| Meme Trashing Party: Cause and Effect - Part V | 4 comments |
 12 Aug 2003 @ 23:43, by Max SandorAnd the rant goes on... this time on the predominant way of teaching in modern, 'Western' society. Which is to look forward from the cause to the effect. Sounds reasonable at first, but... it's quite dangerous since this one-way lends itself to indoctrination and ultimately manipulation... if that's what's wanted, alright, it works... Another way of seeing things is to start at the phenomenal level and to look backwards towards the set of potential causes. This procedure is much more suited to bring about an actual understanding of the relationship(s) involved. Optimally, one would then do again a forward-looking for each of the items of the set found while looking backwards. One arrives at a matrix of conditions that describe the context of the causal dependencies of the situation. In short, such an approach does away with what may be the worst mental flaw of contemporary thinking, the 'one-cause-per-effect' thinking. It's wishful thinking that this flaw could be eradicated. Our politicians would hate it and, then, people would switch off the TV news and throw their newspaper(s) in the trash can, maybe get a decent book out of the shelf to read.. oops, I'm getting carried away, here, oh well... |