Yes, the coup d'état on June 30 systemically caused Egypt's crisis. Let's say it out loud, it was causation, systemic causation.
Semantics matter. According to George Lakoff, a cognitive linguist, there is a difference between systemic and direct causation. Bombing a hospital and destroying it and killing those inside is direct causation. Any local application of force that produces a local effect in place and time is direct causation. When causation is direct, the word "cause" is easy to understand.
Systemic causation, because it is less familiar, is more crucial to understand, and has to be learned. It goes beyond the immediate local situation. A systemic cause, as Lakoff states, may be one of many. It may need some special conditions, and may be indirect, working via a network of more direct causes. We drill a lot more oil, burn a lot more gas, put a lot more carbon dioxide in the air, the atmosphere of the earth heats up, more moisture evaporates from the oceans producing bigger storms in some places and more droughts and fires in other places: systemic causation.
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