PREFACE:

This extract is from a personal exchange in regard to philosophical ambiguity regarding FRAGMENTATION.  It explores the difference in approach of the philosophical investigations of Friedrich Nietzsche and David Bohm which are relevant to understanding persisting FRAGMENTATION within our WESTERN CULTURE social dynamic.

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hi H.

FINALLY, I get to see WHAT I HAVE BEEN MISSING in regard to Bohm’s and Nietzsche’s views on FRAGMENTATION!

Having read and re-read Bohm’s attack on FRAGMENTATION, I see, finally, that BOHM is NOT on the same tack as Nietzsche and that BOHM is doing a SHORT-CUT to the ‘right answer’.

But my sense is that ‘getting to the right answer’ IS ONLY HALF OF THE PROBLEM and the other half is GETTING PEOPLE TO BACK OUT OF THE MISTAKEN PATH THEY ARE DOGGEDLY PURSUING.

I am not DOUBTING that yourself and others are able to ‘go with Bohm and Krishnamurti’ to THE RIGHT ANSWER, but I I SERIOUSLY DOUBTING whether most people who are stuck with their ladder up against the wrong wall, who are energetically pursuing a climb to the SUMMIT of resolution, that is not ‘the SUMMIT’ but merely a FOOTHILL or SUBOPTIMIUM that is a BEACON to their ONWARD and UPWARD endeavors, but a BEACON that is exhausting their energies in a futile mission since it does not lead to the SUMMIT but is like the MAZE problem where the promising ‘trail’ which we believe is going to take us to the SUMMIT is a DEAD-END.

OK, TOO MANY METAPHORS?  This is not that easy to explain but NOTICE that Nietzsche speaks in terms of SMASHING the IDOLS where there is no such talk from Bohm.  I will re-copy Bohm’s succinct paragraph on FRAGMENTATION right here for easy reference, and if one reads it over, ten times or more, as I have done, it doesn’t SAY A WORD about the problem with LANGUAGE and REASON as being associated with FRAGMENTATION.  Bohm simply says that FRAGMENTATION is INFECTING our WESTERN CULTURE and that we need to FIX that problem because it’s driving us CRAZY.  LOOK FOR ANY MENTION OF LANGUAGE AS THE PROBLM IN BOHM’S FOLLOWING STATEMENT.

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