We're suffering a 'crisis of bigness'

I find this really intriguing:

Kohr's claim was that society's problems were not caused by particular forms of social or economic organisation, but by their size. Socialism, anarchism, capitalism, democracy, monarchy – all could work well on what he called "the human scale": a scale at which people could play a part in the systems that governed their lives. But once scaled up to the level of modern states, all systems became oppressors. Changing the system, or the ideology that it claimed inspiration from, would not prevent that oppression – as any number of revolutions have shown – because "the problem is not the thing that is big, but bigness itself"

I think that it intrigues me because it seems to me that a reading of the story of the Tower of Babel might well be saying the same thing. It has always seemed to me that part of the point of that story is that aggregating human endeavours is liable to lead to a growth of ill and that God's 'solution' is decentralisation and reverting things to human scale. I rather suspect Fritz Schumaker would have agreed: his Buddhist economics seems to me to point in the same direction.

I'm also considering how this relates to a Wink-derived take considering Principalities and Powers....

.This economic collapse is a 'crisis of bigness' | Paul Kingsnorth | Comment is free | The Guardian