Economy of Scale

Have you ever awakened and not known where you are? It's easy to do in one of those nameless hotel chains say a Courtyard Marriott whose design is based on the production line principle of replicability. Economy of scale can apply to dwellings as well as Campbell's soup cans a la pre fab houses of the 50's that paradoxically have become relics the more they disappear from view. It's hard to get ones bearings in a world of uniformity. His does Big Brother figure here? Orwell couldn't have dreamed this one up? Due to ubiquity modernity has a leveling effect. There's no pace like home, literally!

read "Died Young" by Francis Levy, The Brooklyn Rail