In 2023, an article in the scientific journal Nature determined that starfish’s arms are not in fact arms but are extensions of their heads. Starfish don’t have bodies so much as they have multiple heads. The article described them as disembodied multiheaded creatures.
Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune was re-elected to a second five-year term in September 2024. Part of Tebboune’s success as president during his first term and part of what contributed to his electoral success for a second term was that he recognized that the presidency is not the only power pole in the Algerian political system. It’s one head. Among other heads. He likely also knew and knows the heads can be sacrificed – the Algerian political system hinges on no one head. There are others.
Central to the starfish’s multiheadedness is its capacity to sacrifice heads without harming its overall wellbeing. Heads can be shed as conditions merit and then they can regenerate as conditions improve, or a head can be bitten off by predators, and in time the devoured head grows back.
This function is the quintessence of the Algerian political system’s survival.
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