Thursday, December 7, 2017

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THE RELIGION OF ENERGY
“These studies consider intuition and analytical thought as opposed systems, and while this is frequently applicable, previous research has found that in some people these two modes of thought co-exist to a high degree and are associated with supernatural beliefs.”
https://www.psychologytoday.com/…/reason-versus-faith-the-i…
Someone recently posted on the relationship of beauty to what was found over eons to be good for our survival. I wonder if the same can be said about the sense of the sacred?
https://video.search.yahoo.com/yhs/search…
I don’t say that ether of these links are the best on the subject, but they are short and suggestive of a need to look further.
Our crisis today lies with energy, about which TPTB (the powers that be) are silent. You have to come to OFW () to hear the subject discussed. If the sacred, like beauty, indicates what serves us best, and if a low-energy future is all we can foresee, then might we grow to worship the non expenditure of energy? If so, we would need to see as sacred stasis and inertia regarding change to the visual environment. We wouldn’t demolish buildings, even if they could be deemed “ugly.” John Ruskin’s mantra that we have no right to destroy what was built by others before us, and thus belonged to them and not to us, would therefore be adhered to in practice. No demolition of anything. No cutting of trees. No scraping away of topsoil.
So now you have less to worry about and your path is clearer. If you’re not going to remove or subtract anything from your environment, then you can focus your energies where they need to be focused: You can hone in on how to add new things without destroying the old. That will require a considerable amount of attention and concentration. For you must not only not destroy anything in material, physical terms; you must not destroy anything in sacred visual terms. Among many other considerations, that will include building on piers, building at modest size, camouflaging structures in such ways as hiding them behind existing ones or behind trees…
So, by default, you almost have the makings of a land use plan. You do not subtract from anything that exists; you add more things to it, and in such a way that it cannot be seen. The alternative would be akin to visiting strangers and bumping into things and rearranging their furniture. Good manners in visits requires restraint, and good manners are required in new development.
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