Excellent, George,

Categorizing the world around us has enormous benefits. Without we would have brain overload.

However, pieces can get left out if they do not fit into our arranged categories. In industrialized Victorian Britain, anything outside a chart, a geometrical plan, or a built structure became separated (anything organic was particularly at risk). This gave the British their duel personalities, contrasting with Italians still living agrarian lives.

Where the British observed the daffodils from the footpath, the Italians danced among them. Names and categories created distance and fences.

A more significant aspect is the limitations of the tree structure, depriving direct and multiple relationships. Leonardo, Christopher Wren, Le Corbusier, and Frank Lloyd Wright all had their bash at creating the ideal city. They failed to accommodate the myriad systems in a city built over generations. Christopher Alexander wrote a famous essay, "The City Is Not a Tree."

Best for 2025.