I like the picture above, as a reminder that some structures are inherently stable over long time periods.
Maybe it ought to be obvious that a tall stucture with a small base, like our skyscrapers, has a much shorter lifetime, and a destructive failure mode, than a lower structure with a big base.
Think about that when you read below about the fact that a group system of government need only have 4 or 5 levels of vertical structure, even to encompass the whole world.
How do we get a government like that, and what other advantages does it confer ?
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