WESTERN CULTURE CRAZY-MAKER: THE USURPING OF TRANSFORMATION BY GROWTH, TOPOLOGY BY GEOMETRY

We are born with an intuitive sense of topological discrimination of FIGURE and GROUND as ONE, but in WESTERN CULTURE are quickly taught to supersede TOPOLOGY with the lesser concept of GEOMETRY, a substitution that radically reduces our understanding of the natural world dynamic, replacing TRANSFORMATION with GROWTH.   Instead of understanding a loaf of white bread turning blue as ‘TRANSFORMATION’, we speak of the GROWTH of a ‘SPOT’ of ‘MOLD’.

This is the DOUBLE ERROR of language and grammar pointed out by Nietzsche; the first error is NAMING to impute LOCAL thing-in-itself BEING to a form that we observe by way of our voyeur visualizing sense, while the second error of GRAMMAR conflates the first by imputing the power of SOURCING ACTIONS AND DEVELOPMENT to the NAMING-instantiated thing-in-itself.  This double error approach of language and grammar would have us speaking in terms of GROWTH OF BEING; for example we speak of THE GROWTH OF BLUE MOLD ON A PIECE OF BREAD.

IN THIS DOUBLE ERROR BASED CONSTRUCTION OF THE ABSTRACT CONCEPT OF “GROWTH”, WE ARE INVENTING THE LOGIC OF THE EXCLUDED MEDIUM AND BY SUBSTITUTING ‘GROWTH’ FOR ‘TRANSFORMATION’.

THE ‘BLUE SPOT OF BREAD ” IS NOW THE ‘FIGURE’ THAT LANGUAGE ENDOWS WITH AN ONTOLOGICAL EXISTENCE SEPARATE FROM THE ONTOLOGICAL EXISTENCE  THAT LANGUAGE GIVES TO THE WHITE BREAD ‘GROUND’  AND ‘GRAMMAR’ SECURES THIS ABSTRACT ONTOLOGICAL INVENTION OF LOCAL THING-IN-ITSELF BEING BY IMPUTING LOCAL JUMPSTART POWER OF SOURCING ACTIONS AND DEVELOPMENT TO THE ‘BLUE SPOT’ THAT NOW GOES BY THE NAME ‘MOLD’.

Once we employ this double error in constructs such as ‘The spot of mold is growing larger and darker’ we have focused in on the ‘spot’ and imputed to it ITS OWN LOCAL POWER OF GROWTH.

In other words, WE HAVE REPLACED THE UNDERSTANDING OF TRANSFORMATION WITH THE CONCEPT OF ‘GROWTH’..

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