it appears to me the cybernetic principle "the purpose of a system is what it does" is contemporaneously misused to paranoidly imply that bad outcomes are the result of conspiratorial four-dimensional chess moves, as if *someone* out there knew what they were doing.
but "the purpose of a system is what it does" is only meaningful as a response to someone believing more in intent and design of a system rather than its actual performance and emergent manifestations.
Leonard Ritter /
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