I just got through reading an article about the problems the federal government faces setting up insurance exchanges called for in the Affordable Health Care Act, commonly referred to as Obamacare. I know a lot of you were counting on the other guy being elected and all that going away, but believe me, even if he had been, we would have still had some kind of additional health care bureaucracy installed on top of the mess we currently have. Once something like that gets on the table and gets voted into law by the Congress, it never goes away. In fact, when I think about it, in recent history aka. my life time, I can recall very few complications that have ever been rolled back.
I've often wondered why that was the case. Why do things just get more and more complicated. The only viable answer that I have been able to come up with is that, that is the way we want it to be. I believe that there is an underlying need for complexity in the human psyche. Somewhere deep in most humans, there is a fundamental need to make things increasingly complicated. Layers upon layers of rules, regulations, procedures and rituals are constantly being added to all aspects of our life. The end result is that man made systems continue to become increasingly complex to the point to where they are completely unworkable. They collapse and then the whole process starts over again. Even the casual student of history can observe this happening repeatedly throughout the years.
Is this some master plan for humanity laid in by our creator? Is it a relic of some evolutionary misstep? I don't know. I've searched on the internet to see if someone has figured this out and has written an explanation, but so far I have been unable to find an answer. If you think you know or have a link to someone that does, let me know. If I am looking at this all wrong, in other words if I have totally misunderstood this process, you can explain that to me as well.
