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societies, often occupy the most off-the-capitalistic-grid styles of housing. Rather it is the realization of an unfortunate truth; inverted piles known as caves are not as innocent as we once thought. Extremists and caves have too much in common, for us to trust either.
Igloos Beyond car models and franchised fast food restaurants, global economies diffuse unifying products and fashions across time zones. Universal solutions too often attempt to remedy local issues. Monopolies of choice are paradoxically inefficient like coca-cola satisfying our collective thirsts. Resourcefulness and cultural relativism turn to artifacts. And yet historically more so than pop music, the Igloo reminds us that quantity and quality, spelling aside, are often unrelated. A paragraph or two in praise of this curious structure: I have met too few Eskimos or Inuits to properly describe them as a people. Yet I can say the same for Americans, fellow students of my former high-school, and my own family. Irregardless, National Geographic photographs of Igloos suggest enough; cultures with strong pile tendencies. Capitalism deems efficiency as increased comfort (profits) and minimized struggle (losses). A guiding basis for varieties of conflict. As paychecks and prices pin us against one another, unsatisfied non-necessities drive mid-life crises, and products like air-conditioners and gortex jackets reinforce man vs. nature ideologies; the creation of Igloos defies the logic of conflict. In the |
face of climate extremities, Igloo builders cooperate with rather than compete against supposed opponents; ice and snow. (This use of local and inherently cold materials to create sufficiently warm housing should be a point of applause for any engineering appreciative type.)
As Igloos illustrate, resourceful cooperation and ingenuity are often realized in the non-finite, gray-area, and pile patterned segment of thought (a middle ground that oppositional minded capitalists have ignorantly deemed inefficient). Thus by extending beyond standardized reasoning (ice is always cold), Igloos exist as products of a non-capitalistic people. All of which has said nothing about the the Igloo's form itself, the dome. Domes Like the avoidance of right-angled ethos and sectoral vagueness embodied, the dome encompasses pile thematics as an effective alternative to stack buildings. Aside from Igloos, variances of dome realizations offer substantial gray-area lifestyle locations. A survey examination of general dome features and specific dome producers might emphasize the dome as an idea – unattached to extremities. Flexible in use and purpose. There exists too few spherical-based designs. In our opinion. It seems as if aerodynamic and structural integrity advantages inherit within circular geometrics (examples to follow), run askew to the capitalist understanding of efficiency. Economics is a science of measurement. When taken to an extreme, principles of precision and simplicity favor right angles. For instance, the |
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