Episode 11.80: Further reflections on why unmaking sense entails changing our view of foundations.

Our “foundational” assumptions are not the beginning of a process, but rather distillations of centuries of reflection, practice, and inquiry in our culture. These assumptions are often unquestioned and absorbed when we're very young, but as we grow older and start to question certain things, it's important to recognize that many of the things we question aren't really rooted things. Instead, we should be questioning the very basis of our rationality and whether even the concerns, objectives, and questions we have are the right ones. The speaker suggests that our doubts about foundational assumptions are a reflection of the fact that they are products of the world view that we are now calling into question. As we look around and see a mess at every level, we begin to question things like God, prosperity, the good life, achievement, and success. This questioning is not caused by a loss of faith or lack of confidence, but rather by a realization that the world is in a mess and these foundational assumptions are part of it. The speaker suggests that our ability to challenge these assumptions properly is a modern phenomenon and that many people are now recognizing that the system has produced a world that is destroying itself or being destroyed by the monster that it created. The speaker encourages us to remember that when we start to question what we've always taken to be the foundational assumptions, it's not because we've lost faith in them as a beginning, but that we've lost faith in what they've created.