The Evolution of Complex Systems

It's not so much that there are too many people or the scale of society is too big it's more that there aren't enough coherent intermediary structures. You could imagine a planet operating on that level which would be a complex organic structure rather than a disintermediated world where you'd have an undifferentiated mass of people and a hierarchical control structure. So maybe is where you're going with this like some kind of successor to the industrial model of organizing society.