Here is my thought process the partner would be the scientists who keeps releasing statistics/ safe word that we're heading to doom. The other partner would be the us who consume this statistics and suppose to interpretate this appropriately to slow down/stop. But instead to continuing ahead with what we're doing anyway. Both parties know that there is something bad but none of the parties can't stop it. Hopefully that made sense.
I think a direct-ish democracy, I had this idea for awhile what if each person would have a personal AI trained to them. The AI will vote for them if the person is too busy or trust the AI enough. Passed proposed law would run through an AI trained to the constitution it can be vetoed from there. There would still be human president, ministers, directors or so to apply those laws. Anyway probably just a crazy idea of mine 🤣
I can already imagine a Amazon warehouse worker have his brain waves monitored and gets reprimanded everytime he is not focused. They would probably reason it out that it's for safety reasons.
You could say, they took silent in Silent Generation literally.