Maybe, like any flood, its eventual effect will be to wash away much of what is insubstantial. Which apparently includes our system of governance, as the political machinery grinds away at its foundations.

Basically it’s all the anarchy of desire, versus the tyranny of judgement. The heart and the head. Youth versus age. Liberal versus conservative. Cycles of expansion and consolidation.

Complexity is part of a cycle, of systems building up, filling every niche, becoming ever more specialized, until cascading system failures bring it down and those adaptable and lucky enough to survive learn a few lessons and start building again. Some is seed. The rest is fertilizer.

Biology has been doing this for billions of years and we are far more biologically complex than our information technologies could ever dream.