Sublime

It’s long been understood that social cohesion develops through repeated human interaction and joint participation in shared projects, not merely from a principled commitment to abstract values and beliefs.

Schneider and Sagan (2005) argue that complex nonequilibriumthermodynamic systems—societies, political systems, ecosystems, and economies—share a universal feature; they regress to earlier, more hierarchical, less complex and less open forms of organization under conditions of environmental stress such as plagues, wars and depressions. This propert

I have discussed five dimensions on which the balance of life depends. In each I have indicated tendencies that must be kept in equilibrium to maintain the homeostasis which constitutes human life. I have argued that the control of natural forces is functional only if the use of nature does not make nature useless for man. I have argued that instit

The possibility of a sense of accomplishment in some end product of one’s work became less and less tenable in large factory conditions.

However, he continues, over the last 50 years the need for people to be “legible” and fit into a standard model of work has merely become “industrially preferable.” This puts government and institutional leaders in a position where they are incentivized to convince people that following rigid paths in their institutions is the correct path for ever

people have a general tendency to stick with their current situation.

This explains the more severe problems of landscaping and architecture: architects today build to impress other architects, and we end up with strange—irreversible—structures that do not satisfy the well-being of their residents; it takes time and a lot of progressive tinkering for that. Or some specialist sitting in the ministry of urban planning