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'''Central control''' is the opposite of distributed [[controll]]. A control system requires a [[God's Eye View]] to assess and coordinate and to allocate resources to all elements of a system. Such systems are almost always initially successful, and [[authoritarianism]] may appear to work temporarily:

However in the longer run, with change over time, systems built in this way, e.g. the [[w:USSR]] or [[Wikimedia]], have historically collapsed under their own weight for lack of ability to integrate the disparate views of [[faction]]s, [[trolls]], [[dissident]]s and other [[heretic]]s and learn from them quickly enough to keep up with the various subversions that those apply to the centre.

Like wolves taking down a bear, or dogs taking down a horse, several weaker but determined opponents can almost always overcome a single centralized but more powerful entity. The death struggle sometimes seems noble, but, it is futile: the more [[Distributed Consumerium]] will triumph over a centralized but still [[Transparent Consumerium]].

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142.177.109.161 at 21:28, 9 September 2004