Unfortunately, most humans don't seem to have a good idea of how feedback loops work, they get stuck focusing on a single leg of them "they hurt me, I must get my revenge" instead of noticing the other leg and self-reinforcing nature of the phenomenon "I get my revenge, they feel hurt and now hurt me to get their revenge, ad infinitum".
And Moloch is a personification of a large system of feedback loops.
That's to say - most humans - and therefore, most "authentic" humans - have trouble recognizing Moloch is a thing in the first place.
(FWIW, I don't think it's an issue of capabilities, but rather, of education. Some basics of feedback control should be covered in elementary education, instead of specialized university degrees.)
But you're right, the ability to see how a great network of systems
and subsystems, all trying to make things better, can add up to a
lethal "trap" with its own perverse intelligence (I quite like the Adam
Curtis slant) is elusive.
And Moloch is a personification of a large system of feedback loops.
That's to say - most humans - and therefore, most "authentic" humans - have trouble recognizing Moloch is a thing in the first place.
(FWIW, I don't think it's an issue of capabilities, but rather, of education. Some basics of feedback control should be covered in elementary education, instead of specialized university degrees.)