Yep to both comments. It did strike me as HIS IDEAL for humanity. Neat and hive-like with everybody going back to their “bee cells” when not strolling around work-less, and writing all those plays. No recognition of how work is a source of, not only threat to, meaning in life. As for recreation….no place for the guy in his pickup who wants to go fishin’ in the original real world, no messy hobbies where you need a shed, no kids in the woods for sure. And even further removal from scenes that offer at least a basic exposure to agriculture, which you can at least still find at the edges of ‘primitive’ cities.
What struck me most about the attitude was its notion of “build it and they will conform.” Er, wouldn’t you need CONSENT of the whole – or huge part of – society to even begin? Maybe he envisions little volunteer start up examples that are so wonderful that the idea spreads. But try cramming regular garden variety humanity into something like that and I’d be willing to bet divisions and maybe even turf battles etc. would break out from “pod” to “pod.” It’s not just resource issues that divide people, after all. Would that glorious architecture “homogenize” all the languages, cooking smells, music intrusions….(evil laugh)?
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