Long ago, walled cities and towns rose above the Western wilderness as the embodiment of civilization. The extent of their walls was the extent of organized human society. It was virtuous and rational human willpower evinced as a pinnacle of masonry over a primordial world where civilization wasn’t ubiquitous at all times and in all places. Highwaymen, pirates, brigands, raiders, and others of ill repute still hid in desolate corners of the land, in whose hands the law meant nothing. The castle was an overt sign of good earthly authority opposed to fallen pandemonium, a necessary and deliberate act which Modern man, in his decadence, doesn’t have the context to understand.

Today, the internet is the well established norm for communication. It’s almost impossible to avoid using – but the virtue of civilized man is not here ubiquitous in all times and all places. The egalitarian principle behind computer communication has permitted the worst and loudest filth, propaganda, and vanity to pervert even children, so that all of society’s discourse is reduced to the meanest and most evil member. Contore means to stand as a castle just as our forebears erected against historic outlaws and their anarchy. We again need testaments of overt and fortified civilization, where her unassuming regularity, tranquil business, and modest participants can prosper within.