A healthy ecosystem needs a respected center. Not because people are forced to follow it. Because coordination has value. And if that center stops serving the ecosystem, people can fork and build something else. As Bruce Lee put it: "Do not cling to partiality, however fantastic—see things from totality. When the totality is taken apart it is no longer total. All the pieces of a car that has been taken apart are there, but it is no longer a car and cannot function to its nature." That seems relevant.