PHILOSOPHY
[W]holeness is what is real, and that fragmentation is the response of this whole to man’s action, guided by illusory perception, which is shaped by fragmentary thought. In other words, it is just because reality is whole that man, with his fragmentary approach, will inevitably be answered with a correspondingly fragmentary response. David Bohm
Scientific reductionism has given us the false image of separateness. In order to solve the wicked problems of the 21st century, we will have to shift our thinking from old ideologies to something that is more nuanced.
Specifically, this means the end of linear thinking and finally adopting systems thinking. It means finally accepting our social world is chaotic and challenging.
Of course, this doesn’t mean the end of knowledge. Rather, it places our certainty within a context of a broader understanding of experience, no longer impeded by dogma.