The vast 20th-century net of interacting processes is deeply abnormal and against life, necessitating rejection and transformation.

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• The absence of life we recognize as a familiar problem of the past century comes about because the processes which create objects, artifacts, buildings, neighborhoods, agriculture, forests, towns, roads, bridges - nearly all fail to have the character of unfolding wholeness.claim0.786
  Diagnosis of modern lifelessness.
• Modern processes, for the most part, are not morphogenetic.claim0.785
  Asserts that 20th-century processes do not intentionally create living form, unlike the living processes described in chapters 6-17.
• The processes needed to create life were damaged in the 20th century.claim0.784
  Explains why profound life is less common in modern buildings.
• Rules are wrongly formulated and processes are too rigid to allow adaptation; they cannot allow life to occur.claim0.775
  General statement that current rules and processes are fundamentally incompatible with living structure.
• Much of the emotional misery of the 20th century was caused by the terrible loss of belonging our contemporary processes inflicted on society.claim0.771
  Causal attribution of widespread psychological suffering to the built environment
• All living processes are governed by the emergence of a special recognizable geometry that shows feeling and life.claim0.769
• Reluctance to accept that life is a general phenomenon stems from the mechanistic world-view.claim0.769
  Traces intellectual resistance to a deep-seated worldview.
• Living processes are by nature morphogenetic; they are aimed at creating positive space and making form coherent.claim0.768
  Core definition of living process as intentionally form-creating, in contrast to fragmented modern processes.