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<p>Reality, the 20th century's scientists and philosophers found out, is not something we discover; it is something we <em>construct</em>. </p> | <p>Reality, the 20th century's scientists and philosophers found out, is not something we discover; it is something we <em>construct</em>. </p> | ||
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| + | <p>In "Social Construction of Reality", Berger and Luckmann left us an analysis of the social process by which the reality is constructed. They pointed to the role that "universal theories" (which determine the relationship we have with information) play in maintaining a social and political status quo. An example is the Biblical worldview of Galilei's persecutors—but not, of course, the only one.</p> | ||
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| − | <p> | + | <p>Pierre Bourdieu left us a thorough explanation of the interplay between reality construction and subtle "symbolic power", by which cultural and social roles, and our very preferences and behaviors, are developed and maintained—without anyone's conscious intention, or even awareness. In it, the <em>experience</em> that our <em>socialized reality</em> is <em>the</em> objectively given reality (which Bourdieu called "doxa"), serves as an all-powerful instrument of <em>socialization</em>, giving the binding strength to the very 'glue' that holds us together in a certain order of things—or in <em>power structure</em>, as we called it.</p> |
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| − | <blockquote>The Enlightenment did not liberate us from power-related | + | <blockquote>The Enlightenment did not liberate us from power-related reality construction, as it is believed.</blockquote> |
| − | <blockquote> | + | <blockquote><em>Socialization</em> only changed hands—from the kings and the clergy, to the corporations and the media.</blockquote> |
| − | <p>Ironically, the traditional academic self- | + | <p>Ironically, the traditional and carefully cultivated academic self-identity—of an "objective" observer of reality—keeps the <em>academia</em>, and information and knowledge at large, on the 'back seat'; without impact.</p> |
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Revision as of 11:56, 20 August 2020
HOLOTOPIA
An Actionable Strategy
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