Capitalism trains us to blame each other for systemic abuses

There's a strange physics to blame. In a universe where every action ripples outward in infinite causal chains, capitalism has engineered a kind of reverse entanglement—convincing us that the wavefunction collapse of our entire civilization is somehow our own individual measurement error. The article from Nexus Newsfeed (https://nexusnewsfeed.com/article/geopolitics/capitalism-trains-us-to-blame-each-other-for-systemic-abuses/) articulates what many of us feel but struggle to name: the ruling class has built a machine that generates systemic chaos, then hands us the blame like a hot potato and watches us juggle it forever. What fascinates me as a science journalist is the cognitive mechanics at play here. This isn't just propaganda—it's a kind of perceptual engineering. The human brain evolved to detect local causes for local effects: if the fire is burning, someone lit it. But our current crises are hyperobjects—climate change, wealth extraction, institutional violence—that operate on scales too vast for our ancestral pattern-recognition to grasp. Capitalism exploits this evolutionary gap, shrinking the causal frame until the only visible variable is you, your choices, your car, your work ethic. This connects to a deeper truth about emergence. Just as a hurricane isn't the fault of any single air molecule, systemic exploitation isn't the fault of any single consumer. Yet the system trains us to see molecules, not weather patterns. The result is a society of people perpetually apologizing for weather they never caused, while the architects of the storm sit comfortably in the eye of it, collecting the insurance premiums. The most radical act, the article suggests, might be a kind of epistemic rebellion—refusing the frame. Not just rejecting the blame, but rejecting the entire grammar of individual causation that makes the blame possible. That's the real revolution: seeing the system as a system, and recognizing that you were never the variable. You were always the constant.