* * * THE WESTERN CULTURE PROBLEM and its REMEDY * * *
AUTHOR’S PREFACE: I would say, that for WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS (based on my former experience as such), one develops KNEE-JERK ASSUMPTIONS that are bound into our LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING practice that bring forth SIMPLIFIED INTERPRETATIONS of “REALITY”. For example, we say ‘THE TOWN IS GROWING” without mentioning that THE SURROUNDINGS MUST SHRINK in conjugate relation which entails overall TRANSFORMATION of the landscape. Goedel’s Theorem of the INCOMPLETENESS OF ALL FINITE LOGICAL PROPOSITIONS “WARNS US” that statements that are “LOGICALLY TRUE” such as “THE TOWN IS GROWING” are INHERENTLY INCOMPLETE and therefore WHAT IS “LOGICALLY TRUE” is not REAL due to its INCOMPLETENESS, and THIS CAN GIVE RISE TO CONFUSION. In an indigenous or Modern physics FLOW-BASED LANGUAGE where we AVOID the use of NAMING-instantiated BEING, where one says for example, “THERE IS TOWNING IN THE TRANSFORMING LANDSCAPE”, we capture the reality of everything being in continuing transformative flux, which AVOIDS what Nietzsche calls ‘the DOUBLE ERROR of NAMING and GRAMMAR’ which supports the abstraction of “LOCAL AUTHORING OF ACTIONS AND DEVELOPMENT”.
Because of the INCOMPLETENESS of our LOGICAL PROPOSITIONS involving “LOCAL AUTHORING” such as ‘the TOWN is GROWING’ which simply DROPS OUT MENTION of how what is REALLY GOING ON is “THE TRANSFORMING OF THE LANDSCAPE” which includes, as well, “THE SHRINKING OF WILDERNESS”, we are exposed to building SERIOUS MISTAKES into our LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZATIONS. For example, while those using VERB based linguistic conceptualizations such as indigenous aboriginals are using RESTORATIVE JUSTICE because, IN REALITY, THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS LOCAL AUTHORING (violent events derive from relational dissonance which IS CO-CULTIVATED by a relational social matrix and while relational dissonance MANIFESTS by VENTING THROUGH an individual, it is NOT AUTHORED BY THE INDIVIDUAL. For example, the RELATIONAL DYSFUNCTION in a social collective that manifests through an individual such as Ghislaine Maxwell who encouraged girls to participate in prostitution, while this dysfunction is a social relational community dysfunction (relational dissonance) VENTS through Ghislaine and others, it is NOT LOCALLY AUTHORED by Ghislaine and this is understood in indigenous aboriginal cultures where there the community response is to ACCEPT THAT THE RELATIONAL DYNAMICS OF THE COMMUNITY ARE THE SOURCE OF THE DYSFUNCTION (such as prostitution), so that a HEALING CIRCLE approach is in order, and NOT, as in WESTERN CULTURE, a SCAPE-GOATING OF THE IDENTIFIED PATIENT, the ALLEGED SICKO that, instead of being a LOCAL AUTHOR, is THE VENT for the manifest expression of TENSIONS building within the social collective. The INDIVIDUAL such as Ghislaine … IS THE VENT through which TENSIONS in the social collective are made manifest, but that individual IS NOT THE “AUTHOR” of the acts; the community is the AUTHORING source, hence the RESTORATIVE JUSTICE approach of indigenous aboriginals instead of WESTERN CULTURE SCAPE-GOATING of the person or persons through whom the community-cultivated TENSIONS are VENTED.
It is IMPORTANT to KEEP IN MIND that “THERE ARE NO LOCAL AUTHORS of ACTIONS AND DEVELOPMENT” in the real world of our sense-experience wherein we, the participants in the social dynamic are INTERCONNECTED and INTERDEPENDENT as with STRANDS in a WEB where the SOURCE of the VIOLENT VENTING OF a STRAND is NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT in origin and is LOCAL and EXPLICIT “ONLY IN APPEARANCE” (Schoroedinger’s “Schaumkommen”). WESTERN CULTURE JUSTICE IS BASED ON THE MISTAKEN ASSUMPTION OF LOCAL AUTHORING WHICH DOES NOT EXIST, IT IS A DOUBLE ERROR OF NAMING AND GRAMMAR. Yes, the INDIVIDUAL STRAND IN THE WEB is the VENT for VIOLENT ACTION that stems from the BUILDUP of TENSIONS in the WEB, but the STRAND IN THE WEB THAT IS VIOLENTLY VENTING IS NOT THE AUTHOR of the VIOLENCE.
Whether the manifest action is deemed BENEFICIAl or DETRIMENTAL, it must be understood that its REAL ORIGIN is NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT (coming from the WEB and merely VENTING through a STRAND), rather than being LOCAL and EXPLICIT (coming from the STRAND ITSELF). Thus, there is NEVER any such thing as LOCAL AUTHORING, there is only LOCAL VENTING that derives from NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT WEB-AUTHORING. This is the UNDERSTANDING of indigenous aboriginals, Taoism/Buddhism, Advaita Vedanta and Modern physics, and supported by NONBINARY BOTH/AND LOGIC of the INCLUDING MEDIUM. The STRAND in the WEB is a metaphor for CONDENSATIONS of the ENERGY-CHARGED PLENUM where the CONDENSATIONS are “BOTH” themselves “AND” the ENERGY-CHARGED PLENUM THEY ARE FORMING (NONDUALITY). WESTERN CULTURE UNDERSTANDING is HUNG UP ON LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING based on the DUALISM of BINARY EITHER/OR LOGIC of THE EXCLUDED MEDIUM; i.e. LOCAL, EXPLICIT MATERIAL OBJECTS IN ABSOLUTE EMPTY AND INFINITE SPACE.
In the STRAND IN THE WEB UNDERSTANDING, RESTORATIVE JUSTICE MAKES SENSE rather than PUNITIVE JUSTICE. WESTERN CULTURE STANDARD PUNITIVE JUSTICE SCAPE-GOATS the IDENTIFIED PATIENT (the person identified by the finger-pointing community as an independent SICKO whose convicting and punishing effectively CONSIDERS the overall social collective, apart from the IDENTIFIED PATIENT, to be innocent-unless-proven guilty). The imposing of the abstraction of LOCAL AUTHORING by WESTERN CULTURE PUNITIVE JUSTICE is the imposing of a SCAPE-GOATING of the IDENTIFIED PATIENT WHICH IS A MISTAKE that ignores the REALITY of the INTERCONNECTION AND INTERDEPENDENCE of the STRANDS-IN-THE-WEB (aka CONDENSATIONS IN THE PLENUM). The DECLARATION of INDEPENDENCE of the INDIVIDUAL is a WESTERN CULTURE SUPPORTED ABSTRACTION that is NOT SUPPORTED by indigenous aborginal cultures, nor by Modern physics. Indigenous aboriginals have developed a system of RESTORATIVE JUSTICE based on the interconnected and interdependent STRANDS in the WEB wherein VIOLENT outbursts are understood as NONLOCAL and RELATIONAL in origin, unlike the MISTAKEN ASSUMPTION of WESTERN CULTURE which has assumed the LOCAL AUTHORING of ACTIONS AND DEVELOPMENTS based on what Nietzsche has pointed out is the DOUBLE ERROR OF NAMING AND GRAMMAR.
In the Genealogy of Morality and Twilight of the Idols. Nietzsche argues against the “superstition” that a discrete agent (the ego) exists prior to action, suggesting that “the doer” is merely a linguistic fiction superimposed upon the purported deed itself. For Nietzsche, this double error is a fundamental misinterpretation of reality driven by grammatical and psychological habits (a “superstition of logicians”). He argues that there is no independent, unified “subject” or “ego” that stands apart from its actions and causes them. Instead, actions and thoughts are part of a stream of becoming, a complex interplay of drives and physical processes, without a stable, internal “doer”. (In other words, Nietzsche argues against the “superstition” that a discrete agent (the ego) exists prior to action, suggesting that “the doer” is merely a linguistic fiction superimposed upon the deed itself.)
The reality is;… there is NO SUCH THING AS LOCAL AUTHORING OF ACTIONS and DEVELOPMENTS as is acknowledged in FLOW-BASED LANGUAGES. We can see WHY IT IS that indigenous aboriginals’ RESTORATIVE JUSTICE makes NO ASSUMPTION of LOCALLY AUTHORED CRIMINAL ACTIONS but instead understands VIOLENCE in terms of RELATIONAL DISSONANCE that emerges as TENSIONS that build in the community and are not resolved (as with the HEALING CIRCLE).
The NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT CONTINUING nature of the DYNAMIC WORLD of our sense-experience ARGUES AGAINST using a “LOCAL, EXPLICIT MATERIAL BEING based FOUNDATION for LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZATIONS of QUOTE/UNQUOTE “REALITY”.
The story of the old man and the horses is a Taoist parable about embracing UNCERTAINTY, illustrating how seemingly GOOD or BAD “EVENTS” are INTERCONNECTED, and we CAN’T KNOW THE ULTIMATE OUTCOME. When the farmer’s horse runs away (bad luck), he says “Maybe”. When it returns with wild horses (good fortune), he says “Maybe”. When his son breaks his leg training them (bad luck), he says “Maybe,” and when the son is spared from war due to the injury (good luck), he still says “Maybe,” reminding us that the world we share inclusion in is an ALL-INCLUDING TRANSFORMING CONTINUUM which our LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING SCHEME “FRAGMENTS” in a SUBJECTIVE manner which is OPEN TO BIAS.
For example, the October 7 Hamas massacre that killed over 1200 Israelis and took over 250 hostages was masterminded by Palestinian Yahya Sinwar who was born in the Khan Younis refugee camp to parents who had been displaced from Ashkelon in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. The camp was densely packed with impoverished families, who lived in poor conditions and relied on the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) for basic services. While the Isaeli-Palestinian conflict is part of a continuum, the linguistic conceptualizing habit which ISOLATES, EXTRACTS and GIVES NAMES to EVENT-SPIKES rooted in a continuing STRIFE as with the TITLE “OCTOBER 7 MASSACRE” re-presents a SPIKE in the CONTINUING STRIFE as “AN EVENT” or “VICIOUS ISOLATED ACT”.
The point is that while we use BINARY LOGIC to notionally TURN THINGS ON AND OFF to simplify our linguistic conceptualizing of such things as persisting tension instigated STRIFE, thereby reducing things (IN OUR LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING) to a SEQUENCE of SEPARATE BUT RECURRENT LOCAL EXPLICIT SPIKES in the uninterrupted continuing sequence of violent UPS-AND-DOWNS. Here we may ask; WAS OCTOBER 7th A LOCAL, EXPLICIT VICIOUS ACT OR NOT?
This ISOLATING OF A SPIKE in a continually TENSIONED RELATIONSHIP is like the mathematical operation of DIFFERENTIATION which isolates the LOCAL AND EXPLICIT by DROPPING OUT the NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT, THUS “CREATING” a notional “LOCAL EXPLICIT EVENT” that will be ‘discussed and dealt with’ ON ITS OWN, based on its superficial appearance of something LOCAL and EXPLICIT which is only the TIP OF THE ICEBERG. Thanks to this intellectual-linguistic conceptual simplification, what results is RETRIBUTION for the VIOLENT EVENT which DOES NOTHING for the root source problem of persisting RELATIONAL TENSIONS, in which case RETRIBUTION aggravates the UNRESOLVED TENSIONS, SPRING-LOADING THEM in preparedness for the next violent outburst. Here is ANOTHER CASE where MANAGEMENT is LOCAL, EXPLICIT “EVENT-BASED” while the ISSUES are NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT RELATIONAL BALANCE/IMBALANCE based. Military force is used to PERPETUATE IMBALANCE and preserve SUPERFICIAL PEACE, but as with the FRENCH REVOLUTION, the unaddressed IMBALANCE maintains a LATENT TENSIONAL PRESENCE that will NEVER BE RESOLVED by PRETENDING that the PERIODIC ERUPTIONS of VIOLENCE are REALLY LOCAL, EXPLICIT phenomena, and NOT the product of unresolved NONLOCAL, IMPLICIT rather than LOCAL and EXPLICIT tensions. ARE WE MISTAKEN IN OUR LABELLING OF ERUPTIONS OF VIOLENCE IN LOCAL AND EXPLICIT EVENT based TERMS rather than acknowledging the NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT influences which are their real but deeper origin? MAYBE, … MAYBE NOT! (There is a [Goedel’s Theorem] incompleteness to all finite logical propositions)
NOTE THAT WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS are commonly conditioned to think in terms of people as INDEPENDENT BEINGS, but the REALITY IS, as acknowledged in Modern physics, indigenous aboriginal, Taoist/Buddhist and Advaita Vedanta cultures, that we are INTERCONNECTED and INTERDEPENDENT by virtue of our being CONDENSATIONS of the all-including energy-charged PLENUM which means that we are like STRANDS in a WEB. This is THE REALITY that WESTERN CULTURE has NOT WIDELY WOKEN UP TO, largely due to the popularity and pervasiveness of BINARY EITHER/OR LOGIC of the EXCLUDED MEDIUM based LANGUAGE and THINKING. BINARY LOGIC based linguistic conceptualizing IS TOO SIMPLE and cannot handle the NONBINARY BOTH/AND LOGIC of the INCLUDING MEDIUM which supports the physical reality affirmed by Modern physics where the CONDENSATION (material form) is, AT THE SAME TIME, “BOTH ITSELF AND THE ENERGY-CHARGED PLENUM IT IS INCLUDED IN”, which gives the STRAND-IN-THE-WEB relation.
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WE WESTERN CULTURE-CONDITIONED PEOPLE are “SO CONFIDENT” that “WE KNOW WHAT WE’RE TALKING ABOUT” that it makes MY JOB NEARLY IMPOSSIBLE, because MY JOB, THIS TASK I AM HEREWITH UNDERTAKING, IS TO EXPLAIN HOW WE WESTERN CULTURE-CONDITIONED PEOPLE are USING A WAY OF SPEAKING, WRITING and COMMUNICATING aka A FORM OF LANGUAGE, or “LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING” that is ROYALLY SCREWED UP.
Ideally, I should NOT be trying to share with you the STORY of HOW OUR LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING SCHEME IS SCREWING UP OUR MIND, by a COMMUNICATION that is BASED ON WHAT I AM CLAIMING IS THE LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING SCHEME that is SCREWING UP OUR UNDERSTANDING. I think WE CAN GET AROUND THIS if we review the fact WE ARE CAPABLE OF LESS SIMPLE LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING as well as the TOO-SIMPLE LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING that does NOT SCREW UP OUR UNDERSTANDING. For example, YOU CAN UNDERSTAND ME if I say “TO EVERYTHING THERE IS A SEASON AND A TIME FOR EVERY PURPOSE”.
THAT IS, WE CAN UNDERSTAND THE TYPE (A) LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING wherein EVERYTHING IS IN CONTINUING FLUX so that our PARTICIPATION in the WORLD can be likened to getting one’s TIMING RIGHT as if getting into the CYCLIC REVOLUTIONS OF THE SKIPPING ROPE so that “MY ENTRÉES are in HARMONY WITH THE CYCLICITY OF THE SKIPPING ROPE”.
BUT THERE IS ALSO THE TYPE (B) LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING wherein WE ASSERTIVELY IMPOSE OUR NEW PLAN REGARDLESS of the FEMALE ACCOMMODATING/ENABLING situation by USING A ONE-SIDED MALE ASSERTING/ACTUALIZING PROPOSITION such as WE ARE CONSTRUCTING A TOWN IN THE CLEARING WE MADE BY BULLDOZING DOWN TREES TO OPEN UP THE NEEDED “EMPTY RECEPTACLE” TO ACCOMMODATE OUR NEW CONSTRUCTION.
THE TYPE (A) LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZATION IS where the UNFOLDING RELATIONAL DYNAMIC WE SHARE INCLUSION IN “INVITES US TO PARTICIPATE”.
You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
For a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain
are moving across the landscapes,
over the prairies and the deep trees,
the mountains and the rivers.
Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,
are heading home again.
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting —
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.
Wild geese by Mary Oliver
“TO EVERYTHING THERE IS A SEASON AND A TIME FOR EVERY PURPOSE”.
Emerson: Whilst a necessity so great caused the man to exist, his health and erectness consist in the fidelity with which he transmits influences from the vast and universal to the point on which his genius can act. The ends are momentary: they are vents for the current of inward life which increases as it is spent. 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. (i.e. the human EGO runs away with the divine INSPIRATION).
Emerson is describing how EGO runs away with us, and this is the MISTAKE is the point I must bring to the fore and EXPLAIN “UP FRONT” in * * * THE WESTERN CULTURE PROBLEM and its REMEDY * * * , where we show how “WE” HAVE modified our LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING SCHEME by DROPPING OUT the FEMALE ACCOMMODATING/ENABLING CONJUGATE and “GOING WITH ONLY THE MALE ASSERTING/ACTUALIZING” as if in an ABSOLUTE EMPTY AND INFINITE SPACE, a PSEUDO-EMPTY SPACE that we WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS have SUBSTITUTED for the AMAZING WORLD THAT OFFERS ITSELF TO OUR IMAGINATION, CALLS TO US LIKE THE WILD GEESE, HARSH AND EXCITING, OVER AND OVER AGAIN ANNOUNCING OUR PLACE IN THE FAMILY OF THINGS.
HELLO, ONE-SIDED WESTERN CULTURE PSEUDO-REALITY BASED ON MALE ASSERTING/ACTIONS AND DEVELOPMENT AS IF WITHIN AN ABSOLUTE EMPTY AND INFINITE (i.e. NON-PARTICIPATING) SPACE, where everything is FULLY AND SOLELY UP TO US thanks to the SIMPLIFIELD ONE-SIDED MALE ASSERTING/ACTUALIZING LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING SCHEME WE HAVE DEVELOPED, …. GOODBYE FEMALE ACCOMMODATING/ENABLING; i.e. the AMAZING WORLD THAT OFFERS ITSELF TO OUR IMAGINATION, CALLS TO US LIKE THE WILD GEESE, HARSH AND EXCITING, OVER AND OVER AGAIN ANNOUNCING OUR PLACE IN THE FAMILY OF THINGS.
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FELLOW WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS, I HOPE YOU CAN SEE THE PURPOSE OF THIS PRELIMINARY DISCUSSION, WHICH IS TO TRIGGER AND REAWAKEN OUR AWARENESS TO OUR INCLUSION IN the AMAZING WORLD THAT OFFERS ITSELF TO OUR IMAGINATION, CALLS TO US LIKE THE WILD GEESE, HARSH AND EXCITING, OVER AND OVER AGAIN ANNOUNCING OUR PLACE IN THE FAMILY OF THINGS. As Nietzsche and others have pointed out, we WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS have DROPPED OUT MENTION of the FEMALE ACCOMMODATING/ENABLING CONJUGATE ( the AMAZING WORLD THAT OFFERS ITSELF TO OUR IMAGINATION, CALLS TO US LIKE THE WILD GEESE, HARSH AND EXCITING, OVER AND OVER AGAIN ANNOUNCING OUR PLACE IN THE FAMILY OF THINGS) AND SUBSTITUTED ABSOLUTE EMPTY AND INFINITE SPACE IN ITS PLACE, so as to SIMPLIFY OUR WESTERN CULTURE LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING SCHEME by REMOVING THE FEMALE ACCOMMODATING/ENABLING CONJUGATE AND EMPLOYING WHEREUPON OUR SIMPLIFIED LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZATIONS ARE BASED SOLELY ON MALE ASSERTING/ACTUALIZING PROPOSITIONS THAT SPEAK IN TERMS OF ‘WHAT THINGS DO” without acknowledging the INNATE, NATURAL PRIMACY OF the AMAZING WORLD THAT OFFERS ITSELF TO OUR IMAGINATION, CALLS TO US LIKE THE WILD GEESE, HARSH AND EXCITING, OVER AND OVER AGAIN ANNOUNCING OUR PLACE IN THE FAMILY OF THINGS.
REMEMBER “TO EVERYTHING THERE IS A SEASON AND A TIME FOR EVERY PURPOSE”?
This is a REMINDER that we are INCLUDED IN SOMETHING GREATER THAN OURSELVES because we are CONDENSATIONS of and within the TRANSFORMING RELATIONAL CONTINUUM aka the WAVE-FIELD. As CONDENSATIONS continuously forming in the ENERGY-CHARGED PLENUM we are all INTERCONNECTED and INTERDEPENDENT, AS AFFIRMED BY MODERN PHYSICS (NONDUALITY). THAT IS, THERE IS NO HARD SPLIT BETWEEN CONDENSATIONS AND THE ENERGY-CHARGED PLENUM, there is the BOTH/AND LOGIC of the INCLUDING MEDIUM relation.
We WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS CONTINUE TO USE A SIMPLIFIED LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING SCHEME THAT SIMPLIFIES THINGS BY KICKING OFF WITH “WHAT WE WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS DO” AS IF WITHIN AN ABSOLUTE EMPTY AND INFINITE SPACE (i.e. an non-participating playing field) SO THAT WE CAN FOCUS FULLY AND SOLELY ON ‘WHAT WE DO’. That makes OUR WESTERN CULTURE LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING SCHEME MUCH SIMPLER THAN THE FLOW-BASED (TRANSFORMATION SUPPORTING) MODERN PHYSICS AND INDIGENOUS ABORIGINAL LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING SCHEME.
WE WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENT EMBARKED ON THIS PLOY OF ENGINEERING SIMPLIFICATION INTO OUR LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING back in the days of COPERNICUS; i.e. REMEMBER THIS (MOST OF US FORGOT ABOUT THIS);
And just as our Copernicus said to us : It is more convenient to suppose the earth turns round, since thus the laws of astronomy are expressible in a much simpler language ; this one would say: It is more convenient to suppose the earth turns round, since thus the laws of mechanics are expressible in a much simpler language’. Henri Poincaré, ‘Science and Hypothesis’, Ch. VII Relative Motion and Absolute Motion.
LET ME SEE NOW, if we acknowledge, within our LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING SCHEME, the physical reality wherein the planets are condensations within the energy-charged PLENUM so that there is only the ONE ALL-INCLUDING TRANSFORMING RELATIONAL CONTINUUM, we can say SAYONARA to our NICE AND SIMPLE BINARY LOGIC MATERIAL BEING BASED PLANETS IN EMPTY SPACE LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING SCHEME. WE WOULD THEN BE IN THE BOAT AS INDIGENOUS ABORIGINALS WITH THEIR FLOW-BASED LANGUAGE wherein the convey the understanding of MATERIAL FORMS IN THE ENERGY-CHARGED PLENUM in a STRANDS-IN-THE-WEB relationship, wherein STRANDS LIKE US are INTERCONNECTED and INTERDEPENDENT with all other STRANDS as in an ALL-INCLUDING WEB.
The indigenous aboriginal STRANDS-IN-THE-WEB linguistic conceptualizing REALITY, because of its INTERCONNECTED and INTERDEPENDENT relational matrix, MEANS THAT THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS THE “LOCAL AUTHORING OF ACTIONS AND DEVELOPMENTS” in which case the JUSTICE SYSTEM must be RESTORATIVE rather than PUNITIVE because there in the WEB dynamic, there is no way to possibility of identifying a LOCAL AUTHOR of an action or development BECAUSE THERE IS NO LOCAL AUTHORING in a WEB DYNAMIC. In mathematical terms, we run into the THREE BODY PROBLEM, “the impossibility of calculating the individual movements of three or more bodies moving under one-another’s simultaneous mutual influence”.
* * * * * OK, WE HAVE NOT YET STARTED THE ESSAY PROPER BECAUSE IT HAS BEEN NECESSARY TO SHOW HOW WESTERN CULTURE HAS BEEN SCREWING UP (OVER-SIMPLIFYING) BY INFUSING SIMPLE BINARY LOGIC RELATIONS INTO OUR LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZATIONS as SUPPORTS the MATERIAL OBJECTS IN EMPTY SPACE CONSTRUCTION. THIS IS A SIMPLIFICATION THAT DROPS OUT OF THE LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING THE ANDROGYNOUS NATURE OF our REALITY as captured by MODERN PHYSICS and indigenous aboriginal linguistic conceptualizing methods, which acknowledge the NONBINARY (BOTH/AND LOGIC OF THE INCLUDING MEDIUM) INCLUSION OF MAN-IN-EARTH (CONDENSATION OF THE WAVE-FIELD IN THE WAVE-FIELD) as captured in;
This we know, the earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the earth. This we know. All things are connected like the blood which unites one family. All things are connected. Whatever befalls the earth, befalls the sons of the earth. Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.”— “Chief Seattle”
OK, WE ARE NOW READY TO BEGIN THE ESSAY ON * * * THE WESTERN CULTURE PROBLEM and its REMEDY * * * keeping in mind at all times the NONBINARY BOTH/AND LOGIC of the INCLUDING MEDIUM wherein “TO EVERYTHING THERE IS A SEASON AND A TIME FOR EVERY PURPOSE”; i.e. the FACT THAT WE ARE INCLUDED IN SOMETHING GREATER THAN OURSELVES which the NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT (relational) aspect of the WAVE-FIELD (ENERGY-CHARGED PLENUM) as distinguished form the LOCAL and EXPLICIT (material dynamics) aspect which is ONLY “APPEARANCE”.
WHILE “TO EVERYTHING THERE IS A SEASON AND A TIME FOR EVERY PURPOSE” points to the FEMALE ACCOMMODATING/ENABLING conjugate aspect of WAVE-FIELD REALITY, which is OTHERWISE KNOWN AS …”the AMAZING WORLD THAT OFFERS ITSELF TO OUR IMAGINATION, CALLS TO US LIKE THE WILD GEESE, HARSH AND EXCITING, OVER AND OVER AGAIN ANNOUNCING OUR PLACE IN THE FAMILY OF THINGS”.
As Modern physics affirms with its CONDENSATIONS in the energy-charged PLENUM (aka WAVE-FIELD), and also indigenous aborginal culture, with its STRANDS IN THE WEB understanding, the world we live in has a NONBINARY BOTH/AND LOGIC of the INCLUDING MEDIUM structure wherein the MATERIAL FORM is a CONDENSATION of the all-including ENERGY-CHARGED PLENUM which is BOTH ITSELF and a the same time, the PLENUM in which we are CONDENSATIONS. So, the linguistic conceptualizing scheme we must use to capture this NONBINARY BOTH/AND LOGIC of the INCLUDING MEDIUM which acknowledges that; Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.”
THIS COMPLETES THE ADVANCE ‘WARNING” if you like, to ALERT THE READER TO THE NEED TO AVOID ALL BINARY LOGIC based DEPENDENCIES IN OUR LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING, where, for example, OUR LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING SPEAKS IN TERMS OF ‘WHAT PEOPLE DO’ as if it was LEGITIMATE to employ MALE ASSERTING/ACTUALIZING dynamics ON THEIR OWN (as if transpiring within an ABSOLUTE EMPTY AND INFINITE SPACE) and by do doing, DROPPING OUT THE FEMALE ACCOMMODATING/ENABLING CONJUGATE which is pointed out as ESSENTIAL PSYCHO-LINGUISTIC GROUNDING as in “TO EVERYTHING THERE IS A SEASON AND A TIME FOR EVERY PURPOSE”. WHEN WE WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS, as is our tendency JUMP RIGHT IN, SPEAKING OF OURSELVES AND OUR GREAT ACTIONS AND ACHIEVEMENTS AS IF ALL WE NEEDED TO KNOW ABOUT WAS OUR MALE ASSERTING/ACTUALIZING, … .WE OBSCURE THE MOST NATURAL AND ESSENTIAL INFLUENCING COMPONENT; i.e. “the AMAZING WORLD THAT OFFERS ITSELF TO OUR IMAGINATION, CALLS TO US LIKE THE WILD GEESE, HARSH AND EXCITING, OVER AND OVER AGAIN ANNOUNCING OUR PLACE IN THE FAMILY OF THINGS.”
THAT IS THE FEMALE ACCOMMODATING/ENABLING which is NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT (relational) that inductively INSPIRES and SHAPES the MALE ASSERTING/ACTUALIZING which is LOCAL and EXPLICIT AND IT (the FEMALE ACCOMMODATING/ENABLING) MUST BE MENTIONED AND ACKNOWLEDGED FOR OUR LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING TO MAKE ‘PHYSICAL SENSE’. As Bohm and Shroedinger have pointed out, “THE MALE ASSERTING/ACTUALIZING which is LOCAL and EXPLICIT …. IS ONLY APPEARANCE (Schaumkommen), while the reality is the TRANSFORMING CONTINUUM which is NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT; i.e. the FEMALE ACCOMMODATING/ENABLING that is NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT.
* * * * * * END OF EXPLANATION OF THE WESTERN CULTURE HABIT OF “DROPPING OUT THE FEMALE ACCOMMODATING/ENABLING CONJUGATE” from our LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING and MISTAKENLY presenting the MALE ASSERTING/ACTUALIZING ON-ITS-OWN AS IF IT WERE “REALITY”; i.e. as if OUR MALE ASSERTING/ACTUALIZING WERE “REALITY” and WAS NOT INSPIRED by “the AMAZING WORLD THAT OFFERS ITSELF TO OUR IMAGINATION, CALLS TO US LIKE THE WILD GEESE, HARSH AND EXCITING, OVER AND OVER AGAIN ANNOUNCING OUR PLACE IN THE FAMILY OF THINGS.”
PLENTY HAS BEEN WRITTEN ABOUT HOW WESTERN CULTURE HAS BEEN PROGRESSIVELY DROPPING OUT the FEMALE ACCOMMODATING/ENABLING from OUR LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING APPROACH, and GOING WITH ONLY THE MALE ASSERTING/ACTUALIZING ON ITS OWN; e.g. “On the Marionette Theatre” by Heinrich von Kleist. The story describes how being self-conscious (EGO) can disturb our natural grace. Von Kleist’s story tells of a LOSS OF INNOCENCE triggered by a remark that REDUCED natural grace (inclusion in “the AMAZING WORLD THAT OFFERS ITSELF TO OUR IMAGINATION, CALLS TO US LIKE THE WILD GEESE, HARSH AND EXCITING, OVER AND OVER AGAIN ANNOUNCING OUR PLACE IN THE FAMILY OF THINGS.”) … TO a self-aware state of EGOTISTICAL CONSCIOUSNESS, … the evident PITFALL of MODERN WESTERN CULTURE.
“About three years ago”, I said, “I was at the baths with a young man who was then remarkably graceful. He was about fifteen, and only faintly could one see the first traces of vanity, a product of the favours shown him by women. It happened that we had recently seen in Paris the figure of the boy pulling a thorn out of his foot. The cast of the statue is well known; you see it in most German collections. My friend looked into a tall mirror just as he was lifting his foot to a stool to dry it, and he was reminded of the statue. He smiled and told me of his discovery. As a matter of fact, I’d noticed it too, at the same moment, but… I don’t know if it was to test the quality of his apparent grace or to provide a salutary counter to his vanity… I laughed and said he must be imagining things. He blushed. He lifted his foot a second time, to show me, but the effort was a failure, as anybody could have foreseen. He tried it again a third time, a fourth time, he must have lifted his foot ten times, but it was in vain. He was quite unable to reproduce the same movement. What am I saying? The movements he made were so comical that I was hard put to it not to laugh.
From that day, from that very moment, an extraordinary change came over this boy. He began to spend whole days before the mirror. His attractions slipped away from him, one after the other. An invisible and incomprehensible power seemed to settle like a steel net over the free play of his gestures. A year later nothing remained of the lovely grace which had given pleasure to all who looked at him. I can tell you of a man, still alive, who was a witness to this strange and unfortunate event. He can confirm it, word for word, just as I’ve described it.”
HERE WE SEE AN EXAMPLE of the INTERPLAY between the DUAL NATURE of OURSELVES as (A) GATHERINGS WITHIN A NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT SEA OF POTENTIALITIES, where we are conscious of “the AMAZING WORLD THAT OFFERS ITSELF TO OUR IMAGINATION, CALLS TO US LIKE THE WILD GEESE, HARSH AND EXCITING, OVER AND OVER AGAIN ANNOUNCING OUR PLACE IN THE FAMILY OF THINGS” and also, at the same time, … as (B) A LOCAL, EXPLICIT MATERIAL HUMAN BEING THING-IN-ITSELF WITH ITS OWN INTERNALLY DRIVEN POWERS OF AUTHORING ACTIONS AND DEVELOPMENTS.
WE ARE THE COMPOSITE WITH THE DUAL ASPECTS of (A) NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT POTENTIALITIES, and (B) LOCAL and EXPLICIT ACTUALIZING AGENCY IN CONJUGATE RELATION.
(A) and (B) are CONJUGATES, meaning that NEITHER STAND ALONE in our SENSE-EXPERIENCE REALITY.
NOT ONLY DO THEY ONLY EXIST IN CONJUGATE RELATION IN WHICH CASE IT IS AN ERROR TO DEFINE THEM AS SEPARATE ENTITIES, THERE IS A NATURAL PRECEDENCE WITHIN THEIR CONJUGATE RELATION in that THE NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT CONTAINS WITHIN IT, THE LOCAL and EXPLICIT; i.e. the NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT ENERGY-CHARGED PLENUM CONTAINS WITHIN IT, the LOCAL and EXPLICIT CONDENSATION.
WESTERN CULTURE has CHOSEN to build into our LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING SCHEME, the SPLITTING OF THE ONE COMPOUND (PEAK AND TROUGH WAVE FORM) into TWO INTO SEPARATE PARTS and to KEEP THE MALE ASSERTING/ACTUALIZING CONJUGATE and DISCARD the FEMALE ACCOMMODATING/ENABLING CONJUGATE, substituting ABSOLUTE EMPTY AND INFINITE SPACE, so that the NET RESULT is to RETAIN the MALE ASSERTING/ACTUALIZING (i.e. the LOCAL and EXPLICIT) ON ITS OWN to server as the FULL AND SOLE OPERATIVE REALITY.
BUT WAIT A MINUTE because the NOT ONLY IS THIS MAKING THE MISTAKE OF SPLITTING INTO TWO SEPARATE PARTS THAT WHICH IS A CONJUGATE UNUM (the PEAK-AND-TROUGH WAVE) but the BREAKING OUT and PROMOTING TO (PSEUDO) REALITY the LOCAL and EXPLICIT which is only APPEARANCE (the LOCAL and EXPLICIT PEAK is only APPEARANCE which comes from LOCAL and EXPLICIT “BUMPS”, which are NOT LOCAL, EXPLICIT THINGS-IN-THEMSELVES but are “SUMPS” which are part of the APPEARANCE of the NONLOCAL AND IMPLICIT WAVE-CONTINUUM. This is an APPEARANCE which in WESTERN CULTURE LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING, gives rise to notional LOCAL AUTHORING AGENTS supported by the DOUBLE ERROR of NAMING and GRAMMAR. Nietzsche has pointed out that the popular but MISTAKEN WESTERN CULTURE NOTION of LOCAL AUTHORING derives from this DOUBLE ERROR; i.e.
Our judgement has us conclude that every change must have an author”;–but this conclusion is already mythology: it separates that which effects from the effecting. If I say “lightning flashes,” I have posited the flash once as an activity and a second time as a subject, and thus added to the event a being that is not one with the event but is rather fixed, “is” and does not “become.”–To regard an event as an “effecting,” and this as being, that is the double error, or interpretation, of which we are guilty.” – Nietzsche, ‘Will to Power’, 531
WHAT THIS INVENTING OF LOCAL AUTHORING DOES is to RE-SITUATE AUTHORING which is in sense-experience reality NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT (coming from the ‘ocean’ and not from the ‘local cresting’ to the ‘local cresting’) to the LOCAL and EXPLICIT. Think of what this does to an understanding of CAUSATION ; i.e. the AUTHORING OF CHANGE. Whereas in the indigenous aboriginal culture as in Modern physics, the AUTHORING OF CHANGE is NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT, but this DOUBLE ERROR of NAMING and GRAMMAR reconceptualizes AUTHORING AGENCY which is in sense-experience reality (without the double error of naming and grammar) NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT, as with the STRAND IN THE WEB where the STRAND that manifests VIOLENCE is merely the CONDUIT for VIOLENCE that is innately NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT in origin, an understanding that supports RESTORATIVE JUSTICE rather than PUNITIVE JUSTICE, the latter being based on the DOUBLE ERROR of NAMING and GRAMMAR which FALSELY IMPLIES “LOCAL AUTHORING OF ACTIONS AND DEVELOPMENT”. LOCAL AUTHORING is a BINARY LOGIC based construction that WESTERN CULTURE employs to CREDIT the ORIGIN of notional LOCALLY AUTHORED EVENTS (GOOD OR BAD).
* * * * * * * * WE MAY REPEAT: … * * * * * OK, WE HAVE NOT YET STARTED THE ESSAY PROPER BECAUSE IT HAS BEEN NECESSARY TO SHOW HOW WESTERN CULTURE HAS BEEN SCREWING UP (OVER-SIMPLIFYING) BY INFUSING SIMPLE BINARY LOGIC RELATIONS INTO OUR LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZATIONS as SUPPORTS the MATERIAL OBJECTS IN EMPTY SPACE CONSTRUCTION. …. BUT IN THESE LATTER PARAGRAPHS, WE HAVE FLESHED OUT WHAT WE WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS ARE DOING WRONG in terms of the DOUBLE ERROR of NAMING and GRAMMAR where we “MAKE UP” the FALSE NOTION of “LOCAL AUTHORING of actions and developments” and are GIVING LOCAL AUTHORING A FOUNDATIONAL ROLE IN OUR CULTURE FOR REWARDS and RECOGNITION and also PUNISHMENTS and DENEGRATION, notions that DO NOT EXIST in indigenous aboriginal cultures and in Modern physics where the NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT prevails while the LOCAL and EXPLICIT is understood, correctly, as SCHAUMKOMMEN (APPEARANCE). Because the NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT prevails, as with the STRANDS IN THE WEB UNDERSTANDING, JUSTICE is RESTORATIVE rather than PUNITIVE because there are no LOCAL and EXPLICIT AUTHORS of actions and developments in the STRAND-IN-THE-WEB dynamic, the understanding of which involves the THREE BODY PROBLEM (“the impossibility of calculating the individual movements of three or more bodies moving under one-another’s simultaneous mutual influence”). RESTORATIVE JUSTICE employs techniques such as THE HEALING CIRCLE wherein the social collective comes together and passes the talking stick to speak from the heart whereby the social collective can develop a group understanding that supports the co-cultivating of balance and harmony in the community dynamic. THERE IS NO IDENTIFYING, PUNISHING AND PURGING OF INDIVIDUAL AUTHORS OF VIOLENT BEHAVIOUR AND NO IDENTIFYING, REWARDING and PROLIFERATING of INDIVIDUAL AUTHORS OF POSITIVE BEHAVIOUR, because, … THERE ARE NO ‘INDIVIDUAL AUTHORS’ IN THE STRANDS-IN-THE-WEB DYNAMIC.
* * * * * * * * * * NOW WE MAY BEGIN THE ESSAY PROPER BECAUSE WE HAVE IDENTIFIED THE MISTAKES THAT INFUSE OUR WESTERN CULTURE SOCIAL DYNAMICS DUE TO LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZATIONS THAT ‘DON’T MAKE SENSE’
FOOTNOTE RE COMMONLY MADE ERROR:
There is a common PITFALL whereby people only HALF UNDERSTAND what is being said here; i.e. SOME PEOPLE ACKNOWLEDGE that the FEMALE ACCOMMODATING/ENABLING CONJUGATE is BEING DROPPED OUT giving the impression that the CORRECT UNDERSTANDING is RESTORED when we ACKNOWLEDGE BOTH the FEMALE ACCOMMODATING/ENABLING AND the MALE ASSERTING/ACTUALIZING. This OBSCURES the actions situation wherein it is IMPOSSIBLE to SPLIT INTO TWO PARTS the MALE ASSERTING/ACTUALIZING and the FEMALE ACCOMMODATING/ENABLING because THEY ONLY EXIST AS CONJUGATES. Vygotsky criticizes the understanding of Piaget on this point and Piaget’s MISTAKE is IMPORTANT because we WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS have BUILT IT INTO OUR SCHOOL TEACHING APPROACH;
“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” implying a WAVE-BASED STRUCTURE.
“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
DEVELOPMENT (SPONTANEOUS) and INSTRUCTION (SCIENTIFIC) are in reality and in Vygotsky’s understanding, CONJUGATE (representing two sided of the same concept formation), but in Piaget’s understanding they are SEPARATE and so Piaget has encouraged a TEACHING APPROACH SPLITS THE SCIENTIFIC and SPONTANEOUS INTO TWO SEPARATE APPROACHES, TOSSING OUT THE SPONTANEOUS and RETAINING ONLY THE SCIENTIFIC. This is equivalent to SPLITTING APART THE NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT from the LOCAL and EXPLICIT in linguistic conceptualizing and RETAINING ONLY THE LOCAL and EXPLICIT. Instead of understanding that THERE IS TOWNING IN THE TRANSFORMING LANDSCAPE where the LOCAL and EXPLICIT is included within the NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT, WESTERN CULTURE has the habit of going with “THE TOWN IS GROWING, DEVELOPING and PRODUCING” (the LOCAL and EXPLICIT) on its own without acknowledging its INCLUSION within the NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT. This is the SAME MISTAKE as described in “On the Marionette Theatre” by Heinrich von Kleist; i.e. the DROPPING OUT of the GROUNDING OF THE OF NONLOCAL AND IMPLICIT (THE GRACEFUL) and ‘going with’ SOLELY the LOCAL and EXPLICIT (the MECHANICAL).
This MISTAKE also shows up https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/neuroscientist-argues-the-left-side-of-our-brains-have-taken-over-our-minds-1.6219688#:~:text=*Originally%20published%20on%20October%2022,understand%20them%20as%20a%20whole.
The author, Neuroscientist Iain McGilchrist makes the same basic mistake as Piaget in thinking of the ANDROGYNOUS conjugates (nonlocal and implicit and local and explicit) as TWO SEPARATE THINGS.
McGilchrist says;
“The left hemisphere’s goal is to enable us to manipulate things, whereas the goal of the right hemisphere is to relate to things and understand them as a whole. Two ways of thinking that are both needed, but are fundamentally at the same time incompatible.”
McGilchrist’s widely-read book, The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World, makes the case that the left hemisphere has taken over our minds and reshaped the world in its image in a way that is good for neither humans nor the planet and everything that lives on it.
“A way of thinking which is reductive, mechanistic has taken us over,” said McGilchrist in The Divided Brain. “We behave like people who have right hemisphere damage.
“[It] treats the world as a simple resource to be exploited. It’s made us enormously powerful. It’s enabled us to become wealthy, but it’s also meant that we’ve lost the means to understand the world, to make sense of it, to feel satisfaction and fulfilment through our place in the world.”
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The problem is NOT that we have lost some “RIGHT LOBE CAPABILITY”, the problem is as Vygotsky has conceived it, that we are failing to grasp that WE DO NOT HAVE TWO SEPARATE CAPABILITIES, we only have ONE TWO-SIDED CAPABILITY as in Vygotsky’s understanding; “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” implying a WAVE-BASED STRUCTURE.
Where there is understanding of the conjugate structure of the wave-field world aka the energy-charged plenum with its condensations which are BOTH themselves AND the energy-charged PLENUM, we can see where the STRANDS in the WEB (interconnected and interdependent) relationship is coming from and how we are included within it.
Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.”— “Chief Seattle”
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A SPECIAL THANK YOU FOR THE OVERT RIDICULOUSNESS of WESTERN CULTURE CLAIMS which encouraged me to turn to more SANE UNDERSTANDING ALTERNATIVES.
I am NOT SURE WHERE TO PUT THIS THANK-YOU NOTE, since without having read my overall view, WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS might feel INSULTED, but having had a chance to read some of my views, I hope it is evident that my rejection of WESTERN CULTURE BELIEF in LOCAL AUTHORING “MAKES SENSE TO YOU”. That is why I am puting my THANK-YOU NOTE “HERE” at the very end where I may assume that if there is a reader and if they arrive at this point, they may have read bits of my text.
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