A permanent lament in old big companies is “we spend all our time firefighting”
Literal fire season in CA makes me wonder: is “firefighting” allegorical sine qua non of late industrial tech stacks?
Civilized modernity is more like a large Fortune 100 Corp than you might think
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Spaceship Earth is a large bureaucratic corporation with pretensions to being a body politic with a larger identity.
Kinda like those tourist trap towns run by cruise lines.
Public Earth is a tourist trap run by Privatized Earth.
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I've always wanted to do a pop up tourist trap art installation. I'm afraid it would be too successful and I'd be stuck running it as my life's prison
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