The Modern Cathedrals of the Damned

We concentrate our humanity into increasingly tight concentric circles. We’re building our cities around the new cathedrals of modernity, the skyscrapers, places of power worship to finance, military, and oligarchical consumption and greed.

The phallic skyline of big cities celebrates the concentration of wealth in an inner circle of elites. The farmlands and watersheds are abandoned and neglected. The toxic practices that occur there via the degradations of modern agriculture or the pollution of industrial or chemical factories are of no concern to the purportedly sophisticated urbane core.

We have lifted the highest class into the sky, behind shining steel and glass, as if they were Gods. Monuments to unsustainability, lofty symbols of greed, hollow rods of impudence. It is the literal apex of a society so out of touch with natural reality, fascinated with power and dominance, signaling to all they are the new and clueless emperors. An unnatural, unspiritual alliance and conglomeration of artifice and metallic hell. The new Babylon, the ancient temptress of unholy avarice.

On the outskirts of the city lay the contented suburban neighborhood, insulated in their mundane mediocrity, and then there are the urban slums, the long range strips of blight, and the ramshackled and dispersed pieces of evidence damning the construction of a highly stratified civilization.

The Hindus are chided for their conception of untouchables, is that much different from how we’ve constructed the modern western social order? There are those that serve as fodder for the mercantile empire, those domestic and abroad that have no true hope, that are silenced in systems of continual oppression.

The new world order, the structure of modern servitude, the involuntary parishioners bowing before the skyscraper cathedrals of the damned.

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