Most human life is shaped by forces no one understands at the time

Evidence

Much of human life, plainly, is shaped by forces which no human beings at all at the time of happening genuinely understand; and even if a few select human beings did happen to comprehend those forces, they could scarcely significantly affect them. — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 1145

Categorization

Category: Connection Points

• XREF: Lines up with Luhmann’s structural functionalism and systemic blindness that even understanders cannot reroute—a parallel to Saramago’s blind masses.

Broader Connections

• Ideologies act on people structurally through a process that escapes them #expands (0.80)
• Human knowledge fails to answer life’s fundamental questions. #qualifies (0.75) — Leo Tolstoy, A Confession, 64
• People forget their purpose while being carried by societal pressures. #exemplifies (0.75) — Leo Tolstoy, A Confession, 179