The White Man’s Re-awakening

Just sit right back and you’ll hear a tale,

a tale of investigation

Why were the ‘abos’ – ‘of the earth’

while whites ‘owned all creation’.

~^~

They told me school was that kind of place

to solve the toughest puzzle

But whenever it was halfway posed,

Zipperlips would answers muzzle.

~^~

My teachers were prepped with good advice

about the linear dynamics

Learn to walk before you run, they said

Meanwhile, try sculpting some ceramics

~^~

I walked the line, at least in school

but ‘on the side’, I studied.

With chaos and complexity

those  linear precepts soon muddied.

~^~

Now on the job, things changed a lot

Profit became the aesthetic

The shareholders didn’t give a damn

If the ideas applied were heretic

~^~

Nietzsche and Mach inspired me then,

to think beyond Charles Darwin

Seeing evolution in those larger terms

of a heresy called Lamarckism

~^~

Evolution no longer applied to ‘things’

but to the space that they inhabit

Like the transforming atmospheric flow

Lamarck’s ‘fluide incontenable’

~^~

The spatial situation has its needs

that engenders ‘fit’ solutions

Where organisms, like hurricanes

are spawned by relational evolution

~^~

Before ‘university’ got its name

it was inside a community dynamic

Serving some social-relational need

in the parenting suprasystem schematic

~^~

But when we define and name a thing

we then explain its action

in terms of ITS OWN internal parts

and how IT seeks satisfaction

~^~

There goes the over-riding shaping role

of its spatial-relational situation

Which, when taken into account

realistically explains its origination

~^~

This outside-inward shaping force

they now call ‘epigenesis’

Charles Darwin failed to take it into account

in his one-sided stress on ‘genesis’

~^~

In Machean space, a web of life

Evolution is upstream from ‘its creations’

and as Emerson said in ‘Method of Nature’

Space both inhabits things and creates them

~^~

Darwin’s space was quite unlike a Machean ‘relational-plenum’

a rectilinear box for holding ‘things’ that were notionally ‘independent’

Things-in-themselves that ‘evolve’ and ‘move’

and are by our visual senses documented.

~^~

Katrina ‘evolved’ near New Orleans

and wreaked some huge destruction

Relational space is an energized space

breathing life into its own constructions.

~^~

She had form and power, steerage too

that came from all around her

Her sails were filled, keel and rudder plied

by the unending flow that spawned her

~^~

Our life situation does unfold

in a form that’s not predicted

So we must step up bravely to the plate

or else we’ll be evicted.

~^~

Community erstwhile took on this form

enriched by situational orchestration

Money, jobs and CEOs have changed all this

by inside-outward pushing direction

~^~

Gone is ‘rising to the situation’

the relational sourcing force

Now it’s…’ stand in line right over there

to ‘fill those predefined posts’’

~^~

If you’ve stayed and listened to my tale,

and the findings of this investigation.

you’ll know why ‘abos’ are –‘of the earth’

while whites ‘own all creation’

~^~

You’ll know that space, or how we see it

is playing the major role.

With language paving over the fuzziness

of the unfolding relational ‘hole’

~^~

The word ‘Katrina’ splits the flow-form

from out a never-ending spatial flow

And re-presents it as the starting point

for ‘its own’ developing and ‘go’.

~^~

The power of the word is such

that our propositions are more clear

Than our experience that inspires them

that is inherently cavalier. 

~^~

This correcting (crisping) of experience

by solid-sounding propositions

Is the role of science made possible by its

simplifying conventions.

~^~

Not the least of which is empty space

that dissolves experiential relations.

by replacing forms-in-the-flow

with noun and verb based articulations.

~^~

The white man invented money, jobs and wages

to fit his language crispened viewing.

Replacing relational-spatial ‘rising to the situation’

with knowledge, intellect and purpose-driven doing.

~^~

There is no longer any ‘upstream’

to source the things the whiteman does

His sailboater days are over

His powerboater self is now the buzz

~^~

My finding, like Mach’s and Nietzsche’s

is that the ‘abos’ are in the know

Space is inherently relational

including man within its flow.

~^~

The white man’s notion of space as empty

reduces community to machine

forward-driven by human causal agents

deterministic, intellectual, purposeful and mean.

~^~

But we are all born “of the earth”

before becoming [psycho] ‘owners of the land’

And the whiteman’s re-awakening

appears to now be close at hand.

 * * *

Return to:    —  Modern Post-Aboriginal ‘Civilization’: The People of the Machine Archetype

.