Tool 01 / 05 · Interactive Game

Build Babel

Every empire climbs the same tower. Rome built it. America built it. You are about to build it too — one binary at a time.

"Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens." — Genesis 11:4

At each level of the tower, you will be given a binary pair that both Rome and the United States used to organize their society. Choose which pole belongs above — elevated, privileged, normalized. The other pole becomes The Foundation: the suppressed term that holds the tower up but is never acknowledged.

When the tower is complete, the apex will be revealed. Then the full analysis begins.

Apex — what the climb was for
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The Foundation
Suppressed poles appear here as you build.