“Emergence” has been colonized.
It has been rebranded, hollowed, turned into laissez-faire collapse, or strategic non-interventionism dressed up as wisdom.
“Let it all emerge” often now means:
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“Let it burn and call it natural.”
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“Let the strongest ideas survive.”
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“Let the field sort itself out without holding any center.”
This isn't emergence.
It's privileged abdication.