A recent historical example of the POLARIZED DISGREEMENT BETWEEN “LIBERAL AWARENESS” and “CONSERVATIVE AWARENESS”

 

For example, nine years ago (this note was written on December 25th, 2011), on the first anniversary of 9/11, CBC interviewer Peter Mansbridge asked then Prime Minister (Canada) Jean Chrétien:

 

“By the end of the day [9/11], what were you thinking about in terms of how the world had changed?”, and Chrétien replied:

 

“… it is a division in the world that is building up. And I knew that it was the inspiration of it.  For me, I think that the rest of the world a bit too selfish, and that there is a lot of resentment…. You know, the poor, relatively, get poorer all the time. And the rich are getting richer all the time. … You know, you cannot exercise your powers to the point of humiliation for the others.  And that is what the Western world, not only the Americans, the Western world has to realize, because they are human beings too, and there are long-term consequences if you don’t look hard at the reality in 10 or 20 or 30 years from now.”

 

Although an Ipso-Reid poll found that 84 percent of Canadians believed the United States was at least partly responsible for the Sept. 11 attacks, and although Senator Douglas Roche commented;

 

“This was a very perceptive comment [Jean Chrétien’s]. It was waiting to be said–needed to be said. It was something that many of us have been saying for a long time. Any anti-terrorism policy has to be seen within the totality of economic and social conditions that are the obvious spawning ground of this desperate activity.”

 

There was an uproar, particular in the United States where people accused Chrétien of ‘making excuses for terrorists’ and in Canada, …

 

“Canadian Alliance leader Stephen Harper called on Chrétien to apologize to the U.S. and to the families of Canadians killed in the attacks. “(His) comments, particularly coming on the anniversary of Sept. 11, blaming the victim are shameful,” Harper charged. “What was behind the events of Sept. 11 are the forces of evil and hatred…. These must be resisted by free and democratic societies and their leaders.”

This split between the views of Jean Chrétien and Stephen Harper exemplifies the POLARIZING DIVISION in ‘AWARENESS’ that is manifest in CONSERVATIVE – LIBERAL POLITICS that persists in WESTERN CULTURE GENERALLY. ARE WE NOT INTERCONNECTED AND INTERDEPENDENT STRANDS IN THE ALL-INCLUDING WEB OF LIFE as in indigenous aboriginal (AND MODERN PHYSICS) understanding and as also in Modern physics; “The world is given to me only once, not one existing and one perceived. Subject and object are only one. The barrier between them cannot be said to have broken down as a result of recent experience in the physical sciences, for this barrier does not exist.” …Erwin Schroedinger

 

“It is the face of our own shadow that glowers at us across the Iron Curtain.” – Carl Jung

As Jung points out, Primitive man (and he might have included indigenous aboriginals with their ‘mitakuye oyasin’ (everything is related) belief did FALL INTO THE WESTERN CULTURE LINGUISTIC CONCEPTALIZATION SUPPORTED TRAP OF THE SELF-OTHER SPLIT;

 

To him (primitive man) the world is a more or less fluid phenomenon within the stream of his own fantasy, where subject and object are undifferentiated and in a state of mutual interpenetration.” – Carl Jung<‘mark>

 

BUT THE HARSH, BINARY VIEWPOINT of THE CONSERVATIVE as in Stephen Harper’s comment is VERY FAMILIAR TO ME, in the context of SIMPLE BINARY SCIENCE that Jung also pints his finger at because WESTERN CULTURE MAINSTREAM SCIENCE (Newtonian) FRAGMENTS THE REALITY CONTINUUM, SPLITTING APART FIGURE AND GROUND and giving us what we call THE OBJECTIVE VIEW in which WE ARE UNINVOLVED.  As Nietzsche points out, this FRAGMENTATION is SYNTHETIC being based on the DOUBLE ERROR OF NAMING AND GRAMMAR that INVENTS “THE LOCAL AUTHOR”;

 

Our judgement has us conclude that every change must have an author”;–but this conclusion is already mythology: it separates that which effects from the effecting. If I say “lightning flashes,” I have posited the flash once as an activity and a second time as a subject, and thus added to the event a being that is not one with the event but is rather fixed, “is” and does not “become.”–To regard an event as an “effecting,” and this as being, that is the double error, or interpretation, of which we are guilty.” – Nietzsche, ‘Will to Power’, 531

 

With this WESTERN CULTURE LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING TECHNIQUE OF FRAGMENTATION, …. we no longer have to solve the PROBLEM of UNDERSTANDING an ALL-INCLUDING WORLD in which WE OURSELVES are included, but WE CAN PLAY THE GAME OF BEING VOYEURS of a DETACHED PSEUDO-REALITY where we become JUDGEMENTAL OBSERVERS of “WHAT THOSE INDEPENDENT OTHERS ARE DOING”.

 

This LINGUISTIC SYNTHETIC DETACHMENT has led us WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS to develop a PURIFICATIONIST SYSTEM OF JUSTICE based on IDENTIFYING AND REMOVING/DISABLING the notional “LOCAL AUTHOR” of DISTURBANCE to the STATUS QUO (even if that “LOCAL AUTHOR” is the AUTHOR of REBALANCING in an UNBALANCED RICH and POOR social collective’ aka a ‘ROBIN HOOD’).

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