Writing and the narrative fallacy (2018)
The mirror of this premise is also interesting; think, for example, of all the extremely complicated narratives woven to explain COVID-19 (5G, Bill Gates, etc.) On the other hand, maybe those narratives could also be considered a kind of simplification, which is to say they all boil down to &quot;it&#x27;s the fault of {fill in the blank evil rich person or organization}&quot; as opposed to what&#x27;s more likely to be the truth, which is that nature and the physical world are full of complexity and randomness.