Designing the Death Star

At this point, I like to think the single point of failure (possibly multiple single points of failure) was put in by utilitarian (it's worthwhile for the few to die for the many) engineer-architects, possibly enslaved or at least trapped into their work.

These single points of failure were sold to their pointy-haired bosses as a way of saving money by not having redundancy and safety measures.

Hubris could also be involved-- a belief that the other side isn't able to get our blueprints and/or is too stupid to understand them.

And speaking of time and change and hubris.... what would war and diplomacy look like if keeping secrets were effectively impossible?

RIP, Joanna Russ

In How to Suppress Women's Writing, she asked of "good literature"-- "good for who? good for what?"

This is from memory, but it's a bit of cognitive therapy that I only needed to read once for it to stay with me.