| Fall of Western Civilization Paradigm Shift towards Paradigm of Sense |
Tell 'the man on the street' that 'spirits' are unvisible flying animals that during life house in his/her brain, to give his/her soul.
Or that instead 'ratio' (also immaterial) gives you 'mind'.
He/she will react: "You must be joking".| That brings me to another point. Most resistance against replacing the western human-made onewayroad 'thought' (ratio) with the highway common sense (in social ethics) may be expected from subtop-politicians, subtop army-officers, subtop-managers and subtop-scientists. Because these people profit most from the present 'rational' way of life (paradigm). As subtop they nevertheless play top. As highpriests of 'rationality' they only receive ceremonial respect, but many of them have huge influence and earn gigantic wages. |
| Two cultures start 'getting the feeling' of each other AFTER mixing. Then starts the slow process of tuning languages and myths. To presume that a rational compromise, designed by politicians, army-officers, scientists and managers, is necessary to start mixing is acting fundamentalist (rational reasoning). UNconditional love and respect combined with patience should do the job. |
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It's like being fond of your pet, and noticing that it became one-way-minded and needs retraining. What makes it confusing is that those pets are your parents, teachers, police officers, army hero's, bosses and political symbols. Be sure that you might learn a lot from any kind of pets, and retraining is seldom within reach. 'Higher' education only trains skills, common sense is a perfect tool for social ethics. As shown by Buddhism. |
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Language Diversity shows that 'the sounds of reality' produced by ritual behavior in different cultures (accumulated local rituals) can vary essentially. (very similar but partly essentially different paradigms) The 'Enlightment 'idea understanding' ignorantly made the fascist FANTASY Nicomachean Ethics of the Macedonian Greek Aristotle into rigid incomplete Western picture of reality. Roman Catholicism suppressed a multitude of PICTURES of reality in favor of 1 dual IDEA about reality. Reality divided in 'un godlike' (body) and 'god-like' (spirit), executed before as 'Hellenism' by the young megalomaniac (out of control individualist) Alexander the Cursed. Inherited by the Romans
. Language is bodily emotion presented in sound That language is a 'mind'-thing is an illusion (body mind split) ( like religiously reciting the 'rational words': rational bibles [our lawbooks] say that amateur violence must be called 'terrorism' [even when defense against genocide], and must be answered by 'rational humans with rational force), but puzzling to grasp the sense rituals of FELLOW beings in other 'puzzles of reality' ('plants' that make sense by using senses iso 'words'). In the Western World Scientia =ENGINEERED a dual reality of immaterial 'words' and material things, with 'humans blessed with words' (the 'spiritual'/emotionless subclass 'Superior') and cursed physical/emotional 'human animals' in The Axis of Evil. Western Science presumes: WE the 'supernatural thinkers' ('spirituality'='GOOD') taming the and bodily struggling 'evil' pagans ('emotion' ='EVIL'). The western religion science (formalizing 'The Word of God') makes physical reality into a 'metaphysical' model with human 'a priori', and certifies this frustrating arrogance with the quality' stamps: 'TRUE Science' or THE Truth. 'Mind-strangled' emotionless Western 'creators' fight in their 'minds' ('rational' dimensions) wars on terrorism of good against evil (executed by 'good' zombies). . Return of Common Sense Training in common sense molded my survival instinct as developing male animal of Western World type idea-ape into the intuition that to be seen as 'good' in the idea-world 'rationality' of 'good' and 'evil' asked for SIMULATING to prefer 'ideas' above intuition and bonding with a fe-male who fitted the 'rational' 'IDEAS' pretty and sexy. Fe-males worshipping 'rationality' buy the IDEA conditions 'being pretty' and also 'being sexy', but in the Western World 999.999 out of a million male hu-men ('worker-bees') also is treated as buyable 'workforce' (zombies) by the dominant (filthy rich) superhu-men (multi-billionaires). I DECIDED to wear 'Virtual Truth Spectacles', but I noticed murderous 'spiritual' hu-man sects drugged by 'superhu-men' (hu-men specialized in 'egoism', owning basic industry and idea-industry=media) and suffering common sense people. In 6 years on secondary school my (nice) teachers transformed me with idea-training ('education' in rationality) from quite clever happy common sense boy into not really feeling accepted trembling idea-junk. On technological university I was amazed about 'trainees for highpriests of rational ideas' believing in IDEAS like 'linear time' and 'time travel'. My feeling: "Have these future 'managers' started thinking totally circular ('time' is an Enlightenment IDEA), or do I fail the qualities to become 'highpriest of rationality'?" Although smart and 'handsome' that made my feelings and associated BEHAVIOR depressed, my sky turned gray. After years in the temple 'university' I more and more saw collegues as friendly highpriests of 'rationality', living together with a special 'slave and calling this 'marriage'. This seemed to fit the ethics 'rationality' of their own 'rational' dimension (The Western Paradigm), but not with common sense reality worldwide. Talking about it with my collegues was out of reach (Thomas Kuhn called this 'incommensurability'), because rational 'understanding' collided basically with my common sense intuition. I never left the basics of common-sense/reality (respect, open mind, critical attitude), although 'rational ideas' made me a trembling wreck. Totally out of trained intuition I rejected treating 'ideas 'as reality, and was ready to fight this till the end. 'Top-managers' using 'rational' views HATED my clinical common sense, feeling totally exposed. Sensing that for me their rituals around 'rational' 'IDEAS' didn't show much sensible BEHAVIOR'. I grasp now that ancient 'pharisees' got in murderous frenzy when some young son of a carpenter was seeing through their ritual behavior. The extreme handicap of that 'see-er' was that 'power' was in the hands of a 'Roman Governor' and highpriests called 'Pharisees'. Not at all 'religious'. Like in the 21st century 'power' is in the hands of The Owners of The Western Media with 'Professors' as their very dominant religious wizards (commanding huge sects of 'Scientists'=Priests of Ideas). This time not surprised I sense despair in the virtual subworld 'stock exchange'. Either rich or poor, laugh about it. Back to evolutionary intuition/common sense. . TRUE-FALSE split of the Unity of Reality
TRUE-FALSE RIGHT-WRONG, GOOD-EVIL,.. is a split of reality in fantasy (anima, breath, aether, spirit, mind, god, ...) and in sensible space. In the undividable and limitless reality (The All, The One, Space, ..) 'things' are 'real' (sensible) or hallucination. 'Rational' languages (character based) only point at 1 dimension of total reality (the 'rational' dimension with One Dimensional Man). and give easily to deny propositions (EVERY proposition can be denied: Wittgenstein in Tractatus). TRUE-FALSE even in a language-world is always discussable. But every interpretion might result in fanatic TRUE-fundamentalists (formal scientists) . Windows on Reality ![]() The 21st Century Paradigm states: The combination language/'common sense' is Window on Reality. Language is personal AND cultural. Language/'common sense' includes the ethics (BEHAVIOR) of a culture. That's why fighting with words doesn't work, and total freedom of speech is ridiculous. The cultural common sense view of people IS COMMUNICATED BY their sense language. Trying to make members of other cultures use your private cultural view is pitiful arrogance. It is almost impossible for established Western science to handle such thinking in another paradigm. That's quite obvious in it's most dominant shape in the 'conservative' part of the US. It even raises a TREMENDOUS lot of irritation, and undercooled reactions like: Nice articles, but this is not what I would call critical thinking Signed Professor of Critical Sociology B.Sc. Econ., LLB, LLM , Msc. Econ. Sir Archibald XXX. Because formal western science since the critical theory thinking of Herbert Marcuse doesn't have tools available anymore to grasp such non rational thinking. Not taking only rational experiences in mainly 2 senses and do some absolute abstract hocus pocus. But using all available senses empirically and upgrade experience by relative abstract modelling in technology. . Birthplace of Common Sense Nevertheless, obviously I'm well understood in Asia, because The Philippines, Malaysia, China, Hongkong, Singapore, Thailand, India and Pakistan deliver relatively most visitors to my websites (considering population number, pc penetration, and Internet use in English language). Close to fifty percent (!) of ALL internet connections worldwide is found in the US. Nevertheless on for instance my website about democracy on many days not even notice 1 visitor from this dominant empire. A blind spot?, I noticed that American ideas about 'civilized' culture tend to be quite selfcentered (and, no offense, inherently awfully arrogant). 'Civilized' is seen here in Roman Christian way as DESIGNED (created) by the immaterial Superbeing 'God' (who conveniently needs no proof). I'm flabbergasted that being a former backsack-traveller gave me a more open window on Buddhist and Muslim reality than US foreign ministers with a billions-budget. Not really a surprise with US presidents of level Ronald Reagan, advised by people like four-star army generals who retired as vice president of some multinational (purely PR-functions, but very lucrative for both sides). Reagan funded Saddam Hussein to fight Iran, and pumped MANY millions in Al Qaeda to fight Russia. Ancient Zoroastrian Persia triggered modern society outside the Western World and South America. Through The Silk Route Zoroastrianism entered Eastern China as 'the early Church'. This early church mixed with Boddidharma's teachings became Ch'an Buddhism. Many ages later followers of the Western World view 'catholicism' practically annihilated SouthAmerican Inca culture. Ages later followers of the Western World view 'protestantism' (as The Chosen People) practically annihilated the NorthAmerican Red Indian cultures (industrial genocide). Ages later followers of the Western World view 'protestantism' (as British Empire) practically annihilated the Pacific Polynesian culture (religious stranglation). Again some ages later followers of the Western World view 'communism' nearly destroyed Chan Buddhism. In the 20th century followers of the Western World view 'capitalism' start destroying Muslim culture.
On china.org linguistic anthropology is described as: 3 adjacent branches of anthropology that are concerned primarily with unwritten languages (both prehistoric and modern), with variation within languages, and with the social uses of language; (1) descriptive linguistics, the systematic study of the way language is constructed and used; (2) historical linguistics, the study of the origin of language in general and of the evolution of the languages people speak today; (3) sociolinguistics, the study of the relationship between language and social relations Creativity A Discovery channel program about Satin Bowerbirds made me realize that I acted mainly like these creative birds. They don't stand out as bird by beautiful feathers or voice, but build attractive complex love temples. I'm not a hero of formal science, and almost compulsory mould my irritating ideas into nevertheless addictive articles.
Both these birds and I (like any 'good' artist) judge their products purely on effect. Just practicing, and forgetting about missed 'shots' .Attracting partners for mating is hitting the right spot. Luring buddhists, muslims and christians to your websites, is making them curious. 5 years I struggled to attract Chinese scientists, now on my culture website on some days they make 60% of the visitors. In a world with near 95% of English internet traffic in major western countries, that is an effort that takes trust, 'blind' patience, utter perseverance and considerable Internet skills (i.e. wisdom). But Internet and the English language also for the very first time provide means to reach from your own house far away corners in the world. And in that way of working with associative thoughts and pictures, articles are made that catch attention in many cultures, only by using intuition and trial and error. Attention of thinkers in very different cultures (paradigms), by not using the rational approach of trying to create 'understanding' but by triggering curiosity. Thus, where possible, using pictures instead of words. Interpretion of words and sentences is relative to the local culture, as Ludwig Wittgenstein convincingly demonstrated in Philosophical Investigations. The best technicians practise a lot, and realize effective products. Without practicing you'll never learn rollerskating.
. Angry I exchanged my 'rational life' as a mathematical engineer doing projects all over the world, for virtual travelling and critical thinking. I studied formal philosophy through the Internet, as well as HTML (the most used programming language on the digital highway). The advantage was that I could do it My Way, without being stuffed with prejudices. Internet is an easy to reach Heaven of Education. Thinking with mainly use of rational logic didn't satisfy me somehow, and like a 45 years old freshborn Internet-baby I started looking for creative intelligence in subjects like Enlightenment, Kant, Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, Popper and Kuhn, Marcuse, absolutism and relativism, buddhism. I regained my intuition and my brain started in a structured way at random associating of knowledge about reality at. Linking knowledge like a Tornado Thinker at increasing computer speed, thinking and acting almost instantaneously. The Human Brain, improved through many billions of years, is an even much more magnificent piece of machinery than a "Ferrari". Comparing rain showers with ocean filling rivers resembles comparing computers with human brains.
Born in 1953 I grew up with names like Sartre, Einstein, Popper, Marcuse etc. Because I finished AND a study for mathematical engineer AND an education for social worker, I was well equipped to notice that formal Western Science engineered a VERY ONE SIDED and EXTREMELY SIMPLIFIED view on the world. What you see of human behavior in the media is no more than a drop in an ocean. People show amazingly creativity in making fun in totally unexpected ways. Politicians and managers in the meantime in their tiny part of the world became extremely skilled in 'formal lying' or rationality, and engineered an almost world wide paradigm in the process of defending their own dream. And still thought to be tolerant. It must have been a hell living outside the Western World, unimaginably frustrating. Because all dreams outside that of a tiny western top group were considered as being nightmares. This group perfected arrogance to an art and owns practically all media.
. Nietzsche and Wittgenstein
. Motivation
My early adult life was essentially influenced by 2 happenings. On secondary school I was confronted cruelly with the reality
that my best girl friend was considered unpretty. But she was agile and the best female student of the school.
On university one of my best girlfriends, was refused her diplome as fysiotherapeut being unstereotype and being considered too critical. She was
very good and strongly motivated. It seemed to me that machines with stereotype boobs or dicks would without difficulty pass exams, but humans being creatively challenging the rigid rules were into trouble. I had already noticed
that being creative on university was a severe handicap.As a result of those experiences I got convinced that rationality was a 'rotten system'. That awareness was strengthened by my aquaintance with mathematical analysis. I admired the cleverness of this way of thinking, but noticed serious flaws. I felt much more attracted by discrete mathematics and statistics. But the whole university was soaked with rationality. From then on I only liked beautiful women, because that was common practice. In fact I noticed no difference in many other women with less generally accepted 'beauty'. The only things that triggered me were an attractive laugh, and a good mood. I became like a 'ticking time bomb' gathering evidence that mathematical analysis and rationalism 'stinks'. Total lack of respect in a constant atmosphere of competition made me suffer severily from a social phobia (nevertheless seeing a lot of the world). I was not the only suffering one, an estimation is that 20% of people in the rational Western World have psychic illnesses. Trying to stay 'invisible' I learned to say things in 'shorthand' and to observe very well. Properties that now have become very valuable. After my brainstroke I found out to be in a better situation to fight back in my much more respectful home culture. When spending a lot of time on Internet I noticed that for every task I could make a choice. Either buying expensive computer software, or downloading at least as good programs from freeware sites. In fact this way making websites that can compete with the best in the world and didn't cost one dollar. Only time and sweat. So I perceived a formal world of rational people who want to make money, and a underground world of common sense people who like making fine programs, and sharing them. I understand both sides, but think a world based on 'freeware philosophy' is much more fun. As a teenager I saw a few times Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia on television. His words impressed by showing a deep common sense. A wise and humble man. To me at that time (and still) he was the only emperor that deserved this title. . Critical Thinking First please forget about a common 'blind spot'. Critical Thinking is not similar to 'rational thinking'. That is a myth that since Enlightenment and later the 18th century philosopher Immanuel Kant spread over the whole world. Rational Thinking is an abstract logic, it might help to strengthen intuition, but it is also able like in capitalism to prove that 1 + 1 = Me. Getting rid of that mistake takes a paradigm shift and instead of the well known Maintenance Shifts an essential one, a Reality Redesign. A Reality Redesign as abrupt 'direction change' in BEHAVIOR is built around new cultural values, in this case replacing the abstract absolute notions 'power' and 'money' with the common sense relative notion 'respect'. Such a new basic cultural value means substituting law books around ethics like Bible and Koran, with a relative ethics like the Noble Truths in Buddhism. Quote 20th century philosopher Thomas Kuhn in The Structure of Scientific Revolutions: [Individuals inventing a new paradigm are] almost always...either very young or very new to the field whose paradigm they change....These are the men who, being little committed by prior practice to the traditional rules of normal science, are particularly likely to see that those rules no longer define a playable game and to conceive another set that can replace them. In fact Thomas Kuhn made the maintenance type of paradigm part of 'normal history'. The religion 'Science' could adapt to them, and its 'monks' remain 'scientists'. After Kuhn now Ethical Law Shifts are revolutions. The first Ethical Law Shift ends 'science'. When accepted Ethical Law Shifts also become part of 'normal history' Well I'm new to 'the game', but also as former top engineer have very much involved in it. What Kuhn forgot to mention: Nietzsche, Wittgenstein and Kuhn first all three were emerged in the paradigm that they attacked. Nietzsche and Wittgenstein jumped from rational thought to common sense. Kuhn didn't jump. Although born protestant I was never attracted to the thinking of Kant. Abstract thinking to me only seemed an EXTREMELY POWERFUL infantile extension of common sense. Common Sense for say 95% is based on sense experiences, and has a million times better chance of developing an extension that proves useful in earth cultures. Critical Thinking has two major variants: (1) puzzling within some abstract logic; (2) valuing outside abstract logics ideas using the mother of earth logics (empirical common sense). That doesn't mean that highly abstract ideas cannot 'hit the jackpot', but that the chance of this happening is PRACTICALLY ZERO. The rationalism of Descartes was like winning a billion in the lottery, and at the same time socially VERY DANGEROUS. . Spoken Language English versus Chinese No mistake: I only studied several intro's in Chinese Language for 1 day!! Nevertheless that gave me a rockhard intuition. The 2 dominant streams in verbal language on earth became: character based languages and word based languages. All main western languages are character based. All main Asian languages are word based (stable rooting in common sense).
The HUGE advantage of character based languages: flexibility through being logical.The HUGE advantage of word based languages: rooting in common sense by having stable word bases. Said another way: The HUGE setback of character based: easy accepting of new words leads to virtual worlds (daydreaming). The HUGE setback of word based: very difficult to learn for outsiders, 'slow' in adapting to change 2 examples: (1) the word 'president' in English language is interpreted in many ways . In chinese a president of a country is portrayed in two words: zong and tong. Forget about 'radicals', 'zong' has at least 25 meanings dependent of pronunciation; 'tong' idem, The combination 'zong tong' has hundreds of meanings. 'Zong' = collect, overall, alltogether; 'Tong' = government, command, control, unite. A 'zong tong' is someone in command, who unites all of the people. I wouldn't use the description 'zong tong' for western presidents, and certainly not for the present US president. (2) 'Sense' in Chinese langage is in English language translated with the abstract notion 'reason', while in Chinese this word points at common sense emotion/intuition. That's easy to see because the related chinese word for 'nonsense' is translated with 'shit' (meaning that your intuition can't make sense of it). Verbal language for say 90% emits emotion (like: relax; you're OK; I like you; ...). That's why through 'the sound' you often sense the main message of something spoken in foreign language. Further when it comes to the 10% 'word-message' the examples show that: 1) Tha basic set of Chinese characters gives a perfect insight in worlds of Chinese common sense. 2) The flexibility of using English (making words), and the simple learning process make it a fine verbal world language. 3) English language way too easy applies words (old and new) in unfamiliar settings, without them being settled in unprejudiced common sense. English dictionaries should be cleaned for word inflation (thousands of words like Unidentified Flying Objects with 'floating meanings'). . Fighting Paradigms
As I already noticed and was predicted by Thomas Kuhn, my thoughts meet silent but HEAVY resistance.
In worlds of social science, 'management' etcetera. There dominant 'cheerleaders' became used to compromising and to suppressing major change.
The opinions of common people they manipulated through 'the media'. In Technology 'science' mainly perfects existing methods, using 'calculus'. Reality Redesigns especially are shocking for 'formal science', because here the scientific belief in 'Natural Laws' (a priori) became fundamentally religious.
No mistake such behavior is a matter of difference in the western christian logic rationality and the overall logic common sense. The anger is inherent, and also the powerthinking. Only to enter the next paradigm the split between mind and body must be repaired. Rationality should return to technology, it's a dangerous tool in ethics The total paradigm shift initiated by Jesus was smothered the brilliant tric of turning the Roman Empire in a Roman Catholic Empire. Greece produced fine social thinkers, but Rome mainly engineers. That resulted in many ages of confusion, and increasing powerthinking. If this paradigm shift is smothered again then a WWIII could result in billions of casualties.
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