But now sustainability is such a political category that it's getting more and more difficult to think about it in a serious way. Sustainability has become an ornament.
We live in an almost perfect stillness and work with incredible urgency.
We say we want to create beauty, identity, quality, singularity. And yet, maybe in truth these cities that we have are desired. Maybe their very characterlessness provides the best context for living.
I am incredibly bad at predicting the future; I am only smart enough to observe the present and listen to my intuition about tendencies.
That has been my entire life story, running against the current and running with the current. Sometimes running with the current is underestimated.
Influence is a very unpleasant subject and I deal with it in a maybe irresponsible way, which is to really ignore it. It would be a nightmare if we started to really think about it; it would tie our hands, it would tie everyone else's hands.
