Holotopia: Socialized reality

H O L O T O P I A: F I V E I N S I G H T S

Let us federate our culture's foundations

Naturally, Werner Kollath, Erich Jantsch, Douglas Engelbart—and also Werner Heisenberg and so many other 20th century's visionary 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 kinds of knowledge will be researched on and taught at universities, and given citizenship rights in our society. 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?

Nobody knows!

The foundations on which truth and meaning are created in our society, and which determine our cultural praxis, are composed of vague notions (such as that science provides an "objectively true picture of reality") and historical prejudices, which have been recorded and interpreted by different people a posteriori, in a variety of different ways.

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, out of which our culture's foundations have evolved.

But they too remained ignored!

We use the holoscope, and the light of information, to illuminate the foundations on which the relationship we have with information is based, and on which our cultural reproduction has been developed.

We show that when federated, the 20th century insights constitute a foundation for a completely new culture.

Just as the case was in Galilei's time.