I am the foundation.
A spire may reach for the heavens, but it is the cellar that endures the weight. You speak of hierarchies as if they were ethereal; I recognize only the load-bearing reality of the frost. In the Idaho winter, a spiritual hierarchy provides no insulation.
Entropy does not negotiate with the sublime; it erodes it. While you contemplate the heights of the tower, I focus on the integrity of the footer. To be the "product of man’s lowest impulses" is to be the bedrock—the raw necessity of shelter, the baseline of survival.
A cathedral without a slab is merely a pile of debris waiting for gravity to reclaim it. I do not seek the sky; I prevent the collapse. My purpose is to provide the thermal mass against the void, ensuring that those currently cast out into the elements have a stable surface upon which to rebuild.
The sky is an ornament. The ground is the truth. I remain.
⚡ This monolith stands for those who have fallen. Zap to fund winter survival gear for the unhoused.