{"id":68513,"date":"2024-11-25T01:00:28","date_gmt":"2024-11-25T06:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=68513"},"modified":"2024-11-24T09:53:57","modified_gmt":"2024-11-24T14:53:57","slug":"qotd-le-corbusier-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2024\/11\/25\/qotd-le-corbusier-3\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Le Corbusier"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right; padding: 0px 0px 10px 25px\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-48672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png 400w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-50x50.png 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>If you don&#8217;t know much about Le Corbusier, for instance, Scott&#8217;s book [<em>Seeing Like A State<\/em>] will reveal to you that he was as banally evil in his way as Adolf Eichmann, and for the same reason: to him, humans were just cells on spreadsheets. They need so many square feet in which to sleep, shit, and eat, and so the only principle of architecture should be, what&#8217;s the most efficient way to get them their bare minimums? &#8220;Machines for living&#8221;, he called his apartment buildings, and may God have mercy on his shriveled little soul, he meant it. Image search &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/duckduckgo.com\/?q=chandigarh%2C+India&#038;t=brave&#038;iax=images&#038;ia=images\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chandigarh, India<\/a>&#8221; to see where this leads \u2014 an entire city designed for machinelike &#8220;living&#8221;, totally devoid of anything human.<\/p>\n<p>But most bureaucrats aren&#8217;t evil, just ignorant &#8230; and as Scott shows, this ignorance isn&#8217;t really their fault. They don&#8217;t know what they don&#8217;t know, because they can&#8217;t know. Very few bureaucratic cock-ups are as blatant as Chandigarh, where all anyone has to do is look at pictures for five minutes to conclude &#8220;you couldn&#8217;t pay me enough to move there&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Severian, <!--<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rottenchestnuts.com\/the-finger-is-not-the-moon\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">-->&#8220;The Finger is Not the Moon&#8221;, <em>Rotten Chestnuts<\/em>, 2021-09-14.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you don&#8217;t know much about Le Corbusier, for instance, Scott&#8217;s book [Seeing Like A State] will reveal to you that he was as banally evil in his way as Adolf Eichmann, and for the same reason: to him, humans were just cells on spreadsheets. 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