People who tore up the blueprint
Tearing up the blueprint does not stop at refusing an order. It is the gesture of becoming the architect yourself. The purpose was usually good. But what to build was settled and what not to cross was not — and then the design starts fitting people to itself.
| First tell — Structure | Tearing up the blueprint does not stop at rejecting an existing order. It is the gesture of becoming the architect yourself. That is why the words new human, new society, new beginning always travel with it. |
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| Second tell — Purpose | The purpose was usually good: clear away the old and raise something better. But what to build was settled, and what not to cross never was. |
| Third tell — Order | An architect without limits fits people to the design. When a person does not fit, it is the person who gets corrected, not the design. The twentieth century ran this experiment repeatedly, and the results were largely the same. |
A design that settled what to build but never what not to cross has always ended in the same place: feeding people into it.