We can say centralisation vs decentralisation, but I think my point holds. Centralised organizations have a single point of failure, and if that is captured the whole thing becomes corrupted, but there’s also a certain mitigating effect usually in how willing the elites are to really go wild. The failure mainly looks like being ineffectual, slow, mired in process and politics and unable to ever embrace a bolder belief even when appropriate. Meanwhile decentralised ideologies mean everyone must fill a niche and all sorts of crazy stuff can develop and not be sanctioned.
(a fun case study of two parallel developments of the same exact core idea with these two different paradigms is the Catholic Church vs Protestantism).
We can say centralisation vs decentralisation, but I think my point holds. Centralised organizations have a single point of failure, and if that is captured the whole thing becomes corrupted, but there’s also a certain mitigating effect usually in how willing the elites are to really go wild. The failure mainly looks like being ineffectual, slow, mired in process and politics and unable to ever embrace a bolder belief even when appropriate. Meanwhile decentralised ideologies mean everyone must fill a niche and all sorts of crazy stuff can develop and not be sanctioned.
(a fun case study of two parallel developments of the same exact core idea with these two different paradigms is the Catholic Church vs Protestantism).