Seneca said that if he were offered wisdom on condition that he kept it to himself, without being able to communicate it to anyone, he would not want it. And it is really curious that even more than the delight in understanding reality is the delight in describing it, verbalizing it, which seems essential for us to prove ourselves by really mastering it, for our thinking to really be consolidated. Although possessing wisdom and being able to communicate it are different things, not knowing how to communicate it seems to us to be evidence that we do not fully possess it, and there is work to be done to reach this level.
Category: Notes
Sometimes I am Curious to look…
Sometimes I am curious to look at the curriculum of an architecture course, to try to understand how this absolute, indisputable and blatant regression in the results provided by the evolution of architectural technique was possible. The obsession with low cost does not seem to be enough to justify it, since even in European cities there are none where the modern part is visually superior to the old part. In short, modern architecture is uglier and less creative. What is this, then, that is being taught so that the professional, with better resources, produces something expressly worse?
Although, as Has Been Said, Good Literature…
Although, as has been said, good literature is always more or less autobiographical, it is useless to obsessively search in its details for parallels with the author’s experience. More often than not, experiences only serve as triggers, motifs, illustrations for something that goes beyond them in the work. That is no small feat, and it is more than enough. The rest is the exploration and deepening of the possibilities that literature allows, but that life sometimes does not.
The Most Evident Effect of the Politicization…
The most evident effect of the politicization of culture, the main manifestation of which is art, is the inhibition of creativity. In literature, the result is works that can do anything but surprise the reader. And that is where the problem arises: although a work does not necessarily have to stand out for its surprising nature in order to be good, predictability, when absolute, is simply intolerable. A work whose course is already predetermined by an ideology, whatever it may be, is a dead work, and the artists who voluntarily imprison themselves in this unfortunate cell are dead beforehand.