Every time I hear people criticize art/ creative related fields I think about how art is usually what we use to remember past civilizations. Literature, paintings, architecture and pottery come to mind. A government against art is a government against humanity.
One of the units with a Solarium at 'Manor House' on Bryn Mawr is on the market. Love this building, it was originally built as a 6-flat, the apartments have all been subdivided up. This one has the original living room and solarium (used as a dining room). 2 bed/2 bath $525K
In his book Collapse, Jared Diamond studied a dozen societies across thousands of years, from the Maya to the Vikings, to answer one question: why do great civilizations fall? What he found wasn't drought, war or bad luck. None of those were ever enough on their own. The one thing present in every collapse was how the people at the top responded to what was happening below them.
The warning sign he found again and again was leaders who were completely insulated from the pain of ordinary people. When the powerful never feel the consequences, they stop seeing the problem, and when they stop seeing it, they stop fixing it. The Maya kings kept enriching themselves and building monuments while the farmers who fed them went hungry. Their civilization didn't fall because of one bad year. It fell because the people in charge had stopped living in the same world as everyone else.
Diamond called them "distant managers." They are the people in power who live so far from the damage that they are the last to understand how bad it has gotten. By the time they notice, the fields are already empty.
His most important finding was that collapse is a choice. Every society that fell had leaders who could have changed course and chose not to. The question for us is whether we will keep letting people who can't see us make that choice for us. Because we are there folks.
Manifesting this now: as soon as I get settled into my new apartment Iโm saving all my money and putting all my efforts to getting out of this country
I genuinely need people to understand what they are being asked to normalize here.
Mamdani campaigned on arresting Netanyahu.
Today Netanyahu came to NYC, received massive police protection, and anti-genocide protesters were arrested by the NYPD.
Last spring everyone with any sense warned Trump: if you let this chainsaw wielding billionaire hack away at government, whether itโs fair or not, you will then own every airport crisis going forward.
So Trump owns this, thanks to DOGE.