The denial of this view is the chief way 20th-century development destroyed the surface of the Earth.

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• The processes needed to create life were damaged in the 20th century.claim0.775
  Explains why profound life is less common in modern buildings.
• The modern process of development has all but destroyed our capacity to create living structure in the world.claim0.772
  Alexander's conclusion that the profit-driven, remote development model is fundamentally anti-life.
• Our present forms of planning, design, construction, and production are deeply flawed because they do not include step-by-step adaptation and cannot in principle do so as they are.claim0.766
  Sweeping indictment of current production systems.
• Twentieth‑century thinking has made us careless so that we do not recognize this deeper structure as more profound and do not know how to create it.claim0.762
  Blames modern education and design culture for losing the ability to generate living environments.
• The existence of this fact is missing from our general way of understanding the world, and modern society has been built on conceptions at odds with it.claim0.760
  Critique of modern worldview's blindness to objective life.
• The development process, driven by remote speculative investment judged solely by monetary return, is inherently incapable of creating living structure.claim0.758
  Core critique that the motive of profit via leveraged capital necessarily precludes the adaptations needed for life.
• The zero-sum view of intelligence — that recognizing shared features between AI and humans devalues humans — must be abandoned as humanity matures.claim0.756
  Argues that the impulse to sharply demarcate humans from AI stems from misguided zero-sum thinking
• The pursuit of wholeness, pure and simple, was at odds with virtually every institutional and social reality of the 20th century.claim0.749
  Alexander's summary of his forty-year experience that acting for wholeness inevitably brought him into conflict with existing processes.