Corporations, which should be the carefully restrained creatures of the law and the servants of the people, are fast becoming the people's masters.”

As a place of pause between stimulus and response, we enable individuals to meaning-make, explore “questions of ultimate concern”, shed old paradigms, and actualize new ones all within a rich community fabric.

'Mainstream literature seems like painting in miniature a lot of the time, and then suddenly you get to science fiction and you get the opportunity to work on a proper canvas

a 4th place is:

A physical space that facilitates meaning-making through intentional programming and pluralistic discussion, where individuals explore questions of ultimate concern without seeking conclusive answers. It honors the authenticity and uniqueness of each person's path while fostering deeper bonds through consistent encounters in a suppor... See more

Transforming swaths of land into laboratories where laws and regulations are subordinate to accumulation is generative, “reconfiguring relationships between governing and the governed, power and knowledge, and sovereignty and territoriality.”

Residential segregation, zoned consumption, and an increasingly diffuse web of power are embedding progressively deeper into our world’s fabric. Avatars of nations remain with new matrixes of power overlaid and nestled within.

Hong Kong was a cutting-edge template for an evolving entity, the “zone,” which is the primary object of Slobodian’s analysis. Zones—free trade zones, export-processing zones, industrial parks, economic and technology development zones, free ports, and more—have pockmarked and hollowed the neat geography of the world map from Hong Kong to Dubai, wi... See more

We believe that the start of all deep transformation – inner or outer – begins with an impulse to pause and go deep, an earnest willingness to question the status quo, and the courage to follow our inner-truth.

“good capitalists know the real game is capturing the existing state, not going through the hassle of creating a new one.