This is mistaken because systems can and do assemble out of sufficiently similar people pursuing self interest in a way that ends up coordinated because their motivations are alike. Capitalism is the simplest and most obvious example of such a system, but I’d argue things like patriarchy and racism are similar.
The point is the system doesn’t have a particular overriding goals, or central coordination, and isn’t interested in you personally. In context, he was speaking to counter-culture people who thought the system was against them, in an ego satisfying way that makes them feel significant. He counter that it is simply indifferent to them.
Mad Men, “My Old Kentucky Home”
Another good one from Don Draper:
This is mistaken because systems can and do assemble out of sufficiently similar people pursuing self interest in a way that ends up coordinated because their motivations are alike. Capitalism is the simplest and most obvious example of such a system, but I’d argue things like patriarchy and racism are similar.
The point is the system doesn’t have a particular overriding goals, or central coordination, and isn’t interested in you personally. In context, he was speaking to counter-culture people who thought the system was against them, in an ego satisfying way that makes them feel significant. He counter that it is simply indifferent to them.