European? Flag
The current
European Union flag, designed in 1955 by Arsène Heitz, forms a paradigm of
representation in all imaginable negative aspects: excluding the identity of
conforming, an arbitrary background color, and above all the stars.
Personally
I wanted to believe for many years that the stars were an ordinary copy of the
U.S. flag, but intrigued by the static state of the image while countries
joined "la grande nation" decided to find what represented such stars
that did not grow. Terrible surprise to discover that Heitz put 12 gold stars
justifying that the number twelve is traditionally the symbol of perfection,
completeness and if that was not enough free traditionalism, I found:
"Arsène Heitz was inspired by reading the introductory part 15 August, the
feast of the Assumption of Mary: A great sign appeared in heaven, a woman lit
by the sun, the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars."
If a person who hadn’t heard of the claims of the European Union asks what is currently and not including covenants, claims or intentions, we should say: a purely economic union.
The economy
today is sell off items packaged together to increase profitability. That are
not products, are codes.
Rem
Koolhaas develops a proposed flag for Europe: a bar code of the articles containing
one beside the other. It is merely a critique of economistic spirit of the EU.
In my
opinion it’s an adaptive model to the social requirements of the union. The
union grows, their flag grows. And I think that this proposal mainly lacks the
arbitrariness of the current. It’s a barcode? Yes, but it’s really a linear
evolution, layers are added to the preexisting, nothing to fear, opposite, is
worth admiring a progression in time that reflects the quality of done.
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