Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top is in the heavens; let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered over the face of the whole earth.”   (The Tower of Babel passage, Genesis 11:1–9)

Growth fetish

Oh, this desire to grow higher,
to construct and fabricate,
to progress, and to amass…
But let us not miscalculate:
since a limitless accumulation sinks us all to devastation,
whereas the pillars of “success” are the cliffs of our distress.

                                                                             (by Oleg Komlik)

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