QueeneMUSE@aol.com writes:
> Creating a nice environment may become the Zenith
> of civilization. Good sounds, good smells, good air, good light, soft
> couches, beauty all around you, robust objets d'art, polite conversation,
> lovemaking and sweet talk... HEY! just what the hell is wrong with
> '"reveling in the present"? Isn't that why we produce, to grab a few
> precious moments of *just that*?
>
> Manicured Aesthetics becoming the focus of life... I like it!
A bit like Aristoi?
> And why do people want to own their own cities, or am I reading this
> wrong... Anders playfully suggested a Muse city, and I go quite
> uncomfortable -- since I have no experience in city planning and
> have seen the botched up jobs of people who *do*...
Probably just the ambient megalomania here :-) Actually, I think few of us would be able to plan a good city, or even get together enough people to live in them. Maybe the nanotech world will be littered with empty cities, the results of people getting creative but having nobody to live in them (since everybody is making their own city).
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