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Re: Workstation Aesthetics

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On Sun, 7 Jul 2024 07:53:30 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:


> I would say you are completely misreading what you see, refracted
> through the ideology you have been inculcated with.

What ideology is that?
> 
> Those buildings on the hill were (mostly) not private dwellings, they
> were Government offices, granaries, disputes tribunals, record-keepers,
> places of worship, astrological observations, and all the rest of the
> apparatus it took to keep a complex, sedentary society running. Look at
> any monarch’s palace and you will see the same thing: the private
> residence is just one small part of it, the rest is very much devoted to
> the essential machineries of state.

Precisely. When you've created a huge bureaucracy they like fancy offices 
as a display of power to impress hoi polloi.

> Remember, in these societies, everybody (apart from the specialists and
> the elite) is a farmer. Doing anything other than farming is something
> they can only afford to do in the off-season, while there is no farming
> to be done. And giving the otherwise-idle hoi polloi something
> constructive to do in the idle times contributes to the common sense of
> national pride anyway. Any attempt towards vanity beyond that point
> among the leadership tends to be self-correcting ... towards societal
> collapse.

Right, the masters keep hoi polloi busy. I have read 'Republic'. 

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Re: Workstation Aesthetics Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-07-03 05:46 +0000
  Re: Workstation Aesthetics rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2024-07-03 18:22 +0000
    Re: Workstation Aesthetics Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-07-05 04:02 +0000
      Re: Workstation Aesthetics RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2024-07-05 07:47 +0000
      Re: Workstation Aesthetics rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2024-07-05 18:13 +0000
        Re: Workstation Aesthetics RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2024-07-06 04:16 +0000
        Re: Workstation Aesthetics Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-07-07 07:53 +0000
          Re: Workstation Aesthetics rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2024-07-07 18:00 +0000
            Re: Workstation Aesthetics Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-07-07 22:02 +0000
  Re: Workstation Aesthetics RabidPedagog <rabid@pedag.og> - 2024-07-03 19:42 -0400
    Re: Workstation Aesthetics rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2024-07-04 01:08 +0000
    Re: Workstation Aesthetics Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-07-05 04:02 +0000
      Re: Workstation Aesthetics RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2024-07-05 07:57 +0000
      Re: Workstation Aesthetics RabidPedagog <rabid@pedag.og> - 2024-07-05 07:16 -0400

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