So, wait -- you're telling me that Kevin Kelly used *the Death Star* as the opening illustrative example in a post lamenting how hard it is to sustain multigenerational projects over centuries? Not, I dunno, cathedrals, or universities, or state institutions, but rather a planet-sized annihilation machine that's basically a concretised metaphor for fascism?

https://kk.org/thetechnium/the-scarcity-of-the-long-term/