Modern life favors centralization: large cities, complex supply chains, concentrated institutions. These systems are efficient under stable conditions, but brittle under stress.
When shocks occur—war, pandemics, climate events, political disruptions—centralized systems struggle. Recovery is slow, coordination falters, and individuals feel powerless.
Decentralization does not mean isolation. It means balance.
Smaller systems, local production, diversified livelihoods, and closer relationships with natural systems tend to absorb shocks better. They may appear less efficient on paper, but they outperform during instability.
The future may belong not to the largest systems, but to those that combine connectivity with rootedness.
bhaskar saikia 
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