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ARCH 3.1<\/p>\n
\u201c\u2026picture me inside the misery of poverty\u2026\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n 4 July 2019, 9:25am<\/p>\n Aterro Sanit\u00e1rio Smokey Mountain<\/p>\n Brasilia, Brazil<\/p>\n \n \n Bander is finishing up structural repair welds on a bicycle a kid procured from the mega-massive landfill in front of them.<\/p>\n He is under a makeshift tent well distanced from the main hustle and bustle of the scavengings and constructionings happening at the smokey mountain frontlines.<\/p>\n Smell of rot, rats and radroaches suffocate the area.\u00a0 Kid never had a bike before and was jubilant over his find.\u00a0 The fruits of his sht mining labor.<\/p>\n Bander matches the kid with the fruits of his own labor.<\/p>\n \u201cDone.\u00a0 Feito.\u00a0 Here kid\u201d<\/p>\n The bike wasn\u2019t much to look at, the tires were not true but it rolled, the brakes worked but complained loudly when used, and there was chipped off paint and rust everywhere.\u00a0 It had no seat. Bander has been working lines on that e6011; finally got the hang of controlling that initial spark which he saw as a massive setback; both personally and in practice.\u00a0 Bander does not like feeling hapless, he doesn\u2019t like gambles.\u00a0 It\u2019s all about controlling risk.\u00a0 Luck, the concept of it.\u00a0 The unfamiliarity of it. \u00a0\u00a0Unpredictability.\u00a0 Not cool. He admires his work.<\/p>\n {Sht came out tight}<\/em><\/p>\n A buff stocky native man with tattoos all over checks out Banders finished work.\u00a0 His reputation was established here; people interacted with him differently. Bander\u2019s handler hands them both a plantain.<\/p>\n Bander’s handler takes a picture of the bike and the wicked beads and slug lines Bander accomplished.<\/p>\n \n \n The kid couldn\u2019t contain himself, didn\u2019t bother to thank anyone.<\/p>\n In his mind, the snack could wait, this was a big social climb moment for him. He pocketed the plantain, waited attentively for Pagpag to drop his guard from taking pictures.<\/p>\n In a flash.<\/p>\n Kid grabbed handles, hopped on, kick pumped the pedals.\u00a0\u00a0 In his mind it was going to be easy. The I-got-this kid wanted to try it by himself, it\u2019s his bike for his use, doesn\u2019t want others touching it. \u00a0 Another kid jumped in the fray, producing a bike seat; took it off of his own bike to help the bigger cause.\u00a0 One of many projects that were coming in waves on this novel initiative against slums, dumps, and all other forms of financial violence.<\/p>\n Towns all around were under a spell where things were going fast and far from crying and starving and dying hush hush to wtf and enough is enough. \n \u201cthat sht tiiiiight mang.\u00a0 [Pagpag reviews the pictures of Bander\u2019s work with him, points the nuances out, proud of him].\u00a0 Pagpag hands over a three-way like piece to Bander.<\/p>\n Here.\u00a0 Look this.\u00a0 We have many ehm, square bar irons – make this three way eh, connect.\u00a0 Bander inspects over the piece, feels it out, solving the puzzle on what Pagpag\u2019s intentions are with it.\u00a0 {\u2026three way corner coupler using square iron tubing\u2026 \u00a0\u00a0\u202663.5mm, slightly bigger than the more common 50.8mm squares out here.\u00a0 The 50.8 should fit and telescope in and out easy.\u00a0 \u2026that would make sense.\u00a0 And for measurements he cut one at\u2026\u00a0 \u00a076.2mm then welded to two 50mm cuts onto it\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n Damn he\u2019s good.\u00a0 No weld lines visible, it was sanded smooth and clean.\u00a0 Bander brings up his observations.<\/p>\n \u201cokay, alright\u2026\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 You think that with many of these we can take some 50.8mm square tube bars, cut to any length and width sizes, and by putting them in these couplers we get fast dimensions up and about am I right there?\u2026\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u2026.so by using a lot of these with some simple adapters and variations\u2026\u00a0\u00a0 \u2026we can put together solid shapes to work off of fast. \u00a0 \u201cSim sim, simsaras.\u00a0 [Pagpag beams at being understood so well]. \u00a0Fast building furniture, fast building of it platformas.\u00a0 Correctomundo mang. \u00a0 Bander continues contemplating the piece significance.<\/p>\n {of course this is fkn deming…\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0This coupler idea is straight Kaizen.\u00a0 It can speed up the construction here substantially, these size bars being common make it accessible, and the concept itself is adaptable to different sizes so it\u2019s scalable, transferable, sustainable idea\u2026 \u00a0 just insert any quick cut tubes and done, doesn\u2019t even have to be perfect or exact tolerance cuts, a lot can be done using these connectors as a starting base\u2026\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0so it\u2019s, at least 8 of them to start off for a basic cube or rectangle\u2026 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u2026sht, the power of being able to quickly set up big or small 3d shapes with tetris dimension, it\u2019s just construction legos, nothing original, but by applying it here where the demands are pure function over form and portability…\u00a0 \u00a0 …simply leveraging corner joints this way will speed things up significantly\u2026.\u00a0\u00a0 \u2026and if we can manage to secure some bungee cords, make a net, grab some of these connectors and bars I can make myself a better bed…\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0…quick canopy bed, would take about 12 of these things.\u00a0 Then hang a curtain, blanket or mosquito net over it\u2026\u00a0\u00a0 \u2026sht yeah that would fkn help. Bander acknowledges the initiative and his role in it.<\/p>\n \u201c\u2026.yeah man\u2026\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0that\u2019s Deming as fk.\u00a0 It\u2019s a good idea.\u00a0 I\u2019ll start cooking up a good 7 or 8 of these and set up a sample, just get me some 50.8mm bars, the longer the better so we can identify sag control points while we are at it…\u00a0\u00a0 Pagpag shrugs avoidantly, \u201cYou have question on Mama \u2018Berta, you ask Mama \u2018Berta.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201c…yeah i’ll, i’ll do that…\u00a0 \u00a0 …Oe pagpag, real talk.\u00a0 When will you tell me what\u2019s going on? -Look look!\u00a0 I\u2019m chill, I\u2019m chill!\u00a0 I\u2019m here to help and stick around and be chill, I don\u2019t have a choice in that, y\u2019all made that clear.\u00a0 You guys treat me well, not saying you and mama \u2018berta aren\u2019t awesome to me, I respect y\u2019all.\u00a0 I respect y\u2019alls gangster, I truly do.\u00a0 Thank you so much, I owe you guys for everything, I was in bad shape, so thanks for real.<\/p>\n Just, anything I can learn about my situation helps me survive.<\/p>\n I just want to survive this the best way I can man.\u00a0 Come on man?\u00a0 Can I get something here?\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cokay okay\u2026\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u2026what you want know, we try that.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWhere\u2019s mosa?\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cAh\u2026\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u2026La Leona hunting la pulpa.\u00a0 La pulpa maybe somehow help her find baby.\u00a0 [Pagpag lazily scratches his chest as he minds both Bander and the environment around him]\u00a0 \u201cFkn locura ehm mang?\u2026\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cWhat\u2019s a pulpa\u201d?<\/p>\n \u201cOh!\u00a0 Pensei que voc\u00ea soubesse.\u00a0 N\u00e3o sei.\u00a0 Noone know.\u00a0 No one knows who is o where live.\u00a0 No one know that, hard find la pulpa yo.\u00a0 Cassandro say out there, all over America central, la pulpa e fighting with..\u00a0\u00a0 ehm, bad people sim?\u00a0 People, land and guns and shooting and money and fruits [he gestures with his hands to try to deliver his messages]. \u00a0Sim sim.\u00a0 Fighting people.\u00a0 {Fkn btch could be gone forever.\u00a0 If she finds the kid will she let me go?\u00a0 What\u2019s her plan with me..\u00a0 \u00a0am i in danger, will she or him kill me one day to the next… \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u2026fkn shit, I\u2019m locked in either way.\u00a0 This is crazy, no real fkn options.\u00a0 At least she\u2019s not around, she’s fkn abusive.\u00a0 \u201cThat\u2019s like, impossible right?\u00a0 I\u2019m not crazy here.\u00a0 Like, the whole thing right?\u00a0 Central America is a pretty fkn big place to be looking around in.\u201d<\/p>\n Pagpag smiles in admiration.\u00a0 \u201cNothing stops la Leona de Kayapo\u2026\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 she comes from that Kararao tribe up north, they live mission impossible [chuckles in disbelief] everyday.\u00a0 But she, different ehm.\u00a0 More crazy like you say ehm?\u2026\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u2026if anyone can, she can, she has focus.\u00a0 Determinada\u2026\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cAnd\u2026.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u2026who is Cassandro?\u00a0 I mean, I know he helped y\u2019all out with doing something about [Bander points around to all the collaborative energy and trash sht around him] all this.\u00a0 But, do we know where he comes from?\u00a0 Does he work somewhere?\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cNo one knows him like close.\u00a0 Everybody knows he solver problemas, he say that a lot.\u00a0 a lot a lot [Pagpag shakes his head grinning].\u00a0 He says solver problemas.\u00a0 \u00a0Apenas cora\u00e7\u00f5es e m\u00e3os.\u00a0 hearts and hands, hearts and hands solve problemas only.\u00a0 He only care, solve problemas like machine.\u00a0 Mosa know him little bit more.\u00a0 Pagpag clicks in approval of it, \u201cla le Nafta ist niiiiice\ud83d\udc4c\u201d<\/p>\n Bander is holding his plantain in his hand.\u00a0 Attracted to the yellowness and green tinges of it. {btch Mosa stole my gun.\u00a0 She can fkn keep it}<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cHow long?\u00a0 I mean, for me here?\u00a0 Look, I get that her wushu-fu is the best, no doubts about that friend, she\u2019s awesome.\u00a0\u00a0 But reality is reality, lets be pragmatic about this, or at the very least play the what if game.\u00a0 If she dies, nobody would know right?\u00a0 Not saying I am hoping she gets hurt or nothing, not saying that.\u00a0 Just, thinking out loud, does that mean I stay here with you forever? \u00a0Don\u2019t get me wrong, you cool af my guy, thank you, no disrespect, I like rap music at 2am bunked up and locked up in with another man just as much as the other guy, believe me, I do I just \u2013 This is important things man.\u00a0 I\u2019d like to know what to expect and set myself up accordingly.<\/p>\n \u201cSim mang, la Leona say you stay here.\u00a0 We take care of you.\u00a0 We keep you alive.\u00a0 You outside, I try not kill you, I try catch you better.\u00a0 I work hard to make easy catch you if you go, i take risk so, so ehm, so you can [he laughs as he gesture encourages Bander to take in the outside air] breathe aire livre.\u00a0 If pagpag not good enough to hold down Bander, we put Bander in box and bye-bye.\u00a0 You here, I watch you close like, you help me, you help mama \u2018berta, you help kids, you help us, we help each other, we all okay.\u00a0 We okay and we cool.\u00a0 Good plan.\u00a0 Best plan. I also am like you [leans back in and puts his wrists up like he was cuffed].\u00a0 {don\u2019t let him know about the billions.\u00a0 He probably wasn\u2019t told about it.\u00a0 Nobody has mentioned anything like that this whole time.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n \u201c\u2026were you part of the \u2026\u00a0\u00a0 hotel thing?\u201d \u201cah!! \u00a0Sim sim.\u00a0 Grupo Delta when you there.\u00a0 Before you there, long time before you there, I work little bit for Martha and Sean\u2026\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0when it hotel campus de oro, before they change name\u2026\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u2026later, i leave them.\u00a0 I sell guns, police shoot me, I cannot run.\u00a0 No more futbol.\u00a0 hospital fix okay.\u00a0 Then pagpag was\u2026 [he puts his wrists up like he was cuffed] long time alone while ah restded.\u00a0 Mosa need me for go in, i know hotel inside segredo areas.\u00a0 Leona hunt me.\u00a0 Find me in Urso Branco. \u201cShe fkn got you out of…\u00a0 \u00a0…eh, never mind.\u00a0 uh, the hotel thing, is that what is funding all this?\u201d<\/p>\n The two are surrounded by all the noise and grinding and sparking that was being done on Smokey Mountain. \u201cyeah mang!\u00a0 You know chef \u2018Berto is cook.\u00a0 He now also owner.\u00a0 They have organized.\u00a0 Hotel make money and porcos come and we take money and sell for more money.\u00a0 Dinheiro n\u00e3o problema.\u00a0 For now money no problema.\u00a0 We finish here, money never more problemas.\u00a0 We take money from outside world and change to survival things.\u00a0 [Pagpag fantasizes out loud]\u00a0 \u00a0It will happen, you see.\u00a0 It will happen yes.\u00a0 We will feel safe and be safe, protectors will win mang. Bander nods good one as he looks around with nasty sht smell face as well.\u00a0 Bander continues to look around the land dump.\u00a0 This was different around here.<\/p>\n They were not scavenging to survive starvation.\u00a0 This was a deliberate and sophisticated operation. Glass was being extracted.\u00a0 Metal was being mined.\u00a0 Methane was being harvested.\u00a0 Plastic was being up-cycled. It was a busy beehive; Bander had roughly understood from the buzz around him that all these communities were practicing 150 person limit socio-structures.\u00a0 They were called familias.<\/p>\n Familias provide their own security, their own food and health practices, and prioritized their internal social mapping using the hierarchy of needs as a guide and glue.\u00a0 Bartering on these wants and needs with mutual agreements.\u00a0 Trust and reciprocity are king and queen and what they are looking for.<\/p>\n Any groups over 150 was not a familia anymore.\u00a0 A familia of one meant that that person was self-sufficient and was respected for it.\u00a0 If you were not a familia, or not in a familia, you were not respected and undeserving of trust.<\/p>\n Familias could be any number of people, under any pro social problem-solving idea or belief, so long as they were auto sufficient as much as possible, played nice with others, and didn\u2019t go over the limit.<\/p>\n Bander meditates on it Bander\u2019s observed carefully how leaders were flowing in and out of projects depending on their reputation and skills. The problem solvers lead the solution to the problem and had no authority beyond or after that, keeping a fresh and open leadership atmosphere with altruistic competition.\u00a0 Everybody knew each other and collaborated. Bander observes and notes how discreet this operation is on their moneys aspect.\u00a0 They were purposely being gradual and subtle, not buying a lot at once from the same places, and the low-key agreements were that money and money chasers as societal traits were being filtered out to make the communities safer.\u00a0 Under the same safety initiatives, there were weapons and equipment coming in from gossip Bander overheard.<\/p>\n {This shts real.\u00a0 This is all a fkn powder kegs in the basements and i’m sitting here right over it.\u00a0 sht, these guys are willing to test war with the Brazilian gov.\u00a0 These favelas don\u2019t pay living taxes, and the main purpose of the police is to keep the guns away from them so that eventually the real estate can be repackaged and sold.\u00a0 All the good intentions on earth aren’t going to keep investors from this real estate. \u201cSo Pagpag\u2026\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u2026how are you guys \u2026\u00a0 I mean, how are we going to protect ourselves from police.\u00a0 How do we protect ourselves with no guns?\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cyeah mang, we need guns.\u00a0 Popo porcos have big guns.\u00a0 porcos always come, we need ready for porcos have machine guns mang.\u00a0 This is jungle.\u00a0 We need guns to protect…\u00a0 \u00a0…this is big problem…\u00a0 \u00a0Mama ‘Berta ist okay.\u00a0 She is die hard as you say mang [Pagpag chuckles to himself]<\/p>\n Oh! You can\u2019t have gun, so so sorry.\u00a0 You, me?\u00a0 we use…\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0…Kapueraaaaa hahahahahaa [pagpag animates himself and does some eddy gordo imitations].<\/p>\n I teach you later.\u00a0 I teach you after you make sixtyquatro unidades like I show you.\u00a0 Bander looks at him in surprise and pagpag gives him a smiley-wink and bounces out to a station nearby to get help in collecting the items needed.<\/p>\n “Lets gooooooo mr. demmiiiiing!!!\u00a0 Izzo Hova wazzzzaaaaaaaa!\u201d<\/p>\n Bander steps up and throws the banana peel in a trash bag he keeps nearby himself at all times.\u00a0 Mama ‘Berta was firm on him that he was allowed to make things better for others if he wanted to make things better for himself\u2026\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 Bander walks a little around out of his welding tent.\u00a0 Machinery hooked up direct to the power lines.\u00a0 {This air is so fkn foul.\u00a0 Can\u2019t believe millions of people live like this and that\u2019s that. He sees a large heavy artisan door.\u00a0 All metal, painted black, little insignificant rust spots on the edges.\u00a0 He looks himself in the mirror and doesn\u2019t recognize himself.\u00a0 {Fk Mosa, Fk Pagpag.\u00a0 fk Cassandro. \u00a0Fk\u2026\u00a0 Fk this place!.\u2026\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u2026wait}<\/em><\/p>\n \n \n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" ARCH 3.1 \u201c\u2026picture me inside the misery of poverty\u2026\u201d 4 July 2019, 9:25am Aterro Sanit\u00e1rio Smokey Mountain Brasilia, Brazil Bander is finishing up structural repair welds on a bicycle a kid procured from the mega-massive landfill in front of them. 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The malevolence of these places; gross existence; undeniable horrors of callous privilege.
Blightant toxicity of the human condition, surges of smoke from the endless trash heaps.
People scattered all over it like insects on an ant hill, overcoming adversity.<\/p>\n
The weld came out spectacular though.<\/p>\n
He was determined to master the art of tap-starting that arc.
It wasn\u2019t a guaranteed action.\u00a0 Increasing probability meant it requires coaxing, feeling it out.
He did good here though.
He was feeling this.\u00a0 He was liking the rewards.<\/p>\n
Rarely wears a shirt.\u00a0 “Thug life” inked on his gut.
“Only judge can god me” tatted on his back.<\/p>\n
Can\u2019t tell if it\u2019s fear or respect.\u00a0
Former inmate.\u00a0 Local warlord.\u00a0 Street smarts.\u00a0 Big heart.
This is Bander\u2019s handler.<\/p>\n
He’s been waiting a long time for this, he always wanted a bike.\u00a0 This was meaningful.\u00a0 This was personal.
He was ready, and these two jackasses were messing with his dream time.<\/p>\n
In short order the little ignant rough ryder bolted straight out and forward and to the dirty floor ahead.\u00a0
The fall was spectacular, total knee scraper and elbow bruiser.<\/p>\n
In his mind, he already knew how to ride a bike because he saw other people do it already.
In these mines, life is unforgiving.
All his friends around him laughed, one of them came out and tried wrestling the bike from the kid to show him how it\u2019s done.<\/p>\n
The wanna-help-you kid insisted that he has to show him first so he can learn faster, and for his own benefit and even safety.<\/p>\n
Everyone argued their way together to a nearby bike and skate park that was recently built to accommodate these kinds of issues.<\/p>\n
Sht was changing around here, and moving with purpose.<\/p>\n
That lesma smoooooth, nice nice. heat set good, not like last time you burn big holes, you make problema worse before remember mang?
Right here you go slooow and you start to sow together right there ehm?\u00a0 That has like sowing like Mama \u2018Berta show you ehm?\u00a0
You learn fast.\u00a0 Fast learner.\u00a0 Yous is smart.\u00a0 Yous is kind.\u00a0 Yous have metal touch.\u00a0 I teach you more.\u00a0<\/p>\n
See here this?\u00a0 We need more this.\u00a0 Many more.\u00a0 More better.\u00a0
This help Demming approach all here and everywhere like you say ehm?\u00a0 This demming mang?\u201d<\/p>\n
He puts the speed square\u2019s ruler to it while checking out how it was welded together.<\/p>\n
How is he getting his cut\u2019s so straight by hand using that piece of sht TTI angle grinder.\u00a0
Paint job even throughout, no bubbles or prints or sht.\u00a0 He was showing off by two-toning it; completely unnecessary.\u00a0
Fkn peace came out quality<\/em>\ud83d\udc4c<\/em>}<\/em><\/p>\n
Like, makeshifts furniture\u2019s and work platforms right?\u201d<\/p>\n
Thats what I was think.\u00a0 yous is smart mang.\u00a0 Pagpag corners better than ikea for cut corners mang.\u00a0
I was thinking and thinking how to how to, and you think faster.\u201d<\/p>\n
it’s going to cut our weld project times substantially and free up talent for bigger projects. \u00a0
Can\u2019t believe this guy. \u00a0What was it, 2,3 days ago he asked about some of my studies in school, thought it was just small talk and he wasn\u2019t listening.\u00a0 That mfr was high af when I told him about demming.\u00a0
Who is he\u2026\u00a0\u00a0 ..doesn\u2019t matter.\u00a0 Make note, process improvements sht makes him happy.\u00a0
Keep feeling him out, you need to escape this fkn sht hole before Mosa get\u2019s back or some sht goes down.\u00a0 These people are not your friends and the sht they are doing is going to get them killed with me in here}<\/em><\/p>\n
Let’s see…\u00a0 \u00a0we\u2019ll test out a few quick frames.\u00a0 Oh, get me some foot wheels as well, check the office chairs from the chair pile.\u00a0 Yeah, we going to also need to figure out how we can make the end-point fastenings secure for easy set up and breakdown\u2026\u00a0 \u00a0 …bring some sheet metal screws, i think we can get away with those and going slow with the impact driver…\u00a0 …and yeah, if this works man.\u00a0 That should be enough to get all the other welders from the familias out here on board to make and use this approach as well.\u00a0 That is called Positive deviance since you like those words so much.\u00a0 That\u2019s what you are doing here my guy, so let’s capitalize on that.\u00a0 If all goes well I\u2019d say you are going to see substantial improvements in construction speeds and\u2026\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0….hey.\u00a0 eh.\u00a0 You think mama Berta will let me make my own bed?\u201d<\/p>\n
Underground fighters, very quiet fights.\u00a0 Like, small Yakuza style but more jungle ehm?<\/p>\n
Fkn psycho is out hunting for leaders of armed rebel groups or whatever who obviously do not want to be found.\u00a0
Probably won\u2019t be coming back}<\/em><\/p>\n
she smart, like you mang.\u00a0 She has you here, you are here yeah?\u00a0 She hunted you?\u00a0 She has hunted many already now.\u00a0 Nothing stops la Leona\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n
Mosa say Cassandro the pirate came from Africa to smoke with vovo tuira de los machetes\u2026\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0he heard about it…\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0…asks them to smoke what real warriors smoke.\u00a0 [laughs more, bellowing into it]\u2026 \u00a0\u00a0\u2026and they say yes, they give him warrior smoke, special blend…\u00a0 \u00a0…he take this du hast mix and live…\u00a0 \u00a0 \u2026Mosa says when he woke up, major change.\u00a0
He finished, he no more looking for pulpa, give leona his backpack, and say he go after hotel operation to Cuba Libre.\u00a0 He say, number one important.\u00a0 He will attack bigger problema there.\u00a0 [Pagpag continues chuckling in imagination and high esteem of his heroes].\u00a0 He crazy also, thug life from Africas come to thug life Americas.\u00a0 So nice.\u00a0 He say, look at the one dollar bill, that pyramid, with the eye.\u00a0 He is looking for those people ontop, as high as he can go, and untangle all the arania webs dollar is communicating everywhere, web of lies…\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0hehe, Cassandro say he will fix the problem from Cuba…\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0…so crazy mang…
Oh oh! I saw nice gun he give you.\u201d<\/p>\n
His hands start working it without thought.<\/p>\n
Behave good, be clean, be good person, easy easy.\u00a0
We all have fun good time and make most in good way… [He leans back]\u00a0 …pura vida…<\/p>\n
I cannot leave.\u00a0 Only way outside for you is Leona say so is okay.
I trust Mosa.\u00a0 Eu a apoio buscar bebe\u201c<\/p>\n
Check if he is open to money.\u00a0 Not fkn likey, mf literally has a big ass Lealdade acima do dinheiro tattoo on him\u00a0but fkn try anyway.\u00a0 Feel him out little by little. \u00a0
Why would they tell him or mama \u2018Berta or anybody else for that matter, that would paint a target on them.\u00a0 They likely want to keep me a secret. \u00a0If I can get out of here I still have my money and will stay alone in my fkn yacht for the rest of my life.\u00a0 Just have to buy more stuff that is anti-radar and anti-detection tech.\u00a0 fk it, go all out.\u00a0 just get the fk out of here and disappear.\u00a0 ok, what to ask him.\u00a0 See how much he knows Mosa.\u00a0 What\u2019s their relationship, is she paying him}<\/em><\/p>\n
[Bander starts eating his plantain]<\/p>\n
take me out so i help leona bebe.
I help good.\u00a0 i help anyday.\u00a0 I give back nice.”<\/p>\n
Smell ever present.\u00a0 Flies interrupting every few sentences.<\/p>\n
Cassandro also say so.\u00a0 we will win protecting.\u00a0 A home for us, a safe space we go roll, I show you and we go, no more fighting here and life like this.\u00a0 [Pagpag shows around with disagreeing fk this sht place face].\u00a0 Dan\u00e7a, frutas e bons momentos apenas, boa vida chegando.\u00a0 No plata o plomo here.\u00a0 Confian\u00e7a ou viol\u00eancia. Confian\u00e7a ou viol\u00eancia.\u00a0 You like mang?\u00a0 Eeeehmm \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0[Pagpag thinks how to translate]\u00a0 Trust o violencia!\u00a0 Ah!\u00a0 You like?\u00a0 \u00a0Sound nice?\u00a0 I have for you barz mang.\u201d<\/p>\n
{Nobody wants this knowingly.\u00a0 this is a forced relationship with double binds.\u00a0 It helps keep labor prices low.\u00a0 Poverty is the best motivator for accepting low wage contracts.\u00a0 It’s not a mistake, it’s clockwork.\u00a0 I’d do anything to get out of here and would take any job to be in the city}<\/em>
He covers his mouth and nose back up with the shemagh to help take a break from the smell.\u00a0 Pagpag had shown him some phone pics on how much worse this very spot was from just a few months back and had said Confian\u00e7a ou viol\u00eancia before, he said that a lot when he got drunk and blasted rap on his cellphone.
{annoying af mf.\u00a0 hard enough to sleep on that shty bed}<\/em><\/p>\n
No culture on earth in their right mind would agree to use their land this way.
Landfills are a conscious centralized power move.
It’s Poison that’s put down and goes around.\u00a0 A hexxus.<\/p>\n
They were not dying off alone anymore.\u00a0 They were challenging the status quo directly.<\/p>\n
The de-centralized familias prioritizing these frontlines were consistently being supplied with
fresh food, cooked food, shoes clothing, support, labor, entertainment, drugs, everything from de-centralized outside familias…\u00a0 \u00a0…and in these synergies they are building quick small houses on the outskirts to house the people working there, building small parks and community kitchens and storage houses and health libraries and tool libraries, inching inwards the workstations and logistics, taking land back by force and grit, squaring off against a perennial, inhuman, monstrosity.\u00a0
Volunteer laborers and cooks and artists and lovers and all other flavors of warriors were joining in slowly, a few each week, rags over their faces, thick boots and gloves on, digging into these dumpsters willingly.\u00a0 Filtering out materials into huge piles depending on their properties and uses.\u00a0
Breaking things down into simpler shapes, scraps, parts or ash.<\/p>\n
Things were being repaired, repurposed, reused, revamped.
Human beings everywhere.
Cleaning house.<\/p>\n
pollinated trash, puke, and sweat honey.
Men and women of all ages from all over elbow to elbow in it.<\/p>\n
{Cassandro put some seeds down here, grass is growing and all, but at some point the lawnmowers are coming, and I can’t be here for that.\u00a0 If they really do respect la familia angle, i should be able to hold them to it…\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0…find a way to be independent, bring up some strong ideas to our problems here, call yourself your own familia…\u00a0 \u00a0…take it from there maybe}<\/em><\/p>\n
When they showed up, everyone tended to follow more than willingly.<\/p>\n
Mutual problem solving was the dominating ideological currency here.<\/p>\n
More guns here, more attention, more likely a military intervention.\u00a0
What\u2019s anybody anywhere going to do about it?\u00a0
They’re fkn crazy if they think they can take on military forces. I can\u2019t fkn be here for that sweep and clear Brazil is making ready for them}<\/em><\/p>\n
You get back to work Mr. Billionaire mang.<\/p>\n
Mama \u2018Berta had threatened him to not make any mess.\u00a0 Not even a gum spit to the floor.\u00a0 Or else\u2026\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u2026.he didn\u2019t know what or else meant, and he wasn\u2019t going to fk around and find out though.\u00a0 Besides, going against the person who has been taking care of him in the nicest way possible given his situation, and someone beloved by all these familias out here was not a good look.\u00a0 He looked around and made sure there was no other mess he might have accidentally left..\u00a0\u00a0 \u2026.feeling stupid about it given the location.<\/p>\n
{hopefully she will let me make my own bed soon, gotta work hard for every ounce of luxury and progress.\u00a0 Earn their trust, they let their guard down, run the fk away\u2026\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u2026gotta earn their trust\u2026\u00a0 \u00a0 …should be able to make and hide a simple shank from one of these rebars or something}<\/em><\/p>\n
Hot wet trash and sht and movement over and around it everywhere.\u00a0 Mounds of it.\u00a0 Nauseating.<\/p>\n
This is all so fkd up.\u00a0 It\u2019s not supposed to be possible to survive sht like this.\u00a0 And here we are.
Children everywhere.\u00a0 If they even survive to grow up, what kind of people will they be.\u00a0 If I had grown up here, what kind of a person would i be}<\/em><\/p>\n
It was intact, with a mirror built within it.\u00a0 Bander was forced to question how it found it\u2019s way in the landfill.
It didn’t belong here.\u00a0\u00a0
This was meant to be used in a home somewhere\u2026\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u2026keeping a home safe at night.<\/p>\n
Bearded.\u00a0 Leaner.\u00a0 Darker.\u00a0 Dirtier.\u00a0\u00a0
Eyes worn out and re-focused.\u00a0 Slag under his nails.
There\u2019s a hunger in him even though his tummy\u2019s full.\u00a0 The reflection tells him he’s hungry for something.\u00a0
Starving for it.\u00a0 Whatever it is.<\/p>\n
okay, Mama \u2018Berta\u2019s, okay, she\u2019s cool, but she got you locked-up and would probably put a bullet or two in you anyways if you don\u2019t pick up after your sht, so yeah, fk her too!<\/em><\/p>\n