re: #33 suchislife

You know, if you had written “are an unavoidable product that sometimes has a larger impact than the intended goal” (that’s horribly phrased, but you get what I mean, right?), then I would have agreed. But “the primary product”? That’s an ideologically motivated lie.

No, it’s an ideologically motivated exaggeration, intended for rhetorical and comedic effect, intended primarily to underline the suggestion that the larger and more involved the “solutions” proposed, the less likely they are to attain their goals, and the more likely they are to produce effects of less-than-desirable characteristics. This is because larger systems are more subject to dynamic instability and chaotic effects than smaller ones, owing the fewer interactions in the latter versus the former.