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Introduction
“If you repeat a
lie often enough,
sooner or later,
people believe
it.” - Josef Goebbels
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Introduction
The power of
subliminal fake
news and the
challenge of
‘wind-changing’
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Some observations
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On facts and artifacts:
•Today’s technologically-
mediated social environment:
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On facts and artifacts:
What we know is
constructed for us by
media, those anonymous
authorities in newsrooms,
or trolls behind computer
terminals
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On facts and artifacts:
We live in ‘shadows’ (in Ellul’s
sense), in contrast to what
C.S. Lewis calls our ‘primal
history’
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On facts and artifacts:
Technology shapes us: ‘the
medium is the message’
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On facts and artifacts:
Mcluhan: literacy leads to
linearity, or sequential thinking
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On facts and artifacts:
Innis: orality privileges
keepers of memory
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On facts and artifacts:
There is a sense in which media
as tool can enlarge the range of
what is humanly possible
(Mcluhan’s ‘extensions of man’),
as well as frame the limits of our
universe of discourse
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On facts and artifacts:
cf. Daniel Katz: “While the
physical barriers to
communication are rapidly
disappearing, the psychological
obstacles remain.”
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On facts and artifacts:
•Preconceptions and stereotypes do not necessarily break down before facts: lack of congruence is explained away as ‘exceptions to the rule’, and when too dissonant, seeks validating information from sources considered as authorities
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On facts and artifacts:
•A ‘fact’ is a
value; we are
sensitized to
what we already
believe as true
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On facts and artifacts:
‘Objectivity’ is at best ‘inter-
subjectivity’, shareable and
repeatable within a community
of meaning
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On facts and artifacts:
e.g., the universe is a personal
reality: that the US is 10,000
miles away is less important than
that a family member or friend
lives there, or the ‘bias’ of
personal interest
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On facts and artifacts:
We all ‘socially construct’ what
we perceive as facts
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On facts and artifacts:
•On selective perception: a
function of the limits of what
we are capable of seeing
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The Seven Blind Men & the Elephant
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On facts and artifacts:
‘What you see is what you
get’, or why we only see what
we are trained to see:
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On facts and artifacts:
The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis:
language is not only an
instrument for expressing
ideas, but shapes those ideas
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On facts and artifacts:
William James: “We have no
eyes but for those aspects of
things that have been labeled
for us.”
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On facts and artifacts:
e.g., Filipinos have no
indigenous word for ‘privacy’;
Eskimos have 30+ word
variants for ‘snow’
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On facts and artifacts:
Suzanne Langer: “The limits of
my language are the limits of
my world.”
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Some constructions from biblical
perspectives
•Empiricism and distortions in
the social sciences:
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S.I. Hayakawa’s ‘Ladder of Abstraction’
Power over aswang
Lord of the Spirits
Saviour
Jesus
God the higher the
level of
generality, the
more abstract
and universal
but unusable for
a specific
context
the lower the
level of generality,
the more
concrete and
particular to
a specific context
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Some constructions from biblical
perspectives
Emil Brunner’s ‘Law of the Closeness of
Relation’:
The nearer a ‘fact’ or a system is to the natural
world, the ‘harder’ it is as a science; the closer it
has to do with matters of the ‘heart’, or that
place that serves as integrating point, at which
the human being is drawn together as a unity,
the greater the likelihood of distortion
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Some constructions from biblical
perspectives
Our epistemic decline: “Although
they knew God, they did not honor
him as God,” leads to worship of the
creature, darkening of the mind into
futility
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Some constructions from biblical
perspectives
C.S. Lewis’
version of ‘the
fear of the
Lord’:
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Some constructions from biblical
perspectives
cf. the Psalmist:
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Some constructions from biblical
perspectives
•Our cultural mandate:
Naming the powers: who, or
what, is the thing that shapes
your mind and intellectual
environment?
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Some constructions from biblical
perspectives
Cf. Walter Wink – institutions
develop a logic of their own, which
become the ‘spirit’ of a place or
organizational culture
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Some constructions from biblical
perspectives
Ellul: society gets determined by
technology, which not only assumes
autonomy but rises to Faustian
power
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Some constructions from biblical
perspectives
Discern when…
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Some constructions from biblical
perspectives
Destroy ‘strongholds of the mind’
and open windows to a new world:
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Some constructions from biblical
perspectives
Be ‘hermeneutically suspicious,’ how
and why we read what we read
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Some constructions from biblical
perspectives
How do we read the ‘spirit of the
times’ – what the Germans call
‘Zeitgeist’ – and discern the work of
the ‘prince of the power of the air’?
(Ephesians 2:2)
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Some constructions from biblical
perspectives
Discern the deep and surface
structures that need to be
addressed
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Iceberg Theory of Culture
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The Hermeneutical Cycle
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Some constructions from biblical
perspectives
We do not just consume, critique or
imitate culture, but create culture,
an alternative thought environment,
a new ‘social imaginary’
cf. Philippians 4.8
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Some constructions from biblical
perspectives
Practice a prophetic imagination:
“…[it is] the most subversive, redemptive act
that a leader of a faith community can undertake
in the midst of exiles. This work of poetic
alternative in the long run is more crucial than
one-on-one pastoral care or the careful
implementation of institutional goals….
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Some constructions from biblical
perspectives
Practice a prophetic imagination:
“That is because the work of poetic imagination
holds the potential of unleashing a community of
power and action that finally will not be
contained by any imperial restrictions and
definitions of reality….
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Some constructions from biblical
perspectives
Practice a prophetic imagination:
“...Jesus’ way of teaching parables invited his
community of listeners beyond visible realities of
Roman law and restrictive Jewish law,”
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Some constructions from biblical
perspectives
Practice a prophetic imagination:
“….[it was] out of tradition, specific, open-ended,
an alternative society of the ‘kingdom of God.’
He had no blueprints nor programs, “but turns
people loose from the givens of the day [so they
can] live toward new social possibilities…”
- Walter Brueggemann,
Hopeful Imagination, Prophetic Voices in Exile
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