Phase Three

After reading this post and this post about maintenance and the lack thereof, I decided to post a thought I had a while back:

Destruction is easy and fun. Building is easy, but not fun. Maintenance is neither easy nor fun.

Which pretty much explains the fall and rise of civilizations.

It also reminds me of something I read somewhere, perhaps in a midcentury book about farming. The writer or the person being quoted by the writer said that all the failed farms he had ever seen had one thing in common:  none of them had an oil can.