We have come to the core of our response to Peccei—what is to be done, to begin "a great cultural revival" here and now.

The answer offered will be the same as the core of our proposal—to change the relationship we have with information.

Instead of conceiving "truth" as "an objective picture of reality", and considering the purpose of information to be to provide us "an objective picture of reality", we'll propose to consider information as human-made, and to tailor the way we handle it to the various and sometimes vitally important purposes that need to be served.

The key point here will be to perceive the very notion "reality" as an instrument of socialization.

Scope

This is not to say that reality "really is" that. What we are offering is a scope and a view, or insight. A way in which the wholeness of our culture—of the 'vehicle' whose purpose is to take us to wholeness—is 'cracked'.

Socialization

From the cradle to the grave, through innumerably many carrots and sticks, we are socialized to think and behave in a certain way. Socialization is really the way in whicy cultures function.

The question, then, is—Who does the socialization? In what way? And for what ends?

View

The answer, the view we are offering, is to perceive socialization as largely the prerogative of the power structure. And to perceive reification as an instrument by which people are coerced to accept a certain societal order of things without questioning it.

Further, we propose to perceive the academic tradition as an age-old effort to liberate ourselves from the power structure and the socialized "realities" it imposes—and to evolve further. Wasn't that the reason why Socrates, and Galilei, were tried?

There's been a new event in this age-old development. An error, a bug in the program, has been discovered. The Enlightenment gave us the homo sapiens self-identity. It made us believe that "a normal human being" sees the "reality" as it really is. And that it is a human prerogative to know and to understand "reality". Our democracy and other institutions, our knowledge work, our ethical sensibilities, the way we handle culture—all this has been built on this error as foundation.

We now own all the information needed to perceive this error; and means to correct it. And by doing that, to resume the evolution of knowledge; and of culture and society.

Action

We propose a way to abandon "reality" as foundation altogether. To liberate ourselves from the power structure and the "reality" it's created for us. And to create a pragmatic approach to knowledge, which will accelerate the evolution of culture—on a similar scale and rate as the science and the technology have been evolving.