Humans basically can’t deal with 2 things going wrong at once. Especially if they might require 2 coordinated actions to fix. We are wedded to single-factor explanations of problems and single-intervention solutions. Politics is SISO (single input single output) narratives.
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The biggest complex system accidents always seem to happen when 2 things go wrong at once: a common failure and a rare one. Cf normal accidents
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I think this represents a form of Minority Rule.
Energy gets concentrated and crystallized into a few SISO narratives with cheering factions.
Then the map increasingly diverges from the territory as Politics The Mind Killer feedback loops take over.
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You are really on to something, but I think the main effect is that (some) individual humans may indeed grasp multiple problems, but when they try to cooperate the narrative simplifies every cooperator.
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This is why a lot of managed ecological systems crash once in the hands of human decisionmaking; it's why Holistic Management was created but even that has a long way to go to get on the right side of emergence (joke! it has no sides!)
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