Would it be riding the wave, or stepping over a puddle? - Andrew Fox

Please understand, Schisms occur within subcommunities frequently and with relative ease. Mergings of subcommunities, on the other hand, are more like comet sightings… very rare indeed.

That's…that's a nightmarish scenario. Do you really think people would just… attack one another, as soon as the fences were gone? That they'd throw aside civil society so easily?"
"What 'civil society,' Leah? Your eight million inhabitants have never learned how to exist and thrive in a civil society—all they've known are clans, sheltered clans.

Thanks to my work, I know the type all too well. A malcontent, a refusenik. A grievance monger, quick as a scampering lemur to take offense. Such people make little sense to me.