Somebody becomes an enemy if you personalize the unconsciousness that is the ego. Non-reaction is not weakness but strength. Another word for non-reaction is forgiveness. To forgive is to overlook, or rather to look through. You look through the ego to the sanity that is in every human being as his or her essence.

~ Eckhart Tolle

Eckhart Tolle Ego Enemy Forgiveness Non Reaction Personalization Strength Weakness

Modernism isn't a design ethos any more, it's an economy of scale, and a marketing tool to sell the ordinary as something special, the sexless as erotic. A technological device without a specific, personalized identity has a subtext: it asserts the value of instrumentality. Its design is a reflection of its role... The anonymity of these objects is part of what they are: interchangeable commodities whose uniqueness in so far as they possess any is created by what is done with them. Function is an identity. And that identity is something we are encouraged to incorporate into our perception of self, that anonymity is proposed as something to emulate. Whimsy and uniqueness are indulgences.

~ Nick Harkaway

Nick Harkaway Anonymity Design Life Personality Personalization Technology Uniqueness

The problem of architecture as I see it is the problem of all art – the elimination of the human element from the consideration of the form.

~ Evelyn Waugh

Evelyn Waugh Industrialization Materialism Mechanization Personalization Technology