From an interview with Ernesto Pujol:
RK: There’s a line in your book that recalls the current state of everything: “More and more individuals need to give up control in order to reclaim their balance.” How you think this is actively affecting individuals now?
EP: We have lived with a false sense of control. Entitlement to abundance and waste through constant consumption has given us an extravagant sense of our power in the United States. That perverse power is at the core of our disconnectedness from nature. We’re barely in control of our souls yet we think ourselves the architects of the Earth. We unleashed the current pandemic because our greed encroached the few wildlife spaces that remain, dismantling a natural architecture that held viruses otherwise contained. The only way to reintegrate back to nature, and thus restore its natural orderly architecture, is to give up the fantasy of this inordinate control.
RK: What benefits do you see in our current collective loss of control? Is it really a loss of control or a loss of perceived freedom?
EP: I do not believe that we face a loss of control, because that so-called control was never real. I believe that this situation is a tragic reality check on what I call the architecture of civilization. Our so-called freedom to do whatever we want, whenever and wherever we want, regardless of the consequences, is a perversion of freedom, an immature and indulgent notion of spatial freedom. Read the full interview
RK: There’s a line in your book that recalls the current state of everything: “More and more individuals need to give up control in order to reclaim their balance.” How you think this is actively affecting individuals now?
EP: We have lived with a false sense of control. Entitlement to abundance and waste through constant consumption has given us an extravagant sense of our power in the United States. That perverse power is at the core of our disconnectedness from nature. We’re barely in control of our souls yet we think ourselves the architects of the Earth. We unleashed the current pandemic because our greed encroached the few wildlife spaces that remain, dismantling a natural architecture that held viruses otherwise contained. The only way to reintegrate back to nature, and thus restore its natural orderly architecture, is to give up the fantasy of this inordinate control.
RK: What benefits do you see in our current collective loss of control? Is it really a loss of control or a loss of perceived freedom?
EP: I do not believe that we face a loss of control, because that so-called control was never real. I believe that this situation is a tragic reality check on what I call the architecture of civilization. Our so-called freedom to do whatever we want, whenever and wherever we want, regardless of the consequences, is a perversion of freedom, an immature and indulgent notion of spatial freedom. Read the full interview
Imprint: Triarchy Press
Published: 2018 List Price: £15 Format: paperback, ePub, Kindle Extent: 160pp. ISBNs: Paperback: 978-1-911193-36-4 ePub: 978-1-911193-37-1 Tags: Walking, walking art, performance art, Pujol Buy the Paperback (£15)
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