“But there is more to wisdom than science. It cannot tell us why we are here or how we should live. Science masquerading as religion is as unseemly as religion masquerading as science.”
Chief rabbi challenges Stephen Hawking in row over origins of universe | Science | guardian.co.uk
Am I reading this right.
He’s effectively saying that the concept of god is unimportant. What is important is to have religion.
Wow!
“However, there is no hiding from the value of the idea that we should care about space as a whole rather than a series of individual units to live in. Public squares, local shops and communities that look out for each other are all worthy aims, it just appears that in this case it hasn’t worked (the feeling of emptiness wasn’t just from it’s partial completion but from something much deeper inside me). I can’t pretend to know the answers but then I wouldn’t expect anyone to think that I would.”
Poundbury: Architectural shame with a worthy aim | ArchDaily
Here is a radical idea; the brick work and the false old world looks don’t matter. It’s the shape and the society that lives in the building that matter.
My guess is that the streets are empty because people don’t work there or shop there. Every morning they get in their cars and drive to an office elsewhere and stop off at Tesco on the way home. Hence the “town” is dead.
Strange thing is that it looks like Disneyland did about ten years ago. A half built copy of something that never really existed.
Remember when visions of the future showed a world that was better than today?
Stanley Kubrick – Deserving of Worship.
Nick Hornby wrote High Fidelity. One of my favorite books. It reminds me of how being in my twenties felt.
Ben Folds wrote Landed. A song that reminds me about how flying to the US felt.
Ben Folds, Nick Hornby & Pomplamoose on Devour.com.
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