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<p>The first and most important thing you want to know about these <em><b>keywords</b></em> is that they are custom-defined <em>ways of looking</em> or technically <em><b>scopes</b></em>; when I turn for instance culture into a <em><b>keyword</b></em>—I am not defining what culture "really is"; but giving you a way to look at the infinitely complex real thing; and producing a sort of a projection plane, to greatly simplify the matter. The point is that we can only see things whole if we look at them from all sides; and that if we can discover a way of looking that shows the thing as <em>not</em> whole—then the thing <em>is not</em> whole even when by "normal" way of looking it does look perfectly fine.</p>  
 
<p>The first and most important thing you want to know about these <em><b>keywords</b></em> is that they are custom-defined <em>ways of looking</em> or technically <em><b>scopes</b></em>; when I turn for instance culture into a <em><b>keyword</b></em>—I am not defining what culture "really is"; but giving you a way to look at the infinitely complex real thing; and producing a sort of a projection plane, to greatly simplify the matter. The point is that we can only see things whole if we look at them from all sides; and that if we can discover a way of looking that shows the thing as <em>not</em> whole—then the thing <em>is not</em> whole even when by "normal" way of looking it does look perfectly fine.</p>  
 
<h3><em><b>Keywords</b></em> elevate us 'on the shoulders of giants' so we may see further.</h3>   
 
<h3><em><b>Keywords</b></em> elevate us 'on the shoulders of giants' so we may see further.</h3>   
 
<p>As  custom-defined words, <em><b>keywords</b></em>enable us to think and speak in new ways. By creating <em><b>keywords</b></em> we can give old words such as “science” and “religion” a distinct function and a new life; <em><b>keyword</b></em> creation is a means to linguistic and institutional recycling.</p>
 
<p>As  custom-defined words, <em><b>keywords</b></em>enable us to think and speak in new ways. By creating <em><b>keywords</b></em> we can give old words such as “science” and “religion” a distinct function and a new life; <em><b>keyword</b></em> creation is a means to linguistic and institutional recycling.</p>
 
<p>When adopted from the terminology of an academic field, cultural tradition or frontier thinker, <em><b>keywords</b></em> enable us to account for what’s been seen, experienced or comprehended; to ‘stand on the shoulders of giants’ and see further; to see things in new ways and see them whole.</p></div>  
 
<p>When adopted from the terminology of an academic field, cultural tradition or frontier thinker, <em><b>keywords</b></em> enable us to account for what’s been seen, experienced or comprehended; to ‘stand on the shoulders of giants’ and see further; to see things in new ways and see them whole.</p></div>  
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<p>There is, however, a notable difference between our time and Galilei's: Where censorship and prisons were historically used to spread transformative ideas from spreading—today they are simply <em>ignored</em>; because of the overabundance and the jungleness of our information. It is by first changing the <em><b>paradigm</b></em> in <em><b>information</b></em> that the larger societal and cultural <em><b>paradigm</b></em> shift will become possible.</p> 
 
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<p>When physicists became able to look at the small quanta of energy-matter, they found them behaving in ways that contradicted the assumptions based on which science had developed; and our very common sense—as Robert Oppenheimer pointed out in <em>Uncommon Sense</em>. To 'stand on their shoulders', I turned <em><b>narrow frame</b></em> into a <em><b>keyword</b></em>; and use it to point to that very pattern that a certain very narrow pragmatic thinking inscribed in all the details of our social and cultural reality, both large and small. In <em>Physics and Philosophy</em> Heisenberg described the <em><b>narrow frame</b></em> as follows: "This frame was supported by the fundamental concepts of classical physics, space, time, matter and causality; the concept of reality applied to the things or events that we could perceive by our senses or that could be observed by means of the refined tools that technical science had provided. Matter was the primary reality. The progress of science was pictured as a crusade of conquest into the material world. Utility was the watchword of the time. On the other hand, this frame was so narrow and rigid that it was difficult to find a place in it for many concepts of our language that had always belonged to its very substance, for instance, the concepts of mind, of the human soul or of life."</p>
 
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<p>Heisenberg's point was that 20th century physics constituted its rigorous disproof. He wrote <em>Physics and Philosophy</em> expecting that the largest contribution of his field to mankind would be a <em>cultural</em> revolution—that would result from correcting this epistemological error.</p>
 
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<p>For the lack of a better word, I'll use <em><b>materialism</b></em> as <em><b>keyword</b></em> to point to <em>both</em> the fundamental assumptions about the world and the mind that Heisenberg was pointing to—and to the larger societal and cultural <em><b>paradigm</b></em> that grew from them. And ask you to join me in overcoming <em><b>materialism</b></em> for pragmatic reasons too.</p> zzzzzzz
 

Revision as of 16:09, 29 October 2023

Federation through Keywords

“I cannot understand how anyone can make use of the frameworks of reference developed in the eighteenth and nineteenth century in order to understand the transformation into the post-traditional cosmopolitan world we live in today.”
(Ulrich Beck, The Risk Society and Beyond, 2000)

Imagine us in “the risk society”—impregnated with existential risks we don’t know how to handle; we shall not move beyond the risk society—as long as we look at those problems through the same concepts we used when we created them.

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