I deeply appreciate your ability to summarize the issues that face us so clearly without being pat or reductive. In each of these premises, there is still lots of room to move (though #10 makes my stomach knot up). It's the kind of thing, I could share with my Dad and say, THIS is what I mean when I talk about THAT...
Also, Tyson Yunkaporta's new book Right Story, Wrong Story has a section about how his people make collective decisions that could have parallels to where you are trying to go in the anti-debate.
Yes, Jack Barron, I endorse your comment, especially with regard to Right Story, Wrong Story by Tyson Yunkaporta. I urge the people who are taking forward the work on the antidebate to consider how they might weave Yunkaporta's work in with theirs.
Speaking of Moses, the power of unexamined myths, the dreadful situation in Palestine and the Metacrisis altogether please check out this essay which begins with a reference to Moses.
Divine Land Grants by Paul Gilk featured on the Counterpunch website.
Some feel you are summarizing but please summarize more - as in less is more! The 10 Commandments are hard to memorize, never mind your long winded academic speak which hurts to read to be honest. I know you are trying to convey some good ideas on how to create a new dialogue grounded in civility, but keep in mind that the New Testament which a billion humans follow - is around 60 pages-30 if you just focus on what Jesus said, and the Tao is around 70 pages. Even secular priest Marx understood (or maybe it was Engels) putting things in laymen terms with the Communist Manifesto at less than a hundred pages shows you really care about trying to change things by making ideas easily understood by the masses you say you want to help. Einstein said (paraphrasing) if you could not make a child understand your basic concept - chances are it sucks. Please Keep it simple so all humans can comprehend your heart felt progressive ideas and evolve their consciousness levels or else it is just elitist ivy league claptrap/mental masturbation. No one reads PhD thesis books except other PhDs (because they have to!)- Just saying.
#9. "What we need is not 'action' but the power to create context?" The context of our 'profound' confusion, our epistemic delusion, about the nature of reality and the nature of language, in the context of 'how' familiarity breeds contempt? So familiar with the linguistic conventions of English speaking peoples, that the Meme-Word Sunday stands in contempt of the Earth-Turning Reality of Time for all forms of Life on this Planet.
Recognizing our overfamiliarity with the thought, spoken, and written forms of the communication medium of language, and how this creates our communication-biased consciousness? Which requires the internal action of personally adaptive realizations that recognize and self-correct the manifest problems of Our Brains, Our Delusions and the Unmaking of the World. With our reality-labelling Words.
In this 'context' it is noticeable 'how' people are comfortable with thinking, saying, and writing the words, The Matter with Things, yet fail to think about, talk about, or write about, their own brains, their own delusions, and their own unmaking of the world. And is this because of the way human behaviors are non-consciously orchestrated, and the undeniable truth that we CANNOT know our reality and we are profoundly deluded in imagining, that we do?
Meaning, it is a physical impossibility to be consciously aware of all the 'unseen' biological processes involved in the reality of being human, and any attempt to believe otherwise is a manifest form of psychological self-deception. A self-deception that stands in denial of our biological nature and the electro-chemical substance of our thoughts. A manifest self-deception seen quite clearly in the still popular image of cognition, as a brain constructed with mechanical cogs.
So, in the context of the reality-labelling word 'hyper-agency,' thought of, spoken of, and written of, 'as-if' this word-meme is the reality of the experience it can only symbolize? Within the context of the thought-ideas, sounds and symbols, reality of what language actually is? Would the 'interiority' of a combined thought-sense and felt-sense adaptive-realization, about your 'overfamiliar' epistemic-delusion, be an experience of hyper-agency?
Would you realize, through a whole-of-life contemplation on 'how' you learned the reality-labelling word-memes of your vernacular vocabulary, the existential 'how' and the 'why' people don't have ideas. ideas have people? Like the way the 'idea' anti-debate can be seen to be acted-out in the video, by well-dressed people in a comfortable environment, instinctively avoiding the root cause of the metacrisis, or polycrisis, which ever reality-labelling-word tickles your imaginative fancy?
Realizing the root cause of our global crisis is a problem involving the perennial nature of The Man-Child & His Material-Girl? You know what I mean girls, asked to choose between the presence of large diamond rings on your fingers, and Him? Is this a no-brainer, question-bomb?
Would a personally adaptive realization about our material needs of survival & our epistemic-delusions, be a planetary-scale praxis that is both profoundly collective and deeply personal?
While in the context of Our Brains, Our Delusions and the Unmaking of the World, within the context of 'why' the Ascension Philosopher said "they seeing, see not, they hearing, hear not!"
Could we all share a #9 day-dream in the context of how all human babies babble, regardless of place or race, before being 'induced' into the Rank & Status Ponzi Scheme, labelled systems-souls-society?
"So long ago
Was it in a dream?
Was it just a dream?
I know, yes I know
It seemed so very real
Seemed so real to me
Took a walk down the street
Through the heat whispered trees
I thought I could hear
Hear
Hear
Hear" - John Lennon, #9 Dream.
Would Moses Approve?
BTW in the Aramaic language version of the Bible, the words 'Manna from Heaven' are interpreted as meaning, "What is It?" Something to do with 'how' we attend to the world, perhaps?
I deeply appreciate your ability to summarize the issues that face us so clearly without being pat or reductive. In each of these premises, there is still lots of room to move (though #10 makes my stomach knot up). It's the kind of thing, I could share with my Dad and say, THIS is what I mean when I talk about THAT...
Also, Tyson Yunkaporta's new book Right Story, Wrong Story has a section about how his people make collective decisions that could have parallels to where you are trying to go in the anti-debate.
Yes, Jack Barron, I endorse your comment, especially with regard to Right Story, Wrong Story by Tyson Yunkaporta. I urge the people who are taking forward the work on the antidebate to consider how they might weave Yunkaporta's work in with theirs.
Speaking of Moses, the power of unexamined myths, the dreadful situation in Palestine and the Metacrisis altogether please check out this essay which begins with a reference to Moses.
Divine Land Grants by Paul Gilk featured on the Counterpunch website.
Some feel you are summarizing but please summarize more - as in less is more! The 10 Commandments are hard to memorize, never mind your long winded academic speak which hurts to read to be honest. I know you are trying to convey some good ideas on how to create a new dialogue grounded in civility, but keep in mind that the New Testament which a billion humans follow - is around 60 pages-30 if you just focus on what Jesus said, and the Tao is around 70 pages. Even secular priest Marx understood (or maybe it was Engels) putting things in laymen terms with the Communist Manifesto at less than a hundred pages shows you really care about trying to change things by making ideas easily understood by the masses you say you want to help. Einstein said (paraphrasing) if you could not make a child understand your basic concept - chances are it sucks. Please Keep it simple so all humans can comprehend your heart felt progressive ideas and evolve their consciousness levels or else it is just elitist ivy league claptrap/mental masturbation. No one reads PhD thesis books except other PhDs (because they have to!)- Just saying.
#9. "What we need is not 'action' but the power to create context?" The context of our 'profound' confusion, our epistemic delusion, about the nature of reality and the nature of language, in the context of 'how' familiarity breeds contempt? So familiar with the linguistic conventions of English speaking peoples, that the Meme-Word Sunday stands in contempt of the Earth-Turning Reality of Time for all forms of Life on this Planet.
Recognizing our overfamiliarity with the thought, spoken, and written forms of the communication medium of language, and how this creates our communication-biased consciousness? Which requires the internal action of personally adaptive realizations that recognize and self-correct the manifest problems of Our Brains, Our Delusions and the Unmaking of the World. With our reality-labelling Words.
In this 'context' it is noticeable 'how' people are comfortable with thinking, saying, and writing the words, The Matter with Things, yet fail to think about, talk about, or write about, their own brains, their own delusions, and their own unmaking of the world. And is this because of the way human behaviors are non-consciously orchestrated, and the undeniable truth that we CANNOT know our reality and we are profoundly deluded in imagining, that we do?
Meaning, it is a physical impossibility to be consciously aware of all the 'unseen' biological processes involved in the reality of being human, and any attempt to believe otherwise is a manifest form of psychological self-deception. A self-deception that stands in denial of our biological nature and the electro-chemical substance of our thoughts. A manifest self-deception seen quite clearly in the still popular image of cognition, as a brain constructed with mechanical cogs.
So, in the context of the reality-labelling word 'hyper-agency,' thought of, spoken of, and written of, 'as-if' this word-meme is the reality of the experience it can only symbolize? Within the context of the thought-ideas, sounds and symbols, reality of what language actually is? Would the 'interiority' of a combined thought-sense and felt-sense adaptive-realization, about your 'overfamiliar' epistemic-delusion, be an experience of hyper-agency?
Would you realize, through a whole-of-life contemplation on 'how' you learned the reality-labelling word-memes of your vernacular vocabulary, the existential 'how' and the 'why' people don't have ideas. ideas have people? Like the way the 'idea' anti-debate can be seen to be acted-out in the video, by well-dressed people in a comfortable environment, instinctively avoiding the root cause of the metacrisis, or polycrisis, which ever reality-labelling-word tickles your imaginative fancy?
Realizing the root cause of our global crisis is a problem involving the perennial nature of The Man-Child & His Material-Girl? You know what I mean girls, asked to choose between the presence of large diamond rings on your fingers, and Him? Is this a no-brainer, question-bomb?
Would a personally adaptive realization about our material needs of survival & our epistemic-delusions, be a planetary-scale praxis that is both profoundly collective and deeply personal?
While in the context of Our Brains, Our Delusions and the Unmaking of the World, within the context of 'why' the Ascension Philosopher said "they seeing, see not, they hearing, hear not!"
Could we all share a #9 day-dream in the context of how all human babies babble, regardless of place or race, before being 'induced' into the Rank & Status Ponzi Scheme, labelled systems-souls-society?
"So long ago
Was it in a dream?
Was it just a dream?
I know, yes I know
It seemed so very real
Seemed so real to me
Took a walk down the street
Through the heat whispered trees
I thought I could hear
Hear
Hear
Hear" - John Lennon, #9 Dream.
Would Moses Approve?
BTW in the Aramaic language version of the Bible, the words 'Manna from Heaven' are interpreted as meaning, "What is It?" Something to do with 'how' we attend to the world, perhaps?