Caleb Maupin
Caleb Maupin is a widely acclaimed speaker, writer, journalist, and political analyst. He has travelled extensively in the Middle East and in Latin America. He was involved with the Occupy Wall Street movement from its early planning stages, and has been involved in many struggles for social justice. He is an outspoken advocate of international friendship and cooperation, as well as 21st Century Socialism.
Like in the Middle Ages high towers and donjons taught the people who were boss and where power rested, so the modern world has invented the skyscraper, for the lack of space in Manhattan but ultimately with the same goal of intimidation. It is as Maupin says not the building itself, it is neutral and could house many people now on the streets, but think of who it favors, cui bono and then there is Trump, the New York realty man. Our whole lives in social cohabitation are imbued with such symbols (the French tried to exhume the hidden tracks… Read more »