I feel like there needs to be a name for this fallacy. The one where you say “society did X, and I don’t like it, so we shouldn’t do X!” As if you can just decree it and make it so, despite the fact that all social constructs are enourmously complicated and deeply ingrained in a culture.
No raindrop thinks itself responsible for the flood. But they are. And if enough of us tiny bits pull in a direction, we can move society. But it won’t seem like it until enough of us do, and then BAM, magically it floods.
I was thinking more of Chestertons Fence - you fuck with something you don’t understand, so it blows up in your face and everyone is worse off because you didn’t understand the long term implications of your actions.
I feel like there needs to be a name for this fallacy. The one where you say “society did X, and I don’t like it, so we shouldn’t do X!” As if you can just decree it and make it so, despite the fact that all social constructs are enourmously complicated and deeply ingrained in a culture.
The raindrop effect.
No raindrop thinks itself responsible for the flood. But they are. And if enough of us tiny bits pull in a direction, we can move society. But it won’t seem like it until enough of us do, and then BAM, magically it floods.
I was thinking more of Chestertons Fence - you fuck with something you don’t understand, so it blows up in your face and everyone is worse off because you didn’t understand the long term implications of your actions.