The lineage we inherited, the crisis we now face, and the predictable consequences of neglect.
Foundational Essays
A cold war isn’t defined by weapons, it’s defined by temperature. And for those of us who lived through the first one, the atmosphere of today feels eerily familiar: the tension, the near-misses, the thinning middle. But this time, the small world is gone and that changes everything.
The Crisis
A quiet crisis is unfolding inside the institutions that maintain the country. The workforce is thinning, the warnings are documented, and the official solutions cannot reach the depth of the problem.
Lineage & Infrastructure
A clear look at why the heaviest and most dangerous work in society was overwhelmingly male, and how misremembering that history obscures the real problem: the disappearance of the builder and maintainer lineage that keeps a nation functioning.
Lineage & Infrastructure
America’s infrastructure still stands, but the lineage of builders who once maintained it has thinned to the point of fragility. This essay traces how a nation that depended on skilled hands slowly lost the people who knew how to keep its foundations alive.
The Crisis
Modern civilization assumes continuous uptime. But when the grid stalls, systems fail in sequence...transportation, communication, finance, water, healthcare, and finally the social fabric itself. This essay maps the predictable cascade that follows prolonged downtime.