Evil without villains. Good without heroes.
One promising path to conveying societal level evil to the conspiracy theory Right
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Through the free market, the masses generate breathtaking societal good—without requiring a single individual or cabal to harbor good intentions toward society.
Likewise, the masses are capable of producing horrifying societal evil—without any individual or group bearing ill will toward society.
After five years warning about the dangers of mass hysteria and the fantasy of top-down master plans, it finally struck me: the best way to make the point might be to start where the Right already agrees.
Because they already know the power of emergent systems.
They believe in the free market—a breathtaking engine of coordination without any central planner. They believe in free expression as a decentralized truth-finding mechanism. They believe in the cultural evolution of language, custom, and morality, all without design.
So why, when it comes to evil, do they suddenly abandon everything they know?
Why assume that evil must come from a cabal pulling the strings, when they know from economics, science, and culture that it’s precisely the absence of central control that enables vast and powerful outcomes?
Yes—there are “cabals,” of course. Thousands. Competing, overlapping, fighting for influence. But the real engine of both civilizational brilliance and civilizational collapse isn’t a cabal—it’s the masses.
The truth is: The only way to get massive, coordinated societal impact is without a master planner.
That’s true for good. And it’s true for evil.
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