r mend, we not only risk building less but building in perverse ways.</p>

<p>To mend is to comprehend a human scale problem, and without this
understanding our creations become strange creatures. The more finished goods
become commodities, the fewer opportunities an individual has to generate new
creation. The ability to mass-produce removes the opportunity for the great
many to learn to produce at all.</p>

<q>This curious world we inhabit is more wonderful than convenient, more
beautiful than it is usefu