The point I'm after tends toward the latter, networked structure. The higher the center of gravity of the bureaucratic/aristocratic structure, and look at what

The point I'm after tends toward the latter, networked structure. The higher the center of gravity of the bureaucratic/aristocratic structure, and look at what the US has become in the last century, the greater the Tower of Babel risk. The losers of the last Presidential election have declared a soft civil war. Streamlined, simpler systems with higher-frequency, term-limited office-holders, can move toward Nirvana: redistributing power, not wealth.