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“With time, the 'wheat bargain' became more and more burdensome. Children died in droves, and adults ate bread by the sweat of their brows. The average person in Jericho of 8500 BC lived a harder life than the average person in Jericho of 9500 BC or 13,000 BC. But nobody realised what was happening. Every generation continued to live like the previous generation, making only small improvements here and there in the way things were done. Paradoxically, a series of 'improvements', each of which was meant to make life easier, added up a millstone around the necks of these farmers.”
From Yuval Noah Harari's SAPIENS.
“The pursuit of an easier life resulted in much hardship, and not for the last time. It happens to us today. How many young college graduates have taken demanding jobs in high-powered firms, vowing that they will work hard to earn money that will enable them to retire and pursue their real interests when they are thirty-five? But by the time they reach that age, they have large mortgages, children to school, houses in the suburbs that necessitate at least two cars per family, and a sense that life is not worth living without really good wine and expensive holidays abroad. What are they supposed to do, go back to digging up roots? No, they double their efforts and keep slaving away.
“One of history's few iron laws is that luxuries tend to become necessities and to spawn new obligations.”
GENOCIDE BAD by Sim Kern, the book for which I designed the cover, published by Interlink Publishing, just hit the NYT bestseller list.
Here's a picture of it in the wild (courtesy of @possiblefuturesbooks on Instagram):
The deluxe hardback edition, available only directly from Interlink Publishing, is even prettier.
Debris cleanup was a full 3-day process after electrician tore into walls. I'm starting to believe that the vast majority of Cairo dust is really the result of construction debris. There's so much across the city and it never ends.
Will no longer look down on drywall. Perhaps there are some benefits to using it after all.
First day in Cairo without human contact since arriving (around 50ish days now). Also first day without contending with house fixups. Just me, my music, and drawing table.
Penciled in half a page of TSG so far today and figured out that I have around 30ish [uninterrupted] days' worth of work to bring TSG to a close once and for all. The “uninterrupted” bit is the tricky part, for days like today are evidently extremely hard to come by, at least until all work on the house is complete.
Why Soviet cities are insanely well designed – SovietBorn on Youtube: Not quite actually, she goes off to list many of the cons towards the last third of the video. No need to throw the baby out with the bathwater though, there are ways to address the cons without abandoning everything that ever went into Soviet architecture.
China's City of the Future: Utopia or Dystopia – TechAltar on Youtube: Looks like Shenzhen is kind of out of this world.