Long term effects of Idealism

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Mandibil
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Re: Long term effects of Idealism

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- Respect for the individual
- A total revision of the understanding of knowledge
- A deep scepticism towards objectivity
- Science will be reduced to rationality only
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Re: Long term effects of Idealism

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One possible effect of embracing idealism might be overcoming the powerlessness and hopelessness that materialism seems to be engendering - through the possibilities that its widespread adoption might open.

We seem to have come to the edge of socio-political and environmental end-game with no viable solutions. If 'life' is a a kind of dream there might be leeway through a momentum of parts of that dream (themselves) becoming 'lucid' and creating an ever broader and more powerful momentum.

We don't know how much room-to-move such a collective change of mind could allow us in enabling an ability to change the dream, but I have an odd sort of intuition that this is the "point" of this particular dream.
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Re: Long term effects of Idealism

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It is said famously that science proceeds one funeral at a time. Perhaps much similar can be said for larger but still localized structures called "cultures/civilizations/consciousness" and the driving force/engine will be events in the local ecological ground of being -- think sixth extinction, biodiversity and climate crises.
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