My favorite piece from Joseph Campbell speaks to this and the processes of change associated with complexity.

The mythological hero, reappearing from the darkness that is the source of the shapes of the day, brings a knowledge of the secret of the tyrant’s [the status quo’s] doom. With a gesture as simple as the pressing of a button, he annihilates the impressive configuration. The hero-deed is a continuous shattering of the crystallizations of the moment. The cycle rolls: mythology focuses on the growing-point. Transformation, fluidity, not stubborn ponderosity [i.e., the ritualistically stable], is the characteristic of the living God. The great figure of the moment exists only to be broken to be, cut into chunks, and scattered abroad. Briefly: the ogre-tyrant is the champion of the prodigious fact, the hero the champion of creative life [of alternate fact, new possibilities, increasing complexity].

The Hero with a Thousand Faces