<Cesar>What is our main motivation for doing things?</Cesar>
<Teodora>We do nothing that doesn’t give us pleasure, especially in the first part of
life, we are always driven by motivation. Even if you do something painful, it might be
because you find pleasure in doing painful things.</Teodora>
<Cesar>So, what could make us change ethical direction?</Cesar>
<Kondo>The industrialized society cannot go on like this. We are a part of nature.
The Kenyan lady who won the Nobel price Wangari Maathai (affectionately known
as the “Tree Lady”) on environmental issues, she came to Japan and she learnt the
Japanese expression “Mottainai” (もったいない, 勿体無い - a sense of regret concern-
ing waste when the intrinsic value of an object or resource is not properly utilized)
and she liked it because it is exactly the essence of Japanese philosophy of life : “don’t
waste anything, because everything has a meaning, everything is important for the whole”. If you go back to traditional wisdom, without being able to persuade other
people, wisdom becomes a weakness in the context of a competition. It is terrible, but
that’s the reality.</Kondo>
<Usman>Talking specifically about western civilisation, for the first time in the few last
hundred years, we are finally including ecological resources and energy as variables that
are finite. Everything has got to change, the whole economic analysis, economic frame-
work, upon which architecture itself is founded has got to change.</Usman>
<Cesar> Most politics never seem to foresee, humans prefer short term strategy and
would eventually repair the damages : ‘Let the cataclysm happen, we’ll figure it out af-
terwards’. A system that is does not regulate itself correctly (homeostatic) has often ‘bugs’
in how its different parts are communicating</Cesar>