You might like this book I’m reading now: The Philosophy of Zen Buddhism. Byung-Chul Han
Han is best known for criticizing neoliberalism and “burnout society”. Most of his formal training is on Western philosophy. But in this book he uses Zen traditions as a way to interrogate the inadequacies of western modes of knowing and epistemology. Somewhat adjacent and somewhat overlapping with the themes that you are exploring in this post
Burnout society is right! The entropy of the system shows up in billionaires bank accounts, depleted natural resources, gross income inequality, systemic poverty, and most importantly, unnatural evolutionary forcing mechanism (human designed systems) that are leading us to an unstoppable and uncontrollable, systems failure cascade.
I couldn’t agree more about needing a new way of knowing. But i also think there is value in old ways of knowing. But one of the artifacts of the reductionist thinking is the refusal to not see science as the premier, and perhaps only tool for knowing. Some call this the authority problem. We insist someone use acceptable means, have an acceptable degree or title, or be super charismatic to accept what they say, think, or do as meaningful. So there is a piece of this knowing system that is about our values. I guess I see the majority of needed change as being less about knowing and more about just understanding who we are and what are true capacity for knowing is.
Binary logic has its place in engineering, computer and such technological "systems", but it has taken us down a very dark path because it has become the dominant way of "thinking" or evaluating, anything. Nature doesn't operate that way, and we are apart of nature, we evolved from it, we are the latest interiation of that evolutionary force that drives and enables everything in the universe to exist. Except human designed systems, that violate the very laws of nature, which, are at the root cause of our systemic, cascading challenges humanity is facing. You might find this interesting, https://kosmosframework.substack.com/p/the-axial-age-transition
You might like this book I’m reading now: The Philosophy of Zen Buddhism. Byung-Chul Han
Han is best known for criticizing neoliberalism and “burnout society”. Most of his formal training is on Western philosophy. But in this book he uses Zen traditions as a way to interrogate the inadequacies of western modes of knowing and epistemology. Somewhat adjacent and somewhat overlapping with the themes that you are exploring in this post
https://www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?book_slug=the-philosophy-of-zen-buddhism--9781509545094
Burnout society is right! The entropy of the system shows up in billionaires bank accounts, depleted natural resources, gross income inequality, systemic poverty, and most importantly, unnatural evolutionary forcing mechanism (human designed systems) that are leading us to an unstoppable and uncontrollable, systems failure cascade.
I couldn’t agree more about needing a new way of knowing. But i also think there is value in old ways of knowing. But one of the artifacts of the reductionist thinking is the refusal to not see science as the premier, and perhaps only tool for knowing. Some call this the authority problem. We insist someone use acceptable means, have an acceptable degree or title, or be super charismatic to accept what they say, think, or do as meaningful. So there is a piece of this knowing system that is about our values. I guess I see the majority of needed change as being less about knowing and more about just understanding who we are and what are true capacity for knowing is.
Binary logic has its place in engineering, computer and such technological "systems", but it has taken us down a very dark path because it has become the dominant way of "thinking" or evaluating, anything. Nature doesn't operate that way, and we are apart of nature, we evolved from it, we are the latest interiation of that evolutionary force that drives and enables everything in the universe to exist. Except human designed systems, that violate the very laws of nature, which, are at the root cause of our systemic, cascading challenges humanity is facing. You might find this interesting, https://kosmosframework.substack.com/p/the-axial-age-transition