While I think a "back to basics" approach has great merit, and I myself am working towards that for my own life (if perhaps a little less extreme than you suggest), I don't think we need to throw the baby out with the bathwater. We don't need to throw out all knowledge. I think we just need to recognize the fuckery injected into our "truths." We've been placed in carefully crafted boxes. All the different boxes, that act in opposition, get their beliefs from the same source. We need to see that.
Our problems are not what we've learned, but what's been left out of that learning. We all exist in a bunch of different carefully crafted boxes of beliefs. Each of those boxes receives it's own specialized training that leads to our insistence that "we know the truth," even though all of those boxes of truth differ substantially.
Currently in our society the Science Box holds dominance. We need to see the flaws in that approach. We need to understand who created that box, and the fuckery they put in it to mislead. Like all other boxes, there are useful tools in the Science Box. We need to understand the difference between "useful tools" and "truth." In addition, all the boxes need to appreciate the useful tools in the other boxes. I think there needs to be a paradigm shift in our approach to knowledge and discerning truth. I do not think we need to reject the fruits of our labors entirely.
Most importantly I think, there needs to be an appreciation for the Ultimate Authority of the Individual, and what their Jurisdiction is. That understanding is something we have completely lost in our learning. While it persists intuitively. Our training subverts that intuition. That is I think the greatest fuckery. It is this lack of appreciation of our own Sovereignty over our own Domain, and what that Domain is, that prevents us from appreciating and respecting both ourselves and others. We are trained constantly to think of "the collective" over the individual. This training is what holds us in slavery, even more than the economic fuckery. Once we see that fuckery, I think everything else will take care of itself. No Luddite World required.
While I think a "back to basics" approach has great merit, and I myself am working towards that for my own life (if perhaps a little less extreme than you suggest), I don't think we need to throw the baby out with the bathwater. We don't need to throw out all knowledge. I think we just need to recognize the fuckery injected into our "truths." We've been placed in carefully crafted boxes. All the different boxes, that act in opposition, get their beliefs from the same source. We need to see that.
Our problems are not what we've learned, but what's been left out of that learning. We all exist in a bunch of different carefully crafted boxes of beliefs. Each of those boxes receives it's own specialized training that leads to our insistence that "we know the truth," even though all of those boxes of truth differ substantially.
Currently in our society the Science Box holds dominance. We need to see the flaws in that approach. We need to understand who created that box, and the fuckery they put in it to mislead. Like all other boxes, there are useful tools in the Science Box. We need to understand the difference between "useful tools" and "truth." In addition, all the boxes need to appreciate the useful tools in the other boxes. I think there needs to be a paradigm shift in our approach to knowledge and discerning truth. I do not think we need to reject the fruits of our labors entirely.
Most importantly I think, there needs to be an appreciation for the Ultimate Authority of the Individual, and what their Jurisdiction is. That understanding is something we have completely lost in our learning. While it persists intuitively. Our training subverts that intuition. That is I think the greatest fuckery. It is this lack of appreciation of our own Sovereignty over our own Domain, and what that Domain is, that prevents us from appreciating and respecting both ourselves and others. We are trained constantly to think of "the collective" over the individual. This is training is what holds us in slavery, even more than the economic fuckery. Once we see that fuckery, I think everything else will take care of itself. No Luddite World required.
While I think a "back to basics" approach has great merit, and I myself am working towards that for my own life (if perhaps a little less extreme than you suggest), I don't think we need to throw the baby out with the bathwater. We don't need to throw out all knowledge. I think we just need to recognize the fuckery injected into our "truths." We've been placed in carefully crafted boxes. All the different boxes, that act in opposition, get their beliefs from the same source. We need to see that.
Our problems are not what we've learned, but what's been left out of that learning. We all exist in a bunch of different carefully crafted boxes of beliefs. Each of those boxes receives it's own specialized training that leads to our insistence that "we know the truth," even though all of those boxes of truth differ substantially. Currently in our society the Science Box holds dominance. We need to see the flaws in that approach. We need to understand who created that box, and the fuckery they put in it to mislead. Like all other boxes, there are useful tools in the Science Box. We need to understand the difference between "useful tools" and "truth." In addition, all the boxes need to appreciate the useful tools in the other boxes. I think there needs to be a paradigm shift in our approach to knowledge and discerning truth. I do not think we need to reject the fruits of our labors entirely.
Most importantly I think, there needs to be an appreciation for the Ultimate Authority of the Individual, and what their Jurisdiction is. That understanding is something we have completely lost in our learning. While it persists intuitively. Our training subverts that intuition. That is I think the greatest fuckery. It is this lack of appreciation of our own Sovereignty over our own Domain, and what that Domain is, that prevents us from appreciating and respecting both ourselves and others. We are trained constantly to think of "the collective" over the individual. This is training is what holds us in slavery, even more than the economic fuckery. Once we see that fuckery, I think everything else will take care of itself. No Luddite World required.
While I think a "back to basics" approach has great merit, and I myself am working towards that for my own life (if perhaps a little less extreme than you suggest), I don't think we need to throw the baby out with the bathwater. We don't need to throw out all knowledge. I think we just need to recognize the fuckery injected into our "truths." We've been placed in carefully crafted boxes. All the different boxes, that act in opposition, get their beliefs from the same source. We need to see that.
Our problems are not what we've learned, but what's been left out of that learning. We all exist in a bunch of different carefully crafted boxes of beliefs. It's in the training that each of those boxes receives, that leads to our insistence that "we know the truth," even when all of those boxes of truth differ substantially. Currently the Science Box holds dominance. We need to see the flaws in that approach. We need to understand who created that box, and the fuckery they put in it to mislead. Like all other boxes, there are useful tools in the Science Box. We need to understand the difference between "useful tools" and "truth." In addition, all the boxes need to appreciate the useful tools in the other boxes. I think there needs to be a paradigm shift in our approach to knowledge and discerning truth. I do not think we need to reject the fruits of our labors entirely.
Most importantly I think, there needs to be an appreciation for the Ultimate Authority of the Individual, and what their Jurisdiction is. That understanding is something we have completely lost in our learning. While it persists intuitively. Our training subverts that intuition. That is I think the greatest fuckery. It is this lack of appreciation of our own Sovereignty over our own Domain, and what that Domain is, that prevents us from appreciating and respecting both ourselves and others. We are trained constantly to think of "the collective" over the individual. This is training is what holds us in slavery, even more than the economic fuckery. Once we see that fuckery, I think everything else will take care of itself. No Luddite World required.