Development can start mid-system rather than from foundations.

Evidence

Against the conventional wisdom that development had to start at the foundations and link forwards through time, Hirschman suggested that it could start in the middle, or One of his examples, very much against the conventional wisdom of the time, a wisdom which scorned the pretension, was an airline and all that is required to maintain it. — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 1549

Categorization

• QUESTION: Could the blindness epidemic in Saramago work the same way — order rebuilt from the middle rather than from foundations — a structural parallel worth exploring.
• XREF: connects to: External development requirements parallel and are met by preexisting local governance institutions — Jessica Carrick-Hagenbarth, Institutional Bricolage and Commoning…, 114