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She wants to go back to the idyllic past. No way - she does not understand the origins of the grunge. That is Manhattanization - the veneration of Gotham as the heavenly land.

Why do SPUR,MTC and the rest of the Bay elite love Manhattan so much? It is the sacred home of the "skyrise". What is it? Startichect erectile dysfunction; planner phallic worship?

Do they know what soft targets these groaning shafts are? In a way they are protected and made possible by the nuclear balance of terror. Think about it: just prior to the end of WWII the Allies and the Axis both started to directly target civilian populations and the cities they lived in. Think of the Blitz and Dresden. Can you imagine what modern targeting could do to these 100 story things? All you would have to do is enough to make them unusable and too expensive to rebuild.

They are so "soft" they are coming undone on their own, as with the Millenium and Salesforce.

Conventional wars used to revise the power pecking order(think 1871)but now I guess with the fear that any conflict between first world powers could quickly escalate to nuclear the pecking order is revised thru trade wars and commercial-military alliances. So Xi Ping will be happy to dig those base tunnels to Palmdale. (with their own personnnel of course)