A batch of the best highlights from what Nathan's read, .
It is theoretically possible to build a great city without walls, but evidence shows us that it is very nearly impossible. So why risk it?

It Is Time for a Thread...
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If this vision is ever realized, it is perhaps not too irreverent to imagine some future Christopher Marlowe reverting to the imagery of the digital river: “See, see, where life’s flood streams in the firmament!”
River Out of Eden
Richard Dawkins
Adlerian psychology refutes all manner of vertical relationships and proposes that all interpersonal relationships be horizontal relationships. In a sense, this point may be regarded as the fundamental principle of Adlerian psychology.