Stray Country - Season 1 - A Carousel For Pigs - Chapter 41

Once upon a time there was a deep burrow for the American man, woman or person. Because, let it be known and contrary to popular opinion, humans are den animals. Same as dogs. Same as wolves. Same a bears. And humans built these dens themselves out of sticks and rocks and trees pulled from the great American loam. They called them homes. And they built them with their bare hands.

Sad, forgotten ritual. Long ago passed away. Given over to interchangeable parts and the commodification of labor. Remember – The Levitt Brothers new way of life was built on the same industrial principles that drove Bethlehem Steel. Homes milled at the blistering rate of thirty houses a day in a distilled twenty-six step process. A factory that walked from plot to plot. Street to street. Neighborhood to neighborhood.

In other words every modern home was built by machines. Which makes them distant cousins of the white plastic grocery sack.