Cluttered Giza

...when everyone has the equivalent of an army of cognitive pyramid builders at his or her command, things can get pretty cluttered at Giza. There's a real question as to whether our current social structures can accommodate such empowerment.
-- Steven Levy, p. 25

Now here's an interesting image -- the desert packed with pyramids. Hundreds, thousands, millions of them, uniform structures as far as the eye can see. A vast field of monuments to Everybody, King of Kings. Bizarre. Contrary to reason and culture. A rude offense to the western mind.

Drive down any suburban strip road.

If your thinking runs to pyramids, you probably have an unhealthy obsession with singularities. It is the metaphysics and ideology of upward gathering. You can't take your eyes off that spot at the top of the pyramid, the capstone, the fulcrum, affording room for one only. The power point.

Vertices are the stuff of vertical culture. Having worked as a popular journalist for many years now, Mr. Levy should know better. This isn't a vertical culture. This is the Sprawl, nor are we ever out of it.

Can I get that pyramid to go?