Any time there is displacement in a system, it causes pressure to build on another component in the system. When a drop of water falls in a pond, the ripples spread out causing more displacement. Eventually the ripples reach the boundary of the pond and the waves crash on some shore. If society were managed in a way where every ripple would play out its natural course, it would lead to a lot of friction and violence. Perhaps this is the best way, since every witness of violence leaves a lasting impression and is a reminder as to the heavy price of mismanagement. Perhaps it is not, and it could be more effective to preemptively make space for such displacement, and things move in harmony all at once or not at all. This would require dual structures, or perhaps more than dual, where a movement on one side is mirrored in the other, such that any displacement that would ultimately reach the other side is taken into account in a way that there are no crashing waves. I think people who try t...
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