Industrial System

It always surprises me how often even smart, liberal-minded people give elites a pass for their thieving, narcissism, corner-cutting, and bending the rules in their favor. We the people collect the raw materials. We make the stuff. We move the stuff. We create the value. And give that value to

A Forest of Boxes0:00/112.1281× New York is just nodes and conduits. That's what industrial society is. Endless iterations of input and output zones and routes to connect them. Highways, train tracks, and fiberoptic cables linking miners and manufacturers and consumers, and back again. Factories, distribution

William Burroughs said it best...

Before the lawyers and treaties and the Court of International Trade, Manhattan and the surrounding area had a very different set of diplomatic rituals. For centuries before the arrival of Europeans, the Lenape and surrounding indigenous groups used wampum to strengthen ties between groups. Wampum is mostly made from the