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<p>As members of the <em>homo sapiens</em> species, we were informed, we have the evolutionary prerogative to understand the world, and to make choices rationally. Give the <em>homo sapiens</em> a correct understanding of the natural world, he'll know exactly how to go about satisfying "his needs", which he no doubt knows because he can experience them directly. But the traditions got it all wrong! Being unable to understand how the nature works, our ancestors invented a "ghost in the machine"—and prayed to <em>him</em> to give them what they wanted. Science corrected this error. It <em>removed</em> the "ghost"—and told us how the nature, or 'the machine', <em>really</em> works. </p> | <p>As members of the <em>homo sapiens</em> species, we were informed, we have the evolutionary prerogative to understand the world, and to make choices rationally. Give the <em>homo sapiens</em> a correct understanding of the natural world, he'll know exactly how to go about satisfying "his needs", which he no doubt knows because he can experience them directly. But the traditions got it all wrong! Being unable to understand how the nature works, our ancestors invented a "ghost in the machine"—and prayed to <em>him</em> to give them what they wanted. Science corrected this error. It <em>removed</em> the "ghost"—and told us how the nature, or 'the machine', <em>really</em> works. </p> | ||
| − | <p>This gigantic step—removing the "ghost in the machine"—is what modernization was really all about! Isn't that how we came to understand, finally, that women can't fly on broomsticks?</ | + | <p>This gigantic step—removing the "ghost in the machine"—is what modernization was really all about! Isn't that how we came to understand, finally, that women can't fly on broomsticks?</p> |
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<p>We can now combine scientific understanding of causes with technology, and get out the nature exactly what we want and need!</p> | <p>We can now combine scientific understanding of causes with technology, and get out the nature exactly what we want and need!</p> | ||
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<p>Of course, some social instruments also need to be in place to make it all work. The <em>homo sapiens</em> needs a similarly "objective reality picture" about what's happening in the social world, so that also there he can make informed, rational decisions.. That's what the media informing provides him. And when his wants and needs contradict with those of another, he needs "the free market" and "the free elections" to serve as perfect scales, and assure that justice, the will of the majority, will prevail.</p> | <p>Of course, some social instruments also need to be in place to make it all work. The <em>homo sapiens</em> needs a similarly "objective reality picture" about what's happening in the social world, so that also there he can make informed, rational decisions.. That's what the media informing provides him. And when his wants and needs contradict with those of another, he needs "the free market" and "the free elections" to serve as perfect scales, and assure that justice, the will of the majority, will prevail.</p> | ||
Revision as of 08:54, 7 August 2020
Holotopia
Imagine...
You are about to board a bus for a long night ride, when you notice the flickering streaks of light emanating from two wax candles, placed where the headlights of the bus are expected to be. Candles? As headlights?
Of course, the idea of candles as headlights is absurd. So why propose it?
Because on a much larger scale this absurdity has become reality.
The Modernity ideogram renders the essence of our contemporary situation by depicting our society as an accelerating bus without a steering wheel, and the way we look at the world, try to comprehend and handle it as guided by a pair of candle headlights.
Modernity ideogram