Socialized reality insight
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Five Insights: Socialized Reality
When we begin to use knowledge to show us what we don't see, so that we may see a theme or an issue as a whole, a vision of a world on the brink of change results; and of a whole new order of things, which is ready to emerge. We call the emerging order of things the holotopia. The five insights are selected as sufficient to see the holotopia.
The Socialized Reality insight, which is introduced here, is one of them.
Ideogram
This ideogram is only a placeholder. The real thing should be a house with failing foundation image – but we can talk about that...
Intuitive idea
The point here is to see the problems we have as cracks in a house with failing foundations. And that the rational next step is rebuilding, not fixing the cracks... The foundations are invisible. Including them is to culture as architecture is to house construction.
Insight
What we thought was the solid foundation for truth and meaning, turned out to be a myth.
Consequences
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Formulation
From the traditional culture we've adopted a myth incomparably more damaging and subversive than the myth of creation... We've thrown out the baby with the bathwater.
Story
Bourdieu in Algeria. He saw two processes.
The first was the "modernization" of Algeria. As the war ended, and independence resulted – a completely new set of dependencies emerged. The result was the same. But in a much more subtle way!
The second was the destruction of culture. The Kabyle people ...
Action
Dialog in front of the mirror
Design epistemology – information as systemic component
Information is not only, or even primarily, the facts about... The lion's share is implicit...
Keywords
Prototypes
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