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Is there a name for this phenomena? Where we know that everybody blunders around like a caveman at our workplaces but assume infinite sophistication for everyon
by fhood 7y ago
Is there a name for this phenomena? Where we know that everybody blunders around like a caveman at our workplaces but assume infinite sophistication for everyone elses.
- awinter-py 7y agonovelist michael crichton named it 'gell-mann amnesia' in a news-reading context
- tripzilch 7y agowell there's this great quote from the movie "Cube" (1997): There is no conspiracy. Nobody is in charge. It's a headless blunder operating under the illusion of a master plan.
- krapp 7y agoAnd a greater one by Alan Moore: “The main thing that I learned about conspiracy theory, is that conspiracy theorists believe in a conspiracy because that is more comforting. The truth of the world is that it is actually chaotic. The truth is that it is not The Iluminati, or The Jewish Banking Conspiracy, or the Gray Alien Theory. The truth is far more frightening - Nobody is in control. The world is rudderless.”