Of Two Minds

Sound of coins rattling in a battered bowl.

That this level of incendiary outrage has seeped into the mainstream media tells us that
the bill for America’s gluttony of inequality is long overdue.

Parsing geopolitics is fun but our attention is better directed to the limits and second-order effects of legacy systems in each of the rival states.

Behind the facade of normalization, even high-income lifestyles have been ghetto-ized.

This is why those who understand these dynamics are getting out, even though the city was their home.

Those seeking to buy a house as shelter for their household can’t compete with the wealthy seeking assets to snap up and hoard for appreciation.