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Behind every change in the world, someone is assumed to have intended to change the world. This assumption of an intention behind all possible, automatic developments stems from man's evolutionary past. If there was a rustling in the bushes, it was important for survival to suspect a hungry puma or an enemy warrior. All this is also the breeding ground for multiple conspiracy theories: Intent and acting agents are always suspected where there is none. If Bill Gates had not invented the Windows operating system, it would have been someone else. The presumption of intent leads to world history being interpreted as a story of "famous people". If Neil Armstrong had not been the first man to land on the moon, it would have been someone else, simply because the time was ripe for it. Contemporary events are a product of chance and an infinite number of currents and influences. It works more like the internet than like a single computer, or like a railway network than like a single train.
Behind every change in the world, someone is assumed to have intended to change the world. This assumption of an intention behind all possible, automatic developments stems from man's evolutionary past. If there was a rustling in the bushes, it was important for survival to suspect a hungry puma or an enemy warrior. All this is also the breeding ground for multiple conspiracy theories: Intent and acting agents are always suspected where there is none. If Bill Gates had not invented the Windows operating system, it would have been someone else. The presumption of intent leads to world history being interpreted as a story of "famous people". If Neil Armstrong had not been the first man to land on the moon, it would have been someone else, simply because the time was ripe for it. Contemporary events are a product of chance and an infinite number of currents and influences. It works more like the internet than like a single computer, or like a railway network than like a single train.