Revolutions can be bloody as the Arab Spring and Syria demonstrate
but revolutions can also be quiet events. Quiet revolutions do not involve guns
and bombs but are arguably far more effective in bringing about lasting change.
A change in values for example can change the world in which
we live. This happens because we never see or know everything that we
encounter: we always select information, images, sounds and ideas. This
selection has its roots in a natural process called “autopoiesis” which
literally means “self-making-poetry”. We effectively make up poems and stories
about ourselves and the world in which we live. In this sense we create our own
worlds and this is done in accordance with the values we posses. So changing
values does change worlds.
At a deeper level still, changing knowledge changes worlds.
