RUMINATION OF COMMON SENSE
Charles van der Haegen
Orbiting internally and externally imagining new original combinations at Materia Nova
This book, see title picture, came timely as an Etiphany to me.
It "entangles" everything I have been reading starting to read in earnest, around to "ruminate" about where my life has been leading me towards
It gives me guidance on how to live the years that awaits me;
Edgar Morin advises everyone to get inspired by Antonio Machado's poem, “Caminante no hay Camino”
Surely, the days are over for Science to claim the capacity to ever discover the mysteries of life, let alone to predict them...
How can we think about our past experiences, and how to conduct our future ones,.
How should we act in order to "Being better Better" at elevating civilizations of the human species to the pinnacle of human achievement (paraphrased from the last lines of David Wengrow's remarkable book: What Makes Civilizations: The Ancient Near East & the Future of the West")
The above serves as an introduction to satisfy an urgent need to share with you the first pages under the title "Rumination of Common Sense";
It introduces chapter 6 of Hans Schildermans' book, entitled:
The Studiers' Constraint: Why Whiteheadian Adventures & Matters of Sutudy
Live was indeed an adventure for us and our ancestors
The future will be one that hopefully will bifurcate and guide our destiny along very different paths
"Matter of study" to experiment with such adventurous paths will be plentiful and will need to be very different than what we learned in our "non-yet" decolonized Universities