IMVHO the ancient Italian proverb "presto & bene, raro avviene" (quick & well done, rarely happen) it's still valid: - acting quickly, with emergency powers/ne

IMVHO the ancient Italian proverb "presto & bene, raro avviene" (quick & well done, rarely happen) it's still valid: - acting quickly, with emergency powers/needs etc is a recipe to a disaster, things MUST be done as much as possible with accurate reasoning, that means more cost at initial phases but far less for the rest of the life; - when acting quickly is needed, things must be as much pre-digested as possible. USA and IMVHO the entire western world can't build quickly anymore because it have build too quickly in the past and now we are in a messy state. Quick growth of the recent past have led to too dense cities, to little room to evolve anything and now both available resources, lessons learned and analyze-paralyze make anything complicated. The so called Great Reset is actually needed, while definitively not as neoliberals have drawn it so far. Unfortunately such "reset", even if well driven at the slowest peace possible, will be (already is) far harmful anyway. IMVHO those who build quickly now because they can and they need (like China) know that well, but are locked-in in a state of things that leave very limited choices. For instance China can't nourish it's Citizens with internal resources, so it need to import many things, starting from food, and that's true for too many countries, and that's not only food. Not only oil. Not only other natural resources (metals, woods etc): people are constantly kept in semi-ignorant states to being able to drive them like a flock, that's true for all dictatorships and for formal (but not substantial) democracies, that's both the neoliberal idea of governing, the Chinese, Russians, Indian, ... idea of governing. Doing so *might* work under certain conditions but when you need to change it's a mess, most do not understand why they need to change. They fear (with good reasons) the change, they do accept being pastured under stable even if bad conditions but they react against any changes. To push a *quick* change the classic way is crisis/wars/disasters and the outcome is generally another big set of issues... To build quickly AND being able to correct issues that *always* happen we need something able to evolve, for instance we need to abolish cities, they are too dense and complex to evolve. And that's an issue because, yes, with actual tech (transportation, communications etc) we can abandon cities while remaining modern but we are probably too numerous for the usable land we have and for the amount of resources needed for the transaction. Such change it's also not just in housing and transportation means but also in social structures and organization. It can be done in terms of experiments, but on scale... Probably on scale a big war is needed. Unfortunately doing so with today tech and state of things means a big disaster, probably big enough to destroy humanity... That's is: a big mess.