Author’s Preface: This essay is coming from the same NONBINARY BOTH/AND LOGIC of the INCLUDING MEDIUM based  understanding as is foundational in indigenous aboriginal cultures and in Modern physics, which is AT ODDS WITH common WESTERN CULTURE BINARY EITHER/OR LOGIC of the EXCLUDED MEDIUM based understanding.  So, for example, the indigenous aboriginal understanding wherein WE ARE STRANDS in the WEB (interconnected and interdependent) is understood as fundational to our sense-experience reality as is the understanding of Modern physics (where it is expressed in terms where forms are CONDENSATIONS of the all-including energy-charged PLENUM), which is once again the BOTH/AND LOGIC of the INCLUDING MEDIUM as with STRANDS in the WEB.  FRAGMENTATION in WESTERN CULTURE is rampant, and is due to giving the FOUNDATIONAL ROLE in WESTERN CULTURE LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING TO SIMPLE BINARY EITHER/OR LOGIC of the EXCLUDED MEDIUM.

The current JEFFREY EPSTEIN AFFAIR, that is giving rise to a lot of FINGER-POINTING based SOCIAL FRAGMENTATION, is MISSING THE BASIC REALITY that EVERYTHING IS INTERCONNECTED AND INTERDEPENDENT  as with CONDENSATIONS in the energy-charged PLENUM, so that as POGO says, “WE HAVE MET THE ENEMY AND HE IS US”, in which case, RESTORATIVE JUSTICE is WARRANTED, NOT WESTERN CULTURE STYLE PURIFICATIONIST JUSTICE THAT SEEKS TO IDENTIFY and ELIMINATE the notional LOCAL, EXPLICIT AUTHORS of VIOLENT/HARMFUL ACTIONS.

In REALITY, the VIOLENCE of the VIOLENT STRAND IN THE WEB IS NOT LOCALLY AUTHORED.  THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS “LOCAL AUTHORING” of actions and developments.  “LOCAL AUTHORING” is “APPEARANCE” (Schaumkommen in Schroedinger’s language) deriving from the “DOUBLE ERROR OF NAMING AND GRAMMAR”  (Nietzsche).   When we WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS employ linguistic conceptualizations such as “The TOWN is GROWING”, we may be TELLING THE TRUTH but as GOEDEL’S THEOREM of the INCOMPLETENESS OF ALL FINITE PROPOSITIONS OF LOGIC informs us, establishing that which is TRUE is not equivalent to establishing that which is REAL; e.g. THE TOWN MAY BE GROWING but this fails to mention the conjugate SHRINKING OF WILDERNESS, that together with the GROWING of the TOWN co-constitutes the sense-experience affirmable REALITY of the TRANSFORMING of the LANDSCAPE.

 

The Epstein-Maxwell affair brings to mind the WESTERN CULTURE “PRACTICE OF SCAPEGOATING THE IDENTIFIED PATIENT”.   As pointed to in Shakespeare’s Henry IV, one person’s misfortune (poverty and exposure to manipulation) can be another’s advantage (prosperity can become the instrument of manipulation of the impoverished). e.g.

PRINCE HENRY:

Why, then, it is like if there come a hot June, and this civil buffeting hold, we shall buy maidenheads as they buy hob- nails, by the hundreds.

 

“WE HAVE MET THE ENEMY AND HE IS US”

Is it NOT TIME for us WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS to STOP TALKING UP THE BULLSHIT OF ‘INDEPENDENT BEINGS” and “INDEPENDENT NATIONS” and OPENLY ACKNOWLEDGE OUR INTERCONNECTION AND INTERDEPENDENCE  as is done by MODERN PHYSICS with its CONDENSATIONS in the ENERGY-CHARGED PLENUM UNDERSTANDING, and by indigenous aboriginals with their STRANDS-IN-THE-WEB UNDERSTANDING?

 

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“IF WE REALLY WANT TO KNOW HOW IT COMES TO BE THAT WE WESTERN CULTURE FOLKS ARE SCREWING UP SO BADLY WITH MASS SHOOTINGS ETC.”

 

AND, LET’S FACE IT, “WE WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS” DO “NOT WANT TO KNOW”, BECAUSE AS POGO points out, it is a case of “WE HAVE MET THE ENEMY AND HE IS US!”

 

MANY HAVE SHARED THIS UNDERSTANDING, but “IT JUST SLIPS AWAY AND DOESN’T TAKE ROOT”.  I will share herewith, THIS GREAT WESTERN CULTURE SCREW UP IN TERMS THAT ARE SIMPLE AND STRAIGHT FORWARD which I will NUMBER.  While many have discovered what is going on here, I will follow the example that has been given by Lev Vygotsky who studied how children naturally learn guided by their own sense-experience (before WE WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS SCREW WITH THEIR MINDS).  The WESTERN CULTURE PRACTICE OF SCREWING UP THE MINDS OF ITS YOUTH HAS BEEN POINTED OUT by R.D. Laing, Jules Henry, and Ernest Becker in my earlier notes. This time I will share what Lev Vygotsky has said.  He wrote in RUSSIAN and that was translated into ENGLISH and Alex Kozulin evidently did a GREAT JOB of translating that into ENGLISH, but ENGLISH SPEAKERS will STILL NOT GET THE MESSAGE because we ENGLISH SPEAKERS are in the HABIT of SIMPLIFYING the messages we receive to make them fit our PRE-CONCEIVED IMPRESSSIONS OF REALITY.

 

For example, If Vygotsky were to express something using verbs which implies that we are living within a transforming relational continuum; e.g. “THERE IS TOWNING IN THE TRANSFORMING LANDSCAPE” (wherein everything is in flux), when WE WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS HEAR THIS, WE WILL SPONTANEOUSLY “CORRECT” THIS TO “THE TOWN IS GROWING, DEVELOPING and PRODUCING goods” because we WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS (influenced by the ABRAHAMIC RELIGIONS of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, with THEIR BEING-based LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING SCHEME) will REDUCE and SIMPLIFY what has been said, to GIVE IT A “BEING” based FOUNDATION, … IN SPITE OF THE FACT; i.e. the SENSE-EXPERIENCE AFFIRMED REALITY WHEREIN “EVERYTHING IS IN TRANSFORMATIVE FLUX”, that we REQUIRE a FLOW-BASED LANGUAGE as acknowledged and employed in MODERN PHYSICS and indigenous aboriginal culture.

 

WE WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS are ADDICTED TO THE USE OF A LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING SCHEME THAT REDUCES THE WORLD FROM A FLOW-BASED TRANSFORMING RELATIONAL CONTINUUM TO A NOTIONAL COLLECTION OF MATERIAL ENTITIES THAT WE EQUIP WITH GRAMMAR-BASED POWERS TO MOVE ABOUT AND INTERACT WITHIN A NOTIONAL ABSOLUTE EMPTY AND INFINITE SPACE.

 

The FOLLOWING ARE EXAMPLES OF HOW WE WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS ARE USING BEING-BASED LANGUAGE WHICH IS “TOO SIMPLE” TO CONVEY OUR TRANSFORMING REALITY, AND WHICH THEREFORE SCREWS UP OUR LINGUISTIC ONCEPTUALIZATIONS OF REALITY.

 

 

-1- In the WORLD of our sense-experience affirmed REALITY, when we walk through a muddy field, the dynamic AS ALWAYS (according to MODERN PHYSICS and indigenous aboriginals, is FLOW-BASED).  What is REALLY GOING on is that the MUD is OPENING UP IN A FEMALE ACCOMMODATING/ENABLINGS SENSE and our BOOTS are SINKING INTO IT, and as we move on, the HOLES THAT HAVE OPENED UP fill with water and floating seeds, … and that HOLE becomes a little GARDEN that flowers and plants develop within, AND WE UNDERSTAND THIS AND SOME LANGUAGES (indigenous aboriginal languages) are VERB based which means that THERE IS NO REDUCTION TO a ONE-SIDED MALE ASSERTING/ACTUALIZING “THE MAN WALKED ACROSS THE MUDDY FIELD” which implies that the MAN and the FIELD are TWO MUTUALLY INDEPENDENT THINGS, which FAILS TO CAPTURE THE ACTUAL DYNAMIC which is that the LANDSCAPE, which INCLUDES HUMANINGS, IS UNDERGOING CONTINUING TRANSFORMATION WHEREIN EVERYTHING IS IN FLUX.  While the language that I am using HERE AND NOW is based on notional MATERIAL FORMS that are capable of actions, interactions and developments, in REALITY, EVERYTHING IS IN TRANSFORMATIVE FLUX and there are only transient forms that are like WHORLINGS in the ALL-INCLUDING FLOWING.

 

-2- WESTERN CULTURE LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING REDUCES THE TRANSFORMING PLENUM with its FLOWING FORMINGS.   Instead of the ANDROGYNOUS COMBINATION of a FEMALE ACCOMMODATING/ENABLING conjugate (the NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT WAVE-TROUGH) together with a MALE ASSERTING/ACTUALIZING conjugate (the LOCAL and EXPLICIT WAVE-PEAK) we WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS have chosen to SIMPLIFY things by DROPPING OUT ACKNOWLEDGEMENT of the FEMALE ACCOMMODATING/ENABLING conjugate.  For example, the form of LANGUAGE we WE WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS HAVE DEVELOPED FEATURES MALE ASSERTING/ACTUALIZING “ON ITS OWN”, DROPPING OUT THE FEMALE ACCOMMODATING/ENABLING CONJUGATE.  In other words, the LANGUAGE WE USE SPEAKS ONLY ABOUT WHAT THE MALE DOES; e.g. HE WALKS ACROSS THE MUDDY FIELD AND LEAVES FOOTPRINTS IN THE MUD.  THIS IS “ALL MALE ASSERTING/ACTUALIZING” WITH “NO “FEMALE ACCOMMODATING/ENABLING”… i.e. there is NO MENTION of how HOLES are OPENED UP in the MUD that proceed to FILL UP WITH WATER and PLANT SEEDS and develop into LITTLE foot size GARDENS as part of the overall TRANSFORMING OF THE LANDSCAPE which INCLUDES PLANTINGS and PEOPLINGS and other forms of CONDENSATIONS of the ALL-INCLUDING ENERGY-CHARGED PLENUM.

 

-3- Lev Vygotsky (who has been called the father of RUSSIAN PSYCHOLOGY) studied how THOUGHT and LANGUAGE developed within us as we grew up from infants (n his classic work Мышление И Речь, Психологические Исследования – … Myshleniye I Rech’, Psikhologicheskiye Issledovaniya (Thinking and Speech, Psychological Research).  (A well-worn copy of the popular translation into ENGLISH by Alex Kozulin entitled THOUGHT AND LANGUAGE is sitting on my desk beside my keyboard as I write this).

 

WE DON’T HAVE TO READ THIS BOOK TO GET TO Vygotsky’s MAJOR TAKE-AWAYS, although it is very clear and interesting if you choose to.  What Vygotsky is TELLING US RUNS COUNTER TO OUR WESTERN CULTURE CURRENT POPULAR UNDERSTANDING, and I will explain it in WAVE-FIELD TERMS because that is WHERE IT IS COMING FROM.  For example, where Vygotsky speaks in terms of the combination of SCIENTIFIC and SPONTANEOUS CONCEPTUALIZATION, he is using “SCIENTIFIC” to allude to LOCAL and EXPLICIT (PEAKS or PROPOSITIONS) and by SPONTANEOUS he is alluding to NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT.  In his words;   “Though fundamentally different in nature, the development of scientific [local and explicit] and spontaneous [nonlocal and implicit] concepts represents two sides of the same concept formation”

 

The local and explicit ‘scientific’‘ corresponds, information-wise, to the WAVE PEAK while the nonlocal and implicit ‘spontaneous’‘ corresponds to the WAVE TROUGH.  Vygotsky critiques Piaget for KEEPING ONLY THE scientific’‘ in his aproach to TEACHING children, and DROPPING OUT THE ‘spontaneous’‘since these two only occur as CONJUGATES and NOT AS TWO SEPARATE ENTITIES.  The child may therefor learn to speak in such terms as ‘THE TOWN IS GROWING’ as if this were a real possibility, which it is NOT since, as indigenous aboriginals and Modern physics knows, everything is in flux and while there is TOWNING IN THE TRANSFORMING LANDSCAPE, THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS “A TOWN THAT GROWS, DEVELOPS and PRODUCES goods” SINCE THAT COULD ONLY OCCUR WITHIN AN ABSOLUTE EMPTY AND INFINITE SPACE (an unreal abstraction).

So I will share Vygotsky’s message using WAVE-FIELD TERMS and then I will share Vygotsky’s actual words which are saying the same things (Let’s not forget that Vygotsky’s “THOUGHT AND LANGUAGE” was published in RUSSIAN in 1934).

 

In SIMPLE TERMS, Vygotsky is telling us that WE ARE LIVING IN A WAVE-FIELD WORLD where, as CHILDREN, our natural way of putting our sense-experience into THOUGHT and LANGUAGE is to use THE COMBINATION of the SPONTANEOUS (nonlocal and implicit) and the SCIENTIFIC (local and explicit), WHICH, AND THIS IS OF BASIC IMPORTANCE are CONJUATE FEATURES OF ONE SENSE-EXPERIENCE DYNAMIC.  As VYGOTSKY POINTS OUT, PIAGET and WESTERN CULTURE GENERALLY, “MISSES THE KEY POINT” which is that NEITHER THE SCIENTIFIC NOR THE SPONTANEOUS “EXIST IN THEIR OWN RIGHT” … THEY ONLY EXIST AS CONJUGATE ASPECTS OF THE ONE DYNAMIC (the WAVE-FIELD DYNAMIC) and Vygotsky MAKES THIS CLEAR using the TERMS “SPONTANEOUS CONCEPTS” (the NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT FEMALE ACCOMMODATING/ENABLING wave-trough conjugate) and NON-SPONTANEOUS CONCEPTS (the LOCAL and EXPLICIT MALE ASSERTING/ACTUALIZING wave-peak conjugate).

 

VYGOTSKY’S CONCLUSION, which is popularly MISSED due to PIAGET’S SCREWING IT UP, A SCREW-UP THAT NOW PERVADES POPULAR WESTERN THINKING, is, in VYGOTSKY’S WORDS:

 

“We believe that the two processes —the development of spontaneous and of nonspontaneous concepts — are related and constantly influence one another.  They are parts of a single process:  the development of concept formation, which is affected by varying external and internal conditions but is essentially a unitary process, not a conflict of antagonistic, mutually exclusive forms of thinking.”  — Vygotsky; p. 157  in “Thought and Language”.

 

 

Vygotsky noted that “from the very beginning, the child’s scientific and his spontaneous concepts … develop in reverse directions: Starting far apart, they move to meet each other” (p. 192). He continued:

 

“In working its slow way upward, an everyday concept clears a path for the scientific concept and its downward development. It creates a series of structures necessary for the evolution of a concept’s more primitive, elementary aspects, which give it body and vitality. Scientific concepts, in turn, supply structures for the up­ward development of the child’s spontaneous concepts toward consciousness and deliberate use. (Vygotsky, p. 194  in “Thought and Language”)

 

In other worlds, Vygotsky understood these concepts as having a CONJUGATE relation;

 

“Though fundamentally different in nature, the development of scientific [local and explicit] and spontaneous [nonlocal and implicit] concepts represents two sides of the same concept formation”

 

THIS MEANS THAT THERE IS ARE NO SUCH SEPARATE AND INDEPENDENT THINGS AS “EITHER” SCIENTIFIC “OR” SPONTANEOUS YET THE FACT IS THAT PIAGET HAS CHOSEN TO GIVE PRIMARY STATUS TO SCIENTIFIC IN HIS TEACHING APPROACH AND NOT BOTHER WITH SPONTANEOUS BECAUSE IT IS “TOO CONFUSING”.  WHAT PIAGET IS MISSING IS THAT THE SCIENTIFIC DOES NOT EXIST OUT OF THE CONTEXT OF ITS CONJUGATE RELATION WITH THE SPONTANEOUS IN WHICH CASE IT HAS NO LEGITIMATE MEANING “ON ITS OWN” as in “THE TOWN IS GROWING”.

 

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THIS IS POINTING TO A MAJOR WESTERN CULTURE SCREW-UP;

 

“Our disagreement with Piaget centers on one point only, but an important point. He assumes that development and instruction are entirely separate, incommensurate processes, that the function of instruction is merely to introduce adult ways of thinking, which conflict with the child’s own and eventually supplant them. Such a supposition stems from the old psychological tradition of separating the structural from the functional aspects of development.” –Vygotsky (Vygotsky, p.206 in Thought and Language)

 

 

Let’s COMPARE THIS to ONE-SIDED MALE ASSERTING/ACTUALIZING PROPOSITIONS such as “THE TOWN IS GROWING” WITH THE ANDROGYNOUS COMBINATION OF FEMALE ACCOMMODATING/ENABLING TOGETHERWITH MALE ASSERTING/ACTUALIZING CONJUGATE.

 

note that when we say that the rock dropped into the mud, there is NO MENTION of the FEMALE CONJUAGE OPENING OF A HOLE IN THE MUD, which recalls our WESTERN CULTURE HABIT of CONSTRAINING OUR LANGUAGE, ONE-SIDEDLY, TO THE ACTIONS OF A MALE ASSERTING AGENT.

 

ONLY if the two are NOT CONJUGATES can they be TAKEN APART and USED ‘ON THEIR OWN’ as in PIAGET’S APPROACH where one assumes that SCIENTIFIC LEARNING (i.e. LOCAL and EXPLICIT LEARING) is LEGITIMATE IN ITS OWN RIGHT, whereas VYGOTSKY’S UNDERSTANDING IS THAT the LOCAL and EXPLICIT needs to be GROUNDED IN THE NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT.  EG, “THE TOWN IS GROWING” is LOCAL and EXPLICIT and “HAS NO MEANING” UNLESS IT IS GROUNDED IN THE NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT.

 

WESTERN CULTURE PURIFICATIONIST JUSTICE (since it employs one-sided MALE ASSERTING ACTUALIZING [the EITHER/OR logic of the EXCLUDED MEDIUM that supports the LOCAL and EXPLICIT]) IS WRONG WHILE INDIGENOUS ABORIGINAL RESTORATIVE JUSTICE IS CORRECT (since it employs ANDROGYNOUS CONJUGATE RELATIONS [the BOTH/AND logic of the INCLUDING MEDUM]).  

 

One can think of the former in terms of material objects in empty space and of the latter in terms of condensations in an energy-charged PLENUM.

 

 

-4-  We are now at a point where we can SUMMARIZE how we WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS are SCREWING UP OUR UNDERSTANDING OF “REALITY” and from this, how it FOLLOWS that we are CO-CULTIVATING MASS SHOOTERS.   What has just been shown in the above discussion is that PIAGET (and, in fact the WESTERN CULTURE TRADITION OF GIVING A FOUNDATIONAL ROLE TO TOO SIMPLE BINARY EITHER/OR LOGIC of the EXCLUDED MEDIUM (EMPTY SPACE MEDIUM) where we use language that has us UNDERSTANDING THE WORLD DYNAMIC in the FALSE but SIMPLE and HABITUAL terms of “WHAT THINGS DO” which we CONSTRUCT using the DOUBLE ERROR or NAMING and GRAMMAR (as Nietzsche pointed out).

 

This DOUBLE ERROR of NAMING and GRAMMAR supports the FALSE NOTION of LOCAL AUTHORING OF ACTIONS AND DEVELOPMENTS.  LOCAL AUTHORING, in turn, is what WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS are using to REWARD and EMPOWER LOCAL AUTHORS of ACTIONS and DEVELOPMENTS DEEMED “GOOD” such as the actions of ELON MUSK and JESS BESOS.

 

But the ENCOURAING of the ACTIONS of a MUSK and BESOS may lead to DISASTER since WHAT IS ACTUALLY HAPPENING IN REALITY … “IS THE TRANSFORMING of the OVERALL LANDSCAPE”  while WHAT IS BEING CELEBRATED is GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT and PRODUCTION, which fails to acknowledge SHRINKING of wilderness, DECAY AND OBSOLETING of prior development, and the CONSUMPTION OF LIMITED RESOURCES, these FEMALE ACCOMMODATING/ENABLING conjugate dynamics SERVE AS FUEL for the MALE ASSERTING/ACTUALIZING counterparts of GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT and PRODUCTION, in which case, what is REALLY OCCURRING; i.e. TRANSFORMING of the LANDSCAPE, is  in WESTERN CULTURE MISCONSTRUED AS “GROWTH”, “DEVELOPMENT” and “PRODUCTION”.

 

As Vygotaky has pointed out “We believe that the two processes —the development of spontaneous and of nonspontaneous concepts — are related and constantly influence one another.  They are parts of a single process:  the development of concept formation, which is affected by varying external and internal conditions but is essentially a unitary process, not a conflict of antagonistic, mutually exclusive forms of thinking.”  — Vygotsky; p. 157  in “Thought and Language”.

 

In Wave-field terms, the SPONTANEOUS CONCEPT is NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT corresponding to wave-trough while the NONSPONTANEOUS is the LOCAL and EXPLICIT corresponding to wave-peak. “Though fundamentally different in nature, the development of scientific [local and explicit] and spontaneous [nonlocal and implicit] concepts represents two sides of the same concept formation”

 

It is NOT JUST PIAGET that is making the MISTAKE of treating the SCIENTIFIC and the SPONTANEOUS as if they were TWO SEPARATE AND STAND-ALONE THINGS, which THEY ARE NOT; i.e. THEY ARE CONJUGATES and THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS TWO SEPARATE THINGS SUCH AS; “SCIENTIFIC” (LOCAL AND EXPLICIT) AND “SPONTANEOUS” (NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT), there is ONLY ONE ANDROGYNOUS THING; i.e. the SCIENTIFIC and the SPONTANEOUS are TWO SIDES OF THE SAME CONCEPT FORMATION, as Vygotsky is saying.   IT IS ONLY WESTERN CULTURE that is MAKING THE MISTAKE of thinking that we can USE THE NEAT AND TIDY “LOCAL AND EXPLICIT” (i.e. the CONDENSATION) AS IF IT EXISTED IT ITS OWN RIGHT (IT DOES NOT) and simply DROP OUT the NOT SO NEAT AND TIDY “NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT” (i.e. the PLENUM) AS IF THE CONDENSATION EXISTED IN ITS OWN RIGHT SO THAT IT COULD BE SELECTED WHILE AT THE SAME TIME “CASTING OUT” THE PLENUM (substituting in its place, absolute empty and infinite space).  When we say there is TOWNING in the TRANSFORMING LANDSCAPE, the relationship is the BOTH/AND LOGIC of the INCLUDING MEDIUM in which case the TOWNING is akin to a WHORLING in a FLOWING where the WHORLING is “BOTH” ITSELF … AND… THE FLOWING it is included in.   Here we have “BOTH” the LOCAL and EXPLICIT TOWNING, “AND” the NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT TRANSFORMING LANDSCAPE as… “concepts representing two sides of the same concept formation”

 

This CONJUGATE RELATION is the same as implied by “TO EVERYTHING THERE IS A SEASON AND A TIME TO EVERY PURPOSE”  The SEASON is the including envelope which is NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT like the transforming landscape, while the PURPOSE is the CONTENT which is LOCAL and EXPLICIT like the construction of a Town.

 

The WESTERN CULTURE CLAIM that ‘WE CONSTRUCTED A TOWN’ is TRUE but INCOMPLETE (as in Goedel’s Theorem of INCOMPLETENESS of all finite logical propositions [such as ‘the town is growing, developing and producing goods’]).   LOGICAL PROPOSITIONS are EITHER/OR based as with MALE ASSERTING/ACTUALIZING and are NOT CAPABLE of LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING based on FEMALE ACCOMMODATING/ENABLING CONJUGATES as is the OPENING UP (TRANSFORMING OF THE LANDSCAPE) that ENABLES the MALE ASSERTING/ACTUALIZING and WITHOUT WHICH, the MALE ASSERTING/ACTUALIZING CANNOT OCCUR.   HERE ONCE AGAIN, WE SEE THAT THE MALE ASSERTING/ACTUALIZING and the FEMALE ACCOMMODATING/ENABLING “ARE NOT TWO SEPARATE ENTITIES THAT CAN BE DESCRIBED EACH IN THEIR OWN RIGHT”, AS IS ACKNOWLEDGED IN INDIGENOUS ABORIGINAL LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING (the STRANDS in the WEB ARE ONE THING WHICH HAS BOTH A SCIENTIFIC and SPONTANEOUS NATURE; i.e. “Though fundamentally different in nature, the development of scientific [local and explicit] and spontaneous [nonlocal and implicit] concepts represents two sides of the same concept formation”

 

SO, the LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZATION … ‘WE CONSTRUCTED A TOWN’…  is a PROPOSITION that is TRUE but INCOMPLETE, and therefore UNREAL since in the world of our SENSE-EXPERIENCE, the CONSTRUCTION OF A TOWN can ONLY OCCUR IN CONJUGATE RELATION WITH THE SHRINKING OF WILDERNESS, in which case THERE IS NEITHER THE CONSTRUCTION OF A TOWN NOR IS THERE A SHRINKING OF WILDERNESS, THERE IS ONLY TRANSFORMING OF THE LANDSCAPE.  WHEN WE CONSTRUCT LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZATIONS WITH A “BEING” based FOUNDATION, we are IN ERROR since EVERYTHING IS IN TRANSFORMATIVE FLUX.

 

As soon as one sees that separate things are fictitious, it becomes obvious that nonexistent things cannot “perform” actions. …(e.g. “TOWNS CANNOT GROW” but there can be TOWNINGS in the TRANSFORMING LANDSCAPE)… The difficulty is that most languages are arranged so that actions (verbs) have to be set in motion by things (nouns), and we forget that rules of grammar are not necessarily rules, or patterns, of nature. This, which is nothing more than a convention of grammar, is also responsible for (or, better, “goes with”) absurd puzzles as to how spirit governs matter, or mind moves body. How can a noun, which is by definition not action, lead to action?” —Alan Watts, ‘Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are’

 

END OF THE -4-  POINT DISCUSSION which kicked off with … ”HERE WE GO WITH EXAMPLES OF HOW WE WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS ARE USING BEING-BASED LANGUAGE THAT SCREWS UP OUR CONCEPTUALIZING OF REALITY.”

 

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IF WE REALLY WANT TO KNOW HOW IT COMES TO BE THAT WE WESTERN CULTURE FOLKS ARE SCREWING UP SO BADLY WITH MASS SHOOTINGS ETC.

 

… we have to pay close attention to what Vygotsky was saying; i.e. “Though fundamentally different in nature, the development of scientific [local and explicit] and spontaneous [nonlocal and implicit] concepts represents two sides of the same concept formation”

 

Vygotsky is saying, and so is Zen scholar Alan Watts, that we (WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS) have to GET RID OF OUR HABIT of giving a FOUNDATIONAL ROLE to “BEING” since our SENSE-EXPERIENCE is telling us that EVERYTHING IS IN FLUX within the TRANSFORMING RELATIONAL CONTINUUM in which case, the LOCAL and EXPLICIT (e.g. the TOWN that is GROWING) and the NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT (the LANDSCAPE that is TRANSFORMING) represens two sides of the same concept formation”

 

in which case, we must AVOID GIVING A FOUNDATIONAL ROLE TO ‘BEING” as in “THE TOWN IS GROWING” and instead ground our linguistic conceptualizations in FLOW, as is the approach of indigenous aboriginals, where one may say “THERE IS TOWNING IN THE TRANSFORMING LANDSCAPE”.  This flow-based linguistic conceptualizing captures the fluid nature of our sense-experience reality wherein there is NO DEPENDENCY on the abstraction of MATERIAL BEING.   In the dynamics of CONDENSATIONS within the ENERGY-CHARGED PLENUM, there is nothing which is LOCAL and EXPLICIT, there is only that which is NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT since everything is in flux, while WHAT APPEARS TO BE “LOCAL AND EXPLICIT” such as “the TOWN THAT IS GROWING”, as Nietzsche has pointed out, IS A DOUBLE ERROR OF NAMING AND GRAMMAR that WRONGLY ATTRIBUTES LOCAL AUTHORING POWER TO THE NAMING-INSTANTIATED LOCAL and EXPLICIT BEING (i.e. ‘the TOWN’ in this example).

 

THIS IS A RECIPE FOR FRAGMENTATION AS POINTED OUT BY DAVID BOHM which means that Bohm and Vygotsky are ON THE SAME PAGE in pointing to A ROYAL SCREW-UP ON THE PART OF WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS, aka “THE HERD” in Nietzsche’s terms where he is pointing to the submissive, and conformist nature of the masses who adhere to conventional morality (slave morality).  Nietzsche is NOT ALONE in this negative assessment of WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS, WESTERN CULTURE PSYCHIATRISTS HAVE SHARED THIS negative view; e.g;

 

“What we call ‘normal’ (in WESTERN CULTURE), is a product of repression, denial, splitting, projection, introjection and other forms of destructive action on experience” — R.D. Laing

 

“Psychosis is the final outcome of all that is wrong with a culture. Coming to intense focus in the parents, the cultural ills are transmitted to their children, laying the foundation for insanity.”  —  Jules Henry “Culture Against Man’

 

School is an institution for drilling children in cultural orientation. …American classrooms, like educational institutions anywhere express the values, preoccupations,and fears found in the culture as a whole. School has no choice; it must train the children to fit the culture as it is. …Since education is always against some things and for others, it bears the burden of the cultural obsessions. …It thus comes about that most educational systems are imbued with anxiety and hostility, that they are against as many things as they are for. … The function of education has never been to free the mind and the spirit of man, but to bind them…acquiescence, not originality. …Schools are the central conserving force of the culture.”  — Jules Henry, Culture Against Man

 

“The great perplexity of our time, the churning of our age, is that the youth have sensed — for better or for worse — a great social-historical truth: that just as there are useless self-sacrifices in unjust wars, so too is there an ignoble heroics of whole societies: it can be the viciously destructive heroics of Hitler’s Germany or the plain debasing and silly heroics of the acquisition and display of consumer goods, the piling up of money and privileges that now characterizes whole ways of life, capitalist and Soviet.”  — Ernest Becker, ‘Denial of Death’

 

“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

 

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I, myself, as a life-long member of the WESTERN CULTURE SOCIAL COLLECTIVE, and while marching along MORE OR LESS “IN STEP” with “THE HERD”, have also experienced the DRIFT that Schroedinger describes in the Vedic terms of “Mahavit and Atmavit”, the Mahavit that continues to walk in step with the WESTERN CULTURE HERD and has NOT YET made the commitment to join the ranks of the Atmavits who WALK THEIR OWN TALK, such as indigenous aboriginal culture adherents who believe that ‘everything is related’ (interconnected and interdependent) as with STRANDS in A WEB.

 

Vygotsky’s THOUGHT AND LANGUAGE (Мышление И Речь, Психологические Исследования – … Myshleniye I Rech’, Psikhologicheskiye Issledovaniya (Thinking and Speech, Psychological Research) EXPOSES the MISTAKE that we WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS have BUILT INTO THE BASIC FOUNDATIONAL STRUCTURE OF OUR LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING SCHEME (aka ‘language’).    “Though fundamentally different in nature, the development of scientific [local and explicit] and spontaneous [nonlocal and implicit] concepts represents two sides of the same concept formation”

 

To give an example of the difference in understanding that is involved here, we can consider (A) the person that speaks in the male asserting/actualizing terms of walking over a muddy field, leaving his footprints in the mud, and (B) the person that speaks in the female accommodating/enabling terms of how the muck opens up holes to accommodate the descending boots.   We are back to the same sort of ambiguity as with the man who PUNCHES someone with an EGG-SHELL thin SKULL so that when the SKULL SHATTERS, it is unclear whether the SHATTERING of the SKULL derives from the COLLAPSING OF THE SKULL or from the ASSERTING of the PUNCH.

 

INDIGENOUS ABORIGINALS and others with FLOW-BASED LANGUAGES employ LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING that is TRANSFORMATION BASED in which case the MALE ASSERTING/ACTUALIZING and the FEMALE ACCOMMODATING/ENABLING are ONLY ONE THING; i.e. TRANSFORMATION.    This is why indigenous aboriginals employ a HEALING CIRCLE together with RESTORATIVE JUSTICE where there is NO ATTEMPT to identify a PERPETRATOR – VICTIM split because the understanding is that EVERYTHING IS RELATED as with STRANDS IN A WEB in which case THERE IS NO “LOCAL AUTHORING”.  For this reason, INDIGENOUS ABORIGINAL JUSTICE is RESTORATIVE rather than PUNITIVE (PURIFICATIONIST).   As POGO would say, ‘WE HAVE MET THE ENEMY AND HE IS US’ (the violence of the STRAND in the WEB [the local and explicit] is the VIOLENCE of the WEB [the nonlocal and implicit]), …hence the VIOLENT STRAND IN THE WEB is NOT THE LOCAL AUTHOR OF THE VIOLENCE BUT THE CONDUIT THAT IS VENTING THE BUILDUP OF TENSIONS IN THE WEB.   THIS IS THE CASE whether the VIOLENCE is THEFT, RAPE OR MURDER, AND THAT IS WHY JUSTICE IN INDIGENOUS ABORIGINAL CULTURE IS RESTORATIVE RATHER THAN PURIFICATIONIST (WESTERN CULTURE PURIFICATIONIST JUSTICE ASSUMES THAT THERE IS A LOCAL AUTHOR OF THE VIOLENCE THAT MUST BE SOUGHT OUT AND PUNISHED IF NOT ELIMINATED, WHILE THE REALITY IS THAT THE SOCIAL COLLECTIVE IS INTERCONNECTED AND INTERDEPENDENT (WEB-LIKE) IN WHICH CASE THE VIOLENCE THAT VENTS THROUGH A PARTICULAR STRAND DRAWS FROM THE INTERCONNECTED AND INTERDEPENDENT WEB whereupon it follows that JUSTICE must be RESTORATIVE rather than PUNITIVE. 

 

The UGLINESS of the MURDEROUS ACT HAS, IN WESTERN CULTURE, LED TO MASS DENIAL OF RESPONSIBILITY ON THE PART OF THE SOCIAL COLLECTIVE (THE “INNOCENT UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY RUSE”, SETTING THE STAGE FOR THEIR (OUR) “SCAPE-GOATING OF THE IDENTIFIED AUTHOR OF THE VIOLENCE THAT IS IN REALITY, NOT THE AUTHOR BUT THE VENTING CONDUIT (STRAND IN THE WEB).”

 

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INDIGENOUS ABORIGINALS and MODERN PHYSICS, AS BOHM POINTS OUT, ARE ON THE SAME PAGE

 

What is needed, Bohm argued in his book Wholeness and the Implicate Order, is a new sort of language, one based on processes and activity, transformation and change, rather than on the interactions of stable objects. Bohm called this hypothetical language the “rheomode.” It is based primarily on verbs and on grammatical structures deriving from verbs. Such a language, Bohm argued, is perfectly adapted to a reality of enfolding and unfolding matter and thought.

 

David Bohm had not known when he wrote of that concept that such a language is not just a physicist’s hypothesis. It actually exists. The language of the Algonquin peoples was developed by the ancestors specifically to deal with subtle matters of reality, society, thought, and spirituality.

 

A few months before his death, Bohm met with a number of Algonkian speakers and was struck by the perfect bridge between their language and worldview and his own exploratory philosophy. What to Bohm had been major breakthroughs in human thought — quantum theory, relativity, his implicate order and rheomode – were part of the everyday life and speech of the Blackfoot, Mic Maq, Cree and Ojibwaj.” 

– F. David Peat, ‘Blackfoot Physics’

 

 

 

THE INDIGENOUS ABORIGINAL LANGUAGE and WORLDVIEW that IS THE PERFECT BRIDGE TO BOHM’S MODERN PHYSICS is the FLOW-BASED LANGUAGE and WORLDVIEW  given by the STRAND IN THE WEB RELATION with its BOTH/AND LOGIC of the INCLUDING MEDIUM that is LESS SIMPLE than EITHER/OR LOGIC of the EXCLUDED MEDIUM

 

The EXCLUDED MEDIUM comes in the guise of an ABSOLUTE EMPTY AND INFINITE SPACE, CLEARING THE WAY FOR PURELY MATERIAL DYNAMICS which is what VYGOTSKY IS POINTING OUT IS A MISTAKE BEING MADE BY PIAGET and thus in WESTERN CULTURE LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING GENERALLY.

 

WE CAN SAY THAT WHILE VYGOTSKY … AND MODERN PHYSICS…. AND INDIGENOUS ABORIGINALS IN THEIR THOUGHT AND LANGUAGE, ARE ACKNOWLEDGING the WAVE-FIELD STRUCTURE OF REALITY, … WESTERN CULTURE PERSIST IN DROPPING OUT OF ITS LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING, the FEMALE ACCOMMODATING/ENABLING CONJUGATE and to “GO WITH”, ON ITS OWN, THE MALE ASSERTING/ACTUALIZING.

 

For example, Instead of the full wave-field “To everything there is a season and a time to every purpose” (the BOTH/AND LOGIC of the INCLUDING MEDIUM where the SEASON is the NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT AMBIANCE and the purpose is the LOCAL and EXPLICIT ACTION), WESTERN CULTURE has SUBSTITUTED ABSOLUTE EMPTY AND INFINITE SPACE for the NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT, which amounts to THE SUBSTITUTING of BINARY EITHER/OR LOGIC of the EXCLUDED MEDIUM in place of NONBINARY BOTH/AND LOGIC of the INCLUDING MEDIUM.  THIS IS A MISTAKE wherein the LOCAL and EXPLICIT RISES TO PRIMACY in our LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZATIONS.   Our WESTERN CULTURE TALK OF GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT and PRODUCTION implies such occurrence within an ABSOLUTE EMPTY AND INFINITE SPACE.  IT IS ALL MALE ASSERTING/ACTUALIZING without the conjugate FEMALE ACCOMMODATING/ENABLING that, if it were ACKNOWLEDGED, comprehends the SHRINKING of WILDERNESS, DECAY AND OBSOLETING of prior development, and the CONSUMPTION OF LIMITED RESOURCES.

 

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HOW DOES ONE SUM THIS UP?  

 

“IF WE REALLY WANT TO KNOW HOW IT COMES TO BE THAT WE WESTERN CULTURE FOLKS ARE SCREWING UP SO BADLY WITH MASS SHOOTINGS ETC.”

 

I can share with you my preference for Vygotsky’s explanatory approach.  He is implying, in the language of his era and situation, that we live in a WAVE-FIELD WORLD, but are using language that is screwing things up;

 

“Though fundamentally different in nature, the development of scientific [local and explicit] and spontaneous [nonlocal and implicit] concepts represents two sides of the same concept formation”

 

“Our disagreement with Piaget centers on one point only, but an important point. He assumes that development and instruction are entirely separate, incommensurate processes, that the function of instruction is merely to introduce adult ways of thinking, which conflict with the child’s own and eventually supplant them. Such a supposition stems from the old psychological tradition of separating the structural from the functional aspects of development.” –Vygotsky

 

PIAGET IS DOING TO LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING WHAT WESTERN CULTURE IS IN GENERAL DOING TO LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING, [FIRST OF TWO ERRORS] SPLITTING THE WAVE DOWN INTO PEAK (MALE ASSERTING/ACTUALIZING WHICH IS LOCAL AND EXPLICIT) AND TROUGH (FEMALE ACCOMMODATING/ENABLING WHICH IS NONLOCAL AND IMPLICIT), … SPLITTING THESE INTO TWO SEPARATE PIECES (THAT’S A NO-NO because a WAVE is JUST ONE THING WITH THE “APPEARANCE” OF TWO ASPECTS).  THAT [FIRST OF TWO ERRORS].

 

PIAGET THEN PROCEEDS [SECOND OF TWO ERRORS] TO “DROP OUT THE FEMALE ACCOMMODATING/ENABLING CONJUGATE ALTOGETHER because he reasons that this NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT aspect simply CONFUSES THE STUDENTS while the MALE ASSERTING/ACTUALIZING, because it is LOCAL and EXPLICIT provides a SOLID FOUNDATION FOR LEARNING. A SIMPLE SUBSTITUTE OF ABSOLUTE EMPTY AND INFINITE SPACE IS INTRODUCED INTO LANGUAGE TO BACKFILL FOR THE DROPPING OUT OF THE FEMALE ACCOMMODATING/ENABLING CONJUGATE (sometimes referred to as the DEA ABSCONDITA [Goddess in Hiding])

 

PIAGET’S method BLOCKS ACCESS TO THE WAVE STRUCTURE where scientific [local and explicit] and spontaneous [nonlocal and implicit] concepts represents two sides of the same concept formation”

 

THERE IS ANOTHER WAY TO LOOK AT THIS DROPPING OUT OF THE WAVE STRUCTURE BY PIAGET.  IF WE RECALL THE EXPRESSION “TO EVERYTHING THERE IS A SEASON AND A TIME TO EVERY PURPOSE” or the equivalent as in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar “There is a tide in the affairs of man…” where the notion of our INCLUSION in a WAVE-DYNAMIC becomes part of our LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING SCHEME.  WHENEVER WE GIVE A FOUNDATIONAL ROLE TO “BEING”, WE SHUT OUT ACCESS TO FLOW-BASED CONCEPTUALIZATIONS.  For example, if we speak in terms of “THE TOWN IS GROWING” we have implied “WITHIN AND ABSOLUTE EMPTY AND INFINITE SPACE” and we have BYPASSED the option to give a foundational role to FLUX as with THERE IS TOWNING IN THE TRANSFORMING LANDSCAPE” where the TOWNING is INCLUDED IN THE ALL-INCLUDING TRANSFORMING LANDSCAPE in which case IT IS NOT A TOWN THING-IN-ITSELF notionally WITH ITS OWN POWERS OF LOCAL AUTHORING OF GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT as is the course taken in the LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING SCHEME chosen by WESTERN CULTURE.

 

IF WE OPT FOR A LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING SCHEME THAT SUPPORTS MATERIAL THINGS SUCH AS “TOWNS” THAT GROW, DEVELOP and PRODUCE goods, we have CHOSEN TO GIVE A FOUNDATIONAL ROLE TO A LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING SCHEME which is SIMPLE BINARY EITHER/OR LOGIC of the EXCLUDED MEDIUM based where these TOWNS exist, grow, develop and produce things WITHIN AN ABSOLUTE EMPTY AND INFINITE SPACE, as demanded by the terms GROWTH, DEVELOP and PRODUCE.

 

That is all LOCAL and EXPLICIT based, or in other words, SCIENTIFIC based.  VYGOTSKY is arguing that the LOCAL and EXPLICIT DOES NOT EXIST IN ITS OWN RIGHT, but EXISTS ONLY IN CONJUGATE RELATION WITH THE NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT where the scientific [local and explicit] and spontaneous [nonlocal and implicit] concepts represents two sides of the same concept formation”

 

VYGOTSKY IS POINTING OUT THAT WE LIVE IN A WAVE-FIELD WORLD wherein the OPERATIVE LOGIC is the BOTH/AND LOGIC of the INCLUDING MEDIUM, … while PIAGET, whose views are DOMINANT in our current WESTERN CULTURE CONCEPTUALIZING OF REALITY, is SAYING that we are living in a WORLD OF EMPTY SPACE POPULATED BY MATERIAL OBJECTS THAT ARE “LOCAL and EXPLICIT” where the OPERATIVE LOGIC is the EITHER/OR LOGIC of the EXCLUDED MEDIUM.

 

VYGOTSKY’S VIEW ACCORDS WITH MODERN PHYSICS and with INDIGENOUS ABORIGINAL CULTURE; i.e. it is a view grounded in the BOTH/AND LOGIC of the INCLUDING MEDIUM (the NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT as where “THERE IS TOWNING IN THE TRANSFORMING LANDSCAPE”), while PIAGET’S VIEW ACCORDS with NEWTONIAN PHYSICS and with WESTERN CULTURE’S MECHANISTIC CONCEPTUALIZATIONS grounded in the EITHER/OR LOGIC of the EXCLUDED MEDIUM (the LOCAL and EXPLICIT as where THE TOWN IS GROWING, DEVELOPING and PRODUCING goods).

 

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IF WE REALLY WANT TO KNOW HOW IT COMES TO BE THAT WE WESTERN CULTURE FOLKS ARE SCREWING UP SO BADLY WITH MASS SHOOTERS ETC. we have to review HOW MODERN PHYSICS and INDIGENOUS ABORIGINAL CULTURES HAVE A COMMON UNDERSTANDING OF THE WORLD AND HOW WE WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS DISAGREE.

 

BOTH MODERN PHYSICS and INDIGENOUS ABORIGINALS UNDERSTAND THAT WE ARE IN A “STRANDS-IN-THE-WEB” RELATIONSHIP OF INTERCONNECTION and INTERDEPENDENCE which means that BOTH RESONANCE and DISSONANCE (VIOLENCE) ARE NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT (RELATIONAL) while APPEARNING LOCAL and EXPLICIT.  THAT IS HOW STRANDS-IN-THE-WEB DYNAMICS ‘WORK’.  WE SEE A STRAND THAT BECOMES VERY VIOLENT BUT BECAUSE THAT VIOLENT STRAND IS INCLUDED WITHIN THE INTERCONNECTING AND INTERDEPENDENT MATRIX OF THE WEB, THE VIOLENCE “VENTING” FROM THE STRAND IS SOURCED BY THE WEB.  This is the understanding of indigenous aboriginals AND MODERN PHYSICS and it is the understanding that leads naturally to RESTORATIVE JUSTICE since the STRAND VENTING THE VIOLENCE NOT THE LOCAL, EXPLICIT AUTHORING SOURCE, but only the CONDUIT FOR THE VENTING OF TENSIONS that are of NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT IN ORIGIN.

 

BECAUSE “THERE IS NO LOCAL AUTHOR OF VIOLENT VENTING” (there is only the LOCAL VENTING AGENT),  and because the origin of the VIOLENCE is the relational MATRIX or WEB, .. THERE IS THE NEED FOR RESTORATIVE JUSTICE and IT WOULD BE A MISTAKE to SCAPE-GOAT the CONDUIT through which the VIOLENCE was VENTED, hence in indigenous aboriginal culture, the response of the community is to RESTORE BALANCE and RELATIONAL RESONANCE which has given way to IMBALANCE and RELATIONAL DISSONANCE.  This is the MODEL of reality that is consistent with Vygotsky’s model where the scientific [local and explicit peak] and spontaneous [nonlocal and implicit trough] concepts represents two sides of the same concept formation” .  Piaget’s DROPPING OUT of the spontaneous [nonlocal and implicit trough] and GOING ONLY WITH the scientific [local and explicit peak] reduces the WAVE DYNAMIC to a one-sided EITHER/OR MECHANICAL dynamic which is where WESTERN CULTURE LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING REMAINS STUCK!  Yes, it is TRUE that “THE TOWN IS GROWING” but as Goedel’s Theorem reminds us, ALL BINARY LOGIC based PROPOSITIONS ARE INCOMPLETE.  In this case, we have NOT mentioned the conjugate SHRINKING of the WILDERNESS and/or the associated TRANSFORMING of the LANDSCAPE.

 

Piaget has put us in the habit of BREAKING DOWN the WAVE-FIELD STRUCTURE of our sense-experience, DROPPING OUT the NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT FEMALE ACCOMMODATING/ENABLING CONJUGATE (substituting absolute empty and infinite space in its place) and PROMOTING the LOCAL and EXPLICIT MALE ASSERTING/ACTUALIZING CONJUGATE TO PRIMARY STATUS.

 

THIS CORRUPTION OF OUR WESTERN CULTURE LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING SCHEME IS THE SOURCE OF WESTERN CULTURE PSYCHOLOGICAL DYSFUNCTION THAT INCLUDES MASS SHOOTERS.

 

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FOOTNOTE AI overview in regard to BOTH/AND LOGIC of the INCLUDING MEDIUM vis a vis EITHER/OR LOGIC of the EXCLUDED MEDIUM: MY own development of understanding makes use of, as Modern physics does, and as indigenous aboriginal culture does, the BOTH/AND LOGIC of the INCLUDING MEDIUM.  Note that Vygotsky does likewise when he makes use of 

 

AI Overview

Both/and logic

 in Western culture is used to a moderate, evolving extent, often functioning as a counter-approach to the dominant either/or (binary) logic rooted in Aristotelian tradition. While Western thought historically prioritizes non-contradiction, both/and is increasingly applied in postmodern theory, feminist discourse, theological paradoxes (e.g., Christ’s divinity and humanity), and certain nuanced philosophical, legal, and social frameworks. 

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  • Historical Predominance of Either/Or: Western thought, stemming from Ancient Greek philosophy (Aristotle), is primarily rooted in formal, binary logic where contradictions are deemed unacceptable. This tradition values clear distinctions and often views concepts as “either/or”.
  • Contextual Use of Both/And:
    • Postmodern/Feminist Thought: Both/and is used to challenge rigid, “tidy” theories that fail to capture complex, lived experiences, as argued by some feminists. It allows for embracing fragmentation and holding multiple truths or positions simultaneously.
    • Theology: Christian theology frequently employs both/and to navigate paradoxes, such as Jesus being fully divine and fully human.
    • Continental Philosophy: Contrasting with analytic philosophy, which favors rigid logic, some Continental approaches (e.g., postmodernism) embrace multiple, co-existing perspectives in a fragmented reality.
    • Modern Legal/Social Issues: In legal and social contexts, both/and is applied when analyzing, for example, how policies can be simultaneously beneficial and harmful, requiring a nuanced, non-binary evaluation.
  • Limitations: Despite its usage in specific areas, both/and is not the dominant, overarching logic in Western science or analytic philosophy, which still heavily rely on deductive reasoning, consistency, and the exclusion of direct contradictions. 

Therefore, both/and acts more as a critical, nuanced framework in Western culture rather than the foundational logic, which remains heavily binary and deductive. 

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Western logic has held contradictions as false for centuries. Is that wrong?

Since Aristotle’s Metaphysics, Western philosophers and logicians have, with few exceptions, viewed contradictions as unacceptable, simply incapable of being true. But certain logical paradoxes demonstrate that some contradictions aren’t so easily dismissed as merely false, an idea that some Eastern philosophical traditions have grappled with more successfully. In this instalment of Aeon’s In Sight series, the US-based British philosopher Graham Priest explains how the Liar Paradox – debated since antiquity – can upend the traditional Western view that all contradictions must be false.