Thread by @wydna00

The concept of Worldview has degraded heavily from its origins to its present use in psychology, sociology, etc. It’s not an unconscious set of prejudices, assumptions, and values. It’s rather World-INTUITION, an image of cosmological unity we actively represent to ourselves

An intuition for Kant (who coined/invented the term worldview) is a class of representations. It’s a bundle of sensory data which the imagination binds together into a mental object, which we represent to ourselves in order to cognize/think about

A Worldview is an image of interconnected unity of things, but the imagination is incapable of raising this image to the level of an absolutely self-contained and coherent idea of world systemicity. The imagination stretches to extend its systemization, but snaps under the strain

Kant makes this central to his account of the Sublime. The Sublime is a feeling of smallness and incapacity of the mind’s powers of representing. It awakens a feeling of awe and terror at the infinite magnitude or the world as a system.

The creation of World-Images is the axis around which judgement turns, and so science itself, broadly conceived, systemizes World-Domains in reference to World-Images it creates, which serve as a model for systemic self-sufficiency and rational totalization.

Today scientists, managers, economists, intelligence agencies, all have developed enormous World-Models using constantly refined techniques of big data computing and statistical collection and analysis. They seek ultimately absolutely totalized 1:1 models of cosmological unity

These models are used to plan the economy, to manage public health, and to direct public discourse. But like Bacon understood, instruments like telescopes and microscopes are extensions/augmentations of our core sensory and imaginative faculties. As are computers and data science

Thus the drive by modern scientists and technocrats to perfect their simulative world-models is merely the continuous stretching of the imagination to totalize its Worldview according to Rational ideals of absolute cosmological systemicity. And this is eternally unobtainable

So the cyclopean World-Models under which we are governed are consequently always on the edge of collapse as instrumental and cybernetic imagination strains itself further and further towards a breaking point. And only the further extension of World-Models prevents this

This condition though of permanently immanent Worldview collapse engenders in the society administered under that straining Worldview, with a pervasive feeling of sublime terror. Thus dread, anxiety, and doom descends over us like a shadow of the simulated world which looms above

This is the definition of Neo-Liberalism