Everywhere in my philosophical investigations I keep bumping into the confusion coming from ambiguities in the basic architecture of our language; i.e. does the hurricane source the stirring up of the atmosphere or does the stirring up of the atmosphere source the hurricane?

These ambiguities are everywhere and are duly noted in the Zen koan of ‘wind-and-flag’ i.e. does the movement of the air source the movement of the flag or does the movement of the flag source movement of the air.

As modern physics and the understanding of EASTERN CULTURES will tell us, we don’t need to waste our time trying to solve this one ambiguity because it is based on the abstract concept of LOCAL SOURCING and there is no such thing as LOCAL SOURCING, there is only NOLOCAL TRANSFORMATION as is the nature of the Wave-field.

We are confusing ourselves with our own language; … more specifically, we are confusing ourselves by having built into our language the DOUBLE ERROR based concept of LOCAL SOURCING where the FIRST ERROR is NAMING which imputes the existence of a LOCAL THING-IN-ITSELF and we conflate this with the SECOND ERROR of GRAMMAR that notionally endows the FIRST ERROR based THING-IN-ITSELF with ‘its own’ powers of SOURCING actions and developments.

This DOUBLE ERROR is how we construct the abstraction of LOCAL SOURCING, and guess what this does for us.  It allows us to build EFFABLE-because-LOCAL-and-EXPLICIT actions and developments, whereas, without the DOUBLE ERROR, our language lacked the capability of dealing with TRANSFORMATION which is INEFFABLE-because-NONLOCAL-and-IMPLICIT.

The DOUBLE ERROR doesn’t OVERCOME this problem that reality of TRANSFORMATION is INEFFABLE, it SIDESTEPS it by instead CONSTRUCTING A SUBSTITUTE REALITY that IS EFFABLE-because-LOCAL-and-EXPLICIT.

On the one hand, we can talk about the ORCHARD and its GROWTH because this is all about the LOCAL and EXPLICIT, and the notion of GROWTH is just a RATIO of something that supposedly ‘alreadly is’.   AND we instantiate this LOCAL THING THAT ALREADY IS with NAMING.

Now we must ask ourselves whether or not that is a neat trick because we started of speechless, faced with the phenomenon of TRANSFFORMATION which is NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT and EVERYWHERE AT THE SAME TIME like the LANDSCAPE.   Thanks to the DOUBLE ERROR of NAMING and GRAMMAR, we have substituted a NEW REALITY based on LOCAL THINGS-in-THEMSELVES, notionally with their own powers of SOURCING actions and developments, like the ORCHARD that ‘grows larger and more productive’ and/or like the HURRICANE that grows larger and stronger and produces more devastation.

The all-including TRANSFORMATION is still the real reality of our sensory experience, but we are about to leave it behind because we need language that is capable of constructing a representation of ‘reality’, and our language is based on NAMES that impute persisting things-in-themselves and GRAMMAR that imputes to the things-in-themselves their own powers of SOURCING actions and developments, .. like the ORCHARD that grows larger and produces more fruit.   To say that ‘the LANDSCAPE is TRANSFORMING captures reality in an IMPLICIT-because-purely-relational NOLOCAL-and IMPLICIT manner.

Relational TRANSFORMATION is the reality that is more true than LOCAL GROWTH but it lacks the explicitness of LOCAL GROWTH.   Meanwhile, the devil demands its dues, as systems sciences say, because in constructing a reality in which the FIGURE GROWS, the GROUND (non-FIGURE) must commensurately SHRINK, unless, of course, we invent an absolute space to domicile the FIGURE in so that it can GROW to its heart’s content without any reciprocal ramifications.  Of course, that would only be in la-la land since in the reality of our sensory experience FIGURE-and-GROUND-are-ONE and if the FIGURE GROWS, the GROUND must reciprocally shrink.  If the SOAP BUBBLES GROW, the GROUND SHRINKS and the overall phenomenon is HEXAGONAL CELLS which affirm that what is going on is NOT GROWTH but TRANSFORMATION.

We can say that ‘the TOWN GROWS’ without mentioning that the Wilderness is shrinking, as a reminder that what is realty going on IS NOT GROWTH OF THE TOWN but TRANSFORMATION OF THE LANDSCAPE.

LOOSE thinking based on the DOUBLE ERROR of NAMING and GRAMMAR is getting us into trouble since while we focus on GROWTH of cultivated and industrialized lands, were are not giving equal attention to the SHRINKAGE of natural Wilderness lands, these combination of GROWTH and SHRINKING being clumsy ways of talking about what is really going on which is TRANSFORMATION that we also are included in.

In fact, the price we WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS ‘have paid’ for coming up with an EFFABLE SUBSTITUTE for the INEFFABLE-because-NONLOCAL-and-IMPLICIT is BINARY LOGIC (the EITHER/OR logic of the EXCLUDED medium.

BINARY LOGIC substitutes for the FIGURE-and-GROUND-as-ONE of TRANSFORMATION the FIGURE-and-GROUND-as-TWO of the BINARY OPPOSITE PAIRING of PRODUCTION and CONSUMPTION and/or EXTRUSION and INTRUSION.

The splitting of the FIGURE-and-GROUND-as-ONE of TRANSFORMATION into the BINARY FIGURE-and-GROUND-as-TWO of PRODUCTION and CONSUMPTION renders the INEFFABLE-because-NONLOCAL in terms that are EFFABLE-because-LOCAL.  We can SEE EXTRUSION because it is LOCAL SOURCING in a RATIO-NAL TIME-based-GROWTH sense and we can SEE  SUBDUCTION because it is a LOCAL SWALLOWING in a RATIO-NAL TIME-based GROWTH sense but we CAN’T SEE TRANSFORMATION because it is NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT and operatiave EVERYWHWERE-AT-THE-SAME-TIME.

We can be AWARE of TRANSFORMATION but we can can’t actually SEE something that is NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT.

If the UNIVERSE is a TRANSFORMING RELATIONAL CONTINUM in which WE and everything are INCLUDED in, then while we INTUIT that the non-visible side of the moon is participating in the same TRANSFORMATION as the visible side of the moon, that is very much like the sense that if the earth is extruding molten material over here and subducting solidified material there, that these TWO seemingly polar opposite dynamics are really only ONE dynamic suggesting that the FIGURE-and-GROUND-are-ONE, rather than TWO.

EVERYTHING POINTS TO FIGURE-AND-GROUND AS ONE, AS AFFIRMED BY MODERN PHYSICS, INDIGNEOUS ABORIGINAL CULTURAL UNDERSTANDING, TAOISM/BUDDHISM AND ADVAITA VEDANTA.

WHE DO WE WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS CONTINUE TO BUY INTO FIGURE-AND-GROUND-AS-TWO.

The answer is…. because constructing “reality” in FIGURE-and-GROUND-as-TWO terms is what makes talking about and discussing reality (a reduced characterization of reality) POSSIBLE.   If we want to stick with the understanding of reality in the REAL FIGURE-and-GROUND-as-ONE terms, this is INEFFABLE-because-NONOCAL-and-IMPLICIT, … so, no way to talk about it.

BUT WE COULD “COMPROMISE” BY MAKING USE OF THE FIGURE-AND-GROUND-AS-TWO NAMING AND GRAMMAR, ‘DOUBLE EROR’ SYSTEM (e.g. the hurricane is sourcing the stirring up of the atmosphere) just as a trigger or Wittgenstein Ladder to BOOTSTRAP and psychological impression of TRANSFORMATION, so long as we don’t forget and mistake it for REALITY, because then we will be HAUNTED by its ghost wherein we see the atmosphere sourcing the stirring up of the hurricane).

In other words, the assumption of FIGURE-and-GROUND-as-TWO, in combination belief in LOCAL SOURCING, leads to social collective BIPOLAR DISORDER since some may see the FIGURE (hurricane) as sourcing the stirring up of the GROUND (atmosphere) while others see the GROUND (atmosphere) as sourcing the stirring up of the FIGURE.

This BIPOLAR DISORDER beings with EGO-based belief in LOCAL SOURCING.  There is no such thing as LOCAL SOURCING in TRANSFORMATION

The U.S. REPUBLICAN (conservative) and DEMOCRAT (liberal) BIPOLAR DISORDER derives from the EGO-based belief in LOCAL SOURCING of actions and developments.

REMEMBER (see above notes) his BINARY LOGIC based DIVISION is necessitated to render EFFABLE-because-LOCAL-and-EXPLICIT the INEFFABLE-because-NONLOCAL-and-IMPLICIT.  If we DON’T SPLIT FIGURE-and-GROUND into TWO, we have nothing LOCAL with its own powers of SOURCING actions and developments, and we are stuck with the INEFFABLE-because-NONLOCAL-and-IMPLICIT TRANSFORMING relational continuum aka Wave-field.

With BINARY LOGIC, we can employ abstraction to BREAK INTO the relational continuum and insert LOCAL SOURCING AGENCY.  However, this BREAK-IN comes with AMBIGUITY since either the FIGURE or the GROUND can be understood as the SOURCING AGENCY.

The answer to this, which can put people into two polarizing mutually opposing camps (conservative and liberal) is to go with our INTELLIGENCE or INTUITION as Bohm points out is understanding that lies beyond the RATIO-based splitting wherein the FIGURE grows larger relative to the GROUND, or the GROUN grows larger relative to the FIGURE.  Which is it?  The ambiguity is expressed in aphorisms such as “One powerful man sources the dynamics of the times’, and/or ‘The dynamics of the times source the rise of the powerful man.’

THIS AMBIGUITY PIVOTS FROM THE ABSTRACT CONCEPT OF “LOCAL SOURCING” of actions and developments (THERE IS NO SUCH THING) as derives from the DOUBLE ERROR of NAMING and GRAMMAR.

The BOTTOM LINE is that THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS LOCAL SOURCING, … LOCAL SOURCING is abstraction coming from the DOUBLE ERROR of NAMING and GRAMMAR.  The reason that we INVENTED the DOUBLE ERROR was to come up with something EFFABLE-because-LOCAL and-EXPLICIT that could serve to INFER that which is INEFFABLE-because-NONLOCAL-and-IMPLICIT.

The EAST does not take these DOUBLE ERROR constructions LITERALLY while WE WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS have fallen into the trap of doing just that which is why we are the ones who are divided by belief in BINARY LOGIC which is INNATELY AMBIGUOUS when applied to the activities on the surface of a sphere wherein SCATTERING (FIGURE) and GATHERING (GROUND) are only ONE.

The EAST employs the approach wherein the propositions of binary logic are USED ONLY FOR INFERENCE as described by Wittgenstein;

 6.54 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.

7.0 Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent. (“Wovon man nicht sprechen kann, darüber muss man schweigen”),

–Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

There are no answers to questions of reality within the transforming relational continuum to be found in the EXPLICIT reasoning of binary logical analysis based on FIGURE-and-GROUND-as-TWO.

“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.  – Nietzsche

The point is, language is not capable of capturing representations of the reality of our sensory experience of inclusion in the transforming relational continuum.   Our intuition; i.e. our direct informing of our sensory experience of inclusion in the transforming relational continuum is the primary source of our awareness and it is INEFFABLE.  We ARE the TRANSFORMATION we are included in.

The abstraction of GROWTH derives from RATIO (rationality aka ‘reason’) and serves as an EFFABLE-because-LOCAL-and-EXPLICIT substitute for TRANSFORMATION which is INEFFABLE-because-NONLOCAL-and-IMPLICIT.  We say that the TOWN GROWS without mentioning the conjugate SHRINKAGE of the Wilderness because our DOUBLE ERROR (NAMING and GRAMMAR-based) language is incapable of articulating TRANSFORMATION wherein GROWTH  (of the TOWN) and SHRINKAGE (of the Wilderness) are conjugate aspects of the one REAL DYNAMIC of TRANSFORMATION which is INEFFABLE-because-NONLOCAL-and-IMPLICIT

The reality of our sensory experience of inclusion in a apace where GATHERING and SCATTERING are ONE (e.g. the hurricane and the atmosphere are ONE, or in other words, where FIGURE and GROUND are ONE) is beyond capture in language based on FIGURE-and-GROUND-as-TWO.  FIGURE-and-GROUND-as-TWO language architectures, which construct representations in terms of GROWTH rather than TRANSFORMATION can only serve as tool of of INFERENCE leaving it up to the interpreter to make the inference based leap to the INEFFABLE-because-NONLOCAL-and-IMPLICIT; i.e. TRANSFORMATION.

The Tao that can be told is not the true Tao. — Lao Tzu.

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EPILOGUE:

Western Culture promotes RATIO-NAL discourse and RATIO-NAL discourse is ABSTRACTION which delivers representations that are LOCAL wherein reality is inherently NONLOCAL.  For example RATIO-NAL discourse employs the abstract concept of GROWTH as a substitute for TRANSFORMATION; e.g. we say ‘the Town is growing’ when the reality is that the ‘Landscape is transforming’.

The phrase ‘the Town is growing’ delivers the impression of something smaller which is developing into something larger, as if we are talking about a THING-IN-ITSELF that exists within a space that is separate from the THING as in binary logic.  Thus the binary logical construction employing RATIO as is the conceptual basis of GROWTH takes over ‘centre stage of the psychological conceptualizing’ in a ploy which Nietzsche calls ‘the DOUBLE ERROR of NAMING and GRAMMAR.

The FIRST ERROR is NAMING (e.g. ‘the Town’) and we conflate this first error with the SECOND ERROR of GRAMMAR to say that “the Town is GROWING”.  Notice that we are constructing the concept of Town as an ISLAND of BEING in an implicit emptiness and using GRAMMAR (the verb GROWTH) to impute to the NAMING-instantiated THING-IN-ITSELF, its own powers of SOURCING GROWTH..

The is the RATIO-NAL way of constructing (PSEUDO-) realities.   In the reality of our sensory experience, what is going on is the purely relational transforming Landscape.  For example, it is impossible to have ‘the GROWTH of the orchard without the TRANSFORMATION of the Landscape.  WHICH IS THE REALITY?

IT IS “NOT” the “GROWTH” of the orchard, which implies the splitting of FIGURE and GROUND (Orchard and Landscape) into TWO. The Orchard is INCLUDED in the Landscape and therefore what is REAL is the TRANSFORMING of the Landscape.

GROWTH IS NEVER “REAL”. GROWTH is RATIONAL.  RATIONALITY is otherwise known as REASON and it allows us to construct RATIO-based pseudo-realities.

The convenient UTILITY of the concept of GROWTH is that it can substitute for TRANSFORMATION and thus avoid the NONLOCAL basis of TRANSFORMATION.  In other words, RATIO-NALITY or REASON allows us to construct conceptualizations of ‘reality’ which are LOCAL, allowing us to avoid the endless extension of the TRANSFORMING LANDSCAPE which is inseparable from the transforming relational continuum.

IN OTHER WORDS, RATIO-NALITY aka REASON allows us to LOCALIZE our constructing of representations of “reality’ which are no longer ‘reality’ but constructed representations of ‘reality’ that are convenient because they are EFFABLE-because-LOCAL-and-EXPLICIT as in the case of the Town which we can describe as if it were a LOCAL-THING-IN-ITSELF rather than the feature in the unbounded LANDSCAPE. We can then speak of the GROWTH of the Town which exemplifies Nietzsche’s DOUBLE ERROR of NAMING and GRAMMAR wherein we mobilize and animate a notional LOCAL THING-IN-ITSELF (the Town that GROWS) without having to mention its inclusion in the general TRANSFORMING RELATIONAL CONTINUUM.

HERE WE HAVE THE MAKINGS OF A WHOLE SYSTEM OF REALITY CONSTRUCTION BASED ON “RATIO” aka ‘rationality’ aka ‘reason’.

THANK GOODNESS, THIS RATIO-NAL AKA REASON BASED CONSTRUCTION OF REALITY LIBERATES US FROM HAVING TO DEAL WITH THE WHOLE TRANSFORMING RELATIONAL CONTINUUM (THE FULL LANDSCAPE).  INSTEAD, we can just break into the reality continuum and jumpstart our constructions LOCALLY using RATIO and its offspring GROWTH and DEVELOPMENT instead of having to deal with inclusion in unbounded (NONLOCAL) TRANSFORMATION.

OOPS!

“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.  – Nietzsche

In using the DOUBLE ERROR of NAMING and GRAMMAR to construct LOCAL impressions of reality, we imply a LOCAL POWER of CREATION or LOCAL GOD, so the convenience of restarting reality LOCALLY by the combo of NAMING and GRAMMAR such as ‘the TOWN is GROWING and DEVELOPING more LOCAL capabilities is all ABSTRACTION since TOWNS do not have a life of their own independent of the TRANSFORMING LANDSCAPE they are relational INCLUSIONS in.  That is, ‘the TOWN’ cannot ‘GROW’ out of the context of the TRANSFORMING LANDSCAPE.  The reality as confirmed by our sensory experience is the TRANSFORMING LANDSCAPE and while it is a NEAT TRICK to engineer in language, by way of NAMING and GRAMMAR the notional LOCAL existence and GROWTH of the Town, IT IS ABSTRACTION AND NOT REALITY.

This DOUBLE ERROR capability of NAMING and GRAMMAR to engineer LOCAL BEING and GROWTH allows us to CONSTRUCT ABSTRACTIONS such as ‘the Town’ which give us the impression of their LOCAL BEING (this comes from NAMING a relational feature in the transforming relational continuum) and the conflating impression of their own capability of sourcing actions and development (this comes from GRAMMAR-given powers of LOCAL instantiation of actions and developments).   THANKS TO NAMING AND GRAMMAR WE ARE ABLE TO ENGINEER LANGUAGE-BASED PSEUDO-REALITY CONSTRUCTIONS THAT ARE LOCAL, BOTH IN THEIR BEING AND IN THEIR POWERS OF SOURCING RATIO-BASED ACTIONS AND DEVELOPMENTS.  THIS GIVES US AN ‘END RUN’ AROUND THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF FINITE ARTICULATION OF THE ALL-INCLUDING TRANSFORMING RELATIONAL CONTINUUM AKA THE WAVE-FIELD AKA THE TAO.  Note that RATIO is a necessary abstraction to engineer LOCAL GROWTH wherein a notional LOCAL THING-IN-ITSELF can be conceived of as GROWING without reference to its being including within the TRANSFORMING LANDSCAPE (the transforming relational continuum aka the Wave-field aka the Tao).

IN OTHER WORDS, ‘RATIO-NALITY’ aka ‘REASON’ allows us to empower a NAMING-instantiated thing-itself to DO AN END-RUN around the constraints of inclusion in the transforming relational continuum and become the LOCAL CAUSE of an EFFECT, bypassing, in our intellectual conceptualizing, at least, the natural dynamic of inclusion in the TRANSFORMING relational continuum.  “THE TOWN IS GROWING LARGER and it is PRODUCING PRODUCTS of increasing variety and quantity.

IN THE REALITY OF OUR SENSORY EXPERIENCE, THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS LOCAL SOURCING OF PRODUCTION, THERE IS ONLY NONLOCAL TRANSFORMATION.  IF WE TURN OUR GLANCE AROUND, FROM OBSERVING THE CONSTRUCTION OF HIGH RISE BUILDINGS IN THE PRAIRIE TOWN, WE WILL SEE HOLES WHERE GRAVEL HAS BEEN EXCAVATED FOR CONCRETE AND HOLES WHERE ORE HAS BEEN MINED FOR STEEL CONSUMED IN CONSTRUCTION, AND OUR OBSERVATIONS OF BOTH CONSUMPTION AND CONSTRUCTION WILL THEN AFFIRM WHAT IS GOING ON IS TRANSFORMATION, IMPLYING THAT ‘CONSTRUCTION’ IS AN “INCOMPLETE” CONCEPT BECAUSE IT FAILS TO ACKNOWLEDGE ‘CONSUMPTION’ (the mining of raw materials), THE COMBINATION OF CONSTRUCTION AND CONSUMPTION BEING CONJUGATE ASPECTS OF THE TRANSFORMING LANDSCAPE..

In other words, REASON based on the DOUBLE ERROR of NAMING and GRAMMAR  offers us LOCAL SOURCING as a SIMPLIFIED SUBSTITUTE for the INTUITION of TRANSFORMATION.  While REASON is EFFABLE because it employs the (notional) LOCAL-and-EXPLICIT (the TOWN and its GROWTH), INTUITION gives us access to the INEFFABLE-because-NONLOCAL-and-IMPLICIT (the TRANSFORMING Landscape).

REASON is a USEFUL tool that lets us construct a substitute reality that is EFFABLE-because-LOCAL-and-EXPLICIT such as the Town that Grows larger, more populous and more productive, while INTUITION informs us of the basic reality of TRANSFORMATION which is INEFFABLE-because-NONLOCAL-and-IMPLICIT.

WESTERN CULTURE has allowed ‘the tool to run away with the workman’ as Emerson puts it.   The “Town that grows larger and more productive” is a LOCAL conceptualization extracted from greater reality of TRANSFORMATION of the Landscape.  ‘The Town that grows larger and more productive’ is not qualified as a substitute reality, it is only qualified as a tool for constructing EFFABLE-because-LOCAL-and-EXPLICIT INFERENCE of the INEFFABLE-because-NONLOCAL-and-INEFFABLE (the transforming relational continuum).  Our WESTERN CULTURE ERROR lies in employing the RATIO-based aka REASON-based constructions of reality… NOT AS A TOOL OF INFERENCE OF AN INEFFABLE REALITY, … but as THE SUBSTITUTE REALITY.  As a result, after using language constructs such as ‘the Town is GROWING larger and more PRODUCTIVE’ which DROPS OUT the REAL reality of the TRANSFORMING LANDSCAPE, which allows us to render EFFABLE-because-LOCAL-and-EXPLICIT, that which is INEFFABLE-because-NONLOCAL-and-IMPLICIT, we WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS have fallen into the pitfall of using the former as our OPERATIVE REALITY when such abstractions as “the Town is GROWING larger and more Productive” are only qualified for delivering EFFABLE-because-LOCAL-and-EXPLICIT INFERENCE of the INEFFABLE-because-NONLOCAL-and-IMPLICIT reality of the TRANSFORMING LANDSCAPE.

How can we have a ‘Town that is growing’ without a ‘Landscape that is transforming’?  ANSWER: WE CAN’T!  The concept of GROWTH presupposes LOCAL EXISTENCE of the thing that is purportedly GROWING.  This REDUCTION of reality to LOCAL NAMING-INSTANTIATED THINGS-IN-THEMSELVES with GRAMMAR-given powers of SOURCING ACTIONS AND DEVELOPMENT aka THE DOUBLE ERROR (Nietzsche) is only qualified for use as a Wittgenstein ladder or Bootstrapping tool for inferring the actual reality of our sensory experience of inclusion in the transforming relational continuum aka the Wave-field aka ‘the Tao’.

HEY! We are included in the transforming relational continuum and just because we can use the DOUBLE ERROR to CONSTRUCT REPRESENTATIONS to conceptually extract ourselves from it and RE-present ourselves using the DOUBLE ERROR of NAMING and GRAMMAR as if we are the LOCAL SOURCE of our own actions and development, doesn’t mean that it makes sense to employ such REPRESENTATION as our OPERATIVE REALITY.

THAT IS, HOWEVER USEFUL THIS DOUBLE ERROR IS AS A TOOL OF INFERENCE OF A REALITY THAT LIES BEYOND THE REACH OF LOCAL AND EXPLICIT REPRESENTATION, SUCH DOUBLE ERROR REPRESENTATION DOES NOT QUALIFY FOR USE AS ‘THE OPERATIVE REALITY’.

Our WESTERN CULTURE ERROR is in our employing as the DOUBLE ERROR based pseudo-reality as our OPERATIVE REALITY.

The DOUBLE ERROR gives rise to the abstraction of LOCAL SOURCING by way of RATIO aka REASON, which implies RATIO based ‘reality’ construction.  Nietzsche’s alerting us to our WESTERN CULTURE having fallen into the trap of employing DOUBLE ERROR based constructions as our OPERATIVE REALITY is well-placed.

“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.  – Nietzsche

We WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS cannot easily wrest ourselves of the habit of employing REASON aka RATIO-NALITY as the basis of our OPERATIVE REALITY because we have included a conceptualization of OURSELVES within this OPERATIVE REALITY; i.e. in the GUISE of LOCAL BEINGS with powers of SOURCING actions and developments. This abstract LOCALIZING conceptualization is held in place by EGO whereby we impute to ourselves, and other NAMING instantiated THINGS-IN-THEMSELVES, GRAMMAR-GIVEN powers of LOCAL SOURCING of actions and development.   In other words, WE HAVE BUILT OURSELVES INTO THIS ABSTRACT CONCEPTUAL CONSTRUCTION OF REALITY, so, for example, we PICTURE ourselves as inhabitants of the Town that we say is GROWING larger and more productive.  We thus give ourselves MEANING based on this DOUBLE ERROR based conceptualization so that, like the Town, we see ourselves as a LOCAL SOURCE of our own GROWTH and DEVELOPMENT.  This liberates us from our sensory experience -affirmed inclusion in the TRANSFORMING LANDSCAPE aka ‘relational continuum’ and sets us up in our RATIO-based (REASON-based) DOUBLE ERROR conceptalization as LOCAL BEING with our own powers of SOURCING actions, growth and development.

In other words, this RATIO-NAL based conceptualization of reality is, in the case of us WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS, supported and held in place by our having made ourselves the ARCHETYPE LOCAL SOURCING AGENT which allows us, psychologically, to construct an intellectual (language-based) substitute reality that displaces the sensory experience reality of inclusion in the transforming relational continuum.  The GROWTH of the FIGURE in the GROUND as exemplified by the growth of the Town in the countryside (a RATIO based and thus LOCALized conceptualization), we give greater reality-credence to than to the TRANSFORMING Landscape in which it is included.  Once we start talking in LOCAL and RATIO-based terms of the GROWTH of the Town, we put our psyche into a NEW REALITY that stands LOCALLY, on its own.  Of course this NEW REALITY is NOT REALITY as affirmed by sensory experience, but  NEW intellectual conceptual PSEUDO-REALITY than lends itself to discursive intellectual exchange.  This RATIO-NAL PSEUDO-REAL world of intellectual conceptualization, leaves behind, as it must, the real, all-including, non-visualizable-because-in-continual flux, sensory experience world of relational TRANSFORMATION as in the TRANSFORMING LANDSCAPE THAT INCLUDES THE TOWNING.

To say this in brief;

A man’s wisdom is to know that all ends are momentary, that the best end must be superseded by a better. But there is a mischievous tendency in him to transfer his thought from the life to the ends, to quit his agency and rest in his acts: the tools run away with the workman, the human with the divine.  — Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

 

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