Holotopia

Holotopia

Instead of pasting in what we have on Debategraph, we here provide a fresh rehash and summary; the two texts should be federated

As a vision, holotopia is more attractive than the utopias tend to be (their authors lacked the data to see what was really possible; or lived in a time when the resources we have today were not yet available). And it is fully realizable. As a project, Holotopia undertakes to facilitate the pursuit and the realization of that vision.

What makes holotopia possible is a paradox:

Comprehensive change can be easy – even when partial changes may seem impossible!

Holotopia’s vision is a comprehensive and harmonious change of our entire societal order of things – to a whole new order. The Renaissance (Enlightenment) is a historical precedent.

A single axiom

Holotopia follows from a single principle – that knowledge must be listened to and used.

Knowledge must be federated

Our project is motivated by the insight that – just as in Galilei's time – our evolution is stranded by an outdated approach to knowledge. And that – just as the case was then – a comprehensive change is ready to result as soon as we begin to put good knowledge to good use. What we call holoscope is the emerging approach to knowledge (which follows from the available </em>knowledge of knowledge</em>).

A single value

By federating knowledge, we arrive at a single value – wholeness.

Wholeness it as the quality that distinguishes a well-functioning mechanism and a healthy and thriving human being.

Five reversals

Holotopia

• Thoroughly changes the mood of our engagement with contemporary challenges – from denial or angst, to optimism and extreme opportunity
• Handles causes not only symptoms
• Focuses on comprehensive change (as the easy way) instead of problems
• Substitutes knowledge for socialization
• Turns complexity into extreme simplicity (but doesn't compromise veracity and meaning)

See also

• The five insights we've found sufficient to bring across the overarching insight that hologopia stands for – that a comprehensive change might be easy; and that an Enlightenment-like development is ready to take place.