Your Relevance Realization Capacity is Created by your Dia-logos Community
We can't know what's important until we learn to love one another
My monologue/mashup videos are rough draft thinking and today's video is no exception.
I think @WisdomRebel did a nice job of using the pandemic to highlight the challenges of our current "sense-making" crisis. The fact that we could not transcend political gridlock to face a medical emergency illustrates the crisis.
.@vervaeke_john nicely demonstrates the challenge of portraying resolution of the crisis with "facts, science and data".
The Modernist imaginary suggests that the individual rise above his/her own historical/embodied personhood and see the world from no where. (the monarchical vision). This is a nice trick that we can use selectively but as complexity explodes it loses efficacy.
As @PageauJonathan has noted we are patterns seeing patterns but when the pattern asserts that it is not subject to its own pattern limitations and distortions we are lying to ourselves and the world about what we are and where we stand.
.@vervaeke_john 's system says we use "relevance realization" to select the data for our analysis. This process is most often pre-conscious and inescapable. So obviously we want to do what we can to improve it.
The basis for this relevance realization process is metaphor and community. Community and history shape the pre-conscious metaphors we employ. It is the basis for all human attempts at conscious knowledge employment.
Northrup Frye notes this as the foundation Biblical thinking. Sodom is Egypt is Babylon is Rome.
Relevance realization is what is happening in the community behind the scene finding the is-ness behind the relationships asserted. That relationship is the thing beneath the surface creating the community.
We can illustrated it but we struggle to see it or know it as such. It is the way of spirit as Jesus points out in John 3. You know the wind by what it moves.
It is the basis of Christianity. It is the way the Christian New Testament works.
It is why the Bible is the foundational document for our culture, a culture being the economy of categories that we absorb via community that becomes a culture. as @jordanbpeterson said on @joerogan
Community and dia-logos co-generate. It is the practice of being together productively though dialogue and living together in love that makes a world and makes a culture. It is fundamentally spiritual but we need to relearn what that means.
I thought you petered out at the end there. I agreed especially with your point about the succession of crises one after another. That to me is the ritual of humanity under pagan gods. We use crises to build up sacrificial episodes. You get seven different crises in covid itself and covid is one of fifteen different crises of the past 30 years. In that case resolving it with data actually works against the true purpose which is ritual sacrifice, a small amount of violence to stave off general war. I’m not sure I believe in God but I definitely believe in the gods.
I suppose God is who leads us out of this, who shows us that that natural processes are not related to moral fitness. Would you have been able to end that way?
And once again we run headlong into Jonathan Pageau...
Our modern ears don't want to accept what he says about community circumambulating around a central point. Looking up to the same thing which invariably is a steeple in the middle of a town surrounded by a wall. We would rather dissect and parse out incessantly all the psychological and sociological elements to try to find some deeper scientific materialistic meaning that has been already adequately explained to us thousands of years ago and we have just forgot... Or perhaps in our arrogance have disregarded it to our detriment.