DESTROY NOTHING

I’ll have to return to the drawing board to figure this out. I was trying to bring intuition, religion, the sacred and analysis into relationship, but it’s still elusive. The part of it I’ll stick with–it’s the intuitive part that I was trying to combine with energy–has to do with land use planning.

Any given scene in a built environment supports a social system.

If you disrupt the scene, you disrupt the social system, in physical and emotional terms.

The social system reflects energy flow of a certain type, along with its emotional corollaries.

That energy flow is too complex and subtle to grasp intellectually.

But the sense of the sacred, based on aesthetic intuition, can make physical disruption jarring and offensive. It realizes that subtle flows of energy are being disorganized and subjected to entropy.

Ergo, it concludes that the purely intellectual calculation based on arbitrary rules of development are grossly destructive, and can only lead to deteriorated energy and social situation.

But since aesthetic excellence tells you how to add new things without disturbing the old (to a significant extent anyhow), you can have a lot of new development as long as it is nuanced and camouflaged.