Recently, I had an epiphany that relates to my 2017 blog Why is life digital? My 2019 blog, Love-Knowledge-Power (3): dualism vs trialism, noticed a link between our digital views and dualism. Now, I see a link between a lack of having digital views, pragmatism and trialism.
A 2017 article in Brain Pickings referred to Bertrand Russell‘s views on dualism. He warned for a paradigm shift from ‘love-knowledge’ to ‘power-knowledge. This article made me aware of the Love, Knowledge & Power triangle, which I call trialism. Later, I added monism in which Power is leading and in which love and knowledge are subordinated to Power.
Ideology requires a black and white view on issues (eg, Left vs Right, Globalism vs Nationalism, macro vs micro) that will create a (new) Great Divide. Having an independent pragmatic view causes skepticism: you’re either with us or against us. A digital view is more simple.
Latter may be the reason why dualism is more popular than trialism: simplicity vs complexity.
In other words: is simplicity ruling our lives in order to cope with a complex world? This would be a brand new and fundamental explanation for my recent blogs on human stupidity. Human views are not stupid but simple, which reminds me of the KISS principle: keep it simple and stupid.
For some time, I have been wondering about the validity of the new Great Divide: Ideology vs Pragmatism (my blogs). Now, I realise that both sides match the KISS principle.
Humans have adapted to the complexity bias in life and nature by adopting a simplicity bias. This must be the reason why humans have migrated to stage 3 in the collective development stages: Needs (all life-forms), Wants (life-forms using tools), and Beliefs (only humans).
Pragmatism is like business process re-engineering and a 90 degree flip of ideological beliefs: from vertical silos to horizontal processes. This explains why China is able advocating domestic Nationalism and foreign Globalism. These horizontal processes don’t cross and/or meet.
“Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet”. An excerpt from the 1889 poem “The Ballad of East and West” by Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936), “an English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist”.
Sure Know Something (1979) by KISS
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