4.5.1 Vision

<Cesar>Don’t you think naivety is beauty?</Cesar>
<Nina>That it is a fragile, open-ended thing that we cannot grasp, yes. But disil-
lusion is beautiful as well.</Nina>
<Cesar>What holds you guys together?</Cesar>
<Nikloos>It is doing pleasurable projects. Projects that have a strong story, that’s
why the fiction is so important, because it is this fiction that sets up the game, the
plot, that holds as much the construction team inasmuch the visitors that come
after.</Nikloos>
<Cesar>So it seems that a well managed dream holds people together and guar-
antees a certain social coherent order.</Cesar>
<Andrew>There were 4000 young people, and everybody’s shoes was wet and
there was no chairs in the church so everybody had to sit on the floor, so every-
body leaves their shoes outside. I had never seen this, I was 18 years old. There
was this huge pile of sandals, some very expensive German sandals that I had
never seen in the UK, very desirable! And I couldn’t believe it : I came to this
community where their are thousand pairs of shoes, everybody found their own
pair of shoes and went off. I thought, it’s... good! I like this.</Andrew>
<Cesar>Naivety to remain intact in a complex social context requires respect.
Respect is the antidote to fanatism. If Open Architecture exists as a social bound
or as a physical space in which different people cohabit, it offers this productive
collective consciousness perspective (Émile Durkheim, 1858 - 1917).</Cesar>
<Cesar>So a community offers less freedom?</Cesar>
<Jesse>Huh huh, totaly.</Jesse>
<Cesar>So the more the society is organized at a higher ground, the less you
know the people in your surrounding, and the more you have freedom actually/
Cesar>
<Jesse>Yes, in a sense</Jesse>
<Cesar>So imagine a system, you are so far from the power, you are not con-
cerned anymore. I am talking about superstates.</Cesar>
<Jesse>Than you are talking about the case you are relieved of the freedom to
choose, en hence you are ultimately free.<Jesse>