Specialization.
Some believed it meant limitation...surrendering the versatility of being capable in many areas to achieve excellence in one narrow domain.
These individuals viewed specialization as sacrificing potential breadth for depth, trading adaptability for focused capability.
Others believed it meant optimization, recognizing that attempting to master everything resulted in mastering nothing.
And that strategic allocation of resources toward specific functions produced superior results than diffuse distribution across all possibilities.
But in the scope of a Civilization, a true Civilization...specialization meant something far more profound.
It meant evolution.
It meant recognizing that a Civilization was not merely collection of powerful individuals, but an organism composed of differentiated cells, each performing distinct functions that contributed to the health and capability of the whole.
A body did not require every cell to be capable of everything.
