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The temporal pattern where decisions are optimised for the current authority cycle while long-horizon consequences are deferred or discounted. Institutional memory erodes not because the past is unknown, but because it is structurally irrelevant to present authority.
A 4-year political term optimises for visible outcomes within the electoral window; 50-year infrastructure degradation or capability erosion falls outside the decision horizon and is systematically ignored.
IF Section 4.2