By their very incoherence, government actions increase the likelihood that projects will fail, or that they will succeed at an unacceptable cost, or that in succeeding, they will undermine the success of another project. There is no standpoint from which to visualize the whole, and the experts embedded in the nodes of the system are not foxes, nor have they access to the complexity. The result is, from foreign policy to health care, that the convolution of the issue is addressed through solutions that are even more complicated and therefore less understandable.
