[HN Gopher] Apophenia: How the Internet Transforms the Individua...
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       Apophenia: How the Internet Transforms the Individual into a
       Conspiracy of One
        
       Author : mcone
       Score  : 18 points
       Date   : 2021-08-05 20:32 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (edwardsnowden.substack.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (edwardsnowden.substack.com)
        
       | trhway wrote:
       | >The conspiracy theorist will believe that institutions can be
       | understood completely as the result of conscious design; and as
       | collectives, he usually ascribes to them a kind of group-
       | personality, treating them as conspiring agents, just as if they
       | were individual men. As opposed to this view, the social theorist
       | should recognize that the persistence of institutions and
       | collectives creates a problem to be solved in terms of an
       | analysis of individual social actions and their unintended (and
       | often unwanted) social consequences, as well as their intended
       | ones.
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       | and in between is the systems theorist who observes the emergent
       | behavior (which is nor "conspiring", nor generally directly
       | reducible to the "individual actions") of the systems.
        
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