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Mad Men, "My Old Kentucky Home"
Another good one from Don Draper:
This is mistaken because systems can and do assemble out of sufficiently similar people pursuing self interest in a way that ends up coordinated because their motivations are alike. Capitalism is the simplest and most obvious example of such a system, but I'd argue things like patriarchy and racism are similar.
The point is the system doesn't have a particular overriding goals, or central coordination, and isn't interested in you personally. In context, he was speaking to counter-culture people who thought the system was against them, in an ego satisfying way that makes them feel significant. He counter that it is simply indifferent to them.