The Empire and the Death of Ferris

The dead are bricked they mix your ashes with mortar and local stone dust put your name on and fire it up you become a block of ferris brick. i was really like overwhelmed by this idea of the people and the place of ferris being inseparable from each other and like literalized in that way. What is the empire for us as starburst fans ultimately it is a thing to be toppled and removed and eliminated what does a brick make you think of that makes you think of structure and permanence? Like just even thinking of the number of times that we've heard characters mentioned like ricks road including in this episode or the tunnels  the physical structure of the place is such