What went wrong
- Methods turned into identities and into tribal loyalty.
- Each caste entrenched in its own criticisms of the others.
- A method used as an instrument of power.
- The rigidity of those who planned for everything except the unexpected.
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Quotations from the novel are translated from the Italian edition. Page numbers refer to the Italian edition.