Middle class prosperity is lapidary; the flow of cash rounds and smooths a person like water does riverbed stones.

Even the best of us have certain psychological mechanisms that can suddenly kick in and turn us into monsters. That to me is the basic message of events like the rise of Nazism, the Salem witch trials, and so on: not that bad people do bad things, but that good people do bad things. It's distressingly easy for those mechanisms to be triggered, either consciously by demagogues, or naively by people who think they're trying to do the right thing. Which is why I think it's more akin to tic-tac-toe.

I don't even want you to nod, that's how much you annoy me. Just freeze and shut up.

Of persons I will say this: it is difficult to tell when they are running aright but easy to see when something has gone awry.

Two tires fly. Two Wail. A bamboo grove, all chopped down From it, warring songs.

Like any place in Reality, the Street is subject to development. Developers can build their own small streets feeding off of the main one. They can build buildings, parks, signs, as well as things that do not exist in Reality, such as vast hovering overhead light shows and special neighborhoods where the rules of three-dimensional spacetime are ignored.

It is what you don't expect... that most needs looking for.