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On many things we do in our life we have once started blank. But we read things, thought about things and took a next step, then a next step and another step. That one thing that was once “one simple thing” has become a complete world of its own with its own complexity.
You can see this on the left. On top is the simple idea you had years ago. During the years you have developed, made choices and had input from articles, books, knowledge (blue balls). The questions and topics that are now interesting are on the bottom, in the green area. the rest is done that understand that.
Then you meet someone and want to talk about a certain branch (the green blob) on which you want to talk since the green area is currently your focus and your interest, the top part of the tree is boring and considered “knowledge”.
It so often occurs that the person with who you talk somehow reverts the complete tree to a talk about the top node. Something which is in your mind something you have covered years ago. It’s almost unbelievable that someone wants to talk about the simple things in life, the most basic conceptual things on things in your household or things life. As if the complete tree is absent. It’s almost insulting.
Often those talks are either someone wanting to explain to you how to get from the top node to the next 1mm in the tree and you get advice on how to do that, which only gives as a return from my side “uh…” (complete silence). Where you have to choose between the decision to declare the other person mental or just smile and say “hmm yeah interesting didn’t know that“ or “yes you are right, genius, good top, thanks”.
Often those talks force you into decompiling knowledge you have no longer as handy facts or even can catch your interest for more than 1 second since it’s listening to someone explain things you consider elemental. Which is of course good for communicating about the top node but totally misses the point on explaining the complexity and the questions in your green area.
It’s like discussing biology as a whole (with in your tree the thousands of articles on biology and the constant array of new articles) and someone has just thought about a microscope and you have to discuss the idea of having a microscope.
Often those talks also are somewhat like this:
There is no way to close the gap. You could discuss 1+1, you could talk hours about it, but … only to close the emotional gap. It does not bring you any further, your only investment will be to spend your careful time in educating the blue person.
Somehow you need the blue person travel some years in knowledge in about 1 minute to make him or her understand what you are talking about.
We send our children to school to get all kinds of pyramids in their head because we don’t want people in our society having discussions on the most basic top nodes forever and ever since that would bring us no further. It is absolutely possible to explain a child the complete tree by showing a picture of the 10 generic building blocks of the tree. It is possible to communicate a high level drawing so he at least has an idea of what he is learning but the only benefit will lie with the child, not you, since you already have the complete complexity in your head. What would be the profit for you to do so at all? Basically it comes down on just being nice enough. Other complexities are impossible to communicate like “physics”. Other than drawing 50 boxes of the fields of physics. Does that help you? No.
So what we have invented are basically references. If a child wants to know about a certain topic he has a textbook to look it up (or a teacher giving him the information pointing to that chapter).
As grown ups we refuse references. If you talk to someone who has a question and you simply point him to a certain node in the tree (somewhere at the top) since you find it ridiculous that you have to put the energy in keep explaining the top part then you will get a strange look. Somehow grown ups refuse to accept the complexity of the pyramids (or christmas trees).
Everything you talk about should remain simple, you should talk about the top nodes in all of those pyramids (the really simple things and keep repeating that same things over and over and over). When we watch tv we see the same elemental discussions. We watch moron tv. If at all some complex topics are discussed it is either to laugh about or "be amazed”. When we look at the Internet we see, also on this blog, information that has long been covered and is seen by someone at the real complexity level as extremely novice or even retarded.
A discussion could involve why you, in the green area, make a step from a to b while you have to that in the context of someone who is barely grasping the top node. Don’t understand me wrong, it also works the other way around, the other person is on other levels on other pyramids. I’m not typing a therapeutic blogposting but I’m thinking on how to resolve that general problem.
I don’t believe that communication works with this problem. It helps in reaching a status quo. It helps in a political sense. It helps to end discussions with a direction somewhere aligned with the top node. Which doesnt bring us any step further.
The advancements are always made in the bottom of the pyramid, since that’s where the green area is. Never on the top of the pyramid since … many people already know what top of the pyramid is like, in extreme detail. The only thing todo there is to reconfigure nodes.
Communicating and understanding the top nodes is relative. For one person the top of the pyramid is in his green area, another person considers it as basic knowledge.
All of us are further down the road on other pyramids/christmas tree. Somehow the trick should now be to get everyone on all possible pyramids on the green level. The real interesting level to make advancements instead of repeating and repeating the same words over and over again.
We should have something that constantly educates us. The result would be that any elemental topics (and that basically means on every sentence that comes out of your mouth) would be verified against the knowledge on all fields and instantly takes you a step further on the pyramid. That same system should give electroshocks on anyone who refuses to dive deeper into a pyramid. And basically every concept is a pyramid of its own.
If you see an ant you know some basic stuff about ants and maybe you would write about it and talk about it. Maybe you have played sim ant and read the basic books about ants and saw a national geographic episode about it. But you should know the thousands of articles on ants. Every latest and complete knowledge on any type of ant to make any sensible sentences on ants. You should know science about ants, biology of ants, history and ants, demographics on ants, etc… preventing you from making stupid remarks which are not true or making decisions that make no sense afterwards.
There would no further waste in time on repeating knowledge. Or spending a lot of time “educating” or convincing or having not true knowledge or having only party knowledge on every topic,every word, every field of knowledge, practical, household or scientific.
This was a first “raw” throw at something I don’t even know how to describe but it involves asking five times “why” on everything we think.
disclaimer: my “brainstorm” postings are used to dump sentences and refine them later to one specific posting.
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