Curiosity is a desire

Curiosity burns inside, especially when the hunters manage to probe something of cutting edge. Kinda cultural inheritance it is since the advent of language. Like language, it is not something natural; like desire, it can bend someone deep down or even inside out, and hardly quench. Chronic illness as it is, turns into sorta love in which (near)enlightenment is encountered. So be it or not? Curiosity rules!

Neonationalism

If our global societies really desire peace and healing the sick mother earth, nationalism must be weaken. Strong &/ materialist nationalism concomitants fierce competitions. These malign rotaries of power games have gone on for millennia, yet many people still treat it as something sacred and inviolable. Besides high artificiality, international benchmarks for competitiveness are tools of convenience but healthy. Alteration of them is a necessary step for the welfare of future generations. They can move toward something more "blue sea" or environmental friendly. Abolish those benchmarks if it is appropriate.

Factism

Neopragmatic factism's insisting on quality evidence distinguishes from early Wittgenstein as swiss army knife for strict forensic methodology rather than positivist metaphysics. Quality of evidence is in direct proportion with the quality of justice. Its highly depending on long term healthy upshots and verifiability. Technological advancements in fabrications impel its rising importance. As complements in resolving the possible problems of deconstruction, it pursues working models for our postmodern life.

Neopragmatic factists loyal mainly to facts of long term healthy results and its without fear and favor. For those who have faith, its ungodly to attack others without proper examination of other's propositions that appeared against the institutionalized dogma. Nevertheless, they understand the limitations of semantics/semiotics and flexible when dealing with beliefs and processes.

1. They may reveal their belief to the public yet ready to adjust or even abandon it when new facts emerged.

2. They always cast doubts on metaphysics/ontology, total globalism, totalitarianism, extreme nationalism, extreme racism, sexism, romanticism, materialism, selfish departmentalism, unitarianism and utilitarianism.

3. They have no bias in interpreting supernatural phenomena.

4. They refute any superstitious in scripture/s, especially those of fundamentalism.

5. As they constantly examine the long term overall implications/results, they demand real tolerance that encourage multiplicity and protection of minority. Thus, they bombard the disappearance and shrinking of minority cultures and deconstruct attempts to maintain the status quo for too long.

6. They r rational rather than emotional.

Neopragmatic Heartism

Neopragmatic heartism is the combination of psychology, cognitive science, philosophy of mind, neopragmatic intuitionism and neonaturalism. De-ontologism in it also pronounce itself as something not to be trust fully other than seeing the proper or healthily long-lasting fair outcomes. This kind of setting stems from the past failure of political idols. Mao, the hailed greatest leader of modern China, for instance, was a good god when he was young, turned himself into a casual killer after he attained the ultimate power in China. Instability of subjects, remember?

Justice

Though sound sort of ethical cliche, fairness must be dealt with in most social results. Its failure can be a deadly blow to a society. While the issue arises naturally in a society, it comes in shades and doesn't has to be egalitarianistic. In terms of historical evidence and proper juristic rationality, antitrust settings, be them political, economical or social, have to be there in modern society.

The advancement of technologies and the increase of ensuing risks are turning international justice into something non-reactionary. While promoting their idea of justice, employment of due process has to be prudent, or else, developed countries may turn our global village into a jail.

In our highly automated world, Rawls-Sunstein's theory of justice should be highly regarded. Rawls propounds a version of non-egalitarianistic political liberalism that is further derivative of a rational, hypothetical and non-metaphysical "original-position". Basically agree with his maximum liberty and fair equality of opportunity principles but not "the difference principle" as it is clearly contradict with his "veil of ignorance" methodology by which neither preference for majoritarian nor minoritarian should be allowed. Nevertheless, a just society must protect the fair minority interests; it's just protection, no more or less. Otherwise, as both majoritarian and minoritarian tend to push their own benefits to extreme, political crisis could easily be aroused. Nonetheless, if the minority is pushed to a corner, they have every rights of self-defense.

Deliberative democracy of Sunstein displays commitments toward public-regarding reasons in public decision-making process, to civil society, contractarianism and against unfair group/individual influence. A version of neo-pragmatic meritocracy need be there for adjustment. Fairness is still the key; unfair contractual terms or practice can defeat their validity. As society turns high-risk, emphasis on scientific health need be injected into the process.

Antitrust and Seen Justice
Seen Justice is derived from the maxim "justice must be seen to be done". It denotes proper settings or arrangements for possible fair results and can be said as the basis of antitrust reasoning. Its absence betokens injustice. For instance, the controversy of long-term dominance of a political power can be easily solved when the legislature, judiciary, executives and media workers are mainly supporters appointed by the dominant power.

Health & Properness

Health is also another essential benchmark for a result. It integrates with liberty; no liberty, no health. (*4TWCRBTL/PIT, this means restriction effected upon a sick person naturally. ) The neopragmatic moksa: body is emancipated only with health. The health is scientific and properly result-oriented. While it is not entirely anti-morality, the healthy properness is not subjected to moral competition or self-righteousness. It embraces both macro and micro perspectives.

The healthy properness has to be basically scientific (where options of value can emerge for deliberations), especially reliable statistics and psychology, in order to reduce controversy. It is neopragmatic version of political correctness and thus antitrust or against unitarianism.

(*4TWCRBTL/PIT=For those who can`t read between the lines or purposely ignore them.)

Liberty

The result-oriented liberty has to go beyond law. It looks for a civil society with environmental friendly and overall healthy results. Law would seem metaphysical if the environment is not healthy; no health, no liberty.

Neopragmatic Creativism

The creativism is to have features for systemic differentiation. Besides differ, refer and defer in new ways, it also takes care of the possible interpretations &/ effects. By outstripping the complexity threshold, it can be, business-wise, a proper barrier of entry for others or sort of blue sea politically correct. This correctness clearly should not apply to (neo/quasi)fascism.

Methodology and Ontology

Methodology has clear features in contrast with ontology. Indeed, they are different things. Methodology is method-regard text; ontology, essence-regard. Sound like superfluous statements? Yet, the mistakes of mixing them up happens in highly acclaimed works such as Being and Time of Martin Heidegger.

On Ideology

Ideology has multiple-choice of meanings. In the context here, ideology is not merely idea, ideation or system of idea. Endowing with metaphysical and hegemonistic rhetorics, its semantics refer and defer in such away that can enchant people into believing without or dare not resort to proper reasoning and criticism, or can be sort of implanted in believer's mind. This sort of blind-faith is clearly not the nature of pragmatism. Historical lessons such as witch-hunts and Cultural Revolution teach us this sort of ideology is, if not more, every bits as precarious as nihilism. Nevertheless, this does not ensue that it can't be de-ontologistized and be a spatial-temporal, politically correct tool.

Both materialist and idealist pragmatism are error-prone. The former tends to be profit-oriented and damaging the environment. The latter can tilt toward building Babel Towers and extremely hypocritic. What we need is something paying regard to them, not "believing" in them, yet to have proper sustainable results.

Philosophers do not have to worry that this will drive a nine-inch-nail into the heart of philosophy. Definition of philosophy has never been stable. Contingently speaking, so long as there is thought reflexion, there is philosophy.

Neopragmatism

Neopragmatism comes in flavors. For ETTanism, process is part of the result; it benchmarks the result. Process "becomes" result. The notion goes beyond Whiteheadean process philosophy, in that it is more wholistic and transcends (non-metaphysically) the becoming/being dualism.

One can't help but being liberal in order to have a proper life in modern complex society, especially the one that is hitech-gadget-ridden. Being entirely anti-liberalism or anti-libertarianism seems like telling other:"I'm giving up my liberties and other constitutional rights!" On the other hand, most people don't like being labeled as an extremist, nihilist, a pedophile or a (devilized) witch. This is why the neopragmatic liberalism with the following features has to come into the scene:

1. Ideology-less: Focus on proper methodology rather than universal ideology (the metaphysical one).

2. Creativism.

3. Contractarian liberalism of maximum liberties that end at others' liberties (Rawls).

4. Properly healthy and healthy properness.

5. Anti-reactionary fairness with frugal and prudent law-making process, just judicial review, antitrust, of best possible quality evidence, awards and punishments, civil and criminal law, jurisprudence, prohibition of unfair&/non-public-regarding influences of communities/groups (Cass Sunstein), plus proper protections of the weaks. Justice is the major ethical issue to consider.

6. Factism: facts or reliable statistics based decision-making process.

7. Principle-centered with proper public/private non-dialectic dichotomy.

8. Proper public powers definition, anti-nepotism and other proper measures.

9. Neo-internationalism with stricter international antitrust mechanism including political powers. There must also be proper control of international arms trade, security firms and other surveillance related businesses. Prevention and correcting settings against profiting from others misfortune.

10. Neonationalism and national constitutionalism.

11. De-ontologism.

12. Neonaturalism

13. Neo-neologism

14. Self-criticism

15. Heartism

16. Neopragmatic interpretivism

17. Sustainable reasonableness

18. Post-structuralism

If one really need something simple, I would unsatisfactory or over-simplistically say it is a reflexion or attempt to deal with all problems arise from pragmatism and utilitarianism, especially those materialistic ones. Thus, this put an end to the future possibility of never ending prefixes of "neo"s.

Naked-mind Society

Thanks to the advent of lie-detector and mind-reader, we are moving toward a naked-mind society. Although this is a good thing in fact-finding and promoting a more honest society, there are other facets to consider, especially privacy, big brother, god-playing issues. Should their uses be limited to situations where honesty will have significant social impact such as criminal cases?

Feminism

The parts of feminism that focus on understanding and emancipation constitute good initiatives. These should challenge the status quo, question the so-called ism-ism, the haves and have-nots dichotomy, legal legitimacy etc. And, there are efforts to push these applications beyond gender issues, into other arena such as ethnicity, religion, age, etc. They can bring about good changes, if applications were proper. Nevertheless, they tend to ontologicalize social life and morality, intolerable of "lonely-planet" life-style, essentialism, overemphasize on discourses, overly protective, fail to be critical of those situations where they lose supports, fail to understand different versions of libertarianism and pragmatism, and properly result-oriented. These pose qestions like "is feminine libertarianism and pragmatism possible?", "If possible, what are they?", "Can feminine hermeneutics be less agressive and emotional?"

Neo-secularism

Secularism is the best of possible ways for global justice. Only independent, impatial and dogma-less secular justice makes multicultural fairness realizeable. It should develop along with the best possible contemporary secular rationality. "Global" here refers to a complex world order links by international trades and communications. Unless there is clear harm to their very existence or abuse, those outside the domain should be left alone in their best natural state. Our so called "civilization" tends to be aggressive and already committed cultural genocides. On the other hand, as minimal as it should be, there is an urgency to formulate a more efficient, secular frame of reference, "global" value and enforcing system that is anti-trust. As of its very anti-trust essense, those practice or provide one-sided supports of (neo/quasi)fascist, non-secular politics (in its narrow sense), other monopolistic systems or violation of the global values shall be treated as given up their rights to judge, to enforce and to be treated equally. "Justice must be seen to be done." Therefore, the judiciary and enforcement rights shall be in the hands of consented developed free-worlds with a quorum that can ensure efficacy.

Complex Potentials

Singularity was certainly not as homogeneous as it sound. It's there with complex potentials of causality: shades, shapes, colors, dynamics, vortices etc. The word can be misleading for a novice. If "it" were homogeneous, there wouldn't be universes as we could perceived today, because there wouldn't be lives, we wouldn't "be" and no perception would exist. Imagine! A world with no sense of boredom, feels and meanings. As of its homogeneity, there would be only one thing, yet it's nothing.

Like words, potentials also differ and defer in time and space. Natural potentials are hardly equal.

Potentials "real"-ize themselves through anisotropy and releasing their powers. Under neopragmatic context, the authentic "real" ought to be something healthy and producing proper results.

Thus, better avoid saying "I understood this guy." after seeing tip of an iceberg or try to clone him.

Complexity is a noun, not verb. Thus, related action may or may not be complex.

An interesting technical link.

ETTanism

ETTanism is opionionistic, introductory skeleton for further development and edifying. This means accepting and interpreting the contents at your own risks. Opinionism has to be there as the author can't deal with every aspects at once in the same time and space. Furthermore, the subjective interpretations, which are also subject to multi-level interpretations, are hardly stable. If the result is wrong, more often than not, the interpretation &/ application would need re-examination, as it is best to assume the author intended proper results in the long run.

Nevertheless, it can be a powerful tool when it meets with facts, results or cogency. Causality exerts itself, sometimes in chaotic or near chaotic ways, in broader perspective, like it or not. Weak? Maybe, yet the stone-piercing power is there in the long run. Treating opinions opinionistically coheres logically and can be assertive in many situations. It is not something all-embracing. The audience are encouraged to use their brain instead of passive data-feeding. Self-criticize factually if necessary; self-compete rather than the-other-compete. The presenter has the right of final says as to his presentations, especially when others interpretation is palpably leading to contradictions, injustice, improper repercussions or long term effects. Yet, this is by no mean a restriction to legal freedom of speech.

Present tense is used in quotation of authority as if having live encounter. Authentic presentations or representations speak to us, they are alive.

Opionion is opinion. Causality is causality. There is no intention to "encounter" those obsessed with competition, incitement, mud-throwing and framing others. Wicked interpretations r normally not hard to c. The interpreter should bear the responsibility for their relevant consequences.

Some of my thoughts here are formulated ages back and my data were stolen many times. Challenges of their originality are welcome.

The edifying philosopher, coined by Rorty, should be earned, not declared.

If you don't understand, don't pretend to be.