Principia Discordia > Think for Yourself, Schmuck!
Architecture
Jenne:
About the "knocking down a wall just to build another with the bricks of the now-destroyed wall" thing...I think there's also a problem with people WANTING there to be walls. They are not comfortable with the knowledge and subsequent actions of freedom. When you've lived in a prison all your life, and you are shown said-prison, you miss the prison when you're able to remove it, even if you've worked hard to break it down. For some people, anyway.
I mean, whatcha gonna blame everything on now you're free? Yourself? Nah. You've been told over and over that it's your parents, your schooling, your president that have you under their thumbs. When you remove those thumbs...what's next?
So you run to another thumb, because without that pressure, you're not sure what to do anymore. Living and breathing on your own, like a newborn babe, is a scary venture, esp for the self-aware.
LMNO:
...OR...
Order and Disorder balance, right? The structured order of words inside the poetry of ee cummings, et al.
So, when you break down all walls, you've removed all structures you can control. So, what do you do? Where do you go? You've essentially obiterated all internal aspects of reality. In order to function in the external reality, you need to rebuild.
Only this time, you can draw up the blueprints.
P3nT4gR4m:
--- Quote from: LMNO on December 12, 2006, 06:12:52 pm ---...OR...
Order and Disorder balance, right? The structured order of words inside the poetry of ee cummings, et al.
So, when you break down all walls, you've removed all structures you can control. So, what do you do? Where do you go? You've essentially obiterated all internal aspects of reality. In order to function in the external reality, you need to rebuild.
Only this time, you can draw up the blueprints.
--- End quote ---
I was going to post a reply there but yours is better worded :-D
Jenne:
And if you haven't thought it through, you can forget the reasons why you were taking the wall down in the first place, panic, and put the wall back in a rush to embrace the familiarity.
Jenne:
In other words, drawing up that blueprint is rather a process, isn't it? And it's not easily taught, because it's different for every person. So, if you suggest to people that they tear down that security wall (remember, the prison protects you even as it protects others from you), you have to give them the CAD to draw other blueprints.
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