Quote:
Originally posted by bilmore
California, suffering through a debilitating budget crisis caused, in part, by over-regulation and over-control, looks at a measure mandating that building design now also be vetted by feng shui guides.
|
Far be it from me to ruin an otherwise good California joke, but that's not what the bill says. From what I've read, it would encourage the guys who write the building codes
not to impose requirements that violate feng shui principles, which is (1) consistent with an anti-regulatory agenda; (2) indistinguishable from asking the Building Dept. to stop making you shape your basement like a pentagram, from a Free Exercise perspective;* and (3) consonant with Hank's theme that scientifically-derived rules are not automatically better (in this case, at the design of buildings) than more ancient rules of thumb.
Personally, I think feng shui is horseshit, but I don't see why the building code should impose bad luck upon you unless it is necessary to avoid imposing, say, carbon monoxide on you.
*After all, city planners allow building owners to perpetrate a massive fraud by "eliminating" the 13th floor on basically the same rationale as feng shui.
