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Copernican revolution

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Copernicus learnt that that the Sun is in the center, not the Earth. It was not a popular idea in his time around 500 years ago in Poland. Kant meant that he made another Copernication revolution when he set our representation of the the phenomena in focus, not the phenomena per se. But what have happened after Kant. Do we still understand ourselves? Probably not. What about language, do we understand,  why we speak? It´s suggested that small talk is a continuation of how the apes use to clean each other furs. They do it to creat social bonds. David P Barash suggest that language is a way to impress on each other. Why do anyway use so many different words, make jokes and write theater plays or in blogs;~} We may just use about 500 words to be understandable. But many of us use a lot more. We also use words in ironic tones to make other people feel uncomfortable. But of course there are more reasons for our language, but more than we think of the reason for lang

metoo - destructs and rebuilds

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Another way to say it is that two different parts put together is more than the sum of the parts. Let's take the example of heritage and environment. In us they are so interrelated  that they cannot we cannot say we act in a specific way just because of one of them. Nothing can live just in its own bubble. It seems that nature are both a builder and a destroyer. Just as in Hindu mythology. But the parts from something that are destroyed can be parts of new objects. Atoms that has been in the body of Shakespeare are now in bodies around the world. Nothing can completely vanish. Shiva is the destroyer and transformer. He is dancing the earth together again. So maybe we should not be so scary about destruction. Something must die for some new to come. The metoo campaign may show this. Slowly men's behaviours are questioned. The exquise that nature made us like that is not anymore enough. Power may change people, but that exquise is neither enough. We