Industry

I use "industrial" as shorthand because of its easily identifiable and catastrophic unity; it is an easy target. But there were a prior set of motivations and conditions which produced the industrial. The prototype of the industrial can be readily found as an ascendant force in the premodern and the preindustrial, striving to express itself and emerge whole. All industry really does is accelerate and amplify various problems that were baked into the foundations of civilization from the start, and really the problems that we are dealing with now are thousands of years in the making. But you do have to start somewhere.