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2022-04-23

Monocausotaxophilia

An interesting restatement of H. L. Mencken's often restated:

"There is always an easy solution to every complex problem--neat, plausible, and wrong."

From Kim Stanley Robinson's "The Ministry for the Future":

Monocausotaxophilia: the love of single ideas that explain everything, one of humanity’s most common cognitive errors.