On my strolls along the streets of Maribor I hearken to the buskers,
hustle and bustle of steps and I get to daydreaming in mid town, where
I got my first glasses as a 2-yearl old kid. There is a tendency of
subjectivism in the observer’s explanations of his personal experience.
We all work like a string, after we had perceived with our sensed and
later processed the experience. Our reactions are a reflection of our
personal estimation , sounding and reasoning are accented by the laws
of the society we live in. Social development was accelerated by
inventive technological procedures, made by those, who could implement
them harmoniously into social processes, without threatening the
sublime values of safety, certainty and continuity, estimated by the
majority.
Man has been a farmer for no more but 5 thousand
years. The first steam engines were launched at the end of the 18th
century, railway connected isolated social groups only in the 19th
century. Only a century ago the first cars were produced on Ford car
factory conveyor belt.
 Impatience among various political and
religious systems has its grounds in ancient history.
Chankarya-Kautilya, the secretary general of Chandragupta Maurya, the
first Indian emperor, sublimed them in his work Arthashastra, subtitled
» The Science of Material Gain«. At the same time Plato wrote his
Politeia.
In principle, economic development, obscured by
nuclear missiles and media brain laundries pretty much resembles the
competitive principles of centrifugal forces, which keep the majority
safe, but still the implementation of innovations goes on undisturbed.
I
spent weeks and months at shootings in company of my excellent
colleagues and I sat months and months in dark editor rooms, and for
these reasons I cherish the nature even more. I support the
neo-conservative tendency to revitalize classical values. Civilisation,
in which sensual abundance overgrew any reasonal limits, should find it
important to redirect its attention from media surfeit back to the
origin- man and nature.
No doubt, the majority of progressive
thinking society idolizes the western society liberties. But when stand
in front of the mirror, naked, you find the interdependence of
post-industrial hyperinformational democracy a mere illusion.
 We
often forget about our basic needs- healthy food, clean fresh water and
nice people around even after we have died. The value of these
self-evident necessities should definitely be increased. One should
cultivate one’s own garden, sow one’s own vegetables, wait a hundred
days and harvest. The question is, what is the price of an oil barrel
compared to the price of a barrel of water in the middle of the desert?
The
erosion of classical values often results in idiocy of uncivilised
mainstream dictate of profit-seeking incomprehension of art, production
and consumption of goods.
One cannot buy love, loyalty,
sympathy, friendship and health- the most valuable elements of life- in
a store. It is a mere cynism that the modern economy allows so many
homeless and undernourished people. Marked by their good or bad strokes
and decisions the leaders of the world bear their own cross up to the
Calvary. Together with the side-effects, which sound like strings in in
the process of the wheelwork of history. I’m not an Utopian.. Wars have
always been and always will be. The Chinese say in their Book of War:
You must estimate your own plenitude and void, before you thrust the
plenitude of your own self upon the void of the others.
I raised
my own children in the spirit of neighbourly coexistence. The buddhist
wisdom of sister Robina from Kathmandu is very dear to my heart. She
advised he friend how to appease his hostility outbursts and soothe the
harm caused by an annoying neighbour- with a present! So he personally
delivered the intruder a valuable gift. The shocked neighbour slammed
the door , but the next day he appeared at Robina’s friends door and he
said, smiling: “ Dear neighbour, you are forgiven.” Peace reigned over
the neighbourhood.
 Subjective estimation of profusion void and
poverty plenitude are as relative as are different contemporary
cultures. Each of them results from historic development and two main
factors: climate and geographical position.
I can only hope,
that respecting the freedom of minorities and not excluding will be the
prevailing criterion to soothe the impatience. Wise armies build
bridges, irrigate fields and protect culture, science and art, no
matter what their cultural and historical origin is. | 
Igor Bračič
Bus terminal Maribor
architect B. Pečenko
Bathroom - ceramics
author's work
Kitchen
Zen well
Zen garden
Sand garden
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