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It brings to mind one larger trend I noticed with many smaller "fringe" groups but by no means limited to them - a fallacy that just because they personally can
by Nasrudith 7y ago
It brings to mind one larger trend I noticed with many smaller "fringe" groups but by no means limited to them - a fallacy that just because they personally cannot understand something it must be an unsustainable house of cards.
It is understandable why their heuristics could make them think that even in the absence of any egocentric self justification.
It need not be the Gold Standard people, or those who believe in a pending vague apocalypse or collapse. Some insist that fuel injection systems with computer control are "less reliable" in spite of needing less maintenance and fewer replacements than older fuel dispersal systems.
It resembles a "monkeysphere" sort of concept like a stereotypical communist refusing to see that the disappearance of every banker would cause real and major damage or an ideological counterpart objectivist not seeing that a complete disappearance of bueracrats would also cause real and major damage.
This isn't to say that current systems don't have deadweight, dysfunctions, and things which could be redone way better without the weight of inertia, legacy, and vested interests. The current cure may in fact be worse than the disease but that the cognitive "here be dragons" interferes with understanding a whole system and its alternatives.