THE PROJECT
Western civilization wears Enlightenment tinted glasses that views being civilized as a means to prevent humanity from mucking things up. The Unenlightened Wisdom Project removes these tinted glasses to address the civilized abnormalities, amoral principles, unethical behaviors and misinformation from hierarchical mass society that muck up humanity. Enlightenment tinted glasses champion materialism and individualism. Removing these tinted glasses requires an alternative, humanitarian wisdom.
THE HUMANITARIAN WORLDVIEW
The Unenlightened Wisdom Project adheres to the humanitarian motto: “Love kindness. Build community. Believe in Humanity.” As empathic beings we normally feel and love kindness. Humanity and our own brain health benefits when we commit this feeling to action, such as the action of building community. Yet as social beings we can either live up or down to expectations. This calls for the need to believe in humanity in order to best love kindness and build community.
WISDOM
We are biased by our limited experiences and news from others, particularly when the news is misinformation. The dialectic reasoning of authorities fails to remedy this when all sides share the same bias. Collective wisdom, the process involved in scientific consensus, increases the diversity of experiences and information from which to best guide our journeys in life. Humanitarian wisdom filters experiences and information to best guide a journey from brain health to democracy.
KIRK D. SINCLAIR, PhD
My diverse experiences as a multidisciplinary academic with a STEM background, multilevel educator, long term care partner and long distance journeyer balance each other to create the humanitarian worldview and philosophy behind the Unenlightened Wisdom Project.
