Virgo/Pisces as Controlled Demolition: Koyaanisqatsi & The Pruitt Igoe Myth

Or: the invisible string theory of Minoru Yamasaki // the evils of dust

Pruitt Igoe, from Koyaanisqatsi

All systems live or die by the health of their parts. A system in denial of its own decline, when pushed, resorts to controlled demolition. This solves things for a time. The demolition atomizes the dysfunction and spreads it outward in a particulate mist, a dust fine enough that it can pass through the walls of the house …