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They also gave themselves, and one another, more blame than was deserved when things went badly. This gave them all jumbo-sized guilt complexes. It is usually that way on primitive planets, before quantum causality is understood. Schrödinger's Cat Trilogy by Robert Anton WilsonMost Terran primates did not understand the multiplex nature of causality. They tended to think everything had a _single_ cause. This simple philosophic error was so widespread on that planet that the primates were all in the habit of giving themselves, and other primates, more credit than was deserved when things went well. This made them all inordinately conceited.