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Any complex system eventually breaks down. If not this rebellion then the next. Or the one after that. The system accumulates damage over time, maintenance can

by ajuc 6y ago

Any complex system eventually breaks down. If not this rebellion then the next. Or the one after that. The system accumulates damage over time, maintenance can't fix everything, eventually it's not worth it to keep it operational. Looking at Trump and Biden I'd say that time is near.

TeMPOraL 6y ago
In theory, repair and creating something anew are equivalent processes; at the detail level, they both involve the same act of tearing out old pieces and inserting fresh ones. So I sometimes wonder what is it that eventually makes killing and starting over preferable to maintenance? Maybe we should address that somehow, as redoing things from scratch seem unnecessarily wasteful.