Living Modern: Embrace Time, Return to the Mountain
The recent mass mania for rigorous modernism has tended to vivisect what is most human in our homes, workplaces and public spaces. When the seminal modernist, Le Corbusier (above) declared, “a house is a machine for living in,” the operative word was living. The intention was to shape structures, spaces, and their contents intelligently, to support human life, human dreams, and human necessities – - and always with a weather eye to nature, its rhythms and its imperatives.
The Bali Post: All The News That’s Fit to Print . . . and Then Some!
Fish! Fowl! Pussycats! Rats! And murder most foul! Read on . . .
Last year I promised to give occasional reports on the contents of the local Indonesian language newspaper, the Bali Post, which I read every morning. I certainly don’t read it for its quality journalism. I read it to keep tabs on what local people are thinking about and how they are thinking about it, and to access information which is sometimes kept out of the English language press, for fear it would have a negative effect on tourism.
It’s time for one of those occasional reports. Here’s a rundown of the items I read today in the Bali Post, skipping over most national and international news, which I generally get elsewhere. This is a typical day, a randomly chosen day, one on which the Bali Post contains neither more nor less disturbing news than on any other day. Just another perfect day in paradise. Synopses of selected stories appear below. The headlines are mine.