Self-Generated Harm: An Impact Analysis of Human-Designed Systems and Collective Denial

Abstract This paper argues that many of humanity’s most persistent social crises are not the result of external threats, natural scarcity, or informational deficits, but are instead self-generated outcomes of human-designed systems. Through an analysis of system incentives, accountability avoidance, and feedback suppression, the paper demonstrates how harm is repeatedly produced, normalized, and misrepresented as inevitability. The findings suggest that systemic collapse is not accidental, but the predictable consequence of architectures that prioritize control, comfort, and denial over adaptation and repair.