No complex walks alone. Behind every complex's mega-grift lurk politicians who daren't let good crises go to waste. Ushering in our complex world order stride mandarins eager to nudge along state-building, democracy-winnowing processes.
Covid-19 and the Global Medical-Industrial-Complex
Those lucky enough to have read Bertram Gross's Friendly Fascism (1980) hot from the presses have long been equipped with a conceptual tool helpful in grasping a key component of modern society. The book explicates the "complex" as in: military-industrial-complex. Gross's main insight:
"…the military-industrial-complex does not walk alone."