An inclusional worldview
The LIES my (WESTERN) CULTURE told me.
This account of The LIES my (WESTERN) CULTURE told me centres on ,
UPGRADING OUR (WESTERN CULTURE) “REASONING” (from LOCAL and EXPLICIT REASONING to NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT RELATIONAL UNDERSTANDING)
“Indeed, nothing has yet possessed a more naive power of persuasion than the error concerning being, as it has been formulated by the Eleatics, for example. After all, every word and every sentence we say speak in its favor. Even the opponents of the Eleatics still succumbed to the seduction of their concept of being: Democritus, among others, when he invented his atom. “Reason” in language — oh, what an old deceptive witch she is! I am afraid we are not rid of God because we still have faith in grammar.” – Nietzsche, ‘Twilight of the Idols’
WE WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS CANNOT POSSIBLY RESOLVE OUR PROBLEMS AS LONG AS WE STICK TO “REASON”.
TRUST ME in your reading of this short note in which I am pointing out WHAT’S WRONG WITH OUR CONVENTIONAL WESTERN CULTURE REASONING, to the point that you can ‘hear what I am saying’. There is plenty of opportunity to ponder and criticize after UNDERSTANDING the points being shared but it is important to SUSPEND ONE’S KNEE-JERK REJECTIONS so that what may SOUND LIKE RADICAL OR ERRONEOUS UNDERSTANDINGS are DISMISSED or BLOCKED prior to being FULLY HEARD.
What we WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS have been doing with LANGUAGE is to swap out the NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT for the LOCAL and EXPLICIT (THERE IS NO LOCAL AND EXPLICIT in the world of our sense-experience, IT IS ONLY APPEARANCE).
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– 1- To everything there is a season and a time to every purpose.
This aphorism may be very familiar but it is NOT ACCEPTED in our standard WESTERN CULTURE reasoning, wherein we accept the TRUTH of our own ACTIONS and DEVELOPMENT, giving FULL AND SOLE CREDIT for AUTHORSHIP using the DOUBLE ERROR OF NAMING and GRAMMAR. This FULL and SOLE CREDIT is built into WESTERN CULTURE BINARY LOGIC based JUSTICE with its REWARDS and PUNISHMENTS SCHEME. However, if this aphorism HOLDS, then we cannot give full and sole attribution to WHAT THE INDIVIDUAL DOES, because the RESULT depends NOT ONLY on the ACTION (the MALE ASSERTING/ACTUALIZING) but ALSO, AT THE SAME TIME, on the UNFOLDING AMBIENT SITUATION HE IS INCLUDED IN. HERE we see a PROBLEM WITH OUR WESTERN CULTURE LANGUAGE which conveys WHAT THINGS DO as if within an EMPTY SPACE which neither helps nor hinders our actions, when the REALITY is that “To everything there is a season and a time to every purpose”.
PROBLEM: Our WESTERN CULTURE LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING SCHEME gives FULL AND SOLE AUTHORING CREDIT TO THE MALE ASSERTING/ACTUALIZING AGENT “AS IF THE FEMALE ACCOMMODATING/ENABLING CONJUGATE DID NOT EXIST”, hence the shadowy allusion to the DEA ABSCONDITA (Goddess in Hiding).
– 2- Goedel’s Theorem of the INCOMPLETENESS of all finite logical propositions.
Because we WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS have chosen to PRETEND that we live in an EMPTY SPACE, this being the result of our use of simple BINARY LOGIC in our LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING SCHEME, we LIMIT our PROPOSITIONS to “WHAT THINGS DO” (the male asserting/actualizing conjugate) and DROP OUT ACKNOWLEDGEMENT of the female accommodating/enabling that is ALWAYS conjugate with the male asserting/actualizing. That is, if a man punches another man in the head and the recipient’s skull shatters DUE TO HIS HAVING AN EGGSHELL THIN SKULL, WESTERN CULTURE JUSTICE holds the PUNCHER FULLY AND SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR THE DAMAGE because we WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS have designed our LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING SCHEME using only the one-sided MALE ASSERTING/ACTUALIZING conjugate.
PROBLEM: Our WESTERN CULTURE conceptualizations of REALITY are SCREWED UP in that they are INCOMPLETE because of our DROPPING OUT of the FEMALE ACCOMMODATING/ENABLING conjugate which is always operative in the real world of our sense-experience; i.e. WE WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS are dropping information OUT OF OUR LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZATIONS OF REALITY which are IMPORTANT ASPECTS OF OUR SENSE-EXPERIENCE REALITY. While Goedel’s Theorem WARNS US ABOUT THIS DROP-OUT WE HAVE BUILT INTO OUR LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZATION (REASONING) SCHEME, WE DO NOTHING TO CORRECT IT.
– 3- The WESTERN CULTURE DROP-OUT of the STRAND IN THE WEB ambiguating of authorship (which strand is sourcing the action?).
While Indigenous aboriginals acknowledge the complexity of the STRAND IN THE WEB relation, we WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS put on our blindfolds and ignore what we have actually PROVEN in physics; i.e. that there is NO SOLUTION to the problem of identifying the separate contributions of each participant in a dynamic that involves the mutual influencing of three or more participants. In indigenous aboriginal culture, this leads to RESTORATIVE JUSTICE instead of PURIFICATIONIST JUSTICE as in WESTERN CULTURE. So, HOW DO WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS ‘get around’ the THREE BODY PROBLEM aka the STRAND-IN-THE-WEB understanding wherein it is impossible to identify the INDIVIDUAL CONTRIBUTION (which is why indigenous aboriginals seek resolution of STRIFE or VIOLENCE by RESTORATIVE JUSTICE rather than, as is the WESTERN CULTURE approach, PURIFICATIONIST JUSTICE (SCAPE-GOATING THE IDENTIFIED PATIENT). WESTERN CULTURE persistently SIMPLIFIES the LESS SIMPLE REALITY by using BINARY LOGIC. In heavy traffic on a freeway where a dog darting across the freeways sets off a chain reaction of swerving, braking and accelerating, the resultant fender-bender is REDUCED to a SIMPLE BINARY LOGIC PERPETRATOR-VICTIM pair, ignoring the LESS SIMPLE ‘STRAND IN THE WEB’ complexity which cannot be resolved in a simple BINARY LOGIC PERPETRATOR-VICTIM manner due to the THREE BODY PROBLEM wherein the participants are moving under one another’s simultaneous mutual influence.
PROBLEM: While INDIGENOUS ABORIGINAL CULTURE RIGHTFULLY ACKNOWLEDGES the NON-SOLVABILITY of the STRAND-IN-THE-WEB OUTBURST OF RELATIONAL DISSONANCE, WE WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS EMPLOY, FOR SIMPLIFYING EXPEDIENCE, A BINARY LOGIC REDUCTION TO A TWO-BODY (PERPETRATOR-VICTIM) PROBLEM, so that instead of a HEALING CIRCLE which recognizes the impossibility of identifying a LOCAL AUTHOR and accepts the NONLOCAL and RELATIONAL origin of the STRIFE, WESTERN CULTURE PURIFICATIONIST JUSTICE uses BINARY LOGIC REDUCTION to (MIS-) CAST the VIOLENT dynamic in PERPETRATOR-VICTIM terms.
NOTE ALSO the distinction between indigenous aboriginal culture WHEREIN INSPIRATION FILLS THE SOUL while in WESTERN CULTURE EGO SWELLS THE HEAD, due to WESTERN CULTURE’S REDUCTION of NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT (relational) SOURCING, to LOCAL and EXPLICIT AUTHORING.
– 4- The WESTERN CULTURE MISTAKEN REDUCTION OF NONBINARY WAVE-FIELD REALITY TO BINARY MECHANICAL REALITY
As Lev Vygotsky has pointed out in his investigation of our LEARNING PROCESS, we have the capability of conceptualizing things in both MALE ASSERTING/ACTUALIZING terms (which Vygotsky terms ‘scientific’) and FEMALE ACCOMMODATING/ENABLING terms (which Vygotsky terms ‘spontaneous’). For example, when we use the ‘scientific’ form of conceptualizing, we may say ‘the TOWN IS GROWING’ which captures the LOCAL and EXPLICIT aspect while when we use the ‘spontaneous’ form of conceptualizing , we may say ‘there is TOWNING in the TRANSFORMING LANDSCAPE’ which includes the SHRINKING of the WILDERNESS. Vygotsky points out that these do not have their own separate realities but are CONJUGATE ASPECTS OF A SINGLE CONCEPTUALIZATION. Vygotsky criticizes Piaget (who supports the WESTERN CULTURE STANDARD usage) who makes TWO MISTAKES, the first is to SPLIT INTO TWO SEPARATE PARTS “THE SCIENTIFIC” and the “SPONTANEOUS” and the SECOND is to DROP OUT the FEMALE ACCOMMODATING/ENABLING CONJUGATE and ‘GO WITH’, ON ITS OWN, THE MALE ASSERTING/ACTUALIZING conjugate. ***NOTE*** we have an underdeveloped vocabulary for discussing these things and I am trying to bridge between different usages, hence the non-bold alternative terms in the square brackets as follows;
“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” – Lev Vygotsky
PROBLEM: The WESTERN CULTURE OBSCURING OF THE NONBINARY: Vygotsky is pointed out that the SCIENTIFIC and SPONTANEOUS are conjugate aspects of ONE THING (the WAVE-FIELD wherein the material form is a CONDENSATION of the energy-charged PLENUM).
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NOTE RE THE IMPORTANCE OF RECOGNIZING THAT BINARY LOGIC IS CONFUSING OUR UNDERSTANDING.
In the above comments regarding UPGRADING OUR (WESTERN CULTURE) REASONING there are numerous PUT-DOWNS of BINARY LOGIC showing that BINARY LOGIC SIMPLIFIES AND OBSCURES. For example, while NONBINARY LOGIC as used in indigenous aboriginal cultures, gives us understanding in terms of STRANDS IN THE WEB (where 3 or more strands are assumed) which is that THERE IS NO LOCAL EXPLICIT AUTHOR TO BLAME TO ATTRIBUTE ACTIONS OR DEVELOPMENTS TO, whether we are speaking of BENEFICIAL DEVELOPMENTS or HARMFUL DEVELOPMENTS (as we do in our BINARY LOGIC simplifying manner).
As the Anishinabe say;
“At the core of our spiritual beings we make no artificial distinction between the sacred and the profane. Unlike Western culture, we have not suffered through that artificial separation”
According to Tomoko Masuzawa, any cosmology without a sacred–profane binary was rendered invisible by the field of religious studies, privileging Christianity [and Islam and Judaism] at the expense of non-Christian systems because the binary was supposed to be “universal”, –Wikipedia
I am including this NOTE RE THE IMPORTANCE OF OUR WESTERN CULTURE NEED TO RECOGNIZE THAT BINARY LOGIC IS CONFUSING OUR UNDERSTANDING …because my experience has been, in pursuing philosophical investigations as to how our WESTERN CULTURE ‘works’, that as Emerson has suggested, the TOOL (of BINARY LOGIC) is RUNNING AWAY WITH THE WORKMAN.
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SUMMARIZING NARRATIVE: In the above exercise in UPGRADING OUR (WESTERN CULTURE) UNDERSTANDING (from LOCAL and EXPLICIT REASONING to NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT RELATIONAL UNDERSTANDING), there has been a COMMON THEME which the reader may or may not have noticed. In starting off this discussion, I cited the aphorism “To everything there is a season and a time to every purpose. The IMPORTANCE of this statement lies in how it INTEGERATES the CONTENT (the inhabitant) from the CONTAINER (habitat) which supports the understanding that we share inclusion within a TRANSFORMING RELATIONAL CONTINUUM wherein EVERYTHING IS IN FLUX. The world we share inclusion in, is BEYOND UNDERSTANDING THAT COMES FROM OUR TOOL OF REASONING. In Nietzsche’s words;
“Reason” in language — oh, what an old deceptive witch she is! I am afraid we are not rid of God because we still have faith in grammar.” – Nietzsche, ‘Twilight of the Idols’
How to interpret this, is illustrated in the 4 points discussed above. These points provide a breakdown of the prominent means by which we WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS use language to SIMPLIFY (AND THUS DISTORT) our conceptualizations of QUOTE/UNQUOTE “REALITY”, reducing them from NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT to LOCAL and EXPLICIT. .
-1- To everything there is a season and a time to every purpose.
-2- Goedel’s Theorem of the INCOMPLETENESS of all finite logical propositions.
-3- The WESTERN CULTURE DROP-OUT of the STRAND IN THE WEB ambiguating of authorship (which strand is sourcing the action?).
-4- The WESTERN CULTURE MISTAKEN REDUCTION OF NONBINARY WAVE-FIELD REALITY TO BINARY MECHANICAL REALITY
These SIMPLIFICATIONS we introduce into our LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING SCHEME establish themselves in the unreviewed SUBSTRUCTURE of our language so that, for example, when we speak of WHAT WE DO, we do not mention whether or not we waited for things to change with the understanding that “To everything there is a season and a time to every purpose” so that our actions would be more harmonious than they might have been if we had just IMPETUOUSLY PUSHED FORWARD with our own personal plans like a Donald Trump or an Elon Musk. Likewise Goedel’s theorem warns us that while we are TELLING THE TRUTH about our plans to build the new shopping centre, it is a TRUTH that is incomplete because it fails to capture what will be an overall TRANSFORMATION of the LANDSCAPE which is leading to UNMANAGED TRANSFORMATION and this does not mean that we HUMANS have the POWER to MANAGE the TRANSFORMATION we are making unwitting contributions to, but it IS TO SAY that our talking up a scenario showing how our TOWN is being extended with a new shopping centre and sports arena, FAILS TO capture the associated SHRINKING of WILDERNESS and loss of natural diversity. This is TRICKY and we WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS are particularly exposed to it BECAUSE WE HAVE DESIGNED OUR LANGUAGE TO EXPRESS THINGS IN TERMS OF ONE-SIDED POSITIVE LOGICAL PROPOSITIONS, …that are troubled by Goedel’s Theorem of the INCOMPLETENESS of all finite logical propositions.
My vote for the MOST INSIDIOUS of the 4 LINGUISTIC DISTORTIONS OF REALITY is the NUMBER -3- The WESTERN CULTURE DROP-OUT of the STRAND IN THE WEB ambiguating of reality because it continues to SUPPORT THE CHARACTERISTIC DYSFUNCTION OF WESTERN CULTURE which is the MISTAKEN LANGUAGE SUPPORTED NOTION OF LOCAL , EXPLICIT AUTHORING of ACTIONS and DEVELOPMENT where the reality, known in indigenous aboriginal cultures and known in Modern physics and captured in languages that are FLOW-BASED, is the NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT TRANSFORMING OF THE RELATIONAL CONTINUUM.
This shows up as follows; In an indigenous aboriginal community, when a rape or murder occurs, this is understood as a DYSFUNCTION coming from the social collective and MANIFESTING through a STRAND IN THE WEB of community in which case the REMEDY is TO RESTORE BALANCE IN THE WEB and this is undertaken by way of HEALING CIRCLES. The active agent “holding the smoking gun” so-to-speak is understood as the STRAND in the web that VENTS tensions that have built within the WEB; i.e. he is NOT VIEWED AS THE LOCAL ORIGINATING AUTHORING SOURCE. Here we can invoke the well-known in WESTERN CULTURE understanding of the THREE BODY PROBLEM even though WESTERN CULTURE IS NOT INVOKING IT, but together with the understanding of the STRANDS in the WEB structure, it points out that when a STRAND ERUPTS IN VIOLENCE, there is an innate ambiguity as to the ORIGIN of the VIOLENT ENERGY. In other words, the STRAND is only the CHANNEL or CONDUIT for the VENTING of VIOLENCE that has been building IN THE WEB.
ON SOME LEVEL, THIS IS UNDERSTOOD IN WESTERN CULTURE where we have the SCAPE-GOATING OF THE IDENTIFIED PATIENT even though ‘everybody knows’ that the FAMILY is SYSFUNCTIONAL so that the member of the family that ‘has a breakdown’ and ‘becomes violent’ may be the SENSITIVE ONE or ‘MINER’S CANARY’. Nevertheless, WESTERN CULTURE language and grammar is constrained to a SIMPLE BINARY EITHER/OR LOGIC base whereby EVERYONE IS PRESUMED INNOCENT UNLESS PROVEN GUILTY. In other words, in WESTERN CULTURE, there is NO ASSUMPTION of INTERCONNECTION and INTERDEPENDENCE as there is in indigenous aboriginal culture and Modern physics which captures the relations of STRANDS IN THE WEB and/or CONDENSATIONS in the ENERGY-CHARGED PLENUM. But WHERE THERE IS ACKNOWLEDGEMENT of such INTERCONNECTION and INTERDEPENDENCE, the THREE BODY PROBLEM is operative (i.e. the impossibility of calculating the individual movements of three or more bodies moving under one-another’s simultaneous mutual influence). In indigenous aboriginal cultures, this understanding (supported by Modern physics) leads to RESTORATIVE JUSTICE rather than PURIFICATIONIST JUSTICE (punishment or elimination of the purported AUTHOR of the VIOLENCE). THIS WESTERN CULTURE DROP-OUT of the STRAND IN THE WEB ambiguating of reality IS A REAL NASTY PART OF WESTERN CULTURE SOCIAL PRACTICE, and in my view THE MOST INSIDIOUS of the 4 LINGUISTIC DISTORTIONS OF REALITY. And MAKE NO MISTAKE, THIS IS NOT GOING AWAY SOON because IT IS SECURED BY THE POPULAR WESTERN CULTURE BELIEF IN LOCAL AUTHORING OF ACTIONS AND DEVELOPMENT which has been the basis on which entire hierarchies of STATUS and PRIVILEGE have been established and celebrated in WESTERN CULTURE.
One can see here, if one dares to look, how the NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT has been DEMOTED AND BEEN REPLACED BY THE LOCAL and EXPLICIT. As Schroedinger has pointed out, the LOCAL and EXPLICIT is Schaumkommen (APPEARANCE). The LOCAL and EXPLICIT “TOWN THAT IS GROWING” is an INCOMPLETE PROPOSITION that obscures the reality of NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT TRANSFORMATION wherein “THERE IS TOWNING IN THE TRANSFORMING LANDSCAPE”.
Here we see an example of how WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS, IN OUR LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING, are DEMOTING the MORE COMPLETE NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT TRANSFORMATION, and substituting in its place the FRAGMENTED LOCAL and EXPLICIT GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT and PRODUCTION.
Now the WESTERN CULTURE READER OF THIS NOTE may observe, that the indigenous aboriginal is NEITHER SURPRISED BY OR BOTHERED BY this understanding since in his FLOW-BASED LANGUAGE, it is always the case that the NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT TRANSFORMING RELATIONAL CONTINUUM is understood as the FOUNDATIONAL REALITY and that the LOCAL and EXPLICIT GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT and PRODUCTION of goods is NOT ONLY SECONDARY LINGUISTIC ABSTRACTION that is being WRONGLY PROMOTED to PRIMARY REALITY STATUS but is PUTTING US ALL ON A BUSTRIP TO HELL since what is REALLY GOING ON is TRANSFORMATION THAT WE ARE ALL INCLUDED IN that we WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS are NOT FOCUSING ON and NOT STAYING IN HARMONY WITH because we HAVE THE BIT IN OUR REDUCTIONIST TEETH AND are too busy with the MIRAGE of our LOCAL, EXPLICIT GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT and PRODUCTION projects, the fallout from our WESTERN CULTURE MISTAKEN REDUCTION OF NONBINARY (NONLOCAL, IMPLICIT) TRANSFORMING WAVE-FIELD REALITY, TO BINARY LOCAL, EXPLICIT MECHANICAL REALITY
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The WESTERN CULTURE READER, if HONEST, will see that what is being said in this note is ON TARGET and is supported not only by Modern physics but by indigenous aboriginals (traditionalists) and Taoists/Buddhists and Advaita Vedanta adherents. Today’s WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS, have, as in McGilchrist’s book “The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World” points out our WESTERN CULTURE shifting from “A way of thinking which is reductive, mechanistic that has taken us over,”, eclipsing and shutting down awareness of how things are connected; It’s the right brain that understands context and the big picture — our relationships with others and how we fit into a complex, non-linear world in which everything is connected
OK, the reader should know that where I am coming from is where indigenous aboriginals and Bohm and Schroedinger are coming from and it is NONBINARY LOGIC based and is NOT saddled with the BINARY LOGIC OVER-SIMPLIFICATIONS that McGilchrist is forced to struggle with and which he is mocked for, by the dominant WESTERN CULTURE AUTHORITIES who are predominantly REDUCTIONIST.
I have tagged on this reference to McGilchrist to try to make the point that BINARY EITHER/OR LOGIC OF THE EXCLUDED MEDIUM is INCAPABLE of CONVEYING what Bohm and Schroedinger and indigenous aboriginals are conveying with their NONBINARY BOTH/AND LOGIC of the INCLUDING MEDIUM. So to all those who are continuing to TRY TO RESOLVE OUR PROBLEMS using our WESTERN CULTURE CONVENTIONAL BINARY LOGIC, I WOULD SAY, OUR PROBLEMS ARE OUR USE OF BINARY LOGIC and associated LOCAL and EXPLICIT conceptualizations and we are now stuck in that impossible situation where the too-simple vehicle (language) we are using to gain an understanding of our problems is the source of our problems.
The WORLD of our SENSE-EXPERIENCE is NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT (the TRANSFORMING LANDSCAPE wherein everything is in flux) while the WORLD of our INTELLECT is LOCAL and EXPLICIT (the TOWN that is GROWING wherein only CONTENT is moving while the CONTAINER of the ENERGY-CHARGED PLENUM has been replaced by a notional ABSOLUTE EMPTY AND INFINITE SPACE.).
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LETS NOT FORGET that the 4 points discussed above are pointing to screwups that we have built into the substructure of our thought and language (i.e. the SUBSTITUTING OF SIMPLE BINARY EITHER/OR LOGIC OF THE EXCLUDED MEDIUM in place of the NEEDED LESS SIMPLE NONBINARY BOTH/AND LOGIC OF THE INCLUDING MEDIUM) which is a substitution that is screwing up our understanding but so long as we continue to use our language where these screwups are given a foundational role, the confusion and dysfunction will persist.
WE NEED TO USE LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING TO RESTORE THE NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT (the TOWNING IN THE TRANSFORMING LANDSCAPE) into its NATURAL PRIMACY over the LOCAL and EXPLICIT (the TOWN that is GROWING, DEVELOPING and PRODUCING goods). This shift, in our WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENCY, from the SIMPLE BINARY EITHER/OR LOGIC of the EXCLUDED MEDIUM use in LANGUAGE to the NONBINARY BOTH/AND LOGIC of the INCLUDING MEDIUM use in LANGUAGE IS SORELY NEEDED.
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