I get the sense the deeper you penetrate into elite circles, the harder it is to not become complicit in something ugly. To some extent elite cultures are almost defined by a kind of mutually assured destruction condition of collective complicity.
You are inappropriately extrapolating system failures without a moral agency dimension, BUT with strong incentives to localize blame (example “normal accidents” in nuclear reactors, see Perrow) with social systems of aggregate agency. They’re not the same thing.
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Blaming individuals for either knowing complicity or gross negligence of due diligence in who to trust is NOT the same as blaming (say) a nuclear technician for a failure caused by unanticipated systemic reactions.
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“Network of corruption” is a simple and ancient social mechanism. Bringing systems theoretic angles or cynefin type analysis to it is to a red herring. The appropriate level of analysis is something like Goffman’s cooling the mark out http://infofranpro.wikidot.com/19520101-on-cooling …
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