Two Essays of Great Truth! (Resilience after Modernism)
Nikos A. Salingaros has recently published two magnificent essays, one about resilience (together with Michael Mehaffy) and another about modernism as a break with everything human, natural and sacred. Unfortunately, most people cannot really believe that the image in which we created our world in the last century is entirely wrong and evil, and therefor try to grew something new from its roots. But this is not what is needed! What we need is to cut down the very tree of Modernism, to rip out every single root of this tree and to destroy everyone of its seeds. A big job, as it has grown huge and spread its branches all over the world, like the holy world tree Yggdrasil, as found in Norse mythology. Yggdrasil, the ash that once grew large and proud upon our world, this tree of life, is now reduced to a fading dwarf, withering in the shadows of the tree of darkness, carrying the name of Modernism. And here Salingaros comes as a savior for the last remnant...