9/ Controversial thesis: The 4/5-element system of many ancient cultures is actually a VERY decent base language for a Gesamtsprache to compile to, if you're not specifically trying to produce new technologies or anything. In fact, most people should be taught ^ instead of STEM
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10/ The *actuality* of reward/punishment events is very important to consider. Education is not free. One doesn't *need* "post-rationalism" to make decent sense of everyday life, for most lifestyles. To develop it is indeed a waste of limited resources.
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11/ I especially think this because of the shitty deluded & literally wrong & bad corrupted misunderstanding of STEM/rationalism a LOT of people have today. It is actually *harmful*. These people would probably be much better off if we weren't *trying* to teach them "STEM".
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12/ I think a big part of the problem is that as even as total human knowledge rapidly grows, there's an implicit consensus belief that it's good to give every *individual* as close an approximation to the totality of human knowledge as possible. I STRONGLY OPPOSE THIS!!
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13/ At least, the idea can be questioned. Other factors can be considered in determining who would really benefit from education towards one's understanding approximating total human understanding. Some people won't. With these people, actively do something different.
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14/ I suggested the 4/5 elements system as a best-available "commoner's Gesamtsprache," if you will. But it could probably be improved by intentional design. Social changes would also be necessary. The implementation would be a huge project. But again, just an infant idea.
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Replying to @mlegls
I feel like this is what the Buddhist Six Realms idea is getting at, where the arising of a realm from sunyata ~= Gesamtsprache divvying up the Dao. Not to be "post-rational" but I think there are at least two meta-ideas that make this hard: social sharing of ideology + hegemony
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By social sharing I just mean ideas get shared between people and meshed together, so distinguishing a scientist language and an everyday language will always become porous. By hegemony I mean the idea that only one Gesamtsprache can be true, and must explain everything.
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Replying to @Buddh_ish @mlegls
As long as the second idea persists (and it still does), something like this would be very hard to pull off.
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The irony is that the hegemony is enforced & backed by institutions like intersectionalist sociocultural anthropologists who nominally insist on "cultural relativism." I've talked to established sociocultural anthropology ppl about this and think there might be hope though...
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it's totally pervasive. by my estimate there were only a few dozen functioning brains on twitter around February 10th.
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