With emergent complexity, the cause is hidden and we experience the result (the complexity) as a primary. When we act without understanding that premise, we ac

With emergent complexity, the cause is hidden and we experience the result (the complexity) as a primary. When we act without understanding that premise, we act in vain, because we're only treating symptoms and not addressing their causes. Unfortunately there is no silver bullet when it comes to emergent complexity. To mis-quote Tolstoy, Happy systems are all alike; every unhappy system is unhappy in its own way.