The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

Every day are new laws and regulations created, so that there is order in this chaotic world. The idea is to create the best possible situation for the majority of citizens, though this principle is certainly hard to see in some of the laws introduced lately. Nevertheless some kind of utopia is what the politician aim for, or at least that is what they promise on the election day. And they do work, how hard their work may vary, but if they want to get reelected they do have to do something, introduce some law, change a law, do something. Hence as time goes by the bolt is tightening, more an more gets regulated trying to achieve utopia.

But overly tight society, where everything is regulated will stagnate, because doing something new or different, if not illegal, will become difficult, by definition, because the point of regulating everything is that it should be in a certain way.

The increasing desire to do something different will only grow over time as the bolts are tightening, when it eventually will reach a tipping point and breaking the law or doing something not according to regulations will be views by the population as an heroic act.

The government will try to control the situation as it has done thus far, creating new laws and regulations, and try harder to enforce these by increasing the penalty. Hence only adding oil to the fire. The situation will escalate until the will for change will eventually lash out in the form of revolution, plunging the country back to chaos, just so that the whole process can begin again, building another Utopia not like the previous one.

Chaos to order, never ending process as long as the order is achieved by enforcement of limitations.

An obvious objection is that: everything above is not true since every rather functional country has huge amount of regulations and laws limiting all kind of things, and thereby removing the chaos for example by speed limits the chaos on the roads decreased, but too many people drove too fast anyway so higher fees, bumps on the road, speed cameras and traffic police were introduced, but it more or less works.

And sure, it does work, a machine with no bolts will fall apart, but if you keep tightening them they will snap. And today we can already observe the early signs, the dissatisfaction towards the increasingly intrusive and extensive surveillance of the general public, and the fact that we live in a free and open society is being questioned more and more, and the demands for change are getting louder.

What is needed are politicians with common since, able to find the middle way between chaos and stagnation, and if that is too much to ask maybe we need a more scientific approach to the politics which goes beyond the science of how to emotionally affect people with speeches in order to get more votes.

A group of scientists dedicated to examine the impact of existing and new laws on the society, acceptance in the population, analyze the benefit and harm, which also has the power to publicly demand change from the politicians, might be necessary in order to make it work in the long run.