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<div class="page-header" > <h1>Five Insights</h1> </div> | <div class="page-header" > <h1>Five Insights</h1> </div> | ||
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| + | [[File:FiveInsights.JPG]]<br> | ||
| + | <small>The Five Insights <em>ideogram</em></small> | ||
| + | <blockquote> | ||
| + | The <em>holotopia</em> vision is made concrete in terms of five interrelated insights.</blockquote> | ||
| + | </div> </div> | ||
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| + | <div class="col-md-3"><h2>[[Holotopia:Power structure|Power structure]]</h2></div> | ||
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| + | <blockquote> | ||
| + | Powered by ingenuity of innovation, the Industrial Revolution radically improved the efficiency of human work. Where could the next revolution of this kind be coming from? | ||
| + | </blockquote> | ||
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| + | <div class="col-md-3"><h2>[[Holotopia:Collective mind|Collective mind]]</h2></div> | ||
| + | <div class="col-md-7"> | ||
| + | <blockquote> | ||
| + | The printing press revolutionized communication, and enabled the Enlightenment. But the Internet and the interactive digital media constitute a similar revolution. Hasn't the change we are proposing, from 'the candle' to 'the lightbulb', <em>already</em> been completed? | ||
| + | </blockquote> | ||
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| + | </div> </div> | ||
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| + | <div class="col-md-3"><h2>[[Holotopia:Socialized reality|Socialized reality]]</h2></div> | ||
| + | <div class="col-md-7"> | ||
| + | <blockquote> | ||
| + | The Enlightenment was before all a change of <em>epistemology</em>. An ancient praxis was revived, which developed <em>knowledge of knowledge</em>. On that as foundation, a completely <em>new</em> worldview emerged—which led to "a great cultural revival", and to <em>comprehensive</em> change. On what grounds could a similar chain of events begin today? | ||
| + | </blockquote> | ||
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| + | </div> </div> | ||
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| + | <div class="col-md-3"><h2>[[Holotopia:Narrow frame|Narrow frame]]</h2></div> | ||
| + | <div class="col-md-7"> | ||
| + | <blockquote>Science gave us a completely new way to look at the world. It gave us powers that the people in Galilei's time couldn't dream of. What might be the theme of the <em>next</em> revolution of this kind? | ||
| + | </blockquote> | ||
| + | </div> </div> | ||
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| + | <div class="col-md-3"><h2>[[Holotopia:Convenience paradox|Convenience paradox]]</h2></div> | ||
| + | <div class="col-md-7"> | ||
| + | <blockquote> | ||
| + | The Renaissance liberated our ancestors from preoccupation with the afterlife, and empowered them to seek happiness here and now. The lifestyle changed, and the culture blossomed. How could the <em>next</em> such change begin? | ||
| + | </blockquote> | ||
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| + | </div> </div> | ||
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| + | <div class="page-header" ><h2>Sixth insight</h2> </div> | ||
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| + | <div class="col-md-3"><h2>The five insights form a whole</h2></div> | ||
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| + | <h3>The black arrows point to a vicious cycle</h3> | ||
| + | <p>Follow the black arrows in the Five Insights <em>ideogram</em>, to see that the anomalies they connect together cause or <em>create</em> one another: | ||
| + | <ul> | ||
| + | <li>It is the <em>power structure</em> that created dysfunctional communication</li> | ||
| + | <li>It is the lack of communication that keeps us in <em>socialized reality</em></li> | ||
| + | <li>It is by founding knowledge in "reality" that we ended up with the <em>narrow frame</em></li> | ||
| + | <li>It is by using the <em>narrow frame</em> that we mistook <em>convenience</em> for happiness</li> | ||
| + | <li>It is our pursuit of convenience that makes us create <em>power structures</em></li> | ||
| + | </ul> | ||
| + | </p> | ||
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| + | <h3>The red arrows point to a benign cycle</h3> | ||
| + | <p>Follow the red arrows to see that we cannot really change one of the insights they connect, without also changing the other.</p> | ||
| + | <ul> | ||
| + | <li>To stand up to the <em>power structures</em>, we must liberate ourselves from the <em>socialized reality</em></li> | ||
| + | <li>Our <em>collective mind</em> cannot be structured to <em>federate</em> knowledge, unless we have a method for doing that</li> | ||
| + | <li>To liberate ourselves from <em>socialized reality</em>, our values need to be different</li> | ||
| + | <li>To broaden the <em>narrow frame</em>, we must see and unravel the <em>power structure</em> that keeps it in place</li> | ||
| + | <li>To step beyond <em>convenience</em>, we need a <em>collective mind</em> that federates knowledge</li> | ||
| + | </ul> | ||
| + | </div> </div> | ||
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| + | <div class="col-md-3"><h2>The <em>holotopia</em> strategy follows</h2></div> | ||
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| + | <p>We can now see <em>why</em> | ||
| + | <blockquote> | ||
| + | a comprehensive change can be easy, even when smaller and obviously necessary changes may have proven impossible. | ||
| + | </blockquote> | ||
| + | The strategy that defines the <em>holotopia</em> naturally follows: Instead of struggling with the details, we focus on changing the whole <em>order of things</em> they compose together.</p> | ||
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| + | <div class="col-md-3"><h2>What is <em>really</em> going on</h2> </div> | ||
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| + | <p> | ||
| + | One of our <em>prototypes</em> is a book manuscript titled "What's Going On?", and subtitle "A Cultural Revival". The book redefines what constitutes the news—by pointing to a breathtakingly spectacular event taking place in our own time. Slowly!</p> | ||
| + | <p>By knowing what's going on in this way, we know what needs to be done. The "problems" we are experiencing are like cracks in the walls of a house whose foundations are failing. Our situation calls for <em>rebuilding</em>, not fixing.</p> | ||
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| + | [[File:Whats_Going_On.gif]]<br> | ||
| + | <small>What's Going on <em>ideogram</em></small> | ||
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| + | <p>This more informed and more effective strategy has "leverage points" through which it is most easily pursued—exactly as the bus with candle headlights might suggest.</p> | ||
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| + | <blockquote> | ||
| + | Let us conclude by pointing to a possibility that is inherent in the proposed transdisciplinary approach to knowledge, as modeled by the <em>holoscope</em>—to restore knowledge to power. | ||
| + | </blockquote> | ||
| + | </div> </div> | ||
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| + | <div class="col-md-3"><h2>We can see the <em>elephant</em>!</h2></div> | ||
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| + | <p>And here too, all we need to do is <em>continue</em> the evolution of knowledge a step further, by <em>federating</em> knowledge: Post-structuralism permitted us to interpret cultural artifacts freely, by showing false the supposition that they have a definitive meaning, which can be discovered. But if such interpretations may take us further <em>away</em> from giving such artifacts an agency—here we have a way to turn the resulting chaos into a whole <em>new</em> order!</p> | ||
| + | [[File:Elephant.jpg]]<br> | ||
| + | <small>Elephant <em>ideogram</em></small> | ||
| + | <p>As the Elephant <em>ideogram</em> suggests—we can put those pieces back <em>together</em>; we can 'connect the dots', and see the 'elephant' (a whole new <em>order of things</em> that is ready to emerge.</p> | ||
| + | <p>Earlier we may have heard our most visionary thinkers talk about "a tree-trunk", "a fan", or "a water hose"; but they didn't make sense, and we ignored them. Now we can give their visions a whole <em>new</em> meaning—by interpreting them as the legs, the ears and the trunk of the <em>elephant</em>. </p> | ||
| + | <p>And this <em>elephant</em> is, of course, the "way to change course" that Aurelio Peccei was urging us to find.</p> | ||
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<p>Isn't that what <em>polyscopy</em> and <em>knowledge federation</em> are really all about?!</p> | <p>Isn't that what <em>polyscopy</em> and <em>knowledge federation</em> are really all about?!</p> | ||
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<p>The [[Future Art]] conversation takes place in the context of the Narrow Frame insight and the Power Structure insight. The <em>vastest</em> realm of creative opportunities...</p> | <p>The [[Future Art]] conversation takes place in the context of the Narrow Frame insight and the Power Structure insight. The <em>vastest</em> realm of creative opportunities...</p> | ||
| − | <p>Marcel Duchamp exhibited the urinal, and changed art forever | + | <p>Marcel Duchamp exhibited the urinal, and changed art forever. Certainly, art has always been on the forefront of change. Now that we have effaced the old and must <em>create</em> anew—what will the new <em>art</em> be like?</p> |
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<h3>Back to [[Holotopia]]</h3> | <h3>Back to [[Holotopia]]</h3> | ||
Latest revision as of 06:44, 1 June 2020
H O L O T O P I A P R O T O T Y P E
Five Insights
The Five Insights ideogram
The holotopia vision is made concrete in terms of five interrelated insights.
Powered by ingenuity of innovation, the Industrial Revolution radically improved the efficiency of human work. Where could the next revolution of this kind be coming from?
The printing press revolutionized communication, and enabled the Enlightenment. But the Internet and the interactive digital media constitute a similar revolution. Hasn't the change we are proposing, from 'the candle' to 'the lightbulb', already been completed?
The Enlightenment was before all a change of epistemology. An ancient praxis was revived, which developed knowledge of knowledge. On that as foundation, a completely new worldview emerged—which led to "a great cultural revival", and to comprehensive change. On what grounds could a similar chain of events begin today?
Science gave us a completely new way to look at the world. It gave us powers that the people in Galilei's time couldn't dream of. What might be the theme of the next revolution of this kind?
The Renaissance liberated our ancestors from preoccupation with the afterlife, and empowered them to seek happiness here and now. The lifestyle changed, and the culture blossomed. How could the next such change begin?
Sixth insight
The five insights form a whole
The black arrows point to a vicious cycle
Follow the black arrows in the Five Insights ideogram, to see that the anomalies they connect together cause or create one another:
- It is the power structure that created dysfunctional communication
- It is the lack of communication that keeps us in socialized reality
- It is by founding knowledge in "reality" that we ended up with the narrow frame
- It is by using the narrow frame that we mistook convenience for happiness
- It is our pursuit of convenience that makes us create power structures
The red arrows point to a benign cycle
Follow the red arrows to see that we cannot really change one of the insights they connect, without also changing the other.
- To stand up to the power structures, we must liberate ourselves from the socialized reality
- Our collective mind cannot be structured to federate knowledge, unless we have a method for doing that
- To liberate ourselves from socialized reality, our values need to be different
- To broaden the narrow frame, we must see and unravel the power structure that keeps it in place
- To step beyond convenience, we need a collective mind that federates knowledge
The holotopia strategy follows
We can now see why
The strategy that defines the holotopia naturally follows: Instead of struggling with the details, we focus on changing the whole order of things they compose together.a comprehensive change can be easy, even when smaller and obviously necessary changes may have proven impossible.