Simplifying maps

 

Bureaucracy builds mazes to sell maps.
The modern world worships the tangled web.
Mistaking density for depth.

Yet brilliance is never an accumulation.
It is an elegant eviction.
The sudden subtraction 
that leaves the experts speechless.

Systems naturally sediment 
into self-inflicted struggles.
Layer upon layer of logic.
Until the blueprint becomes a barrier.

Humanity constantly mistakes 
the scaffolding for the structure.
Building higher walls.
To protect smaller ideas.

The ultimate systemic dilemma remains.
Is it nobler to master the machinery of the maze, 
or to render the entire grid obsolete by walking out.