On Systems and Authority

The answer you were hovering is, is a tenative yes. A system that no longer brings about it's intended ends need be revised or done away with until it does, and that means a dismissal of the authority currently driving The system. The part you haven't really touched on though that is critical to take into account, is what it means for a system and it's authority to be in that state when the components that make up that system exist independently from the system.

Looking at a human composed system, the humans have organized and accepted a state-of-affairs composed of a set of collective delegations of authority. Wipe out that set of delegations, you wipe out the authority, the system is essentially in a reset state (implying a higher order meta-system, but let's not go there).

You are then left with the challenge of developing a predominant consensus amongst the components of the old system in order to set back up the significant network of functional working relationships, and thereby, functional authorities.

All of this being much easier said than done.

I'd love to hear anyone else's thought's on this topic.

Also, sorry about the self link.