The whole beauty of the world "Looking at a flower on the roadside, again the feeling strikes: the knowledge that in this miracle, somehow, lies the whole beauty of the world. But again, because there is no room for this thought in our cosmology, we brush away the thought, dismiss it as too soft, too romantic…and come back once again to our harsh reality in which space is neutral, the flower is neutral, we are neutral, all well-behaved machines, following the rules of our creation and behavior. "The ultra-mechanist cosmology we have taken in with our 20th-century mother’s milk therefore cuts across our experience constantly. It forces us to dismiss, treat lightly, all those precious feelings we have, of meaning in the world, of something wonderful…and replaces it by a dull, gray, matter-of-factness which is not matter-of-fact at all, but was invented by Descartes and others of his time, and is now merely mouthed by us because we do not know of an alternative." —Christopher Alexander
Posted on: Fri, 12 Jul 2013 02:41:39 +0000
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