Wherever we find orderly, stable systems in Nature, we find that they are hierarchically structured, for the simple reason that without such structuring of complex systems into sub-assemblies, there could be no order and stability- except the order of a dead universe filled with a uniformly distributed gas.
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The classes and the masses.
The classes and the masses.
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What one generation sees as a luxury, the next sees as a necessity.
One great society alone on earth: the noble living and the noble dead.
One great society alone on earth: the noble living and the noble dead.
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People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.
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Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top.
Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top.
