Friday, October 11, 2019

A new worldview needs a new language

I noted many times that new ideas need new language (e.g. here where I coined hier(an)archical synplexity). The folks at Commons Transition agree. I'm not crazy about their brainstorming though, as it wasn't new words. How about appeerance, as in an app for peering? Appeering, which adds a ring to the former? Commonity, like a community commodity?

"How do we talk about the commons when we talk about the Commons? Silke Helfrich and David Bollier have spent years inventing a new language for a future commons society. The video shows their working method and their exuberant creativity. The authors explain the necessity of inventing new words: 'Somehow we had to escape the powerful gravitational pull of old paradigm language and come up with words that name a different order of social reality! Relationships and ways of being and doing that are barely visible in the general culture have to be made explicit through language.'"

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