Lifeworld
here highlights the ambivalence of the common sense world of
everyday life, on the one hand, and the collaboratively constructed
relationship to the world, the other and the self based on
mindfulness.
The instrumental world of ‘getting things done’, that near automatic
fast functioning, the soothing comfort with the known, surfing the
tradition at ease, at home in one’s language, culture, land and
identity are questioned. Exotic excursions into otherness are part of
this package. The digital lifeworld accelerates these
pre-existing forms of relating to the self, to others or to the world
usually.
Snapping out of it, could rock the boat too much. To make the
assumptions of thoughts, actions and relationships explicit and
answerable appears as a hindrance to the smooth cruising through the
day, week and life. The conscious and collaborative construction as
individual or a web of social interactivity takes reflection, time and
persistence.
Even when time is available the interactivity is usually confined to a
dialogue of the type that new information has to pass from one property
owner to the other. It has to be useful to my functioning in the world.
Where is the gain? Another approach could be, that neither the sending
of data, nor the receiving is important, but the aim is communication
itself. The one wants the get the information/truth quickly, the other
sees the event of the dialog as the aim. The moment of being in which the
interlocutors are constructing themselves and their world.
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