6, 2026 When Numbers Replace Judgment Institutions do not drift into abuse because individuals suddenly abandon ethics. They drift because measurement systems quietly redefine success. What is tracked becomes what matters. What matters becomes what is pursued. Over time, judgment gives way to metrics, and…
If those of us from the Apollo era sometimes look back with regret at the failure of our society to follow through on early lunar exploration, we can still acknowledge that the issue is far from settled. As Nick Nielsen points out in the essay below, we’re in an interesting period, one in which commercial
Thanks are due to Paul Gilster for posting this essay on Centauri Dreams. This essay is about 13,000 words and is divided into fourteen sections, as follows:
Ankle Deep in the Shallows
Periodization of the US Space Program
Scenarios for Spacefaring Breakout
A Stagnant Space Age
A Digression on Periodization
Institutions and Their Central Projects
Institutional Drift in Private Enterprise
The Consolation Prize for Institutional Drift Â
How the Space Industry Got Its Groove Back Â
Finding a Compromise That Works
Human Purposes in Deep Time Â
Sufficient Conditions for Spacefaring Civilization
The Weston Principle Â
The Beginning of the Inquiry
This essay is part of a larger project that I hope to eventually publish as a short book to be titled Spacefaring Mythology. The above essay, re-written and re-titled for the book, would be the first chapter, with the structure of the book being five chapters as follows:
Thinking Historically about Spacefaring Civilization
Superstition and Folklore among Spacefaring Peoples
Mystical Experiences in Spacefaring Societies
Spacefaring Mythologies
Here be Dragons: Our Changed Relationship to the Unknown
Chapter four of the above table of contents will be based on my earlier Centauri Dreams post Spacefaring Mythologies, while chapter five of the above will be based on a Tumblr post New Unknowns for Old. What will be chapters two and three are in the process of being written, first as blog posts, then to be re-written for the book. The extensive comments that I receive on posts that appear on Centauri Dreams are especially valuable to me, as these communicate original reactions to the material, and I will be reading these comments carefully when re-writing the material in book form.
I may add to this plan—I have a couple of different possibilities in mind for an additional final chapter—but I am not likely to eliminate any of the above content. I will be discussing this ongoing work in my Grand Strategy Newsletter.
