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Arcology
School of Thought

 

Paolo Soleri's Glossary of Terms

Self-Reliance

Self-Reliance is utopia which has dropped its pernicious garments. It is all that utopia should grope for. A non-parasitic agency attempting to render to reality more than what reality is willing to give.

Self-reliance is a bartering engine that should be fueled not just by opportunism but by opportunism with the long reach that only love, compassion, knowledge can sustain : the opportune way of becoming among the becoming, not in spite of it.

 

Animism
Art
Artisan
Becoming
Being
Big Bang (B.B.)
Big Crunch (B.C.)
Closed Reality
Complexification, C
Complicated (versus the complex)
Craftsman
Creation
Desirable
Determinism
Duration ,D
Equity
Eschatological Hypothesis
Esthetic Creation
Esthetogenesis
Feasible
Frugality
The Future
Grace
Interiorization
Love Project
M.C.D.
Means and Ends
Memory
Mind
Miniaturization, M
Nature (Reality)
Omega Seed
Open Reality
Opportunism
The Past
The Present
Probabilism
Religion
Residual Anguish
Resurrection
Second Coming
Self-Reliance
Self Revelation
Self-Sufficiency (Utopia)
Spacetime
Stewardship
Technology
Theology
Truth
Urban Effect
Utopia