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I found the idea fresh and very believable, even though the writing wasn't very crisp.

I don't know how to articulate it, but there's a lot to unpack there about symbolic force, ritual, and male expression.

Mcluhan, baudrillard, hegel, wittgenstein.

Building castles reminds me of building muscle in the gym. The underwriting philosophy is violent, but it requires uninterrupted peaceful effort. Built for an imagined "us vs them" conflict that, in reality, ends up as an "us vs us" status contest.




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