The Renaissance liberated our ancestors from preoccupation with the afterlife, and empowered them to seek happiness here and now. The lifestyle changed, and the culture blossomed. What will the next "great cultural revival" be like?

We are now ready to show how the methodological ideas we've developed, and proposed, can help us answer the Peccei's call to action directly. To have a solid foundation for doing that, we briefly summarize those methodological ideas.

The core of our proposal is "to change the relationship we have with information", from by extending what we know as "science", or "institutionalized academic tradition" which we call academia, to include the work with information for general, everyday use. This means two things: the creation of such information and the creation and use of information about information, or methodology. Instead of relying (only) on direct sensory experience, and having our preferences and systems altered by spontaneous power-related 'magnet' of power structure—we interpose a those two things as new element between ourselves and our choice of the 'way'. What difference will this make?

Like the power structure, the convenience paradox is defined as a pattern. Which means as an idealized way of looking. Both have a certain explanatory power, as we shall see. It is important to emphasize that they are neither reified as things, nor considered as absolute—just as seeing a feather fall slower than a pebble will not constitute a disproof of Newton's physics.

Both patterns show how our 'drive' to wholeness can be diverted (by power interests, and by delusion of our senses).

When we look at the world through convenience, we shun knowledge and wisdom as irrelevant, because we already know what we want. The "pursuit of happiness" then becomes a practical matter—of acquiring it.

The key insight, which we are calling convenience paradox, is that convenience is a deceptive and paradoxical value.

That with striking consistency, the more convenient direction tends to lead to a less convenient condition.

When the convenience paradox is understood, we readily see that we in fact have no clue about the life's important question: What is really good for us?

What is really worth aiming for?

It is at that point that we begin to seek the information that illuminates basic questions.

To counter the power of power interests and the delusion of the senses in a true academic way, we took recourse to knowledge of knowledge—and showed how a method can be built based on the epistemological state of the art, which allows us to broaden the narrow frame, (1) by extending the methods and the language of science by devising such things as patterns; and (2) by exteding its information base of science to include all potentially relevant human experience.

Our point so far was that we already have the knowledge and the technology to take this sort of step. That indeed, both demand that we do that. We have shown how to build the 'lightbulb' from the foundation (basic principles) up.

Our next task is to show that when we do that, when we change the relationship we have with information and begin to truly use it—the 'course' will change automatically, and we'll experience a cultural change of a similar scale as what science enabled us to engender in understanding the nature and in technology.

We here illustrate this bold claim—which is of course the essential point of the holotopia vision—by a few examples.

Political hygiene

Why do we have such faith in our senses?

Our senses evolved to guide us to wholeness in nature; why trust that they can still serve that purpose in our completely altered civilized condition?

Wholeness is precarious: We may have everything else in abundance—and a single nutrient missing in your diet will make it all futile.

Is civilization taking us to wholeness?

We have no good reason to take that for granted.

Imagine an experiment, where a sufficiently large human population is divided into two groups. One group continues to live the civilized way, and the other in the way this population lived before it got civilized. What sort of differences would develop?

Such an experiment is of course practically impossible. But it did happen—not in a laboratory, but in real life. In early 20th century a number of world populations were just reached by civilization—which brought about the division we are talking about. Weston Price traveled around the globe visiting those populations, and recording the data. The results were published in a book titled "Nutrition and Physical Degeneration". Its message was that the change to civilized lifestyle was a step away from corporeal wholeness!

Price diagnosed that the people who lived in pre-civilized ways manifested higher degrees of wellbeing.

Kanyini

There is a popular myth, that the "human nature" is acquisitive and self-serving; and that therefore the societal order of things we are living in is the best and most natural one.

But what do we really know about this theme?

It may well be the case that the order of things we are living in is just the one that emerged through societal "survival of the fittest"; and that what we know as the "human nature" is just the way we've been socialized by it.

Imagine a culture, living on a faraway island in a completely natural way. What would that culture be like?

Imagine that this island was discovered and colonized. What would that meeting of cultures be like?

There is no need to imagine: This did indeed happen.

We tend to use the nature to satisfy our needs. The "civilized" people who colonized Australia extended this principle to Aboriginal women. As the number of children conceived in that way grew, they became a political issue: Being half-white, their souls too needed to be saved. By a political decision, the half-white children were then taken away from their families, to attend special boarding schools and receive the benefits of Western education.

Bob Randall was one of them, who lived to tell the story. One of the first things he observed was that the white people preached Christianity, his people practiced it!

Randall later returned to the area that used to be his home, but he never found his family. In reservations, his people were destitute. Inhaling gasoline (to once again experience that "high" that living in nature used to afford?) was so common, that Australia had to infuse gasoline with additives to prevent it.

Randall, most importantly, reported about the original Aboriginal culture. Melanie Hogan gave him a voice, by creating a documentary titled "Kanyini". Kanyini is "the principle of caring and responsibility that underpins the Aboriginal life".

Paticcasamuppada

We have now come to the interesting part. We gave it a name, "Happiness between One and Plus Infinity", and then another, "The Best Kept Secret of Human Culture"; and we made it a theme of one of our ten conversations. The point here is that human wholeness has no limits.

Unlike machines, we humans can always be more whole!