The real structure of modern power is not a Cathedral but a Round Table, and this Round Table is the centralized State itself. It is a headless cartel where corporations, universities, media, NGOs, activists, bureaucrats, and empowered minority coalitions all sit as equal partners. No group is truly above the others, and all of them reinforce the same ideological program while presenting themselves as separate actors with independent authority.
When the formal State weakens but still exists, its partial retreat creates a vacuum that makes these cultural and corporate institutions even more authoritarian. They gain influence through social pressure, moral enforcement, bureaucratic activism, and control over information. The remaining State machinery then centralizes their shared agenda into law, regulation, and policy, turning cultural orthodoxy into political obligation and preserving the illusion that someone is still in charge.
Power never disappears; it simply moves around the table. This creates a leaderless yet fully centralized system where everyone governs and no one is accountable. And this is why the State is dead: nobody is truly in command. Lightning and thunder require time, the light of the stars requires time, and deeds require time before they are seen and heard. The State has already died, but its machinery keeps moving like a zombie because people have not yet realized how empty and lifeless the institution has become.
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