"I will point to [...] the conviction that everything in the world is connected" - Francis. The system thinker.
— honor harger (@honorharger) June 19, 2015
"Every thing (phenomenon, process, etc.) is connected with everything else"
"You never see anyone in Star Fleet saying, “I never should have voted for those idiots pushing the expansionist policy, now look what a mess they’ve gotten into in Sector 5” or “when I was a student I was active in the campaign to ban terraforming of class-C planets but now I’m not sure we were right.” When political problems do arise, and they regularly do, those sent in to deal with them are invariably bureaucrats, diplomats, and officials. Star Trek characters complain about bureaucrats all the time. They never complain about politicians. Because political problems are always addressed solely through administrative means...
...The Federation, then, is Leninism brought to its full and absolute cosmic success"
The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy