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The Evolutionary Development And Advancement Of Life
There are basic environmental requirements for life’s development and the purpose of any city is to facilitate the natural requirements for life’s flourishing developments. Cities are a product of the development of human habitats. The quality of a city is ranked on its capacity to facilitate the evolution of life’s development. In our current civilization structuring, the capacity for monetary gains and self-advancement in society propels the evolution of life’s developments. Festivals to the Streets increases the natural economic commerce from city activity through facilitation of community events that promotes ingenuity, culture, environmental awareness, environmental restoration, social equality, and the rehumanization of humanity. Community Festival Environments created by the Festival to the Streets Movement are designed not merely for entertainment, but to promote the ingenuity and pioneering spirit of local community members and local community congregations to reach our greatest potentials and aspirations in life!
EVOLUTION OF A SPECIES
Cities naturally arise from the cultural evolution of a species’ heritage. On the most practical of levels, creatures come together to create families. Families come together and create villages. Villages grow (and often merge with surrounding villages) to form towns. Towns grow and come together to form cities. This is the evolution of social/cultural development. A city is a kind of habitat that is created from a specie’s habits. Whatever the habits of the species is, will be reflected in the design and development of the city. The cultural elements that evolve directly reflect the habits of the species. Specific kinds of habitats promote the growth and evolution of corresponding functions. There are certain habits that can expand the cultural development of a species, such as family, community, invention/use of tools, language, mathematics, transportation, systems of equilibrium, the arts, philosophy, science, technology, religion, philanthropy, entrepreneurship, the heavenly virtues, and so forth. There are also certain habits that destroys cultural heritage, such as alcoholism/drug abuse, racism, pedophilia, incest, rape, prostitution, demoralization, materialism, the seven deadly sins, and so forth. Certain habits do well in the test of time while others deteriorate away.
The City of Arcata, as well as majority of modern cities, are not designed to promote the greatest elements of human nature because they restrict human nature into materialistic confines that depreciates the innate spiritual essence of life. Huge changes are made to an environment during the construction of a city, impacting all species within the environment; yet the only species taken into consideration during most city modifications are humans. In addition, almost all building structures within cities are ether businesses or houses, confining the entire environment into monetary perimeters only accessible to humans. Lastly, almost no environments within the city are specifically created for the children to be able to access to promote their healthy natural development in life. The only primary areas offered to children are playgrounds, environments that were created in the 1850s for teaching small children how to play with each other in healthy ways; and yet since all the developments and advancements of society and civilization since the 1850s, almost none of these developments have been focused on created greater areas for promoting child development (not merely of small children but for all development phases of our species). Modern City Environments have only been designed around the interests and accessibility of adults. City Environments needs to prioritize the child development within the premises of city infrastructure designs. By creating city environments prioritized in the needs of the children, and for optimizing child development opportunities during each phase of human development; we will be able to ensure that the future generations of our species are placed in the greatest position for prosperity and abundance, while also teaching them to do the same for the next generations. This system will reprioritize city interests from interests of self-gain towards investing in the future generations of our species. This system will also establish a universal platform for humanity to reach greater empathy and sympathy for the other species on our planet through shared mutual prioritization in the health and wellbeing of the children (for all animals and plants have children, and majority prioritize the wellbeing and flourishing of the children, something we can all understand and relate with).
Environmental Structures Directs the Course of Evolution for Inhabiting Lifeforms
Building structures in an environment stabilizes and facilitates targeted evolutionary potentials within the environment. An empty building structure can be structured into a large variety of dynamic evolutionary pathways. For example, an empty building can be structured into: a liquor store that then promotes the circulation/development of liquor within the environment; a brothel that facilitates the activity/development of prostitution; a science laboratory that facilitates the research and development of a specific branch of science; a gallery that promotes the facilitation/development of art; a yoga studio that promotes the circulation/development of yoga; a city hall that promotes the organization/development of a city; and everything else the mind can imagine into this world. Each of these examples are various environments that we are capable of creating from an empty building structure, each facilitating the circulation of different modes of consciousness and corresponding physical activities/behaviors. Without the proper physical structure, these modes of consciousness may still exist but reside largely inaccessible to the environment. The development of any field of advancement naturally grows and eventually emerges into its own physical environment due to habitual patterns cultivating corresponding habitats from the environment.
Location, Location, Location: Understanding Energetic Dynamics
The location of an environmental structure is paramount to the successful accessibility and utilization of the structure. For example, building a large water dam inside a barren desert that has no access to water and is incapable of storing surface water (due to extreme heat) renders the environmental structure inaccessible and unusable for the intended purposes of its design. On the other hand, establishing an artificial glacier that runs off solar power in the desert to freeze rainwater in the rain seasons for accessibility and utilization during the dry seasons accomplishes the intended purpose of its design. These capacities exemplify the importance of environmental location with environmental developments. Inside city habitats, establishing liquor and gun shops right next door to public schools will ultimately debilitate the overall development of the community due to the fusion of evolutionary channels circulating students within the school environment with evolutionary channels circulating alcoholics and arms dealers within the surrounding business environments. Public playgrounds, parks, forests, and recreation centers may prove more optimal for surrounding school habitats because these environmental structures promote compatible evolutionary channels for healthy child development. The location of environmental structures must be symbiotic with the natural circulation of life within the environment.
Infinite Potentials
In the same capacity that we can create many different kinds of buildings, all with their own purposes/functions; so too can we create many different kinds of cities, each with their own purposes/function. In all buildings, there are certain common factors which can be identified, such as walls, roofing, structural support beams, reoccurring geometric shapes, and so on. The basic structure of almost all buildings follows the same guidelines and are relatively the same with the exception of minor adjustments. It is largely our creativity that turns four walls and a roof into a laboratory, an art gallery, a restaurant, a home, or any other innovation. We have even turned buildings into instruments, such as the pipe organ. In the same way that we turn buildings into an infinite number of different environments, so too is it possible for cities. Festivals to the Streets will turn the City of Arcata into a Festival City that promotes and facilitate the community’s celebration of life into the daily living experiences and encounters throughout the city environment.
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As the essence of civilization moved further into the industrial age, the notions of civility vanished at the wake of machinery directed towards a war driven society at odds with its own Creator and its own creation. It was during such a time, in the aftermath of the first world war, where an epitome of etiquette was created to help steer a world straying from civility back to the course of righteous dignation respectable to the conduct sworn by upstanding ladies and gentlemen. It was at this time that the literary editor Richard Duffy, of Funk & Wagnall Publishing Company, partnered with the aristocrat Emily Post to compile a compendium of knowledge that would culminate into a book of etiquette preserving the qualities and teachings of “best society.” Mr. Duffy accentuated that the conventions of society were first established for the regulation of rights to each individual tribesman within their tribe, and that the order brought by social conventions are symbolic to the rules for the game of life, which must be known by each player if they are to “play the game.” The principles of etiquette governs the healthy intercourse amongst societal engagements, the founding of standards for social conventions amongst the group, the rules of the game that must be known by each player if they are to play the game of life. Lord Chesterfield, of London England 1694-1773, emphasized in one of his letters to his son that “Moral virtues are the foundation of society in general, and friendship in particular; but attentions, manners, and graces, both adorn and strengthen them….. (and) let us remember the council of Gladstone to his countrymen: “Let us respect the ancient manners and recollect that, if the true soul of chivalry has died among us, with it all that is good in society has died. Let us cherish a sober mind: take for granted that in our best performances there are latent many errors which in their own time will come to light” (Post pg. X).
“The kinship between conduct that keeps us within the law and conduct that makes civilized life worthy to be called such, deserves to be noted with emphasis” (Duffy). Inside Emily Post’s book of Etiquette, she emphasizes that “certainly, what one is, is of far greater importance than what one appears to be”, and further elaborates that “the most vulgar slang… is scarcely worse than the attempted elegance that those unused to good society imagine to be evidence of cultivation” (p. 58). In terms of etiquette, no detail is too small to explain, and all minutiae of correct manners are included; but there is no exaggeration of the minor details at the expense of the more important spirit of personal conduct and attitude of mind, as to dwell on personal trivialities is like measuring the letters of a road sign instead of profiting from its direction (Post and Duffy). According to Emily Post, ‘it is not the people who make small technical mistakes, or even blunders, who are barred from the paths of a good society, but those of sham and pretense whose veneered vulgarity at every step trample upon the flowers in the garden of cultivation.’ The Chinese sage Confucious considered virtue and politeness as inseparable, and “saw courtesies as coming from the heart”, maintaining that “when they are practiced with all the heart, a moral elevation ensues (Duffy). “Best society is not a fellowship of the wealthy, nor does it seek to exclude those who are not exalted at birth; but it is an association of gentlefolk, of which good form in speech, charm of manner, knowledge of social amenities, and the instinctual consideration for the feelings of others, are the credentials by which society the world over recognizes its chosen people” (Post).
At the dawn of the twentieth century existed a turning of the age. The qualities of the old guard of society began to find their once immovable attachments of social mannerisms at odds with a world decaying into an informal intercourse of social exchanges. “The belief in the innate goodness of man had its roots in the eighteenth century when it appeared to many that man was born good and free but was everywhere distorted, corrupted, and enslaved by bad institutions and conventions. As Rousseau said, “Man is born free yet everywhere he is in chains”….. To a people who believed in the innate goodness of man, in inevitable progress, in the community of interests, and in evil as merely the absence of good, the First Word War, with its millions of persons dead and its billions of dollars wasted, was a blow so terrible as to be beyond human ability to comprehend….. In contrast with the nineteenth-century belief that human nature is innately good and that society is corrupting, the twentieth century came to believe that human nature is, if not innately bad, at least capable of being very evil…. At the same time the view that evil is merely the absence of good has been replaced with the idea that evil is a very positive force which must ‘be resisted’ and overcome’” (Quigley).
In the midst of WW1, when the goodness in the nature of our entire species’ came into serious great question; a group of ally soldiers of French and non-French origin were being given rations in a small village. ‘The non-French soldiers belonged to an army that provided rations in plenty and would consume their allotments hastily, uninterrupted by conventions or other concerns; while the French soldiers took their meager portions and improvised a table on a flat rock, laying out their portions along with a small amount of wine to form part of a repast, and then sat down in comfort to begin their meal amid a chatter of talk. When the non-French Soldiers sadistically asked: “why do you fellows make a lot of fuss over the little bit of grub they give you?” The Frenchmen replied: “well we are making war for civilization, are we not? Very well we are. Therefore, we eat in a civilized way”’ (Duffy). Indeed the only way to combat the uncivilized is through civility and during such battles, the reduction into an uncivilized state equates to the war being fought as one already lost. The highest frame of morality within civilized living stems from the governing of the Ten Commandments, and it is “etiquette” that provides the mannerisms that draw the highest moralities into virtuous practices. Every individual – unless dwelling alone in a cave – is a member of a society (in some way or form), and because of this, it is important to understand the qualities of “Best Society” and the principles of Etiquette that must, if it is to be of more than trifling use, include ethics as well as manners. Who one is, is of far greater importance than who one appears to be. A knowledge of etiquette is essential to identifying decent behavior, as one who has good manners is unselfconscious in the observance of etiquette, the precepts of which must be so thoroughly absorbed that it becomes instinctual rather than of conscious obedience (Post pg. 3). The distinction between one’s manners and one’s manner must be emphasized; as one’s manners are made up of trivialities of deportment that are easily learned (if one does not already know them); manner, on the other hand, is personality – the innate outward manifestation of one’s innate character and attitude towards life (Post pg. 2). The most advertised commodity is not always intrinsically the best, but sometimes simply the product of a company with plenty of money to spend on advertising; and in this same sense, the quality of an individual (or group) cannot be determined merely by social influence, status, or “advertisement” of the individual (or group). A gentlemen will never be ostentatious or overbearing any more than he will be servile because these attitudes never manifest the impulses of a well-bred person. A person who’s manners suggest the grotesque is inevitably a person of imitation rather than a real person (Post pg. 2). Superficial appearances, or the accident of publicity, has little to do with an accurate appraisal of intrinsic worth – or worthlessness, as the real value is something separate from publicity value; there is all the difference between climbing on the bandwagon in order to be noticed by the public standing on the sidelines, and impulsively jumping on board because one can see better what is at the moment going on (Post). Best Society, Best People, or People of Quality can all be defined as people of cultivation, courtesy, taste, and kindness — people, moreover, who are very rarely dissociated from their backgrounds (Post). G. W. E. Russel - “Probably in all ages of history men have liked money, but a hundred years ago they did not talk about it in society…. Birth, breeding, rank, accomplishments, eminence in literature, eminence in art, eminence in public service – all these things still count for something in society. But when combined they are only of the dust of the balance when weighed against the all-prevalent power of money. The worship of the golden calf is the characteristic cult of modern society.” (Post pg. ix) The broader sense of the word “etiquette” means “the technique of human conduct under all circumstances” (Duffy).
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In the book Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television by Jerry Mander, he extensively goes over these historical aspects of our country that has often been ignored and swept under the rug. I have personally verified this information with many elders who had personally witnessed this dismantling of the community during the time period of the 60s and 70s. United, we are strong but divided we remain weak. The dismantlement of local communities into individuals isolated amongst themselves has been initiated as a ploy to weaken the population and our nation by means of dehumanization taking place through social conditioning mediated through digitally based technological platforms.
In the majority of this country, the community is nonexistent, and people do not even know what this word is anymore beyond a nice idea. I grew up in such places for the vast majority of my life, until I came to Arcata. This is one of the few regions in this country that still has a community intact. The Coronavirus Pandemic, and the harsh social perimeters that were enforced upon the global population, has greatly weakened the last remaining community fibers within the Arcata Community, along with our local economies; giving way for many long-term residents moving away while also attracting many new people, and organizations, to move in. This is an interval time for the Arcata Community and these last remnants of Ancient Forest Ecosystem that we reside inside. The initiative of Festivals to the Streets will strengthen the local community, along with the local economy, and attract great humanitarian innovators from all around the world to come to this region for tourism, nature-based entrepreneurship, and/or permanent residence. And this may be one of the only places on the planet where local community still remains and we must do whatever we can to assist the world through the mutual unity, eternal devotion, and innovating Spirit of our community(s)!!!
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