There is value in perceiving and responding to the inherent complexity in things, as it meshes you closer to reality giving you a greater predictive and respons

There is value in perceiving and responding to the inherent complexity in things, as it meshes you closer to reality giving you a greater predictive and responsive capacity. This doesn't work as well with other people, with society. Even if they individually all try to approach reality as above. Manipulation and coercion are just much more efficient at creating a predictive capacity with other people, because you don't need to deal with reality or complexity. You already know where people are going to (metaphorically) run if you are leading them and herding them. I did enjoy the finer point Terry alluded to though, that even these simplified coercive memeing systems are based on a complex underlying system of reality. And when they get stretched too far, they break in unpredictable (complex) ways.