it was really a miscalculation? Self referential systems are not only prone to failure, but are doomed on the long-run due to missing independent guiding point

it was really a miscalculation? Self referential systems are not only prone to failure, but are doomed on the long-run due to missing independent guiding points. "Any community with only one dominant power is always a dangerous one and provokes reactions." (Jacques Chirac, 2003)