The establishment’s approach to complexity is to control it with one global long term plan. The alternative is to foster lots of small, relatively short term efforts to adapt, ameliorate or harness unexpected developments.
Establishment efforts will always be Too Big To Fail. By contrast the problem solving approach uses failure to learn and make changes.
Perhaps most importantly the diversified approach is inherently competitive whereas establishment efforts are only cosmetically different but they are operationally monolithic.
Detaching oneself from the hive is possible. There’s a lot you can take with you offline. Public domain Gutenberg alone is nearly a terabyte.
Part of freedom is the right to be alone with the problem under consideration, to seek a haven from committee meetings and groupthink. Perhaps the worst thing social media did was define every POV in opposition to another.