Abstract :
In less than 400 years rationality took us from witch burning to the moon. Current societal developments suggest that it may take much less time to send us back to where we came from. Our languages (natural and scientific) have become vague, blurred, ambiguous and inconsistent; what we say is increasingly no longer what we mean or what corresponds to experience and other kinds of knowledge. Often it has no meaning at all any more. In this carnival of words our intentions are valued according to the degree they exceed the possible and knowable, while their correlation with reality and common sense is considered a pre-post-modern relict. When the problem is made the solution and the paradox a methodology we indeed feel like kids in a candy store. The difference is that they understand that it is a dream.
