/lit/ - Literature

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>Is there an architecture that can be seen in this way? If it is possible then it must have existed before walls, the closing off of nature.

My view is that the City-State of the ancient Greeks was itself a kind of super-organism in the mind of the Greeks and other antique cultures. They did not perceive any difference between wilderness and city, both were a different kind of jungle, with different kinds of beasts and plants, but they were both enmeshed into the fabric of the natural world.

This very form of thought is the cure to our contemporary malaise (imo). It is my view, that this form of thought, seeing cities as super-organisms attatched to and feeding off of the natural environment surrounding them (The farms and wilderness), was a mentality induced by hallucinogenic drugs. It is a fractalization of the cosmos, the temple functions as a cell nucleus, and it's walls and houses as it's various organs. Surely because mammals have skin that protects their organs from the environment, does not mean that skin or mammals are unnatural. The same goes for cities, walls are a natural part of their function, to ensure the capacity to defend it's interior organs (the machinery of the state & religion).

It is a different way of seeing things, but in my view it is entirely preferable to the modern position which claims some kind of bifurcation between man and nature. I don't see any reason to believe that the Greeks or any other ancient culture held this belief to be true. It seems to be largely a post-renaissance invention that was not present in the ancient world. The people of the archaic world were totally enwrapped in the cosmic push and pull of mother nature, and ascribed various attributes of hers to a number of different gods, Aphrodite/Venus for the sex urge, Poseidon for the ocean waves that at times hurled men to alien shores, or sent them to their doom. Chronos/Janus who establishes the correct timing for all things. These people were fully enmeshed into a cosmic ehtereal view of their own civilizations that were inseperable from the natural world to a very large extent. I think this mystical awareness is largely what we feel is missing from modern life, we have cognitively divorced ourselves from the forces that created us, and in so doing, have violated all of the most sacred and ancient customs and laws of the archaic world.

Apologies for derailing the thread, just felt it might be worth while to share some of these thoughts.