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Reality-Check: A Quiz for the Metaphysically Inquisitive
0January 14, 2012
by ted lumley
in APN
Human population growth over the past twelve millennia
Answering the following questions may give some insights on how solid is your grasp of reality. (more…)
Civilization: The Hijacking of Sentience by Reason
0January 7, 2012
by ted lumley
in APN
Where the periphery-to-centre orchestrating influence predominates over centre-to-periphery asserting drive
As Ralph Waldo Emerson says in ‘The Method of Nature’, “The tool [of reason] has run away with the workman.”
And as Friedrich Nietzsche says in ‘Twilight of the Idols’;
“Reason” is the cause of our falsification of the testimony of the senses. Insofar as the senses show becoming, passing away, and change, they do not lie. But Heraclitus will remain eternally right with his assertion that being is an empty fiction. The “apparent” world is the only one: the “true” world is merely added by a lie.” (more…)
A Christmas Shadow
0December 25, 2011
by ted lumley
in APN
transformation over 'time' as distinct from 'space'
Is there not a ‘dark side’ to the ‘cleansing of Ebenezer Scrooge’ in Charles Dickens ‘A Christmas Carol’? Scrooge, the ‘bad boss’ transforms into Scrooge the ‘good boss’, persuading us that ‘goodness’ and ‘badness’ are absolutes that fountain forth from the interior of individuals understood as ‘sovereign powers’ or ‘things-in-themselves’. Surely the ‘good action’ of the individual is, as Nietzsche says, a ‘mediocre truth’ that conceals a ‘shadow’ aspect. (more…)
The ‘Experiential Reality’ Beneath the ‘Language Game Illusion’
21December 14, 2011
by ted lumley
in APN
Language makes every 'state' into a 'subject' capable of predicative action. The 'Poles' continue to be 'the same subject people' regardless of how physical content varies.
Introduction: Behaviours can be ‘situationally animated’ and they can be ‘language animated’. When we get together to try to understand ‘the world dynamic’, we do so using synthetic realities constructed with ‘words-as-subjects’ to depict the ‘animating agencies’. In the above graphic, situation animated dynamics ‘actually’ shape the boundaries of ‘states’. But once we have a ‘name’ for the state, we can use that word, as if it were a real ‘thing-in-itself’; i.e. as the fixed subject of predicative behaviour. ‘Subject animated dynamics’ are clearly not the same as ‘situation animated dynamics’. The problems that arise when we put our psycho-LOGICAL view of the former into an unnatural precedence over our experience of the latter are increasingly manifest in today’s society. (more…)
Figure and Ground: Dynamic Version
1December 5, 2011
by ted lumley
in APN
Figure and Ground: Static Version
The phenomena of figure and ground, wherein we can extract meaning from a static array of shapes by bringing a subset of those shapes or ‘spatial-relations’ into connection in our minds so that they form a familiar, recognizable pattern, is usually exemplified by a black and white silhouette such as the above.
The point ‘made’ is that the ‘figure’ is not ‘innate’ in what we are looking at, but is something that we fabricate with our mind. That point is underscored by the fact that we can see this pattern either as a black figure on a white ground (a saxaphone player) or as a white figure on a black background (a woman’s face). (more…)
Reconciling Experience and Thought
0November 28, 2011
by ted lumley
in APN
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Reconciling our experiencing of inclusion in a transforming space with our thoughts of ‘what things do’
Please read the following ‘preparatory’ comment before watching the video-clip … (more…)
The Followers of the Democratic State
0November 13, 2011
by ted lumley
in APN
The Exercising of Power Through the Social Production of Space
“People do not live in the state” … “The state lives in the people” – Gustav Landauer
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The recipe for constructing a democratic state is as follows; (more…)
Who Am I? Quiz : How Authoritarian/Anarchist Are You?
1October 29, 2011
by ted lumley
in APN
Join the Army ..................... Occupy Everywhere
S’il vous plait, … answer the following questions, do a quick review and modify your answers as necessary to maximize overall consistency, and then view your Authoritarian/Anarchist profile using the key at the end of the quiz.
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1. Do you believe the relationship between organisms and the earth’s evolving biosphere is; (more…)
Anarchism: The Return of the Übermensch
0October 20, 2011
by ted lumley
in APN
The Return of the Übermensch
Introduction/overview:
For years I have been inquiring into the source of social dysfunction which my intuition informs me, and I know I am not alone in this, … is ‘unnatural’ and arises from some poorly chosen ‘assumptions’ in our acculturated thinking. (more…)
9/11 Remembrance and; ‘Those Who Walk Against the Wind’
0September 11, 2011
by ted lumley
in APN
Klee's 'Angelus Novus' from Stephane Hessel's 'Indignez Vous!'
On September 11th, 2002, the first anniversary of 9/11, the CBC aired a Peter Mansbridge interview with Prime Minister Jean Chrétien. The comments were republished in Canada and around the world under such titles as “PM Says US Attitude Helped Fuel Sept. 11” (Toronto Globe and Mail, 9/11/02), and, “The Power to Humiliate” (Sidney Morning Herald, 9/17/02). (more…)
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