I feel for this. There's a "bothness" that's important for organizing from the center and from the edges. Either approach in isolation would utterly fail. Either approach overrepresented beyond the other fails to a lesser degree. Finding the razor edge balance that (1) supports the best decisions to navigate a model of the future that actually unfolds and (2) that's stable in a given context, that is the whole of the work imho
It's hard to stay on that razor edge (except in aggregate)..
There's another hidden razor edge in the call to download accountabilities. (The other side advocates for only distributing resources, for good reason: local centers of power are also ripe for abuse)
Crucially, it's the abstractions themselves that need to be fine-tuned. Jacobs had her own blunt ones-- I'd even say that yours sharpens the (overly-)general prescriptions that came out of Systems of Survival :)
It won't be a bad idea to fixate on oxymorons, because that's what these "life-giving razor edges" shall look to like to us mortals, for now. An older one is festina lente, due to Augustus. A center of power handing out .. Something