the deeper i understand,
the less i understand.
the more deeply I understand – the higher the dimensionality of my model,
the fewer things I see clearly.
could it be any other way? why do i believe it won’t end in blindness?
Month: July 2023
65
reading the chapter on children in Khalil Gibran’s the Prophet, which beautifully says how we should provide for them and care for them but without shaping their ideas/souls after our own, the following occurred to me:
If unconscious ideology exists as described in entry 11, then we unwittingly deny our children the option to re-shape the world to fit the new perspectives that each new generation can bring.
To truly be free to change things so as to live the way they see fit, future generations must be able to freely conceive of how to live, how the world could be. And they cannot freely conceive if they are born into systems with implicit ideology. Which is indeed the case: one comes into the world embedded within systems that implicitly dictate ways of thinking for one to survive or thrive.
We must find some kind of escape from this bind – some way for our children to not be forced into the same ways of thinking as us.
To be clear about what the problem is here: I’m distinguishing between the individual and societal level and stating that Gibran’s vision cannot be fulfilled by an individual family, no matter how well-intentioned they are, as long as the children are thrown into systems that implicitly produce ideology – as is the norm.
64
Neologisms are a sign of weak philosophy.
True philosophy finds new ways of using existing words.
confronting the harder process of finding more meaningful ways of integrating existing words with eachother – of course aptly, so without loss or degradation of meaning…
to heal those rifts that our words cleaved long ago – instead of creating new words to layer on top of the lacerated body in an attempt to hold it
63
Democracy means that decisions are made publicly.
In a representative democracy that is truly democratic, we would know where decisions are made. We would see not merely the [procedural and policy] results of party/company-internal decisions – we would be able to see the decisions themselves.
Indeed those discussions and decisions would be the most interesting thing to watch. In contrast, [really existing ]parliamentary discussion and procedure is boring to watch – precisely because it isn’t the actual decision making process.
Whether such transparency is possible in a representative system is an open question. And so also: whether a representative system could even potentially be a democracy is an open question.
62
The main advantage in having an enemy: thereby, there is someone one doesn’t have to listen to[, which of course makes it easier to justify ones actions].
61
The main sign of the stagnation[ which is in turn a sign of failure] of science is the rise of pseudo-science.
And the success of pseudo-science is not from its own merit – in fact it is entirely independent of its own merit.
so: non-p and non-non-p
but those are two types of negation.
the one abstractly logical,
the other referring to the manifestation of the first negation(, the historical reaction to it),
and thus