The actual reason why “Society” appears to be complicated is because there are actually many countless societies. Some of them are separate. Some of them overlap. There has never been one singular human Society, and there does not appear to be any cogent reasoning for assuming that there will ever be any such thing. On individual level, people seem to mostly understand that “you can’t please everybody”, and that no system can be all things to all people. But then many of them quickly forget this and suppose collectives where hundreds of millions of people somehow magically share the same goals and values, with no evidence of this.
Imagine creating a Tool That Does Everything. Of course it would seem complicated! And as complicated as it would be, it would still not ever work as advertised. But accepting this flies against a lot of dubious “common sense” that countries, religions, corporations, etc should “obviously” maximize their influence by growing as large as possible. The reality is that it causes zombie groups where most members don’t matter, and everything is run by an elite minority.
Real participation happens by working with others right now, instead of hoping to be invited, or hoping to preserve the old group identity.
