Holotopia: Keywords
Holotopia: Keywords
Every new paradigm brings with it a new way of speaking. This collection of keywords is an alternative natural entry point to holotopia.
Wholeness is what distinguishes a healthy organism, and a whole and well-functioning mechanism. The point here is to see that it's not any detail as such, but the wholeness they compose together that makes "a difference that makes a difference".
Wholeness is a a single and simple, yet all-inclusive value; it is etymologically related to both "health" and "holiness". It is the core meme in the holotopia memeplex.
Tradition and design are two alternative ways to wholeness. Tradition relies on Darwinian-style evolution; design on awareness of the whole and deliberate action. The point here is that when tradition can no longer be relied on, design must be used.
Anthony Giddens is the Holotopia's icon of design and tradition. And of the insight that our contemporary condition can be understood as a precarious transition from one way of evolving to the next. We are no longer traditional; and we are not yet designing. And isn't that precisely what the Modernity ideogram, that bus with candle headlights, is telling?
This concepts points to a possibility, or the reality, of de-volution. It roughly corresponds to what Giddens called "ontological security", and it federates other insights and connotations as well. The point here is that although we might be biologically equipped to evolve as the homo sapiens, our cultural evolution may well degenerate along the homo ludens path. The homo ludens does not seek knowledge to make choices; he simply sees what "works", or appears to work, and does that.