As humanity modernizes further, complexity and diversity
among people increases. Forcing a big number of people into a centrally-planned
design to achieve social coherence will only mean more bureaucratism if not
dictatorship. Here's one proof.
Mathematicians Prove Society is Way Too Complex to Have A President
November 18, 2016 at 11:18 am
Written by Alice Salles
“[T]he concept of
civilization as a complex organism,” mathematicians concluded, “is
qualitatively different than either [democracy or communism].”
According to
NECSI’s director, Yaneer Bar-Yam, “[t]here’s a natural process of increasing
complexity in the world” that at some point will “run into the complexity of
the individual.” Once we reach that point, Bar-Yam added, “hierarchical
organizations will fail.”
From The Mind Unleased,
“There’s a natural process of increasing complexity in
the world that at some point will run into the complexity of the individual.
Once we reach that point, hierarchical organizations will fail.” http://themindunleashed.com/.../society-complex...
"It is absurd, then, to believe that the
concentration of power in one or a few individuals at the top of a hierarchical
representative democracy will be able to make optimal decisions on a vast array
of connected and complex issues that will certainly have sweeping and
unintended ramifications on other parts of human civilization." https://motherboard.vice.com/.../society-is-too...
The full paper by Bar-Yaam is 23 pages long, http://www.necsi.edu/research/multiscale/EOLSSComplexityRising.pdf
I like this chart. As society progresses, as humanity
modernizes, we need more lateral connections and network, not vertical
hierarchical ordering. Only ego-tripping central planners and dictators would
love more hierarchy.
A friend Eric T asked, "What if, instead of forming a network with lateral
connections, each new state ended up operating in a silo?"
From this chart, Eric is referring to the hybrid set up, somehow vertical and
horizontal, pwedi, but I think modern societies with small population like SG, HK,
Switzerland, are in a hybrid state now.
The danger of 'silos' has made the lateral linkages even
more important. Even in civil society - old-style 'united fronts' are
increasingly being superseded by 'dynamic coalitions', hindi na uso yun
one-size-fits-all.... In the end -- individual effort by key persons within the
various companies, organizations and institutions.But the organization culture
will have to be flexible and open to these dynamic linkages and engagements -
it cannot be - "you're either with us or against us"
Good points there by Wyn, the hybrid is the optimal set up for societies in the present. My article last Monday in BusinessWorld was about federalism and disintegration of the Philippines. To have one President or PM over 103 M people is lousy. Whereas it is
more manageable to have 1 PM over 5.7M people (SG) or 1 Chief Exec over 7.5M
people (HK) or 1 King/PM over 0.4M people (Brunei), they would somehow fall
under the hybrid set up.
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See also:
Pol. Ideology 66, On institutions, constitutional monarchy and liberal parliamentary democracy, May 10, 2016
Pol. Ideology 67, Socialism and Venezuela, June 08, 2016
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