"In my utopia, human solidarity would be seen not as a fact to be recognized by clearing away "prejudice" or burrowing down to previously hidden depths but, rather, as a goal to be achieved. Is it to be achieved not by inquiry but by imagination, the imaginative ability to see strange people as fellow sufferers. Solidarity is not discovered by reflection but created. It is created by increasing our sensitivity to the particular details of the pain and humiliation of other, unfamiliar sorts of people"
--Richard Rorty, "Contingency, Irony and Solidarity"
OUR MISSION IS TO FOSTER HARMONY IN DIVERSITY AND COMBINATION AS WE EVOLVE OUR NEW GLOBAL CULTURE.
OUR PHILOSOPHY IS THAT CULTURAL DISHARMONY IS THE RESULT OF A COMMUNICATION BREAKDOWN BETWEEN DISCORDANT CULTURES RESULTING FROM A GAP IN MEANING AND LANGUAGE ACROSS THOSE CULTURES.
ON A GLOBAL SCALE, THESE DISCORDANT COMMUNICATION BREAKDOWNS ACROSS CULTURAL BOUNDARIES ARE CHARACTERIZED BY A WAR OVER THE MEANINGS ASSIGNED TO A SET OF KEY WORDS THAT ACT AS UNIVERSAL AXIOMATIC SIGNS OF POWER AND PERSUASION.
THIS GAP IS A RESULT OF COMPETING IDEOLOGIES ATTEMPT TO IMPOSE THEIR OWN SYSTEMS OF BELIEF THRU HEGEMONY OF THE LOCAL LANGUAGES.
FORTUNATELY THE WEB WILL BRING AN END TO THE ABSURDITY OF REGIONAL HEGEMONY OVER THE HUMAN LANGUAGE SYSTEM, AND POLITICALLY MOTIVATED AXIOMATIC LANGUAGE CONSTRUCTION WILL END, TO BE REPLACED BY A NEW SYSTEM OF LANGUAGE ENTIRELY, WHERE LANGUAGE AND MEANING WILL BECOME MUCH MORE IDIOSYNCRATIC AND AS SUCH COMMAND FAR MORE ATTENTION IN ORDER TO ACHIEVE MEANING.
HOWEVER ONCE ACHIEVED THIS NEW ORDER OF MEANING AND UNDERSTANDING WILL COMMUNICATE A DEEPER LEVEL OF SHARED REALITY AND UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN THE PARTIES..
A TYPICAL EXAMPLE OF LOCAL LANGUAGE HEGEMONY
IDENTICAL LANGUAGE IS SEIZED UPON AND WIELDED LIKE A VERBAL SWORD BY COMPETING IDEOLOGIES..
A WAR OF WORDS FOLLOWS.
POWERFUL CONCEPTUAL WORDS THAT TOUCH DEEP PERSONAL IDENTITY ISSUES SUCH AS "SACRED", "TRUE", "RIGHT", WILL BE SEIZED UPON BY BOTH PARTIES TO SERVE AS AXIOMS TO BEGIN THE CONSTRUCTION THEIR OPPOSING CULTURAL VIEWPOINTS.
IDENTICAL WORDS AND LANGUAGE WILL BE EMPLOYED BY BOTH PARTIES TO JUSTIFY THEIR OPPOSING POSITIONS.: AS THE MEANINGS SHIFT, THE SIGNS REMAIN THE SAME.
THUS YET AGAIN WE FACE TWO OPPOSING BUT PERHAPS EQUALLY VALID RENDITIONS OF THE TRUTH.
SINCE MEANING IS CONSTRUCTED BY UNIQUE CULTURAL PARADIGMS USING THE SAME UNIVERSAL AXIOMATIC SIGNS, THERE IS A GAP IN MEANING AND LANGUAGE ACROSS OPPOSING CULTURES.
THIS GULF IN LANGUAGE AND MEANING ACROSS CULTURES CAN ONLY BE BRIDGED BY MILLIONS OF CONVERSATIONS BETWEEN INDIVIDUAL MEMBERS OF THE DISCORDANT CULTURES IN QUESTION.
IS THERE SOME REASON THAT I CAN FIGURE THIS OUT, JUST SOME AVERAGE JOE, BUT OUR SO CALLED WORLD LEADERS CANT SEEM TO "GET IT"?
OUR STRATEGY IS TO FOSTER CONVERSATIONS AND COMMUNICATION ACROSS DISCORDANT CULTURAL BOUNDARIES.
BY TARGETING PARTICULAR CULTURAL OPPOSITIONS WHERE COMMUNICATIONS HAVE BECOME DISCORDANT OR WHERE COMMUNICATIONS HAVE COLLAPSED ENTIRELY FOR CONVERSATION AND DISCUSSION,
WE WILL BEGIN TO FULFILL OUR MISSION TO FOSTER CULTURAL HARMONY AND DIVERSITY THROUGH COMMUNICATIONS AND UNDERSTANDING..
OUR GOAL IS TO SPONSOR OUR FIRST ANNUAL MEDIA FESTIVAL AND SYMPOSIUM ON CULTURAL HARMONY AND DIVERSITY IN MARCH 2006.
THE THEME OF THE FIRST ANNUAL MEDIA FESTIVAL AND SYMPOSIUM WILL BE
AN INQUIRY INTO LANGUAGE AND CULTURE
EACH YEAR, AN ANNUAL MEDIA FESTIVAL AND SYMPOSIUM WILL BE HELD TO DISCUSS AND FOSTER COMMUNICATION AND CONVERSATIONS BETWEEN MEMBERS OF ONE PARTICULARLY ACUTE EXAMPLE OF CULTURAL DISCORD.
IT IS OUR EXPECTATION THAT A PERMANENT SITE FOR ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS AND MEDIA DISSEMINATION WILL BE CREATED IN CONJUNCTION WITH EACH SYMPOSIUM,
THUS PROVIDING A LONG TERM CONDUIT FOR GREATER UNDERSTANDING AND COOPERATION BETWEEN DISHARMONIOUS CULTURES,
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