To date, practically everything done in the Union's name has come from the top down, wrapped in incomprehensible jargon designed, it would seem, to ensure that the masses are too befuddled to demand explanations, let alone a right of dissent.
"Interstellar," an outer-space survivalist epic created by the director Christopher Nolan and his brother Jonathan, with whom he co-wrote the screenplay, is ardently, even fervently incomprehensible, a movie designed to separate the civilians from the geeks, with the geeks apparently the target audience.
However, upon analysing the architecture of traditional dwellings; and the life-styles of the people who live in these rural areas, it has been observed that these projects, with incomprehensible, strict and totalitarian design principles, are incompatible with local culture and conditions.
In 1838, William Reid, a British engineer who devoted himself to the study of hurricanes after witnessing the destruction they wrought in the Caribbean, felt compelled to publicly affirm his belief that the laws of nature were "designed by incomprehensible wisdom, arranged by supreme power, and tending to the most benevolent ends".
Its design is an incomprehensible mess.
The majority of shortlisted products come from those top-end European design houses with incomprehensible websites and a refusal to advertise their prices for fear of reprisals.
It is one of the best books I have read on a hugely exciting and important area of design, which often seems incomprehensible to those of us without doctorates in computer science.
Dutifully, they keep churning out press releases touting their latest design wins, using the same incomprehensible buzzwords that once got investors so excited.
Railway carriages that treat their passengers with contempt, cell phones that are unusable, incomprehensible official forms: these are not just badly designed, they reflect badly on the values of the society that is forced to use them.
"Building such a design in this natural place is completely incomprehensible," Raimund Rodewald, the director of the Swiss Foundation for Landscape Conservation, told me later.
