Arcopolis

Thinking about the growth of humankind on the planet and the cycles of small tribes, serfs and lords, cities, countries, empires, and back to fragments. Look at Yugoslavia! The Soviet Union. If the United States, would we remember that the North Dakotans never did like the South Dakotans? Or that the Texans don't like anyone and no one likes them? Just as baffling as the Montenegrans and the Kurds, (where did the Whey go?). Assemblages dissolve into components, much like a chemical molecule. Life arrived, (yes, arrived as in "Water Bears from Space" from some other planet), and thrived-- up to a point. Is this the point? I envision life assembling into the kind of Arcopolis that Paolo Soleri sketched--miles high, miles wide, able to generate all the energy they need from thunderstorms, direct solar and wind. 90% of the worlds population can live in 1000 of them with only 9 million in each and the rest of us can live on farms. Then it is up to our husbanding of the soil whether they are small farms producing delicious food or whether agribusiness will pump "Soylent Green" to them? I would prefer the former, cause I sure as Hell don't want to eat that factory farmed shit.