{"id":522,"date":"2013-10-22T11:00:07","date_gmt":"2013-10-22T11:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.doingwhatmatters.com\/?p=522"},"modified":"2020-06-08T20:47:45","modified_gmt":"2020-06-08T20:47:45","slug":"moving-away-from-industrial-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doingwhatmatters.com\/moving-away-from-industrial-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"Moving Away from an Industrial Economy"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Fallingwater<\/a>Have you ever been inside Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater? This architectural gem offers contrasting spaces that feel spacious yet intimate. Its beauty and fame lies not in the fact that it’s an enormous, costly monstrosity \u00a0that dominates its site, but in the fact that its simple shapes and careful siting are organically suited to its setting.<\/p>\n

Donald and I visited Fallingwater several years ago, and I’ve never forgotten my initial surprise at its smaller-than-expected size, and the exceptional feeling of livability. It reinforced my belief that small, appropriate, local,<\/strong> and personal<\/strong> is better than gigantic, showy, remote, or institutional.<\/p>\n

This video from Doing It Ourselves<\/a> (love their tagline: “never mind the system, build the dream”) offers a look at the unsustainability of the untethered-from-reality industrial economy, and offers a brief glimmer of hope for the future. After a painful economic crisis, of course!\u00a0I don’t necessarily agree with every thought in the video, but it is interesting and thought-provoking.<\/p>\n