Tag: dreams

Conditioning All the Way Down

We Should Still Dream Of The Stars

We've re-entered the semi-annual cycle of trend pieces about Silicon Valley freaks trying to make their own city - this time, with Esmeralda, a planned walkable small town for "creative, high-agency people". Sidebar here that I really do not like the term "high-agency". I assume this is manager speak for rich people since as far as I can tell the primary driver of how much agency you have in America is how much money you have. Agency is not a property that is intrinsically available in greater o