Personnel / Intelligence — Directive 00
The Perspective
Describing the mechanics of power without the comforting lies. ZeroCopes is an archive dedicated to political realism and elite theory.
REF: ORIGIN_INTENT
Memorandum
I write under the name ZeroCopes. My background is in systems architecture, and my focus is the architecture of power.
ZeroCopes exists because the standard stories about politics are no longer sufficient to explain the world we see. We do not engage in activism; we engage in autopsy.
"To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle."
THE LINEAGE
Grounding
The work here builds on a tradition of political realism – Mosca, Pareto, Michels, Schmitt, and Burnham – who treated power as a structural reality rather than a moral aspiration.
MOSCARuling Class
MICHELSIron Law
PARETOCirculation
BURNHAMManagerialism