--- In [email protected], Bill Coop wrote: > > On 1/28/13, turquoiseb wrote: > > Here are some rare early color photographs of the > > place, taken in the early 1900s: > > > > http://curiouseggs.com/extremely-rare-color-photography-of-early-1900s-p\ aris/ < --- In [email protected], Bill Coop wrote: > > On 1/28/13, turquoiseb wrote: > > Here are some rare early color photographs of the > > place, taken in the early 1900s: > > > > http://curiouseggs.com/extremely-rare-color-photography-of-early-1900s-p\ aris/ > > And for those who don't like Paris, there's the Global Reconstruction > program. It seeks to demolish the inauspicious buildings of Paris and > rebuild the city on a strict grid, with every building facing due > east. > > http://press-conference.globalgoodnews.com/archive/august/05.08.17.html > > My Reconstruction of the World programme is to save the people > from the ignorance which allows them to design unfortunate > buildings. > > In other words, it is necessary to destroy the city to save it. Thanks for reminding us of one of the most amazing examples ever of Maharishi's megalomania and insanity towards the end. Talk about being incapable of > > > And for those who don't like Paris, there's the Global Reconstruction > program. It seeks to demolish the inauspicious buildings of Paris and > rebuild the city on a strict grid, with every building facing due > east. > > http://press-conference.globalgoodnews.com/archive/august/05.08.17.html <http://press-conference.globalgoodnews.com/archive/august/05.08.17.html\ > > > My Reconstruction of the World programme is to save the people > from the ignorance which allows them to design unfortunate > buildings. > > In other words, it is necessary to destroy the city to save it.
Thanks for reminding us of one of the most amazing examples ever of Maharishi's megalomania and insanity towards the end. Talk about being incapable of "thinking outside the box," this is the epitome of it: What's even more amazing, when you think about it, are the people who sat there while he was proposing such ideas and didn't point out that they were insane. It's astounding what a lifetime of cult conditioning can do to a formerly functioning brain...
