A SELF DIGESTING ENGINE OF SOCIAL METABOLISM

I.

Given conscious experience is the experience of change throughout time

II.

Given life is a metabolic process of constant change

III.

Given the world is an aggregation of things which are related through their capacity to change each other

IV.

Given conscious experience, life, and the world exist physically and in reality

V.

Then change, necessary to conscious experience, life, and the world must exist in the same way as all three.

VI.

Therefore change can be understood only as a real physical thing that exists as itself, not merely a concept.

VII.

Given change is caused by the synthesis of contradictory elements

VIII.

Then contradictory elements must also exist them being necessary to change.

IX.

Given an unchanging thing has never been directly observed

X.

And since change being a real thing is capable of being such a contradictory element

XI.

Then we have stronger reason to believe that it is not some unquantifiable immeasurable static thing but change itself that is the cause of change. In other words, previously existing change represents the contradictory elements of a system.

XII.

Given landscape architecture exists to change the world

XIII.

Since change is the predecessor of change

XIV.

Then landscape architecture should seek to create processes of change that go on to create further change from something, not to create perfect idealistic spaces that create change from nothing.