Communication and Environment
Community is born in communication.
Community emerges within a specific context--a unique set of environmental conditions.
Community's have a "metabolic footprint" (1)
Thus, communication has a metabolic resonance. (2)
Our ideas and the processes by which we come them have material consequences.
Our worldviews ("Weltanschauung") , in as much as they guide and influence our creaturly behaviors, have environmental consequences.
When your present state is a state of dis-ease, it is commonly held wisdom that you ought to adjust your behaviors and environment with the ultimate aim of improving your condition (your present state and your environmental circumstance).
Given that our current worldviews contribute to our current state of dis-ease, critical philosophers of most schools agree that we ought to adjust our ideals and values and thereby adjust our lived actions.
We ought to do this with the ultimate end of health and wellbeing for ourselves, our communities, and our environment. (3)
NOTES
(1) See McNeil's "Nothing New Under the Sun" for a discussion of "metabolic footprints" as a material measure of an organism or community's biophysical transformation of their environment. Today, BP calls it a "carbon footprint" and suggests we ought to learn about ours and reduce it as we slowly but surely march "Beyond Petroleum." Also see Foster's "Marx's Ecology" for a discussion of the idea of metabolism in 19th century scientific discourse.
(2) See Luhmann for a discussion of intersystemic resonance as a resulty of concurrent and interconnected autopoeitic enaction.
(3) This is, of course, a communitarian perspective and is not shared among all people. Individualist approaches are diverse, and this research does not pretend to be a all-encompassing critique of individualism, "rugged" or "ragged." (3.1) My intent is to describe and interpret within an identifiable normative framework.
(3.1) "Rugged" individualism is much discussed in the United State's self-narrative literature. Ruggedness is a a virtuous state in our mythology. Dewey, however, pointed to pure individualism's downside by referring to "ragged" individualism (listen to Dewey tape)
Community emerges within a specific context--a unique set of environmental conditions.
Community's have a "metabolic footprint" (1)
Thus, communication has a metabolic resonance. (2)
Our ideas and the processes by which we come them have material consequences.
Our worldviews ("Weltanschauung") , in as much as they guide and influence our creaturly behaviors, have environmental consequences.
When your present state is a state of dis-ease, it is commonly held wisdom that you ought to adjust your behaviors and environment with the ultimate aim of improving your condition (your present state and your environmental circumstance).
Given that our current worldviews contribute to our current state of dis-ease, critical philosophers of most schools agree that we ought to adjust our ideals and values and thereby adjust our lived actions.
We ought to do this with the ultimate end of health and wellbeing for ourselves, our communities, and our environment. (3)
NOTES
(1) See McNeil's "Nothing New Under the Sun" for a discussion of "metabolic footprints" as a material measure of an organism or community's biophysical transformation of their environment. Today, BP calls it a "carbon footprint" and suggests we ought to learn about ours and reduce it as we slowly but surely march "Beyond Petroleum." Also see Foster's "Marx's Ecology" for a discussion of the idea of metabolism in 19th century scientific discourse.
(2) See Luhmann for a discussion of intersystemic resonance as a resulty of concurrent and interconnected autopoeitic enaction.
(3) This is, of course, a communitarian perspective and is not shared among all people. Individualist approaches are diverse, and this research does not pretend to be a all-encompassing critique of individualism, "rugged" or "ragged." (3.1) My intent is to describe and interpret within an identifiable normative framework.
(3.1) "Rugged" individualism is much discussed in the United State's self-narrative literature. Ruggedness is a a virtuous state in our mythology. Dewey, however, pointed to pure individualism's downside by referring to "ragged" individualism (listen to Dewey tape)
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