Individual Choice is the Only Cause: Deconstructing "Banality of Evil," Emergence, and the Reversal of Collective Causality
Why do popular grand narratives like "no snowflake in an avalanche is innocent," the "banality of evil," or "collective wisdom" lead to fatal errors in reasoning? In this episode, we unpack the epistemological fallacy of emergent pseudo-causality—confusing macro-statistical side-effects with primary generative causes.
Macro-phenomena (avalanches, systemic oppression, social trends) are never autonomous, driving entities. They are retrospective statistical traces produced by aggregated micro-choices. When we attribute blame to "the system" or "the gears of the machine," we create a convenient…
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