Pace layering

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“Infrastructure, essential as it is, can't be justified in strictly commercial terms. The payback period for things such as transportation and communication systems is too long for standard investment.”

—Stewart Brand, Pace Layering: How Complex Systems Learn and Keep Learning

In Europe you can see it in terminology, where the names of months (governance) have varied radically since 1500, but the names of signs of the Zodiac (culture) are unchanged in millennia.  Europe’s most intractable wars have been religious wars.

So to understand how deep and persistent a s to system effect is and how fixable it is, consider the level are which it presents. A local gang conflict can fix easily, a religious grievance won't.

This is a good on the paradigm. It's not just how deeply buried the assumption, but it's layer.