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WHY WE (WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS) NEED TO ‘RE-LEARN HOW TO SPEAK’
0September 28, 2025
by ted lumley
in APN
Dialogue, as spoken in the days of Shakespeare, it seems MORE ELOQUENT than today’s speech, SO WHAT HAPPENED TO OUR SPEECH AND WHY?
“Iain McGilchrist’s book, The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World, makes the case that the left hemisphere has taken over our minds and reshaped the world in its image in a way that is good for neither humans nor the planet and everything that lives on it.
“A way of thinking which is reductive, mechanistic has taken us over,” said McGilchrist in The Divided Brain.
“We behave like people who have right hemisphere damage.
“The left hemisphere’s goal is to enable us to manipulate things, whereas the goal of the right hemisphere is to relate to things and understand them as a whole. Two ways of thinking that are both needed, but are fundamentally at the same time incompatible.”
“[The left hemisphere] treats the world as a simple resource to be exploited. It’s made us enormously powerful. It’s enabled us to become wealthy, but it’s also meant that we’ve lost the means to understand the world, to make sense of it, to feel satisfaction and fulfilment through our place in the world.”
Ok, McGilchrist is a NEUROSCIENTIST and he is describing what is going on from a NEUROSCIENTIST’S point of view, and his findings are REAFFIRMED in the languages of PHYSICS by Bohm and in PSYCHIATRY by Laing and Vygotsky and in Philosophy by Wittgenstein in the respective languages of their profession; i.e. THEY ARE ALL SAYING THE SAME THING; … i.e. as McGilchrist puts it, WE’VE LOST THE MEANS TO UNDERSTAND THE WORLD.
*** NOTE ON LANGUAGE USAGE * * *
Since my investigations have been based in PHYSICS and the REVOLUTIONARY RE-THINKING of PHYSICS which has taken things from MATERIAL OBJECTS IN EMPTY SPACE, to the ENERGY-CHARGED PLENUM where we now recognize MATERIAL FORMS to be CONDENSATIONS OF THE ALL-INCLUDING PLENUM aka WAVE-FIELD, my preference has been to use the language of DAVID BOHM. Bohm describes what is going on in the WAVE-FIELD based terms of “THE DROP OUT OF THE FEMALE CONJUGATE, referring the PEAKING and TROUGHING of the WAVE where the PEAKING is the MALE ASSERTING/ACTUALIZING component of the WAVE and the TROUGHING is the FEMALE ACCOMMODATING/ENABLING component of the WAVE, … and HERE WE MUST NOT FORGET that EVERYTHING IS IN FLUX so that PEAKING and TROUGHING only give the APPEARANCE that there are “PEAKS” and “TROUGHS”. This is just a CAUTIONARY NOTE to remind ourselves that THERE ARE NO ACTUAL “THINGS” such “PEAKS” and “TROUGHS”, there is only “PEAKING” and “TROUGHING”. We can’t CATCH A PEAK and put it in on display as a stand alone item, and likewise in regard to the TROUGH.
It is NOT my desire to COMPLICATE THE HELL OUT OF THINGS, thus CONFUSING THE READER, but having “WORKED” on the challenges of communicating these things for many years, I know that EVEN famous thinkers like PIAGET (as Vygotsky points out) SCREW UP by FORGETTING THAT WHILE OUR LANGUAGE HAS THE CAPABILITY OF PUTTING TOGETHER AN AMALGUM OF “TRUTH AND LIES” (LANGUAGE IS “PUTTY IN OUR HANDS”) IT SUPPORTS OUR MISTAKEN ELABORATIONS ON “WHAT A PEAK DOES” (“WE SAY THAT” IT GROWS LARGE AND PUSHES THINGS) and “WHAT A TROUGH DOES” (“WE SAY THAT” IT DEEPENS AND OPENS UP AND REALLY SUCKS), our MANNER OF SPEAKING in terms of WAVES, if we are not careful, CAN CONFUSE THE ISSUE and MISREPRESENT PHYSICAL REALITY, and, YES, VYGOTSKY IS CORRECT, PIAGET HAS REALLY SCREWED US UP, but we are OVERCOMING HIS SCREW-UP IN THIS NOTE.
*** END OF NOTE ON LANGUAGE USAGE * * * *
Ok, the above note is just a CAUTION to reminds ourselves that what we really need is a FLOW BASED LANGUAGE rather than the BEING BASED LANGUAGE that we WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS are using, because by our giving a foundational role in our language to the DOUBLE ERROR of NAMING (inventing things-that-be) and GRAMMAR (giving local authoring powers to the invented things-that-be), while it CONVENIENTLY BREAKS EVERYTHING UP INTO LOCAL, EXPLICIT SEPARATE FRAGMENTS, gives us in the same fell swoop, AN EXPOSURE TO ERROR BY WAY OF SPLITTING APART THAT WHICH, IN REALITY, IS INNATELY NON-SPLITTABLE; i.e. WHERE THE MATERIAL FORMS (CONTENT) AND THEIR ENERGY CHARGED PLENUM (CONTAINER) “ARE ONLY ONE”.
BRINGING EVERYTHING TOGETHER
0September 16, 2025
by ted lumley
in APN
Has the WORLD EVER SEEN a more POLARIZED and DYSFUNCTIONAL SOCIETY than today’s WESTERN CULTURE where the extremes are now playing out in the U.S. under the divisive leadership of Donald Trump, where the OPERATIVE POLICY continues to be EVERYONE IS INNOCENT UNLESS PROVEN GUILTY so that in the case of the killing of Charlie Kirk by Tyler Robinson, 340 million Americans caught up in VICIOUSLY POLARIZED SOCIO-POLITICAL TENSIONS which spawned this killing of Kirk, continue to HIDE BEHIND THE “INNOCENT UNLESS PROVEN GUILTY” shield. There is NO MOVE in the U.S. towards RESTORATIVE JUSTICE which would hold the full 340 million responsible rather than SCAPE-GOATING a SOLO STRAND IN THE TWISTING, TURNING WEB.
A HEALING CIRCLE IS NEEDED but BINARY LOGIC based PURIFICATIONISM continues to dominate in WESTERN CULTURE “JURIS PRUDENCE”.
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We live in a world wherein different people see things DIFFERENTLY because of our use of DIFFERENT LANGUAGES (LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING SCHEMES).
Much like Erich Jantsch, my philosophical investigations suggest that we have developed within our LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING ACTIVITY, THREE DIFFERING WORLD VIEWS based on THREE DIFFERING LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING SCHEMES, much as in Jantsch’s scheme, but with important differences.
In order to get to the highest of OUR THREE LEVELS OF AWARENESS (which is common to Jantsch’s and my own conceptualization) we can consider the MINER’S CANARY situation wherein our AWARE EXPERIENCE derives from our inclusion in what Modern physics calls THE ENERGY-CHARGED PLENUM aka the WAVE-FIELD in which we are CONDENSATIONS, which is consistent with the STRAND-IN-THE-WEB understanding of indigenous aboriginals. Both David Bohm and Erwin Schroedinger have pointed to this SAME STRUCTURE OF THE WORLD we live in wherein “SUBJECT AND OBJECT ARE ONLY ONE” which acknowledges that we are in relationships that can be conceived of as STRANDS in a WEB consistent with the CONDENSATIONS of the ENERGY-CHARGED PLENUM (WAVE-FIELD) understanding which requires NONBINARY BOTH/AND LOGIC OF THE INCLUDING MEDIUM. That is, this “SUBJECT AND OBJECT ARE ONLY ONE” relation gives us an understanding wherein we are “BOTH” ourselves, the condensation “AND” at the same time, the energy-charged PLENUM aka WAVE-FIELD that we are included in.
The Miner’s Canary anecdote recounts how the miners brought canaries into the mines with them because the canaries are SENSITIVE DETECTORS OF DANGEROUS GASES SUCH AS METHANE when mixed in with the common oxygen/air mix, which had led to explosions and loss of miners lives. Our common WESTERN CULTURE LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING SCHEME does NOT distinguish between a HUMAN working on the surface of the earth and a HUMAN working in a mine. This is because our WESTERN CULTURE LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING SCHEME uses NAME-TAGS with FIXED, UNCHANGING LABELS, for example, “HUMANS” and “CANARIES”, we WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS give ourselves the impression, THROUGH THIS SIMPLE BINARY EITHER/OR LOGIC OF THE EXCLUDED MEDIUM based scheme, the impression that we are a SELF-CONTAINED SYSTEM constituted by our INTERNAL PHYSICAL “PARTS” including our internal organs, circulatory and resperatory systems etc.
NOTA BENE: THIS IS THE SIMPLE REDUCTIONIST SYSTEM OF LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZATION which is the LOWEST OF Jantsch’s THREE LEVELS). In this LOWEST of AWARENESS LEVELS we use BINARY EITHER/OR LOGIC of the EXCLUDED MEDIUM to cast ourselves as INDEPENDENT MATERIAL BEINGS with our own powers of movement and interactions with OTHER INDEPENDENT MATERIAL BEINGS within a notional ABSOLUTE EMPTY AND INFINITE SPACE.
[We may keep in mind here Korzybski’s reminder that ‘the WORD IS NOT THE THING’ which comes into play in Bohm’s observation that FRAGMENTATION built into our LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING SCHEME can bring on FRAGMENTATION in our MIND (such as Schizophrenia) and thus FRAGMENTATION in our sociel dynamics].
By constructing our LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZATIONS in terms of MATERIAL OBJECTS moving and interacting within an EMPTY SPACE CONTAINER, this means that our CONCEPTUALIZING only has to deal with the DYNAMICS of LOCAL, EXPLICIT, MATERIAL BEING things, as if this “empty containing space” served as ‘insulation’ that rendered “INDEPENDENT” all of the MATERIAL BEINGS within it. This supports a BINARY LOGIC based SIMPLICITY in the LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZATIONS that avoids COMPLEXITIES such as the famous one pointed out by Heracitus; ”
“No man ever steps in the same river twice for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.” – Heraclitus
Heraclitus’ understanding that ‘EVERYTHING IS IN FLUX’ has been supported by INDIGENOUS ABORIGINAL CULTURES, and also MODERN PHYSICS where it ties to the INTERCONNECTED and INTERDEPENDENT nature of CONDENSATIONS in WAVE-FIELDS. HOWEVER, we WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS CONTINUE TO USE THE SIMPLISTIC LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING SCHEME which speaks of a FRAGMENTED PSEUDO-REALITY consisting of ABSOLUTE MATERIAL BEING based objects (THANKS TO OUR NAMING the CONDENSATIONS) and our notional equipping them with “THEIR OWN POWERS OF LOCAL AUTHORING OF ACTIONS AND DEVELOPMENTS” (which is THANKS TO THE GRAMMER WE HAVE BUILT INTO OUR LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING SCHEME).
David Bohm has pointed out HOW CONFUSING THIS WESTERN CULTURE FRAGMENTED LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING SCHEME has been and continues to be for our WESTERN CULTURE social collectives; e.g. his following LEAD-IN to the FIRST CHAPTER of Wholeness and the Implicate Order.
1 FRAGMENTATION AND WHOLENESS (from Wholeness and the Implicate Order, David Bohm)
The title of this chapter is ‘Fragmentation and wholeness’. It is especially important to consider this question today, for afragmentation is now very widespread, not only throughout society, but also in each individual and this is leading to a kind of general confusion of the mind, which creates an endless series of problems and interferes with our clarity of perception so seriously as to prevent us from being able to solve most of them.
Thus art, science, technology, and human work in general, are divided up into specialities, each considered to be separate in essence from the others. Becoming dissatisfied with this state of affairs, men have set up further interdisciplinary subjects, which were intended to unite these specialities, but these new subjects have ultimately served mainly to add further separate fragments. Then, society as a whole has developed in such a way that it is broken up into separate nations and different religious, political, economic, racial groups, etc. Man’s natural environment has correspondingly been seen as an aggregate of separately existent parts, to be exploited by different groups of people. Similarly, each individual human being has been fragmented into a large number of separate and conflicting compartments, according to his different desires, aims, ambitions, loyalties, psychological characteristics, etc., to such an extent that it is generally accepted that some degree of neurosis is inevitable, while many individuals going beyond the ‘normal’ limits of fragmentation are classified as paranoid, schizoid, psychotic, etc.
The GLOBAL DYSFUNCTION KNOWN AS WESTERN CULTURE
0September 8, 2025
by ted lumley
in APN
AUTHOR’S PREFACE: The various PROBLEMS WITH WESTERN CULTURE that are written about by Laing, Henry, Bohm, Wittgenstein, Schroedinger, and Wittgenstein ALL DEAL WITH THE SAME PROBLEM which is that BECAUSE WE ARE LIVING IN A WAVE-FIELD WORLD, we need a LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING SCHEME that is NONBINARY BOTH/AND LOGIC of the INCLUDING MEDIUM based and MOST OF the DYSFUNCTION in WESTERN CULTURE SOCIAL DYNAMICS is coming from our use of A TOO SIMPLE BINARY EITHER/OR LOGIC of the EXCLUDED MEDIUM based LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING. For example, we NEED TO SAY THERE IS TOWNING IN THE TRANSFORMING LANDSCAPE but this is a NONBINARY BOTH/AND LOGIC of the INCLUDING MEDIUM linguistic conceptualizing which is BEYOND REACH of our BINARY EITHER/OR LOGIC of the EXCLUDED MEDIUM based linguistic conceptualizing which is limited to ‘THE TOWN IS GROWING’ or ‘the TOWN is DEVELOPING’ or ‘THE TOWN is PRODUCING goods’, all of which suffer from the Goedel’s Theorem INCOMPLETENESS OF ALL FINITE LOGICAL PROPOSITIONS (the common propositions which are only capturing the MALE ASSERTING/ACTUALIZING (i.e. ‘the TOWN is GROWING’) and which DROP OUT the REMALE ACCOMMODATING/ENABLING (i.e. THE WILDERNESS IS SHRINKING which is the FEMALE ACCOMMODATING/ENABLING NEEDED fOR THE MALE ASSERTING/ACTUALIZING “GROWING” of the TOWN to occur. Thus, to speak in terms that ‘the TOWN IS GROWING’ is WRONG in the sense that it is INCOMPLETE which is the weakness of ALL FINITE LOGICAL PROPOSITIONS.
The poin here is that the COMMON PRACTICE in WESTERN CULTURE has been to LIMIT our discourse to SIMPLE LOGICAL PROPOSITIONS which are BINARY EITHER/OR LOGIC OF THE EXCLUDED MEDIUM based such as ‘the TOWN is GROWING’ which MAKES NO MENTION of the PRIMARY PLAYER which is the FEMALE ACCOMMODATING/ENABLING conjugate which is ALWAYS INCLUDED IN INDIGENOUS ABORIGINAL LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING AND IN MODERN PHYSICS because we live in an ANDROGYNOUS WAVE-FIELD WORLD where for all instances of MALE ASSERTING/ACTUALIZING such as GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT and PRODUCTION, there is together with this a FEMALE ACCOMMODATING/ENABLING CONJUGATE SHRINKING of WILDERNESS, COLLAPSING of prior development and CONSUMPTION of production, and these conjugates actually play out together in the ONLY REAL DYNAMIC which is the ALL-INCLUDING CONTINUING TRANSFORMATION. That’s why TRUMP and MUSK are always so CONSPICUOUSLY WRONG because they speak (construct LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZATIONS) in such a manner as to highlight the MALE ASSERTING/ACTUALIZING such as ‘the TOWN is GROWING’ which is MISSING ITS FEMALE ACCOMMODATING/ENABLING conjugate (the WILDERNESS IS SHRINKING) There is much more to this PROBLEM hidden in our WESTERN CULTURE LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING SCHEME, including the Miner’s Canary problem. The problem here is that it involves the NONBINARY LOGIC concept of a TOXIC SPACE (RELATIONAL DISSONANCE IN THE PLENUM – CONDENSATION RELATION) which is TOO COMPLICATED for the usual WESTERN CULTURE BINARY EITHER/OR LOGIC of the EXCLUDED MEDIUM (empty space) construction wherein, if our CANARY IS SICK, the only place it could be coming from is INSIDE THE CANARY since in our BINARY LOGIC modeling scheme there is ONLY the CANARY as if within an ABSOLUTE EMPTY AND INFINITE SPACE in which case, if the CANARY is behaving strangely, the only possible source could be a MALFUNCTIONING WITHIN THE CANARY. NOT SO in indigenous aboriginal culture, nor in MODERN PHYSICS where LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING SUPPORTS the NONBINARY BOTH/AND LOGIC of the INCLUDING MEDIUM, wherein, as Bohm forcefully reminds us;
“Space is not empty. It is full, a plenum as opposed to a vacuum, and is the ground for the existence of everything, including ourselves.” (David Bohm).
SPACE is NOT EMPTINESS, it is WAVE-FIELD and the CONDENSATION and the WAVE-FIELD can be RESONANT (NURTURANT) and it can be DISSONANT (TOXIC). In this case, we have a STRAND IN THE WEB situation (or a WHORLING in the FLOWING situation) where it is IMPOSSIBLE to ISOLATE the SOURCE of BEHAVIOUR so that we can determine in any of these cases whether THE STRAND IS STIRRING UP THE WEB OR VICE VERSA, … or the WHORLING IS STIRRING UP THE FLOWING or VICE VERSA, or the CONDENSATION is STIRRING UP THE PLENUM or VICE-VERSA.
THERE ARE NO BINARY CHOICES HERE IN ANY OF THESE CASES BECAUSE THE LOCAL AND EXPLICIT ITEM OF CONTENT IN ALL CASES, IS ONLY SCHAUMKOMMEN (APPEARANCE) and what we have is an ANDROGYNOUS combination of the NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT REALITY with the LOCAL and EXPLICIT APPEARANCE.
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Psychiatrist Ronald Laing’s “THE DIVIDED SELF” and Anthropologist Jules Henry’s “CULTURE AGAINST MAN”, Modern physics pioneer David Bohm’s ‘FRAGMENTATION’ leadoff chapter in “Wholeness and the Implicate Order” are frequently cited in my writing and these critiques are not simply a collection of RANDOM ATTACKS coming from PERSONAL BIAS.
Yes, I may sound like a BROKEN RECORD, in terms of critiques, but there’s more of a message ‘between the lines’ than in a simple summing of the critiques. As Wittgenstein puts it;
“My propositions are elucidatory in this way: he who understands me finally recognizes them as senseless, when he has climbed out through them, on them, over them. (He must so to speak throw away the ladder, after he has climbed up on it.) He must surmount these propositions; then he sees the world rightly” — Wittgenstein
This FIRST FORM that the message comes in has been often repeated in some form or another, and if I was to quote Hitler, I would also be citing Nietzsche who rightly referred to the WESTERN CULTURE SOCIAL COLLECTIVE as “THE HERD”, for example a “HERD” that follows the LEADER in pursuing “GROWTH”, “DEVELOPMENT” and “PRODUCTION” …. IN SPITE OF THE REALITY THAT WE LIVE IN A TRANSFORMING RELATIONAL CONTINUUM and it is the TRANSFORMATION that we are co-contributing to which is the PRIMARY REALITY, and these “THINGS” that we say are “GROWING”, “DEVELOPING” and “PRODUCING” … DO NOT EXIST OTHER THAN AS ILLUSIONS THAT KEEP US HERD-MEMBERS MOTIVATED and thus “IN LINE”. To quote from the heartland of a previous essay;
WHY AM I ASKING THE QUESTION: DO WE REALLY BELIEVE IN GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT and PRODUCTION …. INSTEAD OF TRANSFORMATION?
“THE HERD” is what Nietzsche calls us WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS because we go along with FEIGNED BELIEF IN INDEPENDENT NATIONS and similar BULLSHIT that is de rigeur to pretend to believe in, in our WESTERN CULTURE even though it is blatant bullshit. Psychiatrist Ronald Lang and Anthropologist Jules Henry put our WESTERN CULTURE “HERD” mentality in very succinct and brutal terms;
Culture is an obsession that flies in the face of contradiction: to engulf the mind so that it will see the world only as a culture decrees it shall be seen; to compel a person to become absurd. … In order not to fail, most people are willing to believe anything and to care not whether what they are told is true or false. Only by remaining absurd can one feel free from fear of failure. Hence the immovableness of the absurd.” — Jules Henry,
It is Henry’s contention that in practice education has never been an instrument to free the mind and the spirit of man, but to bind them. We think we want creative children, but what do we want them to create? — ‘If all through school the young were provoked to question the Ten Commandments, the sanctity of revealed religion, the foundations of patriotism, the profit motive, the two party system, monogamy, the laws of incest, and so on … — there would be such creativity that society would not know where to turn. … Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiousity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that. Love is the path through permissiveness to discipline; and through discipline, only too often, to betrayal of self.” R. D. Laing
The BELIEF in INDEPENDENT NATIONS is one of those absurdities that we WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS have been ‘programmed’ to feign belief in, BUT WE PAY A HEAVY PRICE, THE FRAGMENTATION OF OUR OWN PSYCHE.
The IMPORTANCE of Vygotsky’s FINDING of Piaget’s MISTAKES that are SCREWING UP Western Culture LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING
0September 3, 2025
by ted lumley
in APN
The IMPORTANCE of Vygotsky’s FINDING of Piaget’s MISTAKES that are SCREWING UP Western Culture LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING
This is tricky and it is a BIG DEAL in that it EXPLAINS Bohm’s CRITICISM of how we WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS are FRAGMENTING our LANGUAGE and THOUGHT.
I will insert key paragraphs from Bohm’s “Wholeness and the Implicate Order” for easy reference if you should need it, but I am going to share with you a kind of FULL ‘FREEHAND’ explanation of what is going on and why it matters. Here are the key paragraphs from Bohm’s analysis which you can jump over so that we can follow another simpler route taking you to the same understanding of how WESTERN CULTURE ADMINISTRATORS ARE SCREWING UP. (you can jump over this following paragraph and continue with this ‘FREEHAND’ discussion stream);
1 FRAGMENTATION AND WHOLENESS (from Wholeness and the Implicate Order, David Bohm)
The title of this chapter is ‘Fragmentation and wholeness’. It is especially important to consider this question today, for fragmentation is now very widespread, not only throughout society, but also in each individual; and this is leading to a kind of general confusion of the mind, which creates an endless series of problems and interferes with our clarity of perception so seriously as to prevent us from being able to solve most of them.
Thus art, science, technology, and human work in general, are divided up into specialities, each considered to be separate in essence from the others. Becoming dissatisfied with this state of affairs, men have set up further interdisciplinary subjects, which were intended to unite these specialities, but these new subjects have ultimately served mainly to add further separate fragments. Then, society as a whole has developed in such a way that it is broken up into separate nations and different religious, political, economic, racial groups, etc. Man’s natural environment has correspondingly been seen as an aggregate of separately existent parts, to be exploited by different groups of people. Similarly, each individual human being has been fragmented into a large number of separate and conflicting compartments, according to his different desires, aims, ambitions, loyalties, psychological characteristics, etc., to such an extent that it is generally accepted that some degree of neurosis is inevitable, while many individuals going beyond the ‘normal’ limits of fragmentation are classified as paranoid, schizoid, psychotic, etc.
… here we do with the continuing ‘FREEHAND’ discussion stream.
We are living in a WAVE-FIELD which we WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS don’t usually DIRECTLY POINT OUT but the WAVE-FIELD understanding is implicit in our sense-experience and it is implicit in indigenous aboriginal and other FLOW-BASED LANGUAGES (“LANGUAGES can be seen as Linguistic Conceptualizing Schemes that differ in how they have us imagine “where we are and what we are up to”). For example, the flow-based linguistic conceptualizing scheme of indigenous aboriginals, which agrees with that of MODERN PHYSICS, brings us the impression that we are like STRANDS IN A WEB or CONDENSATIONS in a TRANSFORMING ENERGY-CHARGED PLENUM. However, our WESTERN CULTURE LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING SCHEME is based on a notional ABSOLUTE EMPTY AND INFINITE SPACE which CONTAINS many independent MATERIAL OBJECTS including HUMAN BEINGS that purportedly move about and interact within the EMPTY SPACE. This WESTERN CULTURE LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING SCHEME IS A SCHEME THAT SIMPLIFIES WHAT WE ARE PRESENTING AS “REALITY” by SUBSTITUTING EMPTY SPACE THE PLENUM which amounts to GETTING RID OF THE WEB and going with the STRANDS, hence the FRAGMENTATION that shows up in our WESTERN CULTURE LANGUAGE.
WESTERN CULTURE ADMINISTRATORS HELP TO KEEP US ALL ON ‘THE SAME PAGE’ as far as the ABSTRACT FRAGMENTED CONVENTIONS such as INDEPENDENT NATIONS that WE WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS pretend “REALLY ARE INDEPENDENT” and, as cooperating groups, JOINTLY PRETENDING THAT IMAGINARY LINE BOUNDARIES REALLY DO DEFINE SEPARATELY OWNED AND OPERATED “INDEPENDENT NATIONS” wherein the CLAIMANT GROUPS can, working together, co-cultivate a WORKING VERSION of that PURELY IMAGINARY LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZATION. It doesn’t matter if there are large numbers of indigenous aboriginals Taoists/Buddhists and Advaita Vedanta adherents that are NOT WILLING to abandon their MITAKUYE OYASIN (everything is related) understanding and DON’T WANT TO SUPPORT such UNREAL, FRAGMENTING WESTERN CULTURE PSEUDO-REALITIES, which as Bohm points out, “ARE DRIVING US CRAZY” … “…while many individuals going beyond the ‘normal’ limits of fragmentation are classified as paranoid, schizoid, psychotic, etc.”
In spite of its downsides, there remains in WESTERN CULTURE, a SUPPORTING ‘quorum’ (why not since it means getting ownership of one’s own tract of land?) needed to PRETEND that this FRAGMENTING IMAGINARY PSEUDO-REALITY actually exists (i.e. to speak as if it [one’s own ‘independent’ nation] does exist as a local, explicit thing in spite of what the indigenous aboriginals say.). The requires the discipline of a controlling majority willing to perform the COLONIZING in exchange for a piece of the COLONIZED, IMAGINARY LINE BOUNDED TRACT OF LAND along with a commitment to BEAR ARMS as necessary to SECURE and MAINTAIN OWNERSHIP. This also comes with the necessary willingness to ACKNOWLEDGE ) the agreed legitimacy of the elected LEADERSHIP of the NATION’S ADMINISTRATORS. As a COMMUNITY OF INDEPENDENT NATIONS, there is also a requirement to accept the time-to-time addition of NEW INDEPENDENT NATIONS and/or REMOVING PARTS OF EXISTING ONES as is currently underway with the UKRAINE and RUSSIA and also underway with ISRAEL and PALESTINE. All of this IMAGINATION BASED FRAGMENTATION of what is in sense-experience reality a continuous landscape does not depend on a commitment from EVERYONE (the indigenous aboriginals continue to have annual protest marches along the imaginary boundary line defining U.S. Canada as SEPARATE and INDEPENDENT POLITICAL ENTITIES. The systems of government with military backup of the INDEPENDENT NATIONS ensures the persistence of backers for this IMAGINARY SCHEME, whether or not those backers are doing so from the point of view of securing a piece of REAL-ESTATE in the nationalist venture, or like the indigenous aboriginals, simply ‘going along with’ the FRAGMENTATIVE DECLARATIONS OF INDEPENDENCE based scheme that they do NOT have the power to revoke, even as the DYSFUNCTIONAL NATURE of it continues to manifest as BOHM has pointed out (see above note on FRAGMENTATION).
The STABILITY as to the RETENTION of this FRAGMENTATION (which is all in the ‘heads’ of the global social collective and ignored by whomever can get away with ignoring it (including at a minimum, the four-leggeds and the winged and crawling ones who are NOT encumbered by the crazy, synthetically FRAGMENTING schemes of certain organized factions of the two-leggeds which exist and persist thanks to the powerful influence of weaponry that advancing technology continues to make more lethal). The ‘ARMS RACE’ as it has been called, is supporting a second generation of LAND SEIZURES for those who missed out on the first rounds of ‘musical’ chairs.
Because of the DISMAL FUTURE PROSPECTS of how this military might driven, FRAGMENTATION based system of INDEPENDENT NATIONS (INDEPENDENCE has always been a JOKE as the RICH get RICHER and the POOR get POORER, thanks to the reality that BALANCE of MILITARY POWER has become the more dominant influence in the sustaining of peaceful relations than the presumed natural inclination in support of social harmony and good will.
The many influences impacting how the future of the GLOBAL SOCIAL DYNAMIC unfolds makes predictions very difficult but this note is focused on things we know are MISTAKES that we need to fix, such as BINARY LOGIC based FRAGMENTATION fuelled by ERRORS in our WESTERN CULTURE THOUGHT and LANGUAGE that is PROGRESSIVELY UNDERMINING our natural tendency towards social-relational balance and harmony.
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