Complexity and incompetence…

One of the recurring subthemes in my ten-novel opus is how society’s problems are becoming more complex and the people, official or otherwise, who are supposed to solve them, more incompetent. One has to be careful, of course, because average competency could stay the same while the complexity exponentially increases, or vice versa. My perception, nevertheless, is that both complexity and incompetency are increasing.

In physics research, we used to say that all the easy problems have been solv...