Centerlife - Happiness Through Nature's Design May 2019 | Page 26

Institutions also organize about central figures including supervisors, managers,
CEO’s, titans of industry, mayors, governors, generals, and presidents.
Our spontaneous interactions also generate center-oriented structures. For
instance, when waiting in line (i.e. toward a common objective), when turning our
heads toward crashing dishes in a restaurant, and when rubbernecking an accident
along a highway. It’s when players continually organize around the ball in a sporting
match, or when a group of strangers’ rush inward and encircle a superstar.
Institutions
In a direct reflection of our groupings, our institutions are also
organized in center-oriented configurations. Starting from the
top we find our governments are organized in central capitals
(about associated leaders) including nations, states, regions.
cities, and townships as well as across multiple countries (such as
NATO and the EU). Businesses, armies, and royal families also reflect this structure
with CEO’s leading companies, generals at the helm of militaries, and kings and
queens residing over their extended families.
Infrastructure
Practically all of man’s infrastructure reflects nature’s center-oriented forms.
For instance, roads and highway systems from sprawling organic, branching like
structures centered on city centers.
Distribution systems weave throughout our cities bringing
products and goods to places where we can purchase them. As
the heart of these distribution systems are hubs from which
all such goods converge and then are subsequently distributed
radially in all directions. Airlines are no different ferrying
passengers between central airports.
Large scale utility systems are also centered on central hubs from
which the ‘services’ or ‘goods’ radiate and branch outward from.
Such distribution systems include water, electricity, natural gas,
sewer and drainage systems, newspapers, telephone networks, the
Internet, and cable TV.
Stadiums and halls of entertainment form crisp center-oriented
patterns witness orchestra halls, sports stadiums, movie theaters,
opera houses, auditoriums, halls, and circuses.