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

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.

“The wall will always be there to protect us,” they said. I later came to understand that it is merely a tangible, universally visible symbol of the far more important invisible walls separating the seventy-thousand subcommunities—or is it eighty-thousand now? One day, I firmly believe, there will be as many subcommunities as there are residents in the City.

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.