When Patulcius went to Oxford, he made two assumptions:
that there was a community there;
that any community would benefit from the services of someone with mediation skills.
He is told that his first assumption is mistaken because community has dissolved. Is this bad? We would say so but this is the emergent life-style in that high tech civilization - and they have not degenerated into antagonistic individualism. But could there be a situation in which his second assumption was mistaken, a harmonious community needing no mediators? I hope so. Then Patulcius would be redundant for an unquestionably good, not a possibly bad, reason.
The curator of Oxford is called Theta-Ennea, which means something like H9, for whatever that is worth.
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