My point of view in writing this note is NEITHER THE CONSERVATIVE/REPUBLICAN point of view, NOR the LIBERAL/DEMOCRAT point of view.  The point of view that this note is coming from is the TRANSFORMATIONAL point of view.  It is the point of view of David Bohm and Irwin Schroedinger.  It is the point of view of indigenous aborignals as well as Taoists/Buddhists and Advaita Vedanta adherents and it is the point of view of Modern physics.

 

The PATH from MECHANICAL THINKING to TRANSFORMATIONAL UNDERSTANDING is the LIBERATING PATH from BEING to BECOMING.

 

“Nothing indeed has exercised a more simple power of persuasion hitherto than the error of Being, as it was formulated by the Eleatics for instance: in its favour are every word and every sentence that we utter! — Even the opponents of the Eleatics succumbed to the seductive powers of their concept of Being.  Among others there was Democritus in his discovery of the atom.  “Reason” in language!  —oh what a deceptive old witch it has been!  I fear we shall never be rid of God, so long as we still believe in grammar.”

-Friedrich Nietzsche, “Twilight of the Idols” (in the chapter “Reason in Philosophy”).

 

The DAMAGE DONE to WESTERN CULTURE by following OVER-SIMPLISTIC BINARY LOGIC based LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZATIONS is IMMENSE.  THE IMPLE EITHER/OR JUDGEMENTS of WESTERN CULTURE PURIFICATIONIST JUSTICE have WALLPAPERED OVER the REAL, SENSE-EXPERIENCE GROUNDED UNDERSTANDING of our inclusion in the all-including energy-charged TRANSFORMATION affirmed by Modern physics and understood by indigenous aboriginals, Taoists/Buddhists and Advaita Vedanta adherents. We WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS need to REPAIR the damage to our UNDERSTANDING coming from our mistaken SUBSTITUTION of SIMPLE BINARY LOGIC based MECHANICS for NONBINARY LOGIC based TRANSFORMATION; i.e. we need to CORRECT OUR ERROR of giving the ABSTRACT NOTION OF “BEING” a foundational role in our WESTERN CULTURE LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING.

 

The TRANSFORMATIONAL point of view requires the LESS SIMPLE NONBINARY BOTH/AND LOGIC of the INCLUDING MEDIUM (e.g. where we acknowledge  a physical reality that is flow-based as captured with “there is towning in the transforming landscape” .  This Modern physics conforming flow-based conceptualizing approach “conflicts with” both the CONSERVATIVE and LIBERAL linguistic conceptualizations which pivot in opposite directions thanks to giving the foundational role to the simple “BEING” based BINARY EITHER/OR LOGIC of the EXCLUDED MEDIUM where we accept as our ‘operative reality’, an imaginary pseudo-real linguistic conceptualization such as “the town is growing, developing and producing goods”. 

The WESTERN CULTURE CHOICE of the SIMPLISTIC BEING based foundation for linguistic conceptualization appears to have been a choice influenced by the BINARY LOGIC structure built into the ABRAHAMIC religions of JUDAISM, CHRISTIANITY and ISLAM which ignores the innate ambiguity that comes with material forms being condensations of the energy-charged PLENUM which involves STRAND-in-the-WEB INTERCONNECTION and INTERDEPENDENCE that warrants a JUSTICE SYSTEM that is RELATIONAL and RESTORATIVE rather than BEING-based and PURIFICATIONIST.

 

The ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE of the Google AI BOT that is about to be deployed in this essay can deal with both the less-simple NONBINARY BOTH/AND LOGIC of the INCLUDING MEDIUM as well as with simple BINARY EITHER/OR LOGIC of the EXCLUDED MEDIUM and can distinguish between them (as will be evident from the examples in this note.

 

I am using the (Google) AI BOT in the examples in this essay to probe issues that crop up in our linguistic conceptualization based understanding such as the difference in understanding that derives from language that employs a simple BINARY EITHER/OR LOGIC of the EXCLUDED MEDIUM conceptualizing scheme, compared with language that employs the less-simple NONBINARY BOTH/AND LOGIC of the INCLUDING MEDIUM conceptualizing scheme.

The simple BINARY EITHER/OR LOGIC of the EXCLUDED MEDIUM scheme is the COMMON LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING SCHEME of us WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS while the latter (the NONBINARY BOTH/AND LOGIC OF THE INCLUDING MEDIUM) is the COMMON LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING SCHEME of, for example, Chief Seattle, since indigenous aboriginals, in their traditional way of understanding things which is NOT in agreement with either CONSERVATIVES or LIBERALS because the indigenous aboriginal mode of understanding employs the less simple BOTH/AND LOGIC of the INCLUDING MEDIUM as its linguistic conceptualizing structure, which is what Bohm is using (e.g. in his ‘rheomode’ language).  This is the linguistic conceptualizing structure that I AM ALSO USING when I am in the same mode of thinking as Bohm (which is the same mode of thinking as indigenous aboriginal traditionalists are using).  An example of the less simple NONBINARY BOTH/AND LOGIC of the INCLUDING MEDIUM based linguistic conceptualizing approach is; “There is TOWNING in the TRANSFORMING LANDSCAPE” which captures the (sense-experience affirmable) REALITY that EVERYTHING IS IN TRANSFORMATIVE FLUX (as Heraclitus rightly affirmed).

 

In order to bring into perspective, the MORE REALISTIC TRANSFORMATIVE WAY OF UNDERSTANDING THINGS, the reader must recall (bring to mind) that WE ARE CAPABLE OF THREE LEVELS OF AWARENESS (understanding) as described by Erich Jantsch, and that the highest LEVEL OF AWARENESS (level 1 which is the AWARENESS of TRANSFORMATION) is BEYOND THE REACH of CONSERVATIVE/REPUBLICAN thinking and BEYOND THE REACH of LIBERAL/DEMOCRAT thinking.  This is because BOTH CONSERVATIVES and LIBERALS are using the simplified BINARY EITHER/OR LOGIC of the EXCLUDED MEDIUM reasoning approach (which divides into TWO POLAR OPPOSITE ways OF UNDERSTANDING that leads to disagreement of the type alluded to in the Zen tale of the two monks who argued over whether than flag’s movement was the author of the stirred up air, or whether the stirred up air was the author of the flag’s movement).  The enigma is resolved when the Sixth Patriarch comes by and and advises that them that “not the wind, not the flag, the mind is moving” (we are aware of our being included within a TRANSFORMING RELATIONAL CONTINUUM).

SO, WESTERN CULTURE CONSERVATIVES and LIBERALS are STUCK IN UNRESOLVABLE HEAD-BUTTING POLARIZED DISAGREEMENT due to the fact that they are using MENTAL MODELS that are based on the TOO SIMPLE BINARY EITHER/OR LOGIC of the EXCLUDED MEDIUM; i.e. the LOGIC is constrained to thinking in terms of a reality based on EITHER material objects OR empty space, which is SIMPLER than the Modern physics and indigenous aboriginal understandings where reality is constituted by the BOTH/AND combination of an all-including energy-charged PLENUM and its CONDENSATIONS wherein EVERYTHING IS RELATED (Mitakuye Oyasin) since all condensations are, at the same time, BOTH condensations AND the PLENUM.

 

Our discussion on the CONSERVATIVE and LIBERAL AWARENESS LEVELS (awareness levels 3 and 2) is TOO SIMPLE to capture the FIRST and HIGHEST TRANSFORMATION LEVEL wherein everything is in transformative flux, which REQUIRES A LANGUAGE that can convey fluid-relational dynamics without dependence on MATERIAL BEING; i.e. a relational language such as used by indigenous aboriginals and as used by David Bohm (rheomode) etc.

So, in order to be able to describe IN FULL WHAT THE DEMOCRATS ARE BLIND TO, AS THEY CELEBRATE THEIR MIDTERM WINS, I have to use the full THREE LEVEL LANGUAGE CAPABILITY which any/all of us can use, but which WE WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS DON’T NORMALLY USE because were in the habit of using simple BINARY EITHER/OR LOGIC based conceptualization which is supported in both CONSERVATIVE (like Trump)and LIBERAL (like Obama) linguistic communication styles. We (most of us) aren’t able to tune in to Chief Seattle’s linguistic conceptualizing approach, but as Bohm has pointed out, it is MODERN PHYSICS COMPATIBLE which means that it has a NONBINARY BOTH/AND LOGIC of the INCLUDING MEDIUM foundation whereas we WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS are habitually using a simple BINARY EITHER/OR LOGIC of the EXCLUDED MEDIUM foundation, which is SIMPLER and which does NOT support the conveying of LEVEL 1 AWARENESS, the AWARENESS of TRANSFORMATION.

 

OK, I will insert here, a description of the THREE LEVELS of AWARENESS as preparatory for a discussion that goes BEYOND THE LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING CAPABILITY OF THE BINARY OPPOSITES OF CONSERVATIVE and LIBERAL LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING.  I need this reference to explain WHAT THE DEMOCRATS ARE BLIND TO, AS THEY CELEBRATE THEIR MIDTERM WINS  (See further below, QUESTION and RESPONSE re the following QUESTION TO AI: “Why do conservatives and liberals not see that their polar opposition derives from BINARY LOGIC while acknowledgement of TRANSFORMATION requires nonbinary both/and logic of the including medium? “

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