My Queens,

To know a body is to have a feeling at all its functions,

To understand a mind is to observe systemic features.

Systos is the knowable, what is obviously seen and calculable within a civilization. It's the long arc of history that followed after the relative historical-archeological abyss of the ice age peoples. It's the where, when, how, and why of everyday dweller's lives. The rhythm of materiality. It's the ‘bright light’ we ascribe to live like, expressed in our lifestyle imagery, shared across a community. It's the star-gazing stone circle on a hill that attracts socializing festivals. It's the mechanisms and codes that can be postulated into particularity. Tools, houses, poetry, laws, and bones. Lifespans, health, and cultural milieu. Religion, artistry, and fashion. It's the collection of offerings and taxes, trade, and markets - the growing wealth of a civilization body - the living, breathing realms of everyday people.

There are 7 major aspects to the production and reproduction of a Systos. These are functions or ‘energy pools’ of a civilization body. I will try explain each of these as it relates to this moment and our current situation, offering this simpletons vision to you, my brawny Queens.

Undoubtedly, I will be altering these dialogues in the future, as it seems this webpage is full of living words, which may not stop churning till I'm dead. And as my foolish simplicity seems to operate best, I present to you, my total mess. No doubt time will find many flaws within its thinking. But alas, time is also against us, and perfection is a truth for the decades of peace. And currently, the cruelest have gone to war, the people are beleaguered and revolutionary, the earthen systems are turning against us - and that damn banker thinks he's the flashiest thang. We are besieged from all sides! We must shore up strength and support at home, looking inward first, to know how to behave outwardly - for who will we be unto this world, if we know not how to care for the least of these here?

We’ll start with building our civilization body,

Then get into the shadowy depths of mind.