Think of an organism. Like us. It consists of organs. Each organ has a complex structure with a lot of different kinds of tissues. Each tissue consists of cells. Cells consists of thousands of organelles of dozens different types. And its all sims in a complex soup of trillions of complex organic molecules - polymers with thousands of blocks. Then there's the pure chemistry of proteins and fats. Each system - from how a single protein is structured and works - to the body as whole is an extremely complex and intricate system, fine tuned and incomprehensible to human conscious. We may know the principle of how some system works but we can never fully imagine in our minds what it takes to move a finger - what processes are involved and on what levels. Now, what happens if we - our mind - starts passing rules, laws to 'better' the effectiveness of any system in our organism? Well, it's quite easy to answer. We 'tax' our mitochondria (each of them at once!) with just 1 calorie - we die. We 'lay out' our 'unused' muscle fibres (each of them) - we die. We 'prioritize' heart over liver - we die. In most cases - instantly. Any attempt of an individual human mind to mess up deliberately with all the elements of one type in any system of his organism leads to instant death of the organism. But here's a thing. There's another system up there. A system in which a single organism is just an element. A nation. A state. A society. So. What happens if a mind of a single human decides to 'better' the relations between the elements and subsystems of that system? And here we have it. After reaching a certain level of complexity it's impossible to rule over society with authoritarian policies. It's also impossible not to destroy a complex society with excessive red-taping and regulation. And any form of managerialism is deadly too. This is why modern authoritarian states are always poor and crumbling. This is why command economy was successful in Ancient Egypt but failed in XXth century everywhere. This is why political freedom, autonomy, and personal sovereignty are essential for survival of a complex society. Btw, such ideas were thought through and were proven somewhere around the end of XXth century and the beginning of this XXIth century. But then they quickly disappeared from media and people's minds for some reason. I wonder, what happened.