Brain Potency, Age, and Governance: How Psychextrics Explains Ethnosocialist Generational Design
BY: OMOLAJA MAKINEE
Modern political conflict is often misdiagnosed as ideological disagreement. In reality, many of today’s most intense frictions—between digital youth movements and entrenched gerontocratic leadership—are not ideological at all. They are neurogenerational.
Psychextrics, as a behavioural science, provides a missing lens: the brain ages, and with it, its mode of potency changes. Governance systems that ignore this biological and cognitive reality inevitably collapse into dysfunction—either stagnation or chaos.
Ethnosocialism and Ethnopublicanism do not emerge in opposition to biology; they are structured in harmony with it.
1. The Brain Ages—Not Just the Body
It is universally accepted that the body ages:
- Skin wrinkles,
- Bones lose elasticity,
- Muscular recovery slows.
Yet political systems pretend the brain remains static across decades. Psychextrics rejects this illusion. From a psychextric standpoint, brain potency evolves across life stages, not as decline versus growth, but as functional reorientation.
Early Adulthood (Approx. 18–35)
- High cortical plasticity.
- Rapid processing speed.
- Elevated novelty tolerance.
- Strong execution capacity.
- Adaptive responsiveness to technological and environmental change.
This is the age of administration, experimentation, and execution.
Midlife Transition (Approx. 35–55)
- Integration of experience with adaptability.
- Reduced impulsivity.
- Improved strategic coherence.
- Declining tolerance for chaos, increasing demand for order.
This is the age of coordination and stabilisation.
Later Life (55+)
- Slower cortical throughput.
- Reduced appetite for novelty.
- Heightened moral synthesis.
- Stronger pattern recognition across long time horizons.
- Increased capacity for ethical arbitration and reflective judgment.
This is the age of judicial reasoning, supervision, and moral equilibrium. The brain does not “weaken” uniformly—it specialises.
2. Where Modern Governance Goes Wrong
Contemporary political systems—democracy, republicanism, bureaucratic capitalism—ignore this trajectory entirely. They:
- Place gerontocrats in executive and legislative roles requiring speed, adaptability, and continuous evolution.
- Expect young people to remain politically marginal despite being neurologically optimised for administration.
- Confuse experience with execution capacity.
- Treat governance as status retention rather than functional alignment.
The result is predictable:
- Youth demand populocracy driven by digital speed.
- Elders defend outdated democratic rituals detached from lived reality.
- Institutions stagnate while society accelerates.
This is not a moral failure. It is a design failure.
3. Psychextrics and the Ethnopublic Solution
Ethnopublicanism resolves this contradiction by assigning governance roles according to neurofunctional age, not ideology or popularity.
The Supervisory Division: Gerontocratic by Design
Under ethnosocialism:
- The Judicial Arm occupies the Supervisory Division.
- This division is reserved for elders.
Why?
Because judiciary functions require:
- Ethical consistency.
- Long-horizon reasoning.
- Emotional regulation.
- Resistance to novelty-driven volatility.
As individuals age, psychextrics shows they become:
- Less reactive,
- More contemplative,
- More capable of critical reassessment of entrenched norms,
- Better arbiters of proportionality and moral coherence.
Judiciary should remain conservative, not politically—but ethically. It guards equilibrium, not innovation.
4. The Administrative Division: Youth-Driven Governance
Conversely:
- The Executive and Legislative Arms belong to the Administrative Division.
- These roles are reserved for younger generations.
Why?
Because administration demands:
- Speed of cognition.
- Technological fluency.
- High tolerance for change.
- Continuous system updating.
- Adaptive policy execution.
These are precisely the strengths of younger brains. Legislation and execution must evolve with every generation, not fossilise under the weight of nostalgia or fear of change.
5. Why Gerontocracy Fails in Executive Governance
When elders dominate executive and legislative power:
- Innovation slows.
- Policy lags behind reality.
- Technology is mistrusted rather than integrated.
- Institutions become judicialised—turning every decision into a defensive exercise.
This is how societies drift into bureaucratic paralysis. Gerontocracy is not inherently wrong—it is misplaced when applied to administration instead of supervision.
6. Why Populocracy Alone Is Equally Dangerous
At the same time, psychextrics explains why youth-only populocracy is unstable:
- High plasticity can become volatility.
- Speed without supervision leads to excess.
- Novelty obsession can erode moral continuity.
Ethnopublicanism does not glorify youth rule. It completes it with elder supervision.
7. Psychextrics as a Foundation of Ethnosocialism
Ethnosocialism is not merely economic or govoxical—it is biological realism applied to governance. It recognises that:
- Society is intergenerational, not generationally competitive.
- Function matters more than hierarchy.
- Authority must follow capacity, not tradition.
Psychextrics informs ethnosocialism by grounding governance in:
- Neurodevelopment,
- Emotional regulation,
- Hormonal equilibrium,
- Cognitive throughput.
This is why ethnosocialism rejects one-size-fits-all democracy and rigid republicanism. They ignore the human brain.
8. Experience Guides, Youth Executes
Human civilisation has always known this instinctively:
- Elders guide.
- Youth act.
Modern political systems reversed this wisdom—asking elders to run machines built for youth, and asking youth to wait their turn in a world moving at digital speed. Ethnopublicanism restores balance:
- Elders supervise justice.
- Youth administer society.
- Neither dominates.
- Both are indispensable.
Conclusion: Governance Must Follow Human Biology
A civilisation that structures governance against human neurobiology will always fracture. Psychextrics shows us that brain potency is not equal across ages—but complementary. Ethnosocialism does not invent this truth. It institutionalises it.
By aligning governance roles with the natural trajectory of the human brain, ethnopublicanism transforms generational tension into civilisational harmony. This is not ageism. It is functional justice. And it is how societies endure.
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