31 May

Thanks To Dave Roma for this shot. They're doing extensive renovations on the court house at the moment, I watch them every day. Another example of how technology is really morals wrapped up in materials. When you build something like this, you're committing multiple generations to its upkeep. What we call 'infrastructure' isn't just stuff and services, it's society identifying things of *value* (morality) that it will invest in, for generations, and build into stone, metal, concrete etc. to make it last. Like law, or transport, or fresh water. In our populist age, much infrastructure is crumbling, because we won't commit to anything except enrichment of our personal lifestyle, in a single generation. Engineers are actually the best guides to successful civilisation. The Romans were engineers, their empire lasted over 1000 years. Aboriginal Australians engineered the Australian landscape for maybe 100,000 years. Building things - technology - is the key to civilisation. Run a mile from anybody who criticises 'materialism', the idealists.