Another pressure towards simplification can be found in the concentration of power - a dynamic that has been discussed here previously. When power concentrates among a complex social system, more of the motive impulses are diverted away from the regions of governance that need them most.
This is because complexity by its nature requires a self governance in those deeper tiers, as concentrated power only has so much energy to attend to governance in a given tier or specialization.
Where one has motive, one must have power to set that motive into motion. When power concentrates, that intersection of motive and power is also concentrated, so that those most able to affect change haven't the slightest clue of how that change actually came about in the past.
It is a problem of the ineffectual movement and concentration of energy in time and space.
So power proceeds by its own necessities, and diverts its energy to those regions most sympathetic to it, simplifying its own operation. However to increase its effectiveness power must in turn develop those regions further after reorganizing and proceed again to a complexity with its appropriate delegations of power and motive.
