The City, the Village and the Forest The history of civilization is mostly the history of cities and the countryside whose surplus feeds the urban monster. Cities rule our cosmopolitan dreams. The countryside is flyover country. Here's an untested and most likely wrong theory of mine: in the age of financial capital, the state is increasingly being replaced by a network of cities whose denizens hop from airport to airport sipping martinis in first class.
Jayary Newsletter # 55
Jayary Newsletter # 55
Jayary Newsletter # 55
The City, the Village and the Forest The history of civilization is mostly the history of cities and the countryside whose surplus feeds the urban monster. Cities rule our cosmopolitan dreams. The countryside is flyover country. Here's an untested and most likely wrong theory of mine: in the age of financial capital, the state is increasingly being replaced by a network of cities whose denizens hop from airport to airport sipping martinis in first class.