The intellectual-social dynamic of Western culture has fallen prey to the aberrant practice of employing language-and-grammar based ‘logic of the EXCLUDED middle’ to intellectually construct an INVENTED REALITY  that serves as Western culture’s ‘operative realty’.  ‘INVENTED REALITY’ linguistically-intellectually over-writes’ and ‘occludes our EXPERIENTIAL REALITY of inclusion in the transforming relational continuum as described with the logic of the INCLUDED middle.  So, instead of being inspired as ‘Robin Hoods’ who throw ourselves into the cultivating/sustaining of relational balance and harmony, we Western culture adherents become ‘intellectual JUDGES committed to‘PROGRESS‘ in the linear, binary logical terms of ‘feeding/growing good’ while starving/shrinking ‘bad’.

 

 

‘Progress’ is a word that ‘tips us off’ to the psychosis that is built into Western culture.  The concept of ‘progress’ (linear time based trend towards more-good-less-bad) is supported within a ‘house of cards’ manner by what Nietzsche terms ‘the double error’ of imputing ‘reality’ to name-instantiated things-in-themselves (first error), …  with powers of sourcing actions and developments (second error which extends the first error in a Pinocchio’s nose-like extension).   There is no ‘progress’ and no ‘things-in-themselves with powers of sourcing actions and developments’ in a transforming relational continuum, the world or our actual relational experience which we ‘know’ even in our pre-lingual experiential understanding as infants, a prelingual understanding that is purely topological relations based [1].

‘Progress’ has been exposed as a sham by systems scientists who refer to it a ‘suboptimization’.  Given that we live in a transforming relational continuum, belief in the possibility of suboptimization is ‘psychosis’ since it is impossible to isolate, within a transforming relational continuum, some ‘thing-in-itself’ There are none!  That is; ‘things-in-themselves’ are the intellectual artifact of hanging ‘names’ on relational forms in the flow).   A ‘human being’, … an ‘independent nation’, … a ‘corporation’ are cases in point; i.e. we ‘name them’ and the intellectual/psychological effect of naming them imputes persisting ‘thing-in-itself being’ to them, whether the named thing is a nation, a person or a corporation.

‘Progress’ is psychologically invoked by language and grammar that employs the double-error abstractions of name-instantiated things-in-themselves, notionally endowed with powers of sourcing actions and developments together with the abstraction of ‘time’ as a linear progression from ‘past’ to ‘future’.   The abstract double error combo together with the abstraction of ‘linear time’ is put together in language and grammar packages to stimulate in the intellect, the psychological impression of self-sourced intention-driven change.

THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS INTENTION-DRIVEN CHANGE IN THE REALITY OF OUR ACTUAL EXPERIENCE OF INCLUSION IN A TRANSFORMING RELATIONAL CONTINUUM.

There is, however, the INVENTED REALITY that we put together with language and grammar that develops along a notional axis of ‘time’ from past to future.  Using language and grammar constructs such as ‘Katrina is growing larger and stronger’, … ‘Katrina is ravaging New Orleans’, … ‘Katrina is weakening and dissipating’, … we can intellectually analyze and REDUCE sensations [As in Mach’s ‘Analysis of Sensations’] so that we can express them in terms of ‘things-in-themselves’ with notional powers of sourcing actions and developments.  (more…)