Holotopia: Five insights

Federating the holotopia

The holotopia vision is made concrete in terms of five insights.

A natural way to introduce a new paradigm is to explore the analogy with a historical precedent. This strategy has been taken in Holoscope.org, and we here develop it further.

The holotopia vision is made concrete or federated in terms of five insights. Together, they show why a comprehensive paradigm shift is ready to take place in our time, by exploring specific five insights that are ready to emerge in pivotal areas of interest—as soon as we begin to connect the dots:

The Convenience Paradox insight points to a revolution in "pursuit of happiness" and in culture, similar to the Renaissance
The Power Structure insight points to a revolution in innovation, on the scale of the Industrial Revolution, by which human work will be made incomparably more effective and efficient
The Collective Mind insight points to a revolution in communication, analogous to the advent of the printing press
The Socialized Reality insight is about a new foundation on which the truth and the meaning are developed, and a possibility for a quantum leap in awareness, similar to the Enlightenment
The Narrow Frame insight is about a new way to explore the reality, with similar consequences as the once that science had

Seeing the holotopia as a whole

While each of the five insights brings forth a spectacular development taking place imperceptibly slowly in our present time, considered together they afford an even more spectacular sight—of a complete new paradigm that is ready to emerge. The point here is to see that the five insights and the changes they are pointing to and demanding are so closely related to each other, that it is easiest and most natural to consider them as one single whole. And that the natural strategy is to change that whole as a whole.

It is an easy exercise, to begin with, to see that the black arrows in the above ideogram can be interpreted as signifying direct consequences. One thing leads to another! Together, they form a vicious cycle—within which the contemporary issues we are witnessing are perpetually recreated. Already this may be sufficient to see the holotopia's main insight—that comprehensive change can be easy, even when smaller changes appear to be impossible.

The yellow arrows point to synergistic relationships. They show why the two insights or issues they connect may be perceived as two sides of a single coin.

Holotopia as a conversation

The holotopia is, however, not about one-way communication. The shift to a new paradigm definitely demands audience participation.

The five insights here present us with a context within which age-old themes and challenges can be explored and understood in a completely new way—in the context of the emerging paradigm, the holotopia. Hence we here, in this context, open the dialogs on fifteen most timely themes—which we label by the five insights, and their ten direct relationships. Since we've already seen the insights, it remains to name the relationships.

The black arrows:

CP—>PS: From Egocenteredness to Wholeness—Ethical Foundations of Sustainability
PS—>CM: The Largest Contribution to Human Knowledge
CM—>SR: The Homo Ludens—A Devolution
SR—>NP: How to Begin a Great Cultural Revival
NP—>CP: A Genealogy of Short-Termism

The yellow arrows:

CP—>CM: Happiness Between One and Plus Infinity
PS—>SR: How to Put an end to War
CM—>NF: Transdisciplinary Research and the Future of Knowledge
SR—>CP: Liberation—The Future of Religion
NF—>PS: Beyond Capitalism and Communism—The Future of Politics