Do you remember the man drawn by Leonardo Da Vinci, based upon the ideal proportions of the human body as set out by Vitruvius? He is inscribed into a circle and a square, two most pure and perfect shapes. This man was king in the universe. Everything should be designed according to his proportions, his body, his image. His perfection.
We are the heirs of this Man and we see ourselves just as big and large on the universe’s stage. But let us think for a moment: we are so great and powerful, yet the minutest being of the kingdom may kill us. Take a bacterium, bearer of a vicious strand of influence; there is always a new one every year that catches us unprepared. And, in cases, we die by because of it.
Is it not ironic? Are we perhaps looking through the wrong side of the telescope, then? Is it, perhaps, the case that we should re-assess man’s power and re-draw that Man’s Geometry? In this picture, the all-perfect square and circle are replaced by the shape of that potential killer of ours, the infinitesimally small bacterium. Inside it man comes asunder. Inside it the magnificent victor of the universe is defeated.
Do you remember the man drawn by Leonardo Da Vinci, based upon the ideal proportions of the human body as set out by Vitruvius? He is inscribed into a circle and a square, two most pure and perfect shapes. This man was king in the universe. Everything should be designed according to his proportions, his body, his image. His perfection.
We are the heirs of this Man and we see ourselves just as big and large on the universe’s stage. But let us think for a moment: we are so great and powerful, yet the minutest being of the kingdom may kill us. Take a bacterium, bearer of a vicious strand of influence; there is always a new one every year that catches us unprepared. And, in cases, we die by because of it.
Is it not ironic? Are we perhaps looking through the wrong side of the telescope, then? Is it, perhaps, the case that we should re-assess man’s power and re-draw that Man’s Geometry? In this picture, the all-perfect square and circle are replaced by the shape of that potential killer of ours, the infinitesimally small bacterium. Inside it man comes asunder. Inside it the magnificent victor of the universe is defeated.
Do you remember the man drawn by Leonardo Da Vinci, based upon the ideal proportions of the human body as set out by Vitruvius? He is inscribed into a circle and a square, two most pure and perfect shapes. This man was king in the universe. Everything should be designed according to his proportions, his body, his image. His perfection.
We are the heirs of this Man and we see ourselves just as big and large on the universe’s stage. But let us think for a moment: we are so great and powerful, yet the minutest being of the kingdom may kill us. Take a bacterium, bearer of a vicious strand of influence; there is always a new one every year that catches us unprepared. And, in cases, we die by because of it.
Is it not ironic? Are we perhaps looking through the wrong side of the telescope, then? Is it, perhaps, the case that we should re-assess man’s power and re-draw that Man’s Geometry? In this picture, the all-perfect square and circle are replaced by the shape of that potential killer of ours, the infinitesimally small bacterium. Inside it man comes asunder. Inside it the magnificent victor of the universe is defeated.