| Both the American landscape and the American mind face the escalating challenge of congestion in the face of technological and economic development. Space and time are at a premium. Technologies of mobility and accessibility, from the automobile to the television to the internet to the cell phone, while resulting in greater freedom and democracy, have also resulted in a mass, monocultural leveling which spreads with the goal of perfect uniformity. This affects the biodiversity of our natural environment as well as the quality of our collective mind. I am interested in the saturation point of this leveling process, when there are no new markets, no empty spaces to move into, when Manifest Destiny ricochets back through the continent in some endless feedback loop and the whole thing begins to consume itself. |
