All my philosophical investigations have led me back to ‘the mathematics of belief’; to the type of ‘reason’ and ‘logic’ we use to ‘make sense’ of our experiencing of the world, and in the case of Western civilization, to ‘bury reality’ beneath it.

  Would you want to know the source of major dysfunction in the world? … even if it challenged the foundational assumptions/beliefs of your culture?

    Answering the following questions may give some insights on how solid is your grasp of reality.

    As Ralph Waldo Emerson says in ‘The Method of Nature’, “The tool [of reason] has run away with the workman.” And as Friedrich Nietzsche says in ‘Twilight of the Idols’; “Reason” is the cause of our falsification of the testimony of the senses. Insofar as the senses show becoming, passing away, and change, [...]

  Is there not a ‘dark side’ to the ‘cleansing of Ebenezer Scrooge’ in Charles Dickens ‘A Christmas Carol’?  Scrooge, the ‘bad boss’ transforms into Scrooge the ‘good boss’, persuading us that ‘goodness’ and ‘badness’ are absolutes that fountain forth from the interior of individuals understood as ‘sovereign powers’ or ‘things-in-themselves’.  Surely the ‘good action’ [...]

  Introduction:  Behaviours can be ‘situationally animated’ and they can be ‘language animated’.  When we get together to try to understand ‘the world dynamic’, we do so using synthetic realities constructed with ‘words-as-subjects’ to depict the ‘animating agencies’.  In the above graphic, situation animated dynamics ‘actually’ shape the boundaries of ‘states’.  But once we have [...]

  The phenomena of figure and ground, wherein we can extract meaning from a static array of shapes by bringing a subset of those shapes or ‘spatial-relations’ into connection in our minds so that they form a familiar, recognizable pattern, is usually exemplified by a black and white silhouette such as the above. The point [...]

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“People do not live in the state”  … “The state lives in the people” – Gustav Landauer . . The recipe for constructing a democratic state is as follows;

S’il vous plait, … answer the following questions, do a quick review and modify your answers as necessary to maximize overall consistency, and then view your Authoritarian/Anarchist profile using the key at the end of the quiz. . 1. Do you believe the relationship between organisms and the earth’s evolving biosphere is;