Holotopia: Socialized reality

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Socialized reality

Let us federate our culture's foundations

Werner Kollath, Erich Jantsch, Douglas Engelbart, Werner Heisenberg and other 20th century's thinkers who saw elements of an emerging paradigm made their appeals to academia. With astonishing consistency, they were ignored.

It is the academia's privileged social role to decide what ideas will be explored taught at universities, and given citizenship rights. The standards for right knowledge, which the academia upholds in our society, decide what education, public informing, and general information consumption will be like.

What are those standards? What are they based on?

The foundations on which truth and meaning are created in our society, and which determine our cultural praxis, tend to be composed of vague notions such as that science provides an "objectively true picture of reality".

During the 20th century a wealth of insights have been reached in the sciences, humanities and philosophy, which challenged or disproved the age-old beliefs based on which our culture's foundations have evolved.

But they too have been ignored!

To understand our main point, now—we are not proposing new foundations; we ae initiating a process by which the creation of foundations will be made the prerogative of the people

We are initiating something akin to trial by jury—in a domain that decides all power relations in our society. A process by which the foundations will be continuously improved. Think of it as the reversal of the trials of Galilei and Socrates. This central issue is no longer decided "behind the closed door"; it is made a subject of a public process, akin to the traditional "trial by jury".

Stories

"Reality" is a myth

From the traditional culture, we've inherited a myth incomparably more subversive than the myth of creation. This myth serves as the foundation stone on which the edifice of our culture is being erected.

See our story argument here.

Why base our pursuit of knowledge—an all-important human activity—on a criterion that cannot be verified; and which itself tends to be a product of illusion?