Secondly, the influence of any individual at a larger scale is diluted when market and democracy mix their decisions with others to arrive at an outcome. Innovation is always a deviation from the norm, and the avoidance of change is what liberalism is ultimately about. Transmission of preferences through such systems means that the entire system must be dragged along before change takes effect. Liberals are reluctant to see the market as a brake, claiming instead that its results are unforeseen or unintended. The fact is that ideas, especially new ones, are better off on their own.
Innovation is best off when protected against counter-arguments.
It is better for change itself that they quit the community, isolate themselves from the market, disentangle themselves from the net. Geopolitically, in preserving nations, interaction also blocks alternative territorial divisions as a way to facilitate change. Now there are probably enough people in Europe willing to populate one large high-density city with an advanced transit system, but they are dispersed as minorities in existing cities. Intense majority preference, working through the market, has instead given Western Europe an urban pattern of low density, dispersal, and car commuting. In this example, nation, market and democracy combine to block urban innovation.