Two different topics in two different magazine articles caught my attention.
Technofantasy referred to our tendency to focus on the cool new changes in technology while we tend to forget that old technologies are the really important ones. We hype up the new and future stuff so much that we tend to build our psychological world around them. Meanwhile, our lives are really supported by technologies like corrugated steel roofing, water pipes, glass.
Affluenza points to clinical evidence that people in many western societies are getting more psychologically stressed and less prone to be happy.
It seems like everything I come across lately is giving me moral encouragement and hints how to build the down-to-earth neighborhoods that drive their own economies and lifestyles. Short circuit the rat race and replace it with a semi-simple physically active lifestyle that has the best elements of aboriginal wisdom and of modern life.
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The first time I was at your blog, I really enjoyed reading about your architectural aims (what with being an architect, and all). I still think it's cool what you're working on.
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