This cyber section
consists of a humanities directory
or a cultural
links-list to all relevant sites that we
on the net encountered concerning
the subject of our site, and other
more focussed link-pages like an
overview of other directories, a separate
links-list with time-specific
sites and a
selection of specialized
links-sites, as well
as a recent
chat-address by which one may link
up for a personal contact with the
one signing for this. Also other
sites who could find themselves in
our concept of service can be
found here.
More and more is it for
the 21th century of importance
that, mentioning sources of
importance, we directly are able
to check them out in the form of
web presentations linked up from
a certain address. The internet
is also named the digital
ether; it is one field of
connectedness linking everything
up with everything. That ether
is the new foundation of the
realm of science the way G.W.F.
Hegel confirmed it to be
for the old ether in his
foreword to the Phenomenology
of Spirit: 'The pure
knowing of oneself is the
absolute being-different-from,
this ether as such, is the
foundation and the realm of
science or the knowing in
general. The beginning of
philosophy supposes or demands
that the consciousness is
situated in this element.' Books
do not form a direct connection,
their disadvantage is that they,
not being in one's possession,
are not directly available to
check out; the disadvantage of
sites at the other hand is that,
being under construction, they
can be of a more tentative
nature and all of a sudden may
be gone. Books one owns, sites
not (unless retrieved from a
state-archive). Sites replace
books thus not directly, but do
offer an important extra source
of information and opportunity
for interaction. The internet
points the way to a culture of
knowledge that depends less on
property and accords better with
the dynamics of the spirit of
the time and the
human rights concerning the
availability of access to and
participation in the society
focussed on knowledge and
information. Also restores the
internet the balance in the
communication that was disturbed
by the one-sided flow of
information from radio and t.v.
Each citizen may now, outside
the not rarely dreaded and hated
soulless falsehood of the
institutions, personally
formulate an answer to those
streams of information. With
publishers who are only able to
accept economically viable
presentations was that not an
option for each. Knowledge
digitally and sometimes
selfrealized, revolutionairy
present on the freer and less
repressive internet as a form of
collective property, the way we
are used to with libraries, is
thus certainly a normal task to
hearten for us, people living
together nationally and
internationally. In our
links-list at this
cyber-section, which partly
replaces a reference-list with
this site, we alas had to
downsize seriously the
department that was created for
sympathizing commercial
enterprises because of an
enormously knowledge-indifferent
interest, for after the tenth
site about garden-gnomes we had
had enough of the 'declarations
of solidarity' without a
reciprocal link or the evidence
of an otherwise proven serious
form of commitment to the
content. Since then is for this
purpose the membership required
of the so-called Filognostic
Association. Also sex-, drugs- en
gamling-sites that against all
warnings of negation adamantly
offered themselves contrary to
the explicitly stated principles
had to be shunned. Open
communication also has it's
disadvantages thus: one must
manage time and again to filter
out the so-called spammers,
those people who usually try to
impose unsolicited commercial
information.