HYPERCOHESION
Service Functions become increasing more important with flow between places critical for effective management.
Hyper-developed urbanization is one outcome.
Model of urbanization in the case of Uruk with its unimodal focus ...case for too much hypercohesion.
One of the most common ways for hypercoherence to occur is through meddling. Marriage alliances between the ruling families may so strengthen communication and influence between them as to destroy the natural buffering which may have insulated one from the upheavls in another. Increased nepotism can be bad.
The question is how much integration is needed before one reaches a point of being "hyper"?
Food For Thought
1. More management requires more formal institutions
2. New institutions arise to process information faster
3. New institutions arise only after some critical threshold is reached
4. New institutions are initially more efficient
5. New institutions are more costly to support
6. The evolutionary trend is toward SELF-SERVING purposes
7. Stress can lead to more new institutions
Too Much!
Centralization may reach a threshold where a state exists. Centralization, promotion, and linearization may push this threshold to hypercoherence and instability.
The Implications
Collapse
Devolution
RISE LEADING TO A FALL