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The Exercising of Power Through the Social Production of Space

“People do not live in the state”  … “The state lives in the people” – Gustav Landauer

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The recipe for constructing a democratic state is as follows; Read the rest of this entry »

Join the Army ..................... Occupy Everywhere

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.

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1. Do you believe the relationship between organisms and the earth’s evolving biosphere is; Read the rest of this entry »

The Return of the Übermensch

Introduction/overview:

For years I have been inquiring into the source of social dysfunction which my intuition informs me, and I know I am not alone in this, … is ‘unnatural’ and arises from some poorly chosen ‘assumptions’ in our acculturated thinking. Read the rest of this entry »

Klee's 'Angelus Novus' from Stephane Hessel's 'Indignez Vous!'

On September 11^th, 2002, the first anniversary of 9/11, the CBC aired a Peter Mansbridge interview with Prime Minister Jean Chrétien.  The comments were republished in Canada and around the world under such titles as “PM Says US Attitude Helped Fuel Sept. 11” (Toronto Globe and Mail, 9/11/02), and, “The Power to Humiliate” (Sidney Morning Herald, 9/17/02). Read the rest of this entry »

Conflicting Realities; Immigrant versus 'Indigenous'

After Columbus ‘discovered’ America [formerly known as ‘Turtle Island’], waves of colonizing European immigrants moved westward from ‘the Old Country’ and began the process of constructing the New World.   There were many new things that they had to deal with including grizzly bears, poisonous snakes and the troublesome aboriginals that infested the forests and plains.  The knowledge and technology of the immigrants easily overwhelmed resistance from the indigenous ‘fauna’ including the indigenous aboriginal peoples.

In the historical narratives that have been written about this era, those written by the immigrants eulogized the ‘creation of a New World’ while those written by the indigenous peoples spoke of the contamination and degeneration of a superior world, by waves of destructive rodent-like Europeans. Read the rest of this entry »

Rochus Misch recounts his boss’s humour in his book (The Last Witness); Read the rest of this entry »

What is holding up the ‘updating’ of ‘biological science’ and ‘medical science’ in the light of a more comprehensive ‘new physics’?

“C. difficile is ‘always in the hospital”, says Dr. Keegan-Henry, intimating that the remedy is not in waging a war against c.difficile but re-storing floral balance in the digestive tract through probiotic therapy.  She goes on to say that people are DYING UNNECESSARILY because the Medical Establishment (which she compares to a runaway supertanker or ‘Titanic-with-no-one-at-the-helm’) suppresses the administering of remedies that ‘don’t fit medical establishment theory’ [the medical establishment "blocks the best medicine"].

What is wrong with the medical establishment’s theory/model? Read the rest of this entry »

material forms are; (a) constructed from bits/pieces, or, (b) ripples within energy-flow?

The development of material form, behaviour and organization has historically/culturally been seen/understood in two evolutionarily-opposite ways;

(a) inside-outward determined material dynamics as in Western biological sciences

(b) outside-inward – inside-outward energy transformation as in the new physics

In (a), ‘genie-like genes’ have the wherewithal to manage the genesis-by-construction of the material organism (e.g. human ‘being’).  In (b), material forms are ripple-structures that gather and re-gather in the evolving energy-charged spatial plenum [‘field’]

While (b) is supported by relativity and quantum physics, (a) is a ‘guess’ that gives the black-box response ‘genes’ to the question; “from whence comes the development of material form, behaviour and organization?”

This ‘hocus pocus’ answer to ‘what is life?’, which assumes inside-outward directed genesis, continues to play a primary foundational role in our globally dominating Western social dynamic, although new biological research is rapidly enlarging the ranks of ‘post-Darwinist’ and ‘post-Genetics’ [‘hologenomic’] scientists. Read the rest of this entry »

Summer Solstice Essay, 2011

The world is in a mess and we are having a devil of a time trying to understand why we behave the way we do, individually, and collectively, and ‘psychology’ does not seem to have any answers.  In fact, psychology has been born and bred by those whose inquiry is ‘analytical’, hence the terms ‘psychoanalysis’, ‘Jungian analyst’ etc., and the practice of taking an individual into a safe haven where he can ‘open up’ and divulge to himself, the genetic sources of his own behaviour.

Whatever happened to ‘field’ as in physics, wherein outside-inward influence predominates over inside-outward influence?

[See also 'A Field View of Logic']

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