To live an entire life without understanding how we think, why we feel the way we feel, what directs our actions is to miss what is most important in life, which is the quality of experience itself.
Deconstructionism is the latest form of a perspective that has emerged at regular intervals throughout history. I refer to the ideas that language is inherently unstable (or the written word) and shifting and that the reader rather than the author is central in determining meaning. So it goes that there is no way of knowing anything beyond direct experience itself. If I try to tell you of the sufferings of my childhood, the words I use will bring a first level of distortion into the tale, and your interpretation of my words will distort the story even further. Neither logic nor scientific discourse can avoid mystifying through their attempts at communication. There is no way to get to reality through words, all generalizations are suspect, and the sharing of meanings between minds is an illusion.
We need to cultivate more than logic if we want to thrive in the future. We must foster intuition to anticipate changes before they occur; empathy to understand that which cannot be clearly expressed; wisdom to see the connection between apparently unrelated events; and creativity to discover new ways of defining problems, new rules that will make it possible to adapt to the unexpected.
Define your rules of wisdom and get out there and live them...
Deconstructionism is the latest form of a perspective that has emerged at regular intervals throughout history. I refer to the ideas that language is inherently unstable (or the written word) and shifting and that the reader rather than the author is central in determining meaning. So it goes that there is no way of knowing anything beyond direct experience itself. If I try to tell you of the sufferings of my childhood, the words I use will bring a first level of distortion into the tale, and your interpretation of my words will distort the story even further. Neither logic nor scientific discourse can avoid mystifying through their attempts at communication. There is no way to get to reality through words, all generalizations are suspect, and the sharing of meanings between minds is an illusion.
We need to cultivate more than logic if we want to thrive in the future. We must foster intuition to anticipate changes before they occur; empathy to understand that which cannot be clearly expressed; wisdom to see the connection between apparently unrelated events; and creativity to discover new ways of defining problems, new rules that will make it possible to adapt to the unexpected.
Define your rules of wisdom and get out there and live them...