To be honest, I understand some parts of the country, but I never ever want to visit anything south of Marrakech again. That city has to be a different dimension, because why the fuck does the air blowing in my face feel like a hair-dryer going off.
The architecture and political economy required to live and thrive in such extremes is completely incompatible with whatever we have right now…
I was about to say “indigenous peoples lived there for centuries before euros came to get boiled by the sun. They only didn’t pave every single surface and use the brightest and hottest times of the day to be their work times.”. But it’s about urbanization and the erasure of traditional ways of living, too.
It’s been 38c for the past week in Morocco. It’s not even summer yet. I can’t belive people have willing lived here year round for thousands of years
To be honest, I understand some parts of the country, but I never ever want to visit anything south of Marrakech again. That city has to be a different dimension, because why the fuck does the air blowing in my face feel like a hair-dryer going off.
The architecture and political economy required to live and thrive in such extremes is completely incompatible with whatever we have right now…
I was about to say “indigenous peoples lived there for centuries before euros came to get boiled by the sun. They only didn’t pave every single surface and use the brightest and hottest times of the day to be their work times.”. But it’s about urbanization and the erasure of traditional ways of living, too.