>>1420206though at the same time, the central business districts of America have housing projects erected within walking distance from the headquarters of major banks and insurance companies, where drug deals and gunfights are commonplace, putting a practical warzone in the centers of cultural dissemination. This is done as a sort of control mechanism, as described by folks such as Machiavelli, or Kissinger in a dissertation, where the idea basically is that fomenting conflict in the periphery or the outer part of a country makes the central mass easier to control. Central planners have always known that port cities are larger centers of cultural export.
