21 December 2009

DOORS: THEIR FUNCTION

Houses without doors are not good buildings. We aren't able to go in or come out. So we can conclude that if buildings appear to us, there are also doors. Home without a door is not very functional, we claim. And that's true!, I shout back to you.

But is the function of doors to function as passages? My claim is: it's not.

                                        
You can't step inside, smiles City of Turku.


From outside one goes in but if looking from inside the house one comes in. In the same way, one goes out from inside the house comes out from the house to out of doors in which a secret agent is waiting.

We are strangers. Sometimes guests. Often relatives of someone. As a result, we can't go in from doors whenever we want because doors don't open to us. Most of doors of the big cities are closed. Someone else decides when the front doors will open. Try to enter other territories, public buildings, people's homes, stores and shops, bars and clubs, shopping malls, and you will see that I am right.

They who control the door are free to go and come.They lock up it. They are safe inside. They order who comes in. And we aren't warmly welcomed.

But is there any security from the rest of the World? No, the West is too the Rest and this individual is not safe inside. Values, ideas and words of the society push their way into his home - . Inside. To the individual Mind. You can't lock up your Mind's door. It is always open. To the manipulation of a consciousness.

Yet, when going to work people lock up the home door. They don't want somebody goes in secretly. Their intention is keeping threats outside. We are not threat. But they don't believe us. We're outsiders. 

However, there are people who can't walk out from rooms. They are locked behind many doors. Inmates, insanes and terrorists. You can come out if they dare let you free. If they decide so. Before opening the door it stays locked. You and me are safe. But we are locking up ourselves behind the doors. We don't walk out from the house. They and you eat us. The outcast. We, they - or You.

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