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[–] prairie 1 point 3 points (+4|-1) ago 

A city cannot be constituted from any chance collection of people, or in any chance period of time.

Think of how much of modern "order" is just a temporary depletion of the rich material resources of an area (or the planet), unsustainable but appearing to reflect the soundness of mixing incompatible sets of values.