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#paradigmchange

2020: The Walk (Excerpts from the book) https://www.15-15-15.org/webzine/2024/04/13/2020-the-walk-excerpts-from-the-book/ #awarenessraising #environmentalism #socialmovements #paradigmchange #Spirituality #revolution #sacredness #Highlight #activism #Buddhism #degrowth #emotions #Creatio #debates #spain

Just lovely thinking and writing here from Nora Bateson on the crassness of industrial thinking, seen for example every time someone looks at an argoecological solution to food systems and says, "yeah but does it scale?"
#paradigmchange #transformation

https://linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7040608875430985728/

LinkedIn post by Nora Bateson, which reads, "There is a lurking monster whose familiar diet is measurement and control. It lives in language and wears costumes of assumption. The monster twists perception to match and confirm its rightness--- it is not questioned. The categories it craves are firmly delineated, confirmed as real. Describing a non-world of non-living static-ness. The monster loves to compare measurements, "this is better than that." It crunches numbers, but defies their poetic beauty. Numbers are stories that shift and slip through each other. But the monster uses them otherwise...holds them captive in metric cruelty. Biometrics, psychometrics.
Divide and devour.
Like Damascus steel, the confirmation of this habit is folded in on itself from 50 directions. (count the 50 folds if you must, list them, make a spreadsheet for them... but you will never control them)-- it is the stuff of economy, the basis of psychology, the shape of education, the law of the law, the mayhem of the health industry-- and the soul of digital tech.
The lurking monster will funnel the world into the proper slots of the forms. Tick the boxes. Department by department this will prohibit any healing, any change toward an ecological understanding of the world. It will seduce the process of saving communities and forests into
authoritarianism..."
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A thought in response to RK's comment —

That strikes me as a problem in cross-paradigm communication — an interaction among communities of interpretation using different analogies to comprehend object situations which may or may not be the same or even compatible.

Whether it's #Dialectic in #Aristotle's or #Hegel's sense the logic of shifting paradigms is the #Logic of #Abduction.

#Peirce #Analogy #Paradigm #Anomaly #ParadigmChange
#Commensurability #Incommensurability #DifferentialLogic