Holotopia

Keywords: holotopia

This article is about holotopia as keyword. For the corresponding prototype, see Holotopia prototype.

Instead of a definition

The point here is that holoscope naturally leads to holotopia. When we use knowledge to illuminate what has remained hidden and see things as wholes – then a whole new order of things is seen, and we become empowered to create it.

We called this new order of things holotopia, to point to both the similarities and the differences it has compared to the more common utopias. The holotopia is more desirable, and at the same time fully realizable. It is realizable because we already own all the knowledge we need to secure its fulfillment. Indeed, holotopia results most naturally, as soon as we embrace wholeness (making things whole) as our core value, and as rational goal.

As an insight or a vision, the holotopia changes the tone of our engagement with our contemporary realities, and with our future. Although many of us may not live to experience the new order that will result – it is now, before its fulfillment, that the creative opportunities abound!

Holotopia also changes the way we go about handling the contemporary issues, those large ones but also those smaller and even personal ones: Instead of fixing, we focus on rebuilding. Instead of struggling with "problems" within the existing order of things – we focus on changing that order of things.

Understanding holotopia

The insight we call the holotopia is made concrete and palpable in terms of five insights, about five large and centrally important themes of interest. Each of them is alone is sufficient to see the need and the possibility of a profound, Renaissance-like change. Even more interesting, however, are their relationships. Together, the five insights make transparent the paradoxical insight that the holotopia stands for:

Comprehensive change can be easy – even when smaller and obviously necessary changes may be impossible.