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Perhaps we feel compelled to assume that the people in charge know what they're doing since the alternative is deeply unsettling.
by catach 8y ago
Perhaps we feel compelled to assume that the people in charge know what they're doing since the alternative is deeply unsettling.
- madaxe_again 8y agoOh, I wholeheartedly agree, and as far as I’m concerned, the reality is unsettling. In business, as I said, I found the leaders of mighty businesses to be often dangerously clueless - the larger the org the easier systemic inertia and process make it to hide at the top - in politics, the dunces of my year at school now sit in parliament. Yes, this is purely my observation, but I’ve had a broad and global sample pool - and I inhabit a world in which almost everything is smoke and mirrors - yet I find these precepts serve me well, and the decisions and actions I make and take within this worldview produce expected results against the hypothesis. Part of me just wants to hide under a rock - but we’ve muddled along this far, so on it goes.
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 8y agoThat's also one hypothesis of why people are prone to believe in conspiracy theories: the alternative to believing in some malevolent force controlling everything towards some ultimate end goal is that no one is really in control and stuff just kind of happens. Some people find the latter more disturbing.
- catach 8y agoAh right, that context is where I first encountered the idea. Thanks for the reminder.