I imagine that tradition is most easily leveraged in contexts where it remains attached to its ground. The ground, too often, has been fully metabolized but I remain hopeful that local environments and cultures who find rise to new grounds (which I think is what I’m seeing in Japan and from online subcultures)
Have not been able to read your essays for a while; so coming back to you with this one has been a delight. Going to see Nolan's Odyssee with son and grandson tomorrow and will now be even more interested to see how they receive it.
Thank you particularly for pointing out the Christian moral sequence—transgression, guilt, confession, atonement, reconciliation as an "addition" to how the Greeks thought about achieving "greatness".
Some playing around with AI gave me the Chinese sequence as: Disorder→(self-)reflection→achnowledgement (remorse→admission)→repair/reparation→reform→reconciliation.
It clarifies a lot about the roots of my way of thinking (not being good enough, or "what's wrong with me" as one of the building blocks of my German/Dutch aculturation.) Where it's a *transgression* to just be alive by default, being a sinner, beginning the sequence with "disorder" is a revealing difference to me.
Anyway, quite a rewarding read; also when determining what civilizational stage we're in...
Your essay includes some concepts which I agree with, and am trying to define. Common Reason as a means of transfer of ideas from one civilisation to another. You used religion, and it also works for technology. The viewer adapts the concept to their own situation, creating a visible descendent but not a copy. You also have the Success Cycle, Resource Identity Trap and other concepts.
I would be interested in your thoughts on my work to create a coherent structure to hold these concepts.
New moral orders often begin as adaptations to new material conditions. Cheap machine cognition will alter what counts as work, merit, authorship, agency, responsibility, loyalty, dependence and care. Societies will reach backwards into ...materialism... and household ethics to make these changes intelligible.
Its hard to read these as they're written by AI :-(
Fucking AI crap
I imagine that tradition is most easily leveraged in contexts where it remains attached to its ground. The ground, too often, has been fully metabolized but I remain hopeful that local environments and cultures who find rise to new grounds (which I think is what I’m seeing in Japan and from online subcultures)
Have not been able to read your essays for a while; so coming back to you with this one has been a delight. Going to see Nolan's Odyssee with son and grandson tomorrow and will now be even more interested to see how they receive it.
Thank you particularly for pointing out the Christian moral sequence—transgression, guilt, confession, atonement, reconciliation as an "addition" to how the Greeks thought about achieving "greatness".
Some playing around with AI gave me the Chinese sequence as: Disorder→(self-)reflection→achnowledgement (remorse→admission)→repair/reparation→reform→reconciliation.
It clarifies a lot about the roots of my way of thinking (not being good enough, or "what's wrong with me" as one of the building blocks of my German/Dutch aculturation.) Where it's a *transgression* to just be alive by default, being a sinner, beginning the sequence with "disorder" is a revealing difference to me.
Anyway, quite a rewarding read; also when determining what civilizational stage we're in...
Your essay includes some concepts which I agree with, and am trying to define. Common Reason as a means of transfer of ideas from one civilisation to another. You used religion, and it also works for technology. The viewer adapts the concept to their own situation, creating a visible descendent but not a copy. You also have the Success Cycle, Resource Identity Trap and other concepts.
I would be interested in your thoughts on my work to create a coherent structure to hold these concepts.
New moral orders often begin as adaptations to new material conditions. Cheap machine cognition will alter what counts as work, merit, authorship, agency, responsibility, loyalty, dependence and care. Societies will reach backwards into ...materialism... and household ethics to make these changes intelligible.