PART 1
GOD
God is real. God is everything that is, everything that was,
and everything that will be. God is all knowing. Every leaf, every cell phone,
every conversation. God is perfect. God is beautiful. God is amoral. God does
not judge, God does not oppress.
Everything that happens is perfect; the infinite amount of
factors that coalesce to produce reality all taking place in a unique spec of
space time is exactly where it should be.
Each and every one of us is a piece of God. Without any of
us, He is incomplete. We are merely pieces encountering other pieces of the
same whole.
SENSE of SELF - COMMUNICATION
While we are all part of the whole, we are tasked with
finding our fit. Finding our fit is what we deem ‘happiness’, or ‘satisfaction’.
Our Physical and Meta self is on a journey to do just that, since we are not
dead we want to find our most alive. To do that, we Communicate: through words,
running, eating, jokes, selfies, tweets, making a coffee table, breathing. We
communicate with people, animals, grass, the street, the culture, stereotypes,
assumptions, the future. We communicate whether we are aware of it or not. We
strive to be all aware and all knowing. The pinnacle being a state where all
the confusion, fear, and surprise of the world has been cleansed from our
being. At that moment we are Present. At that moment we are Based.
IDEAS/MEMORIES
All we have are our ideas, and with those all we create are
memories. Our physical being is there to facilitate these, acting as a
production factory. We receive various ideas from various sources, comprehend
them to the best of our ability, and then synthesize like and unlike elements
to produce altered versions of those ideas.
Only the beautiful ideas enter and exit untouched, perfect.
Without a physical potential met, we cannot receive or send
these ideas without harming them with our imperfect perception. This is where
physical intake is paramount in the food we eat. We literally are what we eat,
and there is a specific formula of nutrients our body needs to run at highest
efficiency.
For all of the rumbles and ripples we make in life, anything
and everything only moves with memories. A non physical form of verifying
existence. If an architect makes a bank in the center of town, it will be
remembered by the construction workers, the quarry where the stone was taken to
make aggregate, the town who deposits the funds into the bank, the banks headquarters
in a big city. When the bank closes, the memory will move on to the tuition
that was paid with interest collected in that bank, the salvaged stone that now
lines the bank owners house, the road that had a turning lane put in because
the bank brought other businesses to town.
The bank was put together by various forces of time and
space and faded away bank into its maker.
HUMAN CAPACITY
While we are part of the whole, we are capable of an amount
on our own. Our physical body allows us to jump so high, to sleep a maximum
amount at a time, to run so many miles non-stop. At the same time, our idea
factory allows us only so much meta existence during our life. If we are a
celebrity we have the same influence as a hermit. They each influence the
universe equally in unique ways.
From this, we only need so much space to live, so much air
to breathe, for us to achieve our potential. We have an instinct to know when
we have too much, we feel overburdened, or when we have too little, we feel
trapped, both feelings are Oppressive.
SENSE of SELF – COMMUNITY
The human capacity limits us to achieving a certain amount
on our own. However, just as ideas can move and grow between people, our
identity can too. In a sense, you are what you identify with in others, what
you subscribe to. That is the happiness felt when a ball team wins a
championship, the town was part of their consciousness, so the town celebrates.
This is why seeing someone in need makes you feel you are in need also because
you see yourself in them.
It is only when we wall of our identity that we are able to
oppress others; with ideas like nation, religion, race. Those who do not fit,
no longer are part of us, and can therefore be denied existence.
SELFLESSNESS in DESIGN
Knowing that we do not exist in a vacuum, no one man is an
island, we cannot approach design with a self aggrandizing mindset. The very
inputs that enable us to put the pen to the paper to produce the sketch have come
from others. The art professor, the paper company, your parents who bore you and
raised you. The based designer understands he is part of the continuum of space
time and has a duty to produce the most perfected design to lift existence
further.
If an architect designs a hotel, and it is perfect in every way,
but it happens to have the same layout and aesthetics as the hotel across the
street, he will be honored to deliver the result, to have contributed. Changing
the design would lead to problems with the building, maybe unforeseen, only to achieve
an inflated sense of existence.
ARCHITECT as FILTER
The architect acts as the filter. Sacrificing their desires
for the perfect realization of the building. They must have enabled in them a
perception of the desires of the countless aspects, from client to contractor,
from circulation to structure, to poetics of form, that come together to create
the project. Once they are well versed in these desires, others can begin to
trust the designer.
PERFECTING CRAFT
Once the designer is able to unmarry himself from the
design, can he begin to perfect the craft. When concerned with getting new
projects or keeping a name, the designer begins to be selfish and takes short
sighted routes when building. The designer is only concerned with achieving
universal perfection.
THE SHOULD
Now, the designer could design anything and it would be, by
definition, perfect. The question that arises is the Should. The designer could
scribble anything, but he would not know how it would be perceived to reality.
When the designer has squeezed out all of the surprise in the reveal is when
the designer knows he should have designed it that way. If an architect designs
a bridge and it is perceived as a hate symbol when it is erected and immediately
torn down, he should have known it to be so and changed the design. While the
bridge was perfect, it did not achieve what the designer had in mind.
PART 2
GOAL of a NATION
Physical things are what drive our Meta existence. And to a
nation, natural resources control theirs. History will show, countries came to
be identified from their natural resources and the communities it furnished,
turning into borders. Now, the countries have scarce resources with which to
trade with others nations, and the scarcer/more important the resource, the
better deal for the giver. Problem is, resource importance changes with
technology. At one time a spice trading nation could rule over many people, but
as knowledge of spice farming increases, the market doesn’t need to trade it
anymore, rendering the country powerless.
The goal of a country is to milk the trade of their
resources until they become the bastion of innovation. Once they can innovate,
they can steer the new technology to change the resource game in their favor.
And a nation will use any means to keep up this dominance: War, Propaganda, Ethnicity,
Religion, Alliance, Embargo.
The grand hope of the nation is for its citizens to exist
fully. The problem is that the idea of a nation itself puts up walls to prevent
others outside of the nation to contribute to the full existence. The idea of a
world nation is the only way to erase Oppression, and strive for complete
existence.
OPPRESSION CYCLE
Oppression happens when the forces of the universe aren’t
allowed to achieve their full existence.
Ignorance -> Oppression -> Lies -> Oppression ->
Lies - > Oppression…..
The beginning of oppression is when someone means well, but
they are ignorant of the desires of others, or the desires themselves are
ignorant. In example, a benevolent king gifts his subjects with goats. The
goats end up destroying their homes. The subject have been oppressed, they will
want retaliation. They retaliate, setting off a chain of counter-strikes. Now,
if the subject knew the king meant well, they couldn’t be mad, and if the king
knew the goats would destroy the town, he wouldn’t have done it. But once an
issue arises that is unsure, we use retaliatory tactics to quickly solve the
uncertainty.
Oppression also gives rise to lies. An oppression-less world
has no need to lie, everyone can be themselves and be accepted. Lies serve to
even the score in a physical or meta way. Lies can be in the form of art, as in
a revolutionary painting drawing attention to government corruption, lies can
be in the form of entertainment to make you forget your situation for a moment,
lies can be in the form of religion to tell you there is a greener pasture.
Is there a way out once oppressed? Knowledge heals the
wounds of oppression and cuts the lies right at the source. There is no
opposite of oppression except not being oppressed and arriving back there is a
slow return.
CAPITALISM
Capitalism is the strategy for a nation to use competition
to achieve innovation. Capitalism is inherently inhumane and implodes on itself
unchecked. Capitalism does not care for quality of product, or for innovative
measures, if it doesn’t produce profit. The goal of a capitalist is money, not
existence, forgetting money is only a means. The only measure in which
capitalism can survive is to balance it with Communism. And while Communism
produces false markets and price vagaries, it gives rise to the Communal Sense
of Self which we use to push forward our ideas and existence.
AUTOMATION
Man has strived to simply make life tasks simpler and easier
in exchange for the ability to experience more and learn more about existence.
This has been the human condition even before humans broke into their own
species. Automation has always been a ‘good’,
but in a capitalist based society, it spells disaster.
Before heavy mechanization, a tribe lived in coordination
with their neighbors. If someone needed help, the community felt it as their
identity to help them. If someone needed a house, the town built it, only
expecting future reciprocation in return. Any improvement in society has made
new tasks available to be completed. This had been going on for centuries with
an ample amount of tasks to be completed by a full work force. Therefore, we established
a society centered on jobs for the sake of doing your part to help the
community forward.
We are arriving at the point where we do not need employment
to live. Food is plentiful, houses are available/or easy to build, knowledge on
health is readily available…. Except in a capitalist country, we are bound by
money and a job obligation to enjoy the fruits of this labor. We have been fed
the ‘earn what you work for’ doctrine since birth. That should have been a
temporary mantra for a greater goal of providing our communal whole with more
potential existence. This job contract leads to resisting the thought of being
jobless because of improvements in technology, which leads to resisting
innovation.
LACK of INNOVATION
As jobs become more and more reserved for those in intellectual
fields, those with jobs in the intellectual field hold on tighter to what they
have. Instead of trying out a new, brave idea, they would rather produce a fail
safe answer, produce another superhero movie that can’t fail at the box office.
Companies will be averse towards making products that improve life if it means
losing money. Those geniuses without intellectual jobs will waste away
shoveling coal, instead of pushing existence for all. Capitalism will behave
like a pendulum without a communal counter weight. Eventually Comcast will stop
providing internet service since no one uses it and will go into commodities like
apples to make a profit. We will shrivel back to food and shelter with money as
the goal.
PIGEON-HOLING of ARCHITECTURE
Along with the stalling of innovation in many other fields,
architecture will suffer/has already begun to suffer. To be able to have the
freedom to design, the client has to be from money. The problem with that is
those with funds are not centered in regard to necessity. They are in love with
accepted norms, for they are the progenitors of those norms. They cannot be
seen with a house that has the chance of being mocked, their worth depends on
others acceptance. Therefore, in order for the architect to eat, the design
must reflect these wishes and contain a fake brick façade when in reality the
building wants a metal one.
Architecture almost has no choice in being aligned with
money. The backward bit is that the progenitors of culture are usually the Oppressed.
Those that have to have an outlet because they are not able to achieve more
fulfilling dreams. So they dominate the arts: music, athletics, food, dance.
They push that envelope because it is the only one you can’t price. The architectural
result is stagnation as the underlings are shoved into dwelling painted to look
‘rich’ as if that’s the goal. Any design genius will either come from one of
these dwellings with tainted views on architecture or will already be
pigeon-holed to conform to them.
HOUSING
A home is the heart of architecture. It is inward. It is the
most intimate space we inhabit. It is where we can lie down and feel safe. It
is where we center ourselves to face the outside world anew. In today’s world a
house is a trading piece, it is a status symbol, it is an outward portrayal of
self worth. It has the power to cause recession. People spend 30 years paying someone
to live in their home, worrying about the next month’s payments for all of
their adult life, never able to completely feel it is their space.
Without this place of solace, one cannot center. This oppression
causes unforeseen consequences and indulgence in artful activities.
Architecture becomes an afterthought, it is a pipe dream.
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PART 3
WHAT WOULD IT TAKE to UNOPPRESS?
As we have progressed in regards to providing for ourselves,
we have increased what we deem basic human rights. With the capitalism pendulum
stopping and about to begin its backwards swing, we must expand basic human
rights to enable innovation. This would include healthcare, food, and housing—for
free.
FREE HOUSING?!
A BASE HOUSE designed to achieve a maximum inward centering
would cause a ripple effect throughout the nation. Ideas would be free to be
expressed, shame would fade away, communities would grow and the sense of self
would be allowed to wander beyond the confines of the physical body and into
the meta of a communal whole.
HOW?!
A nation has to recognize the benefit of trusting its
citizens instead of forcing. It has to remember what a nation is, a family
bettering itself towards finding itself, towards pushing existence. It has to
sponsor the basic rights and it has to trust the designers to deliver.
