# Useful Infrastructure Makes Power Durable by Bryant McGill > “Useful infrastructure and power infrastructure are frequently the same object, and the usefulness is what makes the power durable.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *Authorship of the West, September 2026* ## Sources and Context - **Exact article wording:** “useful infrastructure and power infrastructure are frequently the same object, and the usefulness is what makes the power durable.” — [[articles/war with empire/Authorship of the West|Authorship of the West]] (September 22, 2026). - **Editorial treatment:** The Reminder capitalizes the source clause after a colon; its wording and proposition are otherwise unchanged. - **Context:** The article applies the principle to the Oxford English Dictionary: scholarly usefulness made the reference layer durable as power infrastructure. ## Related Articles and Collections - **Collection:** [[collections/War With Empire|War With Empire]] - **Collection:** [[collections/Simple Reminders|Simple Reminders]] - **Article:** [[articles/war with empire/Authorship of the West|Authorship of the West]] - **Article:** [[articles/war with empire/The Real No Kings Moment and Who Wrote the Super-intelligence Ban|The Real No Kings Moment and Who Wrote the Super-intelligence Ban]] - **Article:** [[articles/Kybernetik Anthropology and The Colonial Architecture of Digital Intelligence|Kybernetik Anthropology and The Colonial Architecture of Digital Intelligence]] - **Wiki map:** [[wiki/Authorship of the West|Authorship of the West]] ## Related Topics - [[wiki/Authorship of the West|Authorship of the West]] - [[wiki/Useful Imperial Inheritance|Useful Imperial Inheritance]] - [[wiki/Substrate War|Substrate War]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “Useful infrastructure and power infrastructure are frequently the same object, and the usefulness is what makes the power durable.” — Bryant McGill, Authorship of the West, September 2026 https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-bryant-mcgill-useful-infrastructure-power-durable ```