WESTERN CULTURE AS A BIPOLAR DISORDER

What we call ‘normal’ is a product of repression, denial, splitting, projection, introjection and other forms of destructive action on experience.”  — R.D. Laing

Not every culture SPLITS into two opposing polar opposite views of ‘reality’ of ‘conservative’ and ‘liberal’.  That’s because not every culture makes EGO and the power of LOCAL SOURCING the cornerstone of its concept of ‘reality’ as WESTERN CULTURE does.  In culture’s where TRANSFORMATION serves the foundational role in ‘reality’, there is no polarizing BIPOLAR DISORDER, neither of the overt ‘conservative’ – ‘liberal’ BIPOLAR DISORDER variety where the polarizing division is over the question of the presumed LOCAL SOURCING of actions and developments (is it ‘one-to-many- sourced? … or is it ‘many-to-one sourced’), or the introverted psychiatric-clinically defined INTERNAL splitting of the psyche POPULAR version of BIPOLAR DISORDER.

WESTERN CULTURE has become blind to its inbuilt, pervasive BIPOLAR DISORDER that manifests as the conservative – liberal split as to how one should understand the process of LOCAL SOURCING of actions and developments; i.e. does it take a whole community to raise a child, … or does one bad apple spoil the barrel?  Which way does LOCAL SOURCING work?   Does the whorl in the water source the flow and movement of the water, … or, does the flow and movement of the water source the whorl?

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