No society so far has been able to organize itself,  that is to say to choose its own structures and to use them as rules for admitting and dismissing members. Therefore, no society can be planned. This is  not only to say that planning doesn’t attain its goals, that it has  unanticipated consequences or that its costs will exceed its usefulness.  Planning society is impossible because the elaboration and implementation of  plans always have to operate as processes within the societal system. Trying to  plan the society would create a state in which planning and other forms of  behavior exist side by side and react on each other. Planners may use a
description of the system, they may introduce a simplified version of the  complexity of the system into the system. But this will only produce a  hypercomplex system which contains within itself a description of its own complexity.

– Niklas Luhmann