Pop history only starts caring about societies as soon as they get big and complex, and so you only hear about the “collapse” of complex societies. While complexity might be a factor in collapse, it is one of many, and the narrative that complexity causes collapse is often used by grifters, usually with some idea of having to return to “a simpeler time”, without “degeneracy and (((bureaucracy)))” etc.

Yeah alright, that very objective metric of “too complex”. We have reached a level of ten on the complexometer so we’re totally fucked 🙄

Complexity and the chaos caused by complexity are certainly factors that cause disasters and require damage control. It also provides renegades more opportunities to disrupt normal operations when law fails to serve the public rather the plutocratic elite.

But this doesn’t mean theres a direct causal relationship between complexity and societal failure.

Think of Isla Nublar and the cloned dinosaurs that were able to reproduce, migrate off the island and survive outside containment despite the systems that were emplaced to prevent them from doing so.

Thank god the typo was fixed on the meme template

Yawn,

quotes about history from people that don’t know much about history to make a generalization like that.

It’s a doomer’s wall tattoo.