Part 4social architecture
We need a saving image or role to guide us in fulfilling our potential to create social structures that we want to inhabit. The discussion now moves to the instrumentality of our culture and how it distracts us from the pursuit of what really matters. The dominant archetypes of instrumentality are the engineer and the economist. They represent the essence of practicality and commerce. What is absent in a world dominated by the engineer and economist is the artist. The artist needs to enter our institutional experience in order to create a space for idealism, intimacy, and depth. This section offers the role and mindset of the social architect as a way of integrating the gifts of ...
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