reactive Nor man or woman, nor conservative or progressive. Erich Fromm says that there is no key distinction, nor psychological nor moral among human beings than that which is established between those who love death and those who love life, between the necrophiles and the biophiles. Loving life or loving death are the basic alternatives which every human being faces, even though it is not purely 100% considered in its vital inclination. There are other distinctions. Some are convinced that that distinction gravitates in the level of risk assumed in life: Players or Safety catchers. Others, like us, we say that one can be Reactive or Reactionary. Or maybe a bit of each type in each moment. We can try and explain it in a few tweets: 1. Reactive purity or fundamentalism are reactionary positions. 2. Moral judgements are reactionary; technical judgements cannot be so. 3. Eclecticism is reactive. It’s chemical. Chemistry studies the reactions between elements. 4. Postmodernism is as reactionary as the modern movement. Eclecticism is a mix, confusion. 5. Melancholy is less reactionary than nostalgia; the first one is aesthetic, the second one is sentimental. 6. The most evident way of proving a reactionary attitude is sentimentalism. Manipulating feelings is reactionary. Manipulating intelligences is reactive. 7. Puritanism and victimhood are reactionary. 8. Architecture is a violent act. Violence is not necessarily reactionary. 9. Activism tends to be more reactionary than observation. 10. Fernando León de Aranoa is reactionary. Álex de la iglesia is reactive. 11. Organizing paddle tournaments for the victims of a tsunami is reactionary. 12. With seven notes the history of music has not come to an end. Reactionary is to want to invent new notes in pursuit of a supposed complexity. 13. The culture of prizes is a reactionary culture. To be reactive one has to be an activist for the culture of achievements. 14. The term master is reactionary. Le Corbusier was reactive, his followers reactionary. 15. Rayuela is a reactionary book and The Catcher in the Rye is pure reaction. 16. Subjectivism is reactionary when it’s purely recreated dilettante. 17. Bureaucracy is metareactionary. Those who use it as a tool are so, too. 18. The architecture by Philip Rham, Zaha Hadid, François Roche, Amid, Big, Santiago Cirugeda, Lacatton & Vassal, Bernini, Herzog & de Meuron is good. However, it’s reactionary. 19. The one by Olgiati, Ensamble Studio, Heatherwick, Foster, Borromini, Frank Lloyd Wright and OMA, is reactive. 20. Overestimating sex, gastronomy, health and golf is reactionary. 21. Millenials and their superficiality are reactive. Reactionary is the attitude of superiority of deepness and its high significance. 22. This text is reactionary. Because of how polarizing it is and how determinist. Manuel Ocaña
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