Seriously? I was just making a joke based on an observation. I assumed that it was just a style of construction that made it feasible for action movies.
Yep, when I learned about this it rearranged my paradigms real quick.
The rooftop entrances are covered in excavator James Mellaart's Earliest Civilizations of the Near East, where he also remarks about Çatal Hüyük, "There had been no war for a thousand years."
In The Goddess and the Bull (I forget the author just now), the more recent findings that the town was formed by hunter-gatherers before agriculture, that was the real eye-opener. In other words, these people enjoyed each others' company so much that they built a town based on hanging out on rooftops, cooking and watching the stars.
A civilization based on socializing, that's the way I'd interpret it. This is why a Turkish advance in electronic education would be so apt. The European model of education has stressed the compartmentalization of subject matter, a result of turning away from the oral disputation of Medieval scholasticism and diving into the reified knowledge "contained" in the printed book.
The iPad is the opposite of the printed book in a way, in that it can be a social medium. It can be dynamically updated and enlarged by crowd-sourcing, for example. So the Turks deserve to inherit and develop first the medium of learning based on socializing. The Hüyük Mind returns.
I hope they do it with the iPad, because it is the true ecosystem-connected device, in contrast with the Android thicket of dead ends.
In other words, these people enjoyed each others' company so much that they built a town based on hanging out on rooftops, cooking and watching the stars.
The original high-definition display.
PS: i'm glad I made the observation and quipped about it here. Otherwise I may have never learned about this aspect of Turkish culture and history.
Yay, someone from Turkey here! Actually, I was hoping for a serious discussion about this plan, but it seems the thread fizzled. No big surprise, I suppose.
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Yep, when I learned about this it rearranged my paradigms real quick.
The rooftop entrances are covered in excavator James Mellaart's Earliest Civilizations of the Near East, where he also remarks about Çatal Hüyük, "There had been no war for a thousand years."
In The Goddess and the Bull (I forget the author just now), the more recent findings that the town was formed by hunter-gatherers before agriculture, that was the real eye-opener. In other words, these people enjoyed each others' company so much that they built a town based on hanging out on rooftops, cooking and watching the stars.
A civilization based on socializing, that's the way I'd interpret it. This is why a Turkish advance in electronic education would be so apt. The European model of education has stressed the compartmentalization of subject matter, a result of turning away from the oral disputation of Medieval scholasticism and diving into the reified knowledge "contained" in the printed book.
The iPad is the opposite of the printed book in a way, in that it can be a social medium. It can be dynamically updated and enlarged by crowd-sourcing, for example. So the Turks deserve to inherit and develop first the medium of learning based on socializing. The Hüyük Mind returns.
I hope they do it with the iPad, because it is the true ecosystem-connected device, in contrast with the Android thicket of dead ends.
The original high-definition display.
PS: i'm glad I made the observation and quipped about it here. Otherwise I may have never learned about this aspect of Turkish culture and history.
Yay, someone from Turkey here! Actually, I was hoping for a serious discussion about this plan, but it seems the thread fizzled. No big surprise, I suppose.
Maybe it will come up again.
Hah!
I know you're into this sort of thing, so I thought I'd go on a bit.
Not Constantinople?