Ryder discusses some of his recent paintings of pliers and snips, and all these dangerous, specialized tools as a simplistic metaphor for how we access and handle the world.

Tools are force multipliers, and when force is applied for personal reasons to an ideology (be it free-market economics or a notion of justice) it can be destructive to more than the individual, just like using a hammer because you don’t know what to say.

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0:41 Artists who paint and use tools in their work

1:04 "to throw a wrench in it" metaphorically speaking

1:19 Tools are force multipliers, to shape the world around you.

2:27 Access to knowledge to prevent damaging the world: sandboxing things

3:05 Wielding ideology (tools) as weapons for "destruction" rather than "construction."