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<li><b>Intro</b> - <br>
Synergy occurs when a group of elements have greater effect than the sum of the effects of the individual elements.
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There are some things which can not or will not exist without critical mass.  This is true of both good things and bad things. A church or school is not built for one person.  One person cannot effect revolution.
<li><b>Pros</b> - <br>
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<li>Churches
<li>Schools
<li>Commerce
<li>Manufacturing
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<li><b>Cons</b> - <br>
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<li>Dependency
<li>Crime
<li>Poverty
<li>Disease
<li>Unemployment
<li>Loss of freedom
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<li><b>Observations</b> - <br>
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<li><i>History shows that male homosexuality, which like prostitution flourishes with urbanization and soon becomes predictably ritualized, always tends toward decadence.</i> - Camille Paglia
<li><i>The increase in personal dependency on government is the most insidious of the negative effects of urbanization.  Eventually, dependency reaches the point that the individual forfeits all individual freedoms to the government in order to exist.</i> - Randy Lucas 
<li><i>Standard of living should <b>not</b> be measured solely in terms of material wealth.</i> - Randy Lucas
<li><i>The denser the population, the less significant each individual becomes</i> - Randy Lucas
<li><i>I view great cities as pestilential to the morals, the health and the liberties of man. True, they nourish some of the elegant arts; but the useful ones can thrive elsewhere; and less perfection in the others, with more health, virtue and freedom, would be my choice.</i> - Thomas Jefferson
<li><i>I think our governments will remain virtuous for many centuries as long as they are chiefly agricultural; and this will be as long as there shall be vacant lands in any part of America. When they get plied upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, they will become corrupt as in Europe.</i> - Thomas Jefferson
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