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Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
sindarina@ngmx.com ("Sindarina, Edge Case Detective") wrote:
Speaking of complex systems; today's systems are so complicated, both in terms of overarching societal, financial, and political systems as well as the ones that fit into our pocket and allow access, that we have entered what is basically a new age of superstition.
It not only yields new rituals that are essentially the old with new ingredients, but also contributes to a sense of being overwhelmed at all times, which in turn leads to a retreat into an idealised past in which things were supposedly simple.
That is only going to get worse, in the next decade or so, in no small part because some are actively trying to make it so.