Random oscillation in natural objects is a common vital, shape-defining force,
while we as humans are excessively limited to the objects that are too easily
geometrically definable, we are trying to limit the shape variety of the surroundings
to these that fit well into boxes or can be painted easily, or reproduced quickly,
or fit our body - while the latter is perhaps the closest we ever get to imitating
nature’s reflection and that is only because we are forced to do so due to the inevitable
strive for comfort coming from the ergonomics which concern an item so close to the body
that their implementation seems kind of obvious. But what about the wider perspective, the scale reaching
further than the direct radius of human body movement circle? what about the inter-human
ergonomics, what about the ergonomics of the whole system we are placed in? Imagine rough
buildings with their construction elements being not orderly, geometrically defined but
in a state of chaos resembling the impact of natural erosion, forces not definable by
equally distributed parallel vectors, but acting randomly in different directions,
imagine structures being prone to natural interconnectivity and interference of all variety
of wind, sun, water etc. connected factors. Isn’t that what we were building our
homes like in the very beginning of our species’ existence on this planet? Later we started
to gradually shift from being a part of nature, a symbiotically acting element of the ecosystem,
to trying to get hold of it, be the ones in position of power, using and manipulating
it to our needs, and we have finally come to destroying it by overpopulation and polluting,
the consequences of which we are lately starting to experience more and more apparently.
Random oscillation in natural objects is a common vital, shape-defining force,
while we as humans are excessively limited to the objects that are too easily
geometrically definable, we are trying to limit the shape variety of the surroundings
to these that fit well into boxes or can be painted easily, or reproduced quickly,
or fit our body - while the latter is perhaps the closest we ever get to imitating
nature’s reflection and that is only because we are forced to do so due to the inevitable
strive for comfort coming from the ergonomics which concern an item so close to the body
that their implementation seems kind of obvious. But what about the wider perspective, the scale reaching
further than the direct radius of human body movement circle? what about the inter-human
ergonomics, what about the ergonomics of the whole system we are placed in? Imagine rough
buildings with their construction elements being not orderly, geometrically defined but
in a state of chaos resembling the impact of natural erosion, forces not definable by
equally distributed parallel vectors, but acting randomly in different directions,
imagine structures being prone to natural interconnectivity and interference of all variety
of wind, sun, water etc. connected factors. Isn’t that what we were building our
homes like in the very beginning of our species’ existence on this planet? Later we started
to gradually shift from being a part of nature, a symbiotically acting element of the ecosystem,
to trying to get hold of it, be the ones in position of power, using and manipulating
it to our needs, and we have finally come to destroying it by overpopulation and polluting,
the consequences of which we are lately starting to experience more and more apparently.
We are desperately looking for a definition to put one into:
let it be finding the right word in a language while describing an item, or
finding the right box to fit the physical item into, or making a statement about
another human’s behaviour. That is all a subject of the same logic of dissonance:
the nature is rough and free, fluid and in a state of constant transformation,
irregular and random, while we are trying to limit that level of complexity to
modules and repetitive sets of geometrically perfect objects. We are, as a majority,
instinctively afraid of the random.
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