Redundancy Is Expensive But Indispensable.

Just The Way In Europe, Paris, Copenhagen, And Stockholm, And Frankfurt, Possibly And Berlin, Certainly, All Had Important Roles, Because Of Independence. Because They Were Depending On Themselves.

That Was The Fear That There Would Be No Identity Anymore, For Canada. It Was Foolish, Because There Are So Many Examples Of Separatism, And Nothing Has Disintegrated, Unless They Went To War.

There Are Fashions In Building. Behind The Fashions Lie Economic And Technological Reasons, And These Fashions Exclude All But A Few Genuinely Different Possibilities In City Dwelling Construction At Any One Time.

Advanced Cultures Are Usually Sophisticated Enough, Or Have Been Sophisticated Enough At Some Point In Their Pasts, To Realize That Foxes Shouldn't Be Relied On To Guard Henhouses.

Beneficent Spirals, Operating By Benign Feedback, Mean That Everything Needful Is Not Required At Once: Each Individual Improvement Is Beneficial For The Whole