History is a debate about perception

If Hitler won the war against the world we would say simple Hitler was the greatest General, governor, woman would adore him and etc. What the fuss about the film Dear Dom it all about perception. Let say I retain that Mintof was a mental disabled, I can hold that that my  perception my idea of perception who are you to tell me I am wrong, who would lead me not to categorize Mintof in that way if that is how I categorize him, thus it exists the negotiated world perception and the subjective perception. 

To continue the film Dear Dom was great in its scope in the scope of art's role in Edward De Bono sense the Times was full of remarks about the film it made us discuss. It tried us and made us agree or disagree to debate facts the same facts that can be seen as just-full and great perhaps. Some people say that Mintof fought against poverty others say that he was a Communist that robbed the rich and gave to other poor but never gave his villa true or false I will not comment I leave it to debate... and rather then an admirable Robin Hood he was more of a genius of political manipulator with his villa like the Communist dictator of China in these people's terms. The problem with Mintof is that he remains debatable he was a hero for some and an idiot for others. The truth is that its only about perception there is no truth we just need to become mature Maltese that it mature humans. It is the history that show fact that are introspective and just like in the case of Hitler. Truth does not exist and we just making a fuss when arguing and taking everything to seriously. In the end Mintof was not like Jesus or the Budha which personally I respect these people more honestly they affected my life more than him. And ultimately he was not a Superman in Friedrich Nietzsche terms and if he is or was or will be people can claim everything even about Paris Hilton when she dies.

Post Post Modern Education

Education in post post Modernism is there to create artist as Albert Camus write in the myth “If the world were clear, art would not exist” in The Myth of Sisyphus that why I suggest the Waldorf education (also known as Steiner education) is a humanistic approach to pedagogy based on the educational philosophy of the Austrian philosopher Rudolf Steiner and also the capacity of design and Montessori education as students need to use the left hemisphere and right as today as we know these 2 parts of brain work together as 1 as they work together in synergy. Then after high school as high school should be compulsory in either study a vocational courses such as business, engineering, medicine, social care, agriculture or computer science or else study the arts and law obviously the vocational courses should have credits of mixed philosophy and arts .

But we can not forget that the basic skills needed are learned in the primary school that it is in the importance in the end such that it a must for example for schools to can introduce the Cort thinking program, six thinking hats and lateral thinking. In the end how it is done science should be a form of art. Malta especially should invest in such an experimental schools with risk we grow to risk is courage and we should not be afraid as a nation of creativity and innovation for our schools and a mix of Waldorf and Montessori education for the future of Malta if we want a great future in the end and give some solution to our problems and the world.

On Truth

Truth is divided into 3 categories. At the first level is based on the Relative truth. This is done for examples by society that changes its attitude by the process of evolution and perhaps now if it wants also by design as Edward De Bono suggest we are all artist as Joseph Beuys and Novalis said. This is seen for example how something is seen by a process of time at time by society and by authority and how it changes by time. This is based on circumstance. The second level is Constructive truth which is basically is Mathematics and Logic. Mathematician and logician can more explain well this. This is because it starts from axiom such as 1+1 and we construct 2 (Gödel's incompleteness theorems, etc). This is very powerful within it area of application, but it is limited. The third is Perception truth. Everything is governed by perception as the mathematician logician and every person thinks with his Logic to make it more accurate as Friedrich Nietzsche stated in 1878 in Human, All Too Human thought "logic [came] into existence in man's head [out] of illogic, whose realm originally must have been immense. Innumerable beings who made inferences in a way different from ours perished". Thus there is the idea that logical inference has a use as a tool for human survival, but that its existence does not support the existence of truth, nor does it have a reality beyond the instrumental: "Logic, too, also rests on assumptions that do not correspond to anything in the real world". Perception is based on a believe system(a making sense of things the circular system in which belief sets perception that reinforce the belief as that is how Edward De Bono describe belief system in his book I am Right You Are Wrong), there is no law of contradiction it is neither right or wrong but rather absurd and moves also by feelings (the red hat in Edward De Bono’s Six Thinking Hat) and also objectivity and experience as we look at the world while our mind organise what we are seeing at the moment as the behavior is of a self-organising patterning system that is totally different from the table top logic of traditional reasoning I am Right You Are Wrong states again. Language is just a form of constructed description tool for communication which means a limitation of language and the imperatives of the media and yet a great power to change sentiments. Thus we can have a description done by language that construct reality as it affects perception or do a model that should embody mathematical reasons for example. But still there is no truth in perception maximum a proto truth that is an absolute that we hold so long as we are trying to change it as Edward De Bono suggests.

Also Language for Edward De Bono in his book I am Right You Are Wrong states that language is a poor thinking system, yet it dominate our thinking till know and it create the seductive dichotomies which we need and create in order to operate the logical principle of contradiction of good/evil, Either/or, us/them etc. Jacques Derrida the inventor of Deconstruction also created the theory of binary oppositions that is a belief in pairs and opposites and of one of the pairs that is suppressed while the other is brought above thus for him good has no meaning unless evil exist thus this is because we are in the Constructive age rather than the Perceptual age.

We think with language...

9 Parts of Desire

In the play 9 Parts of Desire by Heather Raffo that I saw in the St James Cavalier theatre an experimental circle theater 3 main points hit me. The deformity of babies that are present in the South of Iraq babies that are born deformed by the so called in Italian “Uranium ipoverito” that comes possible from the missiles of the war that occurred that the doctor talks about. The idea that Saddam Hussein could be removed before and aid was not given by the Americans such as the last war in Libya as the communist were butchered together with those against the Saddam Hussein regime and the last point is Saddam Hussein kept Iraq such like a female that is abused physically, psychologically and spiritually. So in the last the reflection is what can we do we normal people in these circumstances of war, people dying of hunger and dictators we common people what can we do. 

At the first time I saw the play I thought it was nothing special but know I think it deserves to be analysed by these three points that I mainly believe are true realities.