“Let’s think, here we are in the middle of New York City. And you know what happens when New York City goes wrong. When there’s a subway strike, or when the power fails, or when the sewers back up, your life is in danger. Because you are not only constituted by the bloodstream of your veins and the communications network of your nervous system. An extension of your bloodstream, and of your alimentary canal, and of your nervous system, is all the communication systems of this city.” -Alan Watts