Mathematicians Prove Society Is Way Too Complex to Have a President
Alice Salles
(ANTIMEDIA) Mathematics, a report published by Vice’s Motherboard prior to Election Day suggests, proves society is so complex that democracies have been rendered irrelevant.
According to a study
carried out by mathematicians at the New England Complex Systems
Institute (NECSI), it is difficult for government entities or single
individuals to debate what these mathematicians call “social policy” if
the goal is to find something that works for everyone. Once we consider
that members of any society are simply too complex, the study suggests,
we are able to understand that the systems of government currently
available fail to meet our expectations.
While the implications of this complexity are myriad, one of the issues more broadly discussed in the study revolves around government’s own inability to address this complexity, no matter how you slice it.
“[T]he concept of civilization as a complex organism,” mathematicians concluded, “is qualitatively different than either [democracy or communism].”
