I am writing this with three screens open in front of me. On one, the New York Knicks championship parade moves through the Canyon of Heroes, confetti falling like snow over Broadway, and Alicia Keys has just stepped onto the stage.
Empires have always tried to manage the sacred. They license it, restrict it, rank it, and deploy it in service of their own legitimacy. What they have consistently failed to understand is that the sacred is not a resource to be managed. It is the ground beneath the ground.
