Holistic view
HOLISTIC VIEW
The world is huge and complex. Still thinking about it as a whole uses ordinary common sense and is very simple: just handle the main points with common sense. Typically the main points are the same as in the small scale: the cumulative effect over large masses of people and living beings makes them huge large scale questions too.
Human values, long term, large scale...
Think of things as phenomena: life, moral, technology, knowledge etc.
From the small scale you understand the phenomena.
Now, just add the effects together over the huge large scale,
in other words multiply the situation by the number of people.
If all haven't got the same kind of situation, you cannot multiply by the number of all, instead you have to multiply by the number of people in just such a situation
and then compare to the number of all to find out
whether you are handling a large scale thing or not.
In an ordinary more complex situation you have to take into account
many kinds of factors: just form a landscape
where things are in the RIGHT PROPORTIONS to each other
and to other things in the world,
where you can see the different phenomena (and their different sides)
just like in the small scale.
The good side of a holistic view is that everything is taken into account in it.
Most things just turn out to be too small to be taken into account at all in practise
since the view is with a certain accuracy only.
The nice thing about large scale is that it handles the essential basic things of life,
some major matters of the world.
(cumulative effect = average multiplied by the masses
Understanding -> by analogs also understanding of the large scale
-> possible to coordinate actions -> cooperation -> Gaia)
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