A core aspect of stagnation is a failure to imagine new ways of doing things Development involves new kinds of work and booming populations
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This is why the ultimate expression of failed imagination that goes with stagnation is the call for depopulation
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Tangentially related: the United States is having a lot of trouble escaping from its current stagnation b/c of strong anti-urban attitudes
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New technologies and new kinds of work only appear in the urban milieu; often they are brought about by the complications of urban life
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If you *avoid* the complications instead of *solving* them, then you lose the initiative, and stagnation gets its foothold
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It goes without saying that calls for depopulation are generally made with "oversized cities" in mind as targets
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