Preface: This essay highlights important but popularly-overlooked findings in regard to how different LANGUAGE ARCHITECTURES can help to either CONVEY or CONCEAL relational understandings of a ‘systems science’ and Modern physics nature, with an upfront acknowledgement of the contribution of Martine Dodds-Taljaard.  These understandings elucidate on the troubling dysfunctions of modern era social dynamics which arise from LINGUISTIC DIFFERENTIATION and INTEGRATION, that impact psychological and physical ‘balance and well-being’ in a CULTURE-specific manner.

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Introduction:

Martine Dodds-Taljaard (“June 20, 1947- 2001) is an exceptionally clear-thinking ‘systems thinker’ who was never confused by the WESTERN CULTURE penchant for that popular deviousness of ‘analytical thinking‘ that FRAGMENTS complexity born of global interconnectedness and mutual interdependence (characteristic of Wave-Field reality), as if ‘analysis’ were a pathway to understanding such complexity.  But by chopping out a mechanistic skeleton of reality with the reductionist tool of pre-modern physics ‘analytical science’, we DISCARD, in the DIFFERENTIATING process, ‘the INTEGRATING baby as if it were the dirty bath water’, or in other words, we toss out the relational WAVE-FIELD magic of NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT “INTEGRATION” as if it were secondary to linguistically-imposed LOCAL AND EXPLICIT ‘DIFFERENTIATION; … as if the TOWNING in the NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT transforming landscape could be ANALYTICALLY extracted and reconceived of in terms of a LOCAL and EXPLICIT “BEING” based development.’  RE-INSTATING the INTEGRAL to its natural PRIMACY over the DIFFERENTIATED is an upstream battle in our WESTERN CULTURE BINARY LOGIC CRIPPLED mindsets.

“I am not surreptitious or devious – I am very straightforward, which is probably why I am often blackballed.” –Martine

However, being straightforward with those who are promoting a worldview in the abstract terms of DECLARATIONS of INDEPENDENCE and other intellectual abstraction based forms of FRAGMENTATION, ‘will not fly’ in the systems sciences mode of comprehension, an INTEGRATIVE mode of comprehension that is often reviled in our WESTERN CULTURE social collectives where the trend is to progressive fragmentation (eg. LGBTQ) sold on the basis of ‘suboptimization’, a modern-day WESTERN CULTURE ‘psychologically confused pursuit’ that Martine critiques citing systems science pioneer Kenneth Boulding, ‘the Name of the Devil if Suboptimization’.

The ERROR of A NAMING-based Declaration of Independence, backed up by a SECOND ERROR of GRAMMAR constitutes a DOUBLE ERROR of NAMING and GRAMMAR based IMPRESSION of LOCAL AUTHORING, critiqued by Nietzsche (Martine’s philosopher of choice) as the synthetic source of THE ERRONEOUS IMPRESSION OF LOCAL AUTHORING.

Declarations of Independence may achieve the desired popular intellectual conceptualizing without any support whatsoever from physical sense-experiencing, yet once the abstract notion of LOCAL BEING is established in the INTELLECT as a launching pad for GRAMMAR GIVING LOCAL AUTHORING, we have the building materials for constructing SUBSTITUTE REALITIES that let us choose an arbitrary starting location, thus FRAGMENTING the WAVE-FIELD CONTINUUM of our sense-experience.

While our sense-experience affirms our inclusion “in a world characterized by global interconnectedness and mutual interdependence”, or in other words an INTEGRAL world, our language-stimulated intellect opens the door to BINARY LOGIC based DIFFERENTIATION or in other words ‘FRAGMENTATION’, by way of the DOUBLE ERROR of NAMING and GRAMMAR wherein, for example, the LOCAL TOWN EITHER EXISTS OR DOES NOT EXIST.

Once we choose the simple “DOES EXIST” option, this satisfies our BINARY LOGIC based linguistic reality constructing scheme, thus SHUTTING OUT and OBSCURING the less simple QUANTUM LOGIC understanding option wherein THERE IS TOWNING IN THE TRANSFORMING LANDSCAPE.

THIS SHUTTING OUT of the QUANTUM LOGIC option amounts to OBSCURANTISM, where we GO FORWARD with our language construction based on the over-simplistic (and fragmentary) BINARY LOGIC based impression of the LOCAL, EXPLICIT BEING of ‘the TOWN’.  The point is that once BINARY LOGIC based language gets first dibs on REPRESENTATION, the BEING-based status of ‘the TOWN’ is CONCRETIZED, SHUTTING OUT the very possibility of the QUANTUM LOGIC understanding option that is in terms of TOWNING in the TRANSFORMING LANDSCAPE which acknowledges our living “in a world characterized by global interconnectedness and mutual interdependence”.

The BEING-based status of ‘the TOWN’, on the other hand, sets up the FRAGMENTATION-SUPPORTING linguistic abstraction of  LOCAL BEING-based AUTHORING as in; ‘the TOWN is GROWING, DEVELOPING, and PRODUCING goods.  This linguistic DOUBLE ERROR of NAMING and GRAMMAR construction supports a PSYCHOLOGICALLY MISTAKEN IMPRESSION of the possibility of LOCAL-BEING based SUB-OPTIMIZATION’.

“The above aphorism (The Name of the Devil is Suboptimization’), attributed to Kenneth Boulding, points to the inherent weakness characterizing the mindset and socio‐economic, political, educational and managerial practices of Western Industrial society as it developed over the past 300 years. It has its basis in the analytic‐reductionist scientific paradigm, which, despite the remarkable technological applications it spawned, is inappropriate, conflict‐generating and dysfunctional in a world characterized by global interconnectedness and mutual interdependence …” — György Jaros and Martine Dodds-Taljaard  (International Society of Systems Sciences)

The following essay is congruent with the work of my friend, Martine, whose pioneering systems sciences work, although it currently remains an ‘outlier’ in a world obsessed with language-based fragmentation, is sorely needed to resolve the problematic persistence of intellectual-abstraction based fragmentation in WESTERN CULTURE thinking and social relating.

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