Another excellent point! Perhaps as long as systemic properties are _implicit_ (perhaps only sustained through a healthy middle class), the system can't really collapse into the rigid fascist structure. But when the systemic property is reified, recognized, made explicit, then we're more at risk. The middle class may just be the right mix of heat and crystal to preserve agility.
Viva la Middle Class!
Physical Metaphor... a well made damascened sword, annealed differentially to yield a thin, keenly sharpenable edge of high carbon steel but a robust, flexible inner core of low carbon steel or high carbon iron, depending on your perspective. Or perhaps a metaphor from nucleosynthesis? Nah.. too obscure.
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