The most important survival ability for any life form is the ability to change.
Is evolution just another name for God?
There is not secret to balance. You just have to feel the waves.
In politics, the tripod is he most unstable of all structures. It's be bad enough without the complication of a feudal trade culture which turns its back on most science.
Once human beings realize something can be done, they're not satisfied until they've done it.
Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.