The invisible cultural capital of building a cathedral
Every soaring arch is a fossil of decisions, negotiations, and corrections
In his book The Righteous Mind, Jonathan Haidt noted: ‘If you see one hundred insects working together toward a common goal, it’s a sure bet they’re siblings. But when you see one hundred people working on a construction site or marching off to war, you’d be astonished if they all turned out to be members of one large family.’
Last weekend, crossing in f…