I'm not sure I can write anything political, though of course the temptation is heavy on the mind.  The alternative is satire.
Read the set piece of the young man's visit to the antique shop in Balzac's Peau de Chagrin:  brilliant in that he looks at all the layers of our cumulative civilizations and finds that... all is vanity!!  But we knew that, right?  Nonetheless, we must remain creative, not only from the aesthetic point of view, which is almost the superhighway:  easy riding thanks to an engineered system, but also creative in the sense of communication that is sensible, compassionate and doable, with some struggle.  We can't allow ourselves to let ourselves submit to complete dependence on systems, because they too can crumble away, leaving us bereft of that creative impulse which allows us to communicate, and thus to live with one another.
The artifacts the young man saw in that heteroclite bric-à-brac point to a basic truth that for each level of understanding there are artifacts of such realizations.  And so too, we might think does this hold true in the realm of community "management".  Over the millenia some strategies have evolved which support community and enable its perpetuation.  This concept of perpetuation may be the millstone that prevents creativity from flourishing.  Systems evolve.  Systems calcify.  Systems fragilize beyond their capacity to regenerate.  Fragile systems become rogues.  Such systems cease to communicate within their own constituent elements in any meaningful way beyond atavistic regression, with the result that creative attentiveness to change is impossible.  Eventually the community ceases to function and its artifacts are thrown on to the heap of some antiquarian repository.  In Balzac's version, the young man is given the opportunity to avoid immediate death by means of magic.  In our version, there is the reality of the now, whether we like it or not, whether it is efficient or not or whether we stand to profit from it or not, with the understanding that moment to moment all is in a flux and in a flow and the reality of the moment is not so important as our realization that we can overcome, or even submit to, the conditions of the moment with creativity.