“What really happened
to the Porcupine?”
“One day he came back
from the Zone and became amazingly rich, amazingly rich. The next week he
hanged himself.”
The modern city is
drifting away. Together with industry it has proclaimed independence from
nature; mechanical man is self-sufficient. No more local knowledge, no more
pattern language, but a closed form tightly wrapped in the fictional cloth of
the development, the source of all pollution, the exponential one-way drive to
self-destruction.
What are the trees
thinking, and the ants? Our roadside-picnic has accelerated the enlightenment
of colonialism into the final level, the big-bang, which we cannot even hear.
We, who so sensitive even to hear the resonating behind the singing of the
birds. We, savages and natives of the big mind, decide not to hear or feel, but
to be served numb by our own self-destruction, the development.
To develop into what?
It’s not the god’s own image, nor it is the nothingness. We say society and we
say country, we say god. And to serve these we say economy. Karl Marx was
horribly wrong stating that we must own the means of production. Production on
the cost of what? We need to scarify and vote, for what – the self-destruction
– the development? The wisest of us never develop, they resonate with the rest.
How many of us can really resonate; even with the trees?
So the space is the
answer, or aliens picking us up. Leaving all this trash behind, and flying away
with the angels. Of course the chosen ones. The chosen people. These guys are
bad. They are Hollywood, “entertaining” the human species. Entertaining from
what? We need to survive. First comes survival, then comes comfort, then comes
beauty. Architecture deals with all of this. Architects are not important, but
architecture is. We can survive in beauty along with this one mind.
Architecture is the art of reality; there is no other reality than nature. We all
resonate with this one mind, if we forget the forgetting – the development.
We have two specialties: destroying ourselves and destroying everything around us. What is
left is going into space. Anarchy? Taking control of ourselves instead of
production, exploitation. Controlling ourselves in order to be able to
resonate. Nation states must be able to go in order to let nature to step in as
our countries. Otherwise this is all nonsense. We don’t inhabit the land, we
grow from it. Just like the trees.
