ABSTRACT: … WESTERN CULTURE ‘conservative-liberal’ bipolarizing politics is a psychological disorder stemming from confusing the DOUBLE ERROR based notion of LOCAL SOURCING for ‘reality’.

In WESTERN CULTURE conceptualizing of reality, the concept of EITHER ‘good’ OR ‘bad’ is understood using the abstract logic EITHER/OR logic of the EXCLUDED medium, wherein FIGURE-and-GROUND-are-TWO.  In modern physics as in the EASTERN Buddhist/Taoist, Advaita Vedanta and indigenous aboriginal cultures, the logic of reality is the ‘quantum’ BOTH/AND logic of the INCLUDED medium wherein FIGURE-and-GROUND-are-ONE as symbolized, for example, by the Tai-Chi (yin-yang) symbol.

This NON-BINARY understanding is CONSISTENT with our natural experience wherein the hurricane and the atmospheric flow one dynamic that the DOUBLE ERROR of NAMING and GRAMMAR split into TWO.  This is problematic for us WESTERN CULTURE adherents in that it introduces an ambiguity as to whether the FIGURE (hurricane) is stirring up the GROUND (atmospheric flow) or the GROUND (atmospheric flow) is stirring up the FIGURE (figure).  In physical reality, the hurricane and the flow are relational manifestations of the one dynamic of relational TRANSFORMATION and while there are relations that may be harmonious or dissonant, there are no ontological binaries that support EITHER/OR logic.  That is, IN THE PHYSICAL REALITY OF OUR SENSUAL EXPERIENCE, there can be relational harmony and relational dissonance in the yin/yang sense, but there is not such thing, IN THE PHYSICAL REALITY OF OUR SENSUAL EXPERIENCE, as the ontological dichotomy of ‘IS’ or ‘IS NOT’ as in ‘GOOD’ or EVIL’ and ‘GUILTY’ or ‘INNOCENT’ and other such binary abstractions that are the basis, in WESTERN CULTURE, but not EASTERN CULTURE, for ‘CREDIT’ or ‘BLAME’, ‘REWARD’ or ‘PUNISHMENT’, ‘ACCLAIM’ or ‘DERISION’.

In modern physics as in the EASTERN and indigenous aboriginal cultures, as Schroedinger puts it, ‘SUBJECT and OBJECT are only ONE’.  This is the meaning of ‘mitakuye oyasin’ (we and everything are related) in the indigenous aboriginal culture.

The above introduction suggests why this note is entitled Bipartisan Politics or Bipolar Disorder, since there is no support in the relational dynamics of NATURE for the TWO OPPOSING VIEWS OF REALITY that manifest in the WESTERN CULTURE social-political divisions into ‘CONSERVATIVE (Republican) and LIBERAL (Democrat).  This dividing into polar opposing political factions which permeates WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENT social collectives is a BIPOLAR DISORDER deriving from the DOUBLE ERROR of NAMING and GRAMMAR (Nietzsche), as described in this note.  THERE IS NO JUSTIFICATION IN REALITY FOR THE CONSERVATIVE – LIBERAL BIPOLAR SPLITTING since such splitting is based on disagreement over whether the root sourcing of societal production and advancement  is the individual (conservative) or the social collective (liberal).  THIS POLARIZING DIVISION into ‘conservatives’ and ‘liberals’ based on conflicting views as to the root source of production and advancement (i.e. is the deeper source the individual or is it the social collective) is innately unresolvable since there is, in reality, no such thing as the local SOURCING of actions and developments, there is only relational transformation (‘sourcing’ is abstraction coming from the DOUBLE ERROR of NAMING and GRAMMAR).

What our WESTERN CULTURE has been constructing with the DOUBLE ERROR of NAMING and GRAMMAR are story-book nations and corporations that become bloated idols from political praise, hollow idols that will not stand up to the test of the hammer.

There are more idols than realities in the world: that is my “evil eye” upon this world; that is also my “evil ear.” Finally to pose questions with a hammer, and sometimes to hear as a reply that famous hollow sound that can only come from bloated entrails — what a delight for one who has ears even behind his ears, for me, an old psychologist and pied piper before whom just that which would remain silent must finally speak out. … This little essay is a great declaration of war; and regarding the sounding out of idols, this time they are not just idols of the age, but eternal idols, which are here touched with a hammer as with a tuning fork: there are no idols that are older, more assured, more puffed-up — and none more hollow. That does not prevent them from being those in which people have the most faith; nor does one ever say “idol,” especially not in the most distinguished instance. … Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

There are many who proudly present untenable constructions as ‘reality’, falsehoods that come to serve society as ‘idols’, and we are drowning is such hollownesses while thirsting for something of substance. rising to the challenge of taking a hammer to the hollow idols may open the way for a more authentic shared reality..

 

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You may not agree with this view that the split into conservative and liberal politics is a psychological BIPOLAR DISORDER, but I can assure you that it is the view of systems thinkers like Erich Jantsch, philosophers like Nietzsche, Bohm and Schroedinger,and is fully supported by modern physics.  That is; the split between republicans and democrats; i.e. the conservative – liberal split, comes from the EGO, and it was operative among WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS long before Donald Trump became president.  The Republicans and Democrats have been deeply divided because of their ‘thinking differently’ and their different thinking comes from the EGO which gives us the sense that we have the powers of SOURCING actions and developments. But is this ‘we’ based SOURCING power rooted in the individual (conservative) or in the social collective (liberal)?

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