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It falls into the same trap as many "galaxy-brain" intellectuals, whose conceit does not allow them to understand that the global billionaire elite run circles of malev-gnorance around them while barely possessing a command of how to use email.
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We who inhabit the mini-Moloch of the "intellectual elite" are only one small part of the global Moloch of hard power and dark finance. There isn't some dark overlord, some secret handshakes. It's very much just a higher evolved bunch of Medicis (who started as cloth traders!).
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There is intellectual dishonesty in insisting that "there is a network of corruption!" and then focusing on the behaviors of *individuals*. If our world is collapsing b/c of networked evil, then first&foremost we must recognize it as *complex* in nature, not merely complicated.
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Disagree. There is no zero sum relationship between individual responsibility and systemic effects. That is collectivist thinking; that the only way individuals come together in networked ways is by losing their individuality and therefore culpability.
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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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Ie these are systems that grow 1 person at a time, being added via 1:1 organic processes via simple rituals/initiation protocols where incentives are fairly clear. Someone entering a rich-people circle knows what they’re getting into in a way a trainee nuclear technician doesn’t
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