Informational World

The "world" is far more informational than material. And the information that concerns us relates far less to objects than we realize: to our immanent danger.
Macroinformation is my offer of what's intended as a giant step toward survival: toward self-defense against the manipulators: both deliberate and merely conveniently conscious: aware only enough to guide the lies, deceptions, misinformations. To protect us against governments, churches, schools, parents, used car salesmen, all the purveyors of deception, the victim-victimizers.

We're not as bright as we pretend. Some is deliberate, some is unnecessary. If we could step up in informational sophistication, if the consumers of information had some of the same tools of awareness that the manipulators had, we might thrive better: and less kleptocratically.

Macroinformation is my caution to those who would mature from kleptocracy, or at least those who sympathize with the victims of rapacious civilization (and that's all of us) to resist the civilization's convenient naivte about complex information.
The reigning epistemology encourages associating information with data, as though the word spoken, the word, written, is the thought meant: and that's all.

No, information, real information, the important information, though it cannot exist without data, has no more to do with data than "you" have to do with the atoms in the molecules in the cells of your body. Certainly you cannot exist without them; but you are so much more (and so much less) than they are. Sure, we're attoms and molecules and cells ... and also what made us vote for Hitler, for Nixon, for Bush, what makes us weep in La Strada, what makes us fall for the gypsy repairing our car ...

We live in a conceptualized world far more than in the physical world. we live in the unspoken world as importantly, more importantly than in the spoken. Information mixes data with implication with inuendo with lie with mistake ... with eidetic information.