One of the impetuses for centralization is the cutting down on costs associated with energy losses caused by the constant traversal and navigation of open space. The process undergoing centralization is made more efficient, and at the same time it speeds up.
Now we see here the simultaneous large scale dispersal and atomization of the body politic itself, which exists in an oppositional unity with the highly centralized political and economic organizational entities themselves.
Because whatever has the power to centralize can accumulate more power, and all the while use that power to suppress whoever or whatever else would take it back, which has the tendency to atomize and disperse it across space.
