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[helen99]

Many things are actively manipulated to grow too large to sustain themselves, and then they are again manipulated to meet profitable ends after the rampant growth is achieved. After a certain level of unsustainable growth is achieved, an influx of investment capital is required to keep the balloon inflated, or it will wilt.

Examples include religions, towns, populations, Livejournal, industries, schools, etc. When this happens, the over-sized entity is either diminished in quality, destroyed and therefore abandoned, or changed so much that it becomes unrecognizable from its original form.

I hope the Russians do OK with LJ and don't change it to be unrecognizable or otherwise mess it up too much. We'll see...

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[kitten-goddess.livejournal.com]

With religions, red tape tends to spring up, and dead dogma replaces living, breathing, flowing experience. I have witnessed this personally. Religious bureaucracies are particularly insidious, since all the nonsense is legitimized by its being "sacred."

[helen99.livejournal.com]

> I have witnessed this personally

Yeah, me too...