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System of Ideas Can Act as Conspiratorial Agents
A system of ideas can act like a conspiracy, even if it doesn't make itself manifest. The Gulag Archipelago shows how the brutal tyrannical actions of Lenin and Stalin were necessary concomitants to the axioms that were embedded in the communist worldview. And I see similar things going on around us now.