I look forward to reading Part 2.

I too have been intrigued by complexity, reading Donella Meadows Thinking in Systems: A Primer early on during my trip down the rabbit's hole in trying to better understand our world.

I am 'amused' by our hubristic human belief systems that hold we cannot only understand and predict such systems, but control them. Hell, even our best meteorological models cannot do this with a relatively 'simple' complex system of physical variables--throw human proclivities into the mix and all bets are off with respect to predictive models and 'control'.

Rather than admit the impossibility of such a task, we create rationalising narratives to support the belief we can--leading us, of course, into dead-end paths and emergent 'problems' without 'solutions' that either expedite or exacerbate the negative consequences.

The article I have been working on the past few days and hope to put out in the next couple touches on these very aspects as well, but with a focus upon our (misguided) belief that our political systems can address our problems/predicaments.