TRUST is the ENABLER of WESTERN CULTURE OBSCURANTISM and FRAGMENTATION

AUTHOR’S GUIDE to Reading this TWO-PART ESSAY

This ESSAY takes us through THE FOLLOWING POINT made by Nietzsche which is largely IGNORED in our standard WESTERN CULTURE interpreting of written material.

Although all concepts are metaphors invented by humans (created by common agreement to facilitate ease of communication), writes Nietzsche, human beings forget this fact after inventing them, and come to believe that they are “true” and do correspond to reality.

For example, we say ‘the TOWN IS GROWING’, and in so doing we emphasize ONLY the MALE ASSERTING/ACTUALIZING conjugate aspect AND DROP OUT the FEMALE ACCOMMODATING/ENABLING conjugate ‘SHRINKING of WILDERNESS’, in which case ‘THE TOWN IS GROWING’ does NOT refer to REALITY because the REALITY OF OUR SENSE-EXPERIENCE is that the LANDSCAPE is TRANSFORMING which is the conjugate combination of PEAK (the TOWN is GROWING) and TROUGH (the WILDERNESS IS SHRINKING) which are dual aspects of the one WAVE-FIELD phenomenon.

[**NOTA BENE”  If we put on our LANGUAGE ARCHITECT HATS, we can see that had we chosen, as indigenous aboriginals did chose, as well as Modern physics, to give a foundational role to FLOW instead of to BEING, we would have retained in combined form the CONTAINER (SPACE) and CONTENT (MATTER).  If we had followed that path, as the indigenous aboriginals did, our LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING SCHEME would instead have avoided the BINARY LOGIC SPLIT into MATTER and SPACE and our understanding would be that EVERYTHING IS IN FLUX in which case what had appeared as EMPTY SPACE was instead an ENERGY-CHARGED PLENUM and what had appeared as LOCAL, EXPLICIT MATERIAL objects was, INSTEAD, like WHORLINGS in FLOWING, ‘APPEARANCE’ since the WHORLING is BOTH itself and the FLOWING it is included in which means that the foundational structure of reality is a QUANTUM BOTH/AND LOGIC of the INCLUDING MEDIUM based foundational structure.]

Had we taken that QUANTUM BOTH/AND LOGIC-OF-THE-INCLUDING-MEDIUM linguistic conceptualizing approach, our linguistic conceptualizings would be more like “in the flowing, transforming PLENUM (the containing wave-field), there are WHORLINGS or CONDENSATIONS”, meaning that what APPEAR to be material forms (the whorlings) in the FLOWING PLENUM are instead the APPEARANCE of the PLENUM.  Thus the understanding is, for example, that “THERE ARE HUMANINGS and other CONDENSATIONS IN THE (nonvisible, nonlocal, implicit) PLENUM aka WAVE-FIELD and EVERYTHING IS RELATED since all visible forms are CONDENSATION of the all-including energy-charged PLENUM, …

“I, you, he, she, we.  In the garden of mystic lovers, these are not true distinctions.” ― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

The Modern physics undestanding is that material forms are condensations of the all-including energy-charged PLENUM.  That is, “in the FLOWING, TRANSFORMING PLENUM (the CONTAINING WAVE-FIELD), we and all things are WHORLINGS or CONDENSATIONS (CONTENTS) which are INTERRELATED and INTERDEPENDENT as is the understanding in a FLOW-BASED LANGUAGE ARCHITECTURE, and it is only when one uses a BEING and GRAMMAR (double error) based LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING SCHEME as we WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS DO, that the simplifying metaphors we are obliged to use in our LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING (when we assume a foundational role for BEING) make use of the DOUBLE ERROR of NAMING and GRAMMAR structure; e.g. ‘the TOWN is GROWING’.

What Nietzsche is saying is that the LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZATION— “THE TOWN IS GROWING” — is a SIMPLIFYING METAPHOR that ALLUDES TO a LESS SIMPLE sense-experience REALITY, that of our INCLUSION in the TRANSFORMING RELATIONAL CONTINUUM wherein the WILDERNESS IS SHRINKING TOGETHER WITH THE TOWN GROWING; i.e. there are NOT TWO THINGS but ONLY ONE;i.e. the TRANSFORMING landscape within which there is TOWNING.

So Nietzsche’s point is that we come to think of PROPOSITIONS such as ‘the TOWN IS GROWING’ not only as TRUE, which does apply but is limited by being INCOMPLETE as affirmed by Goedel’s Theorem of the INCOMPLETENESS of ALL FINITE PROPOSITIONS OF LOGIC.  Here we can see that the LOGICAL TRUTH must not be mistaken for REALITY as is a COMMON ERROR in WESTERN CULTURE LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING.  “The TOWN is GROWING” is only APPEARANCE or in Schreodinger’s language “Schaumkommen”, and IS NOT “REALITY” (REALITY includes conjugate SHRINKING of WILDERNESS).

The REALITY is as captured in indigenous aboriginal flow-based languages and in Bohm’s Modern physics Rheomode language; i.e. the REALITY is that EVERYTHING IS IN FLUX which captures the understanding that what is going on is TRANSFORMATION while the expression “the TOWN is GROWING” is a METAPHOR (“a figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a similarity”)

This example, ‘the TOWN is GROWING’, embodies an error, as is common in WESTERN CULTURE use of METAPHORS in INGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING. The ERROR is that the REALITY, which is NOT that ‘the TOWN is GROWING’ but instead that ‘THERE IS TOWNING IN THE TRANSFORMING LANDSCAPE’, has both a MALE ASSERTING/ACTUALIZING aspect (there is TOWNING), and a FEMALE ACCOMMODATING/ENABLING aspect (… “IN THE TRANSFORMING LANDSCAPE”) which exposes the “INCOMPLETENESS” of ALL (finite) LOGICAL PROPOSITIONS such as ‘the TOWN IS GROWING’ which is INCOMPLETE in stating that ‘the TOWN is GROWING” since if the TOWN is GROWING, the WILDERNESS must be CONJUGATELY SHRINKING, unless the TOWN were situated in an ABSOLUTE EMPTY AND INFINITE SPACE wherein TOWNS are seen as LOCAL and EXPLICIT and INDEPENDENT as the notional EMPTY SPACE HAS US IMAGINE THINGS WITHIN IT.  THIS ONE-SIDED MALE ASSERTING/ACTUALIZING “ONLY” LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING wherein “THE TOWN IS GROWING” which is MISSING its conjugate FEMALE ACCOMMODATING/ENABLING SHRINKING OF WILDERNESS, is NOT REAL.

… all concepts are metaphors invented by humans (created by common agreement to facilitate ease of communication) …  human beings forget this fact after inventing them, and come to believe that they are “true” and do correspond to reality.

“THE TOWN IS GROWING” does NOT correspond with reality since we are living in a world wherein everything is in flux and where all things are related (mitakuye oyasin) here there are no ‘BEINGS’ as are needed to support the imputing of GROWTH where there is only, in sense-experience reality, TRANSFORMATION in which case it takes the SHRINKING of WILDERNESS for there to be a GROWING OF THE TOWN.

That completes this AUTHOR’S GUIDE which reminds us NOT TO FORGET that in the world of our SENSE-EXPERIENCE, it is IMPOSSIBLE for there to be GROWTH OF A TOWN, without, at the same time, in conjugate relation, the SHRINKING OF WILDERNESS.  BUT AFTER INVENTING LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZATIONS SUCH AS “THE TOWN IS GROWING” as METAPHORS (that we can all agree on to facilitate ease of communications), WE WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS … forget this fact after inventing them, and come to believe that they are “true” and do correspond to reality.

I have altered this sentence to remove the generalizing to HUMAN BEINGS since the elevating of ‘the TOWN is GROWING’ to something with LOCAL AUTHORING POWER, makes use of the ABSTRACT NOTION OF THE BEING  STATUS (of ‘the TOWN’) which is serving as a notional STUB for the GRAMMAR based LOCAL AUTHORING ROLE. This“DOUBLE ERROR OF NAMING AND GRAMMAR”  based “LOCAL AUTHORING of ACTIONS and DEVELOPMENT, as it is labelled by NIETZSCHE, garners its notional POWER OF LOCAL AUTHORING of ACTIONS and DEVELOPMENT from the use of NAMING to IMPUTE LOCAL, EXPLICIT “BEING” which is a recipe for FRAGMENTATION and OBSCURANTISM.

For example, while we live in a WAVE-FIELD wherein everything is in flux as where ‘there is TOWNING In the TRANSFORMING LANDSCAPE’, the injecting of BEING by naming a FEATURE IN THE TRANSFORMING CONTINUUM; i.e. ‘the TOWNING’ with a BEING based NAME such as the TOWN, and conflating this FIRST ERROR with a SECOND ERROR of GRAMMAR to impute to the BEING, its own powers of LOCAL AUTHORING of actions and development, we open the door to a form of LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING which is NO LONGER FLOW-BASED and which DIFFERENTIATES OUT fluid feature such as TOWNING in the TRANSFORMING LANDSCAPE and RE-ESTABLISHES THEM as a notional THING-IN-ITSELF (by NAMING) notionally with its own POWERS of LOCAL AUTHORING of actions and development.  Since NATURE is a WAVE-FIELD manifesting a GATHERING-SCATTERING dynamic wherein everything is in flux, it is possible, as with a gathering and scattering of ants which ‘shows up’ as CLUSTERING (a verb), to SUBSTITUTE a noun, ‘CLUSTER’ and impute POWERS of LOCAL AUTHORING to the ‘CLUSTER’, such as GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT (changing shape) and MOVEMENT, even though, in REALITY, what we are looking at is RESONANCE PHENOMENA ‘owned’ by the relational dynamics of the transforming landscape in which CLUSTERING is an included feature.  The clustering IS NOT a LOCAL, EXPLICIT THING-IN-ITSELF WITH ITS OWN POWERS OF LOCAL AUTHORING of ACTIONS and DEVELOPMENT, … CLUSTERING is a RESONANCE PHENOMENON that belongs to the all-including WAVE-FIELD.

Here, with the DOUBLE ERROR of NAMING and GRAMMAR to invent LOCAL AUTHORING AGENTS, we are looking at a HOUSE OF CARDS based LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING SCHEME that DOES NOT CORRESPOND TO OUR SENSE-EXPERIENCE AFFIRMED REALITY wherein everything is in flux as can be captured using VERB based ‘fluid’ constructions which are NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT resonance features such as cluster-ING rather  than LOCAL and EXPLICIT BEING based as with ‘CLUSTERS’.  While the CLUSTERING of ants is a NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT resonance dynamic, ‘the CLUSTER’ of ants that we say is GROWING or MOVING; i.e. that we make out to be LOCAL and EXPLICIT and having its own powers of LOCAL AUTHORING of GROWTH and DEVELOPMENT,… IS NOT “REAL”, it is ONLY A SUPERFICIAL ‘APPEARANCE’, an “ENVELOPE” aka RESONANCE FEATURE that is INNATELY NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT and only “APPEARS” LOCAL and EXPLICIT.

This TWO PART ESSAY provides two slightly different approaches to DISCREDITING our TOO SIMPLE WESTERN CULTURE BINARY LOGIC LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING SCHEMES and showing why LESS SIMPLE QUANTUM LOGIC LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING is necessary.

END of AUTHOR’S GUIDE to Reading this TWO-PART ESSAY

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TRUST is the ENABLER of WESTERN CULTURE OBSCURANTISM and FRAGMENTATION

As we know from experience, we might have been one of those who were swayed into believing that instead of THAR BE DRAGONS when one sailed to the drop-off edge of the world, there would be NO EDGE and we would be able to GO AROUND the world as if it were rounded like an apple or orange.  The bones of multiple corpses in a cave going deep into the mountain might be a silent reminder of TRUST in a leader’s judgements that had had a positive history of successes but which was not guaranteed to be infallible in regard to there being a navigable tunnel ‘through’ the mountain.

As Nietzsche points out, LANGUAGE has this quality of encouraging our TRUST in the LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZATIONS we construct with it.  For example, indigenous aboriginal cultures use LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING that is commonly QUANTUM LOGIC based while WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS use LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING that is commonly BINARY LOGIC based.  Quantum logic is the BOTH/AND logic of the INCLUDING MEDIUM wherein material forms such as HUMANINGS are understood as CONDENSATIONS of an all including ENERGY-CHARGED PLENUM wherein everything is INTERCONNECTED and INTERDEPENDENT as with the STRANDS in the WEB.

In WESTERN CULTURE, one TRUSTS in simple BINARY LOGIC where we consider the EITHER/OR options of whether the person holding the smoking gun EITHER did OR did not AUTHOR the death of the person lying in a pool of blood with a bullet hole in his head.  The BINARY LOGIC understanding assumes that all we need to consider is the LOCAL and EXPLICIT as if there was an all-including empty and infinite space containing us, whereas, in the indigenous aboriginal culture where everything is in flux, our understanding is that we share inclusion in a NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT FLUID REALITY (aka WAVE-FIELD).

In indigenous aboriginal culture, one TRUSTS in less simple but more realistic QUANTUM LOGIC, the BOTH/AND LOGIC of the INCLUDING MEDIUM where we understand people as STRANDS in the INTERCONNECTED , INTERDEPENDENT web-of-life where the origin of LOCAL and EXPLICIT events is INHERENTLY NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT so that ALL STRANDS IN THE WEB are co-participants that are co-authoring events that MANIFEST AS LOCAL and EXPLICIT, hence the indigenous aboriginal system of JUSTICE is RESTORATIVE since ‘everyone is related’ within the interconnecting, interdepending WEB-OF-LIFE where the person “HOLDING THE SMOKING GUN” is the CONDUIT for VIOLENT ENERGY originating in the WEB and NOT THE LOCAL AUTHOR.

This contrasts with WESTERN CULTURE of JUSTICE which assumes that all people are INDEPENDENT and FULLY and SOLELY RESPONSIBLE for their own actions, in which case the JUSTICE is PURIFICATIONIST and orients to the ELIMINATING or DISABLING of the “GUILTY” INDEPENDENT BEING that is (wrongly seen to be) the LOCAL AUTHOR of VIOLENT ACTION, but is a STRAND-IN-THE-WEB whose VIOLENT OUTBURST derives from TENSIONS in the RELATIONAL WEB the STRAND is included in.

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If we read the following viewpoint in Psychology Today’s “BASICS” ….

Trust is the bedrock of social life at all levels, from romance and parenting to national government. Deception always undermines it. Because truth is so essential to the human enterprise, which relies on a shared view of reality, the default assumption most people have is that others are truthful in their communications and dealings. Most cultures have powerful social sanctions against lying. — https://www.psychologytoday.com/ca/basics/deception

We see that this view that the Psychology Today authors are sharing is ‘at odds with’ the view of Nietzsche and others, and rightly so because what we call TRUTH DIVIDES US INTO GROUPS with DIFFERING VIEWS OF “TRUTH”.  I am DISAGREEING WITH the writers in Psychology Today, because they stop short of accounting for the important point that Nietzsche is making which is the following; i.e. that  Although all concepts are metaphors invented by humans (created by common agreement to facilitate ease of communication), human beings forget this fact after inventing them, and come to believe that they are “true” and do correspond to reality.[

In this case, the REALITY stimulated by the STRAND in the WEB-OF-LIFE metaphor leads to a very different social engaging in life than that which is induced by the REALITY stimulated by the INDEPENDENT BEING in EMPTY SPACE metaphor.

For example, in the philosophical investigations I have undertaken, I find that WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS come to common agreement on the concept of LOCAL AUTHORING without acknowledging its origination in the DOUBLE ERROR of NAMING and GRAMMAR that implies LOCAL AUTHORING, as in examples such as ‘the TOWN is GROWING’ which WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS TAKE TO BE TRUE AND TO CORRESPOND TO REALITY.  NO! NO! NO!, … there can be NO GROWTH OF THE TOWN WITHOUT CONJUGATE SHRINKING OF WILDERNESS, and TAKING THIS INTO ACCOUNT is FUNDAMENTALLY IMPORTANT because the concept of “THE TOWN IS GROWING” is simple BINARY LOGIC based and makes NO MENTION of the EVER-PRESENT FEMALE ACCOMMODATING/ENABLING WAVE-FIELD CONJUGATE which is, in this case, the conjugate SHRINKING OF THE WILDERNESS and to get to an understanding of the REALITY of TRANSFORMATION we need both of the MALE ASSERTING/ACTUALIZING and FEMALE ACCOMMODATING/ENABLING conjugates in context .

In other words,   Although all concepts are metaphors invented by humans (created by common agreement to facilitate ease of communication) [in this example the TOWN is GROWING], human beings forget this fact after inventing them, and come to believe that they are “true” and do correspond to reality.[in this example, ‘THE TOWN IS GROWING’ is a metaphor and people forget that, IN REALITY, there is conjugate SHRINKING OF WILDERNESS, these two conjugates constituting the TRANSFORMING of the LANDSCAPE.].  What just happened here?  Goedel knows!  Goedel’s Theorem reminds us that ALL FINITE LOGICAL PROPOSITIONS ARE INCOMPLETE, and in this case, the proposition ‘THE TOWN IS GROWING’ is INCOMPLETE because the TOWN would have to be in an ABSOLUTE EMPTY and INFINITE SPACE CONTAINER to GROW IN ITS OWN RIGHT, which is what this proposition ‘The TOWN is GROWING’ is saying.

NOTA ABENE:  The proposition ‘THE TOWN IS GROWING’ is TRUE… BUT IT IS NOT COMPLETE and IT DOES “NOT” CORRESPOND TO REALITY.  The WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENT is falling into a trap here of INVENTING AN UNREAL LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING SCHEME THAT PRODUCES PSEUDO-REALITIES wherein GROWTH is POSSIBLE IN ITS OWN RIGHT (this is a BINARY LOGIC based PROPOSITION; i.e. THE PROPOSITION ‘THE TOWN HAS GROWN’ is EITHER TRUE OR FALSE and WE CAN PROVE IT IS TRUE (… but wait a minute, … that is INCOMPLETE because it says nothing about the CONJUGATE SHRINKING OF THE WILDERNESS and THAT is TRUE ALSO and it is the FEMALE ACCOMMODATING/ENABLING CONJUATE THAT MAKES POSSIBLE THE MALE ASSERTING/ACTUALIZING GROWTH OF THE TOWN.  So the indigenous aboriginal, whose thought and language is relational so that he does not think in the simple BEING based terms where the TOWN IS A THING-IN-ITSELF, he understands, instead, that THERE IS TOWNING IN THE TRANSFORMING LANDSCAPE WHEREIN “EVERYTHING IS IN FLUX”.

So, the indigenous aboriginal will be WARNING the “WHITE MAN”, .. NO! NO! NO! WHITE MAN, … EVERYTHING IS IN FLUX AND WHAT WE ARE LOOKING AT HERE INCLUDES THE SHRINKING OF WILDERNESS SO THAT THE GROWING OF THE TOWN COMES IN CONJUGATE RELATIONAL WITH THE SHRINKING OF THE WILDERNESS, WHICH MEANS TRANSFORMATION OF THE LANDSCAPE and that TRANSFORMATION INVOLVES THE LOSS OF MANY IMPORTANT WILDERNESS PLANTS AND ANIMALS, which impacts the overall complex ecosystem we ourselves are INCLUDED IN AND DEPENDENT UPON.

Ok, that’s what’s going on here, and this is described in the following which is expanding on what I have just said.  The reader may want to keep in mind the key point here;  Although all concepts are metaphors invented by humans (created by common agreement to facilitate ease of communication) [in this example the TOWN is GROWING], human beings forget this fact after inventing them, and come to believe that they are “true” and do correspond to reality.

When we start using the metaphor of the ‘TOWN THAT IS GROWING’, which is not something real but which is what Nietzsche elsewhere points out is a DOUBLE ERROR OF NAMING AND GRAMMAR that implies LOCAL AUTHORING OF ACTION as if the GROWTH of the TOWN is something LOCAL and EXPLICIT when it is in REALITY , NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT, being a relational development within the transforming relational continuum aka WAVE-FIELD (in indigenous aboriginal metaphor, a STRAND in the INTERCONNECTING and INTERDEPENDING WEB-OF-LIFE aka the TOWNING in the TRANSFORMING LANDSCAPE.

OK, LET’S LISTEN TO THE more FORMAL version of this which is as follows;

On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense (German: Über Wahrheit und Lüge im aussermoralischen Sinne)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Truth_and_Lies_in_a_Nonmoral_Sense

Summary

Nietzsche’s essay provides an account for (and thereby a critique of) the contemporary considerations of truth and concepts. These considerations, argues Nietzsche, arose from the very establishment of a language:

Every word immediately becomes a concept, in as much as it is not intended to serve as a reminder of the unique and wholly individualized original experience to which it owes its birth, but must at the same time fit innumerable, more or less similar cases—which means, strictly speaking, never equal—in other words, a lot of unequal cases. Every concept originates through our equating what is unequal.[3]

According to Paul F. Glenn, Nietzsche is arguing that “concepts are metaphors which do not correspond to reality.“[4] Although all concepts are metaphors invented by humans (created by common agreement to facilitate ease of communication), writes Nietzsche, human beings forget this fact after inventing them, and come to believe that they are “true” and do correspond to reality.[4] Nietzsche characterizes TRUTH as follows;   (emiliano’s note:  The above quote is from the Wikipedia article which includes the following quotes (in part) but I have included a version from a different (more standard) translator of Nietzsche and I have extended the quote (added a second paragraph in Nietzsche’s continuing commentary) since I feel it was  cut too short in the Wikipedia article).

What then is truth? A movable host of metaphors, metonymies, and anthropomorphisms: in short, a sum of human relations which have been poetically and rhetorically intensified, transferred, and embellished, and which, after long usage, seem to a people to be fixed, canonical, and binding. Truths are illusions which we have forgotten are illusions; they are metaphors that have become worn out and have been drained of sensuous force, coins which have lost their embossing and are now considered as metal and no longer as coins.

We still do not yet know where the drive for truth comes from. For so far we have heard only of the duty which society imposes in order to exist: to be truthful means to employ the usual metaphors. Thus, to express it morally, this is the duty to lie according to a fixed convention, to lie with the herd and in a manner binding upon everyone. Now man of course forgets that this is the way things stand for him. Thus he lies in the manner indicated, unconsciously and in accordance with habits which are centuries old; and precisely by means of this unconsciousness and forgetfulness he arrives at his sense of truth. From the sense that one is obliged to designate one thing as “red,” another as “cold,” and a third as “mute,” there arises a moral impulse in regard to truth. The venerability, reliability, and utility of truth is something which a person demonstrates for himself from the contrast with the liar, whom no one trusts and everyone excludes. As a “rational” being, he now places his behavior under the control of abstractions. He will no longer tolerate being carried away by sudden impressions, by intuitions.

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In my experience in working on and trying to share these ideas, such as the fact that our logical propositions can be TRUE but INCOMPLETE so that people can differ on how much they choose to put into their propositions.  The Hatfields, in speaking of the foul acts of the McCoys are not going to be so complete as to include the previous nastiness they did to the Hatfields, and likewise with the Israelis and Palestinians.  The accounts that people choose to include in their descriptions of ‘THE TRUTH’ MAY INDEED BE “THE TRUTH”, but as Goedel’s Theorem shows, ALL FINITE LOGICAL PROPOSITIONS, (e.g. “the TOWN IS GROWING”) EVEN THOUGH TRUE, IS INCOMPLETE in the sense of UNREAL (since the SHRINKING OF WILDERNESS IS REQUIRED TO CAPTURE THE REALITY) yet is accepted by everyone in our WESTERN CULTURE SOCIAL COLLECTIVE.  To be truthful means to employ the usual metaphors. Thus, to express it morally, this is the duty to lie according to a fixed convention, to lie with the herd and in a manner binding upon everyone

To follow the WESTERN CULTURE ploy of pretending that the NATION we live in is INDEPENDENT is a bald-faced lie supported by ‘the herd’ (the citizenry)  which includes not only the citizens of an individual INDEPENDENT NATION but the citizens of other NATIONS who are part of the huge WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENT SUPER-HERD who follow similar sets of pretences.  As free-thinkers, no-one would accept the UNREAL notion of the INDEPENDENCE of the DECLARED-INDEPENDENT NATION but those with the powerful military are able to make believers out of others so that the stop and check in at all imaginary line boundaries, something that doesn’t apply to the four-leggeds, winged and slithering ones, nor the indigenous aboriginals who continue to symbolically walk across bridges between the U.S. and Canada, to express their non-participation in the intellectual abstraction wherein imaginary lines have fragmented Turtle Island in spite of Chief Seattle’s incredulous query of ‘how can you buy and sell the sky’?  But this is where we are and in our WESTERN CULTURE society, we have a military backed plan wherein we have a DUTY to support the official TRUTH. This is the duty to lie according to a fixed convention, to lie with the herd and in a manner binding upon everyone.

LYING continues to play a foundational role in WESTERN CULTURE SOCIAL ORGANIZING while TRUST is the ENABLER of WESTERN CULTURE OBSCURANTISM and FRAGMENTATION

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Lying by Omission: “THE” WESTERN CULTURE “IDENTIFIER” 

https://psychcentral.com/health/lying-by-omission#what-is-it

What is lying by omission?

“Lying by omission is the deliberate act of leaving out important details so the truth is skewed or misrepresented.  It’s the counterpart of lying by commission, the act of using false direct statements”.“

Haley Hicks, a licensed clinical social worker from Forney, Texas, explains lying by omission is a manipulation of the truth often used to cover up mistakes or avoid uncomfortable conversations.

“It’s like telling half the story, with the missing half being crucial to understanding the entire picture,” she says.

Lying by omission is common, and some research from 2022 suggests people view it as a less severe form of dishonesty than lying by commission.

Why am I talking about Lying?  What does this have to do with my PHILOSOPHICAL INVESTIGATIONS.   Well, I am not the only one talking about it.  Nietzsche wrote at length about this PROBLEM in WESTERN CULTURE of CHRONIC LYING and indigenous aboriginals complained that WHITE MAN SPEAKS WITH FORKED TONGUE!

YOU BET HE DOES!   And all my research points to OUR WESTERN CULTURE being UNABLE to resolve OUR ISSUES because of OUR UNWILLINGNESS TO STOP OUR HABIT OF CHRONIC LYING that we have BUILT INTO OUR LANGUAGE, … for example, IT IS A LIE OF OMISSION to say things like ‘the TOWN IS GROWING’ without mentioning that THE REALITY IS THAT THERE IS A CONJUGATE SHRINKING OF WILDERNESS, and these continual LIES OF OMISSION are DUMBING US DOWN so that we are SHOCKED when we come to the realization that we have a CHRONIC ADDICTION to DROPPING OUT MENTION of the BETTER PART OF OUR REALITY which is the FEMALE ACCOMMODATING/ENABLING PART OF THAT REALITY.  For example, DO WE NOT PUT ANY VALUE ON THE NATURAL WILDERNESS, THE VITAL NUTRIENTS AND COMPLEX ECOSYSTEMS IN WHICH WE SHARE INTERCONNECTED and INTERDEPENDENT INCLUSION?

If we care, WHY THEN do we speak in such INCOMPLETE BUT POSITIVISTIC TERMS as ‘THE TOWN IS GROWING’ with NO MENTION of the VITALLY IMPORTANT BUT UNMENTIONED SHRINKING OF WILDERNESS and the TRASHING OF FLORA and FAUNA and ECSYSTEMIC SUPPORT WHICH IS CONTAINED THEREIN?

IF THIS ISN’T A LIE OF OMISSION, WHAT IS?  And by the way, … This type of LYING is characteristic of WESTERN CULTURE and our BEING-based LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING and is NOT FOUND in indigenous aboriginal cultures with their VERB-based LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING where one speaks in terms of TOWNING in the TRANSFORMING LANDSCAPE which is essentially capturing the full WAVE-FIELD reality we are included; i.e. we can’t realistically it is a lie to constrain our LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING to  the TOWNING (male asserting/actualizing conjugate)  while DROPPING OUT MENTION of the (female accommodating/enabling conjugate) SHRINKING of WILDERNESS and thus FRAGMENT REALITY and OBSCURE the overall TRANSFORMING OF THE LANDSCAPE.

WE WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS HAVE “ADJUSTED TO THIS” CHRONIC LYING, HAVE WE NOT?   This LYING is so well established that it is now THE NORM so that the reader is by now likely saying, HO HUM, SO WHAT, WE ARE DOING FINE WITH IT (so said the ABOUT-TO-BE-BOILED FROG who became too lazy in the rising comfort to bother herself with thoughts of where this LYING might be taking us).  MAYBE RUSSIA HAS A POINT IN PUSHING BACK AGAINST THE “WEST’S” PUSHINESS.  AFTER THE MUTUAL DEMONIZING GETS WELL UNDERWAY AND THE LIES BECOME DOMINANT, it is difficult to sort out what is really going on.

OH YES, THE INDEPENDENCE OF THE NATION IS A SACRED RIGHT THAT MUST BE PROTECTED AT ALL COST!?.  THAT IS ANOTHER BLOODY LIE!  THERE ARE NO ‘INDEPENDENT STATES’ IN THIS WORLD WHERE OUR SENSE-EXPERIENCE IS TELLING US THAT EVERYTHING IS INTERRELATED AND INTERDEPENDENT.  But we have been born into this LYING TRADITION where we SWEAR ALLEGIANCE to an IMAGINARY LINE BOUNDED “INDEPENDENT” STATE which WAS and continues to be an AFFRONT to the indigenous aboriginal peoples who continue to embrace the REALITY of ‘mitakuye oyasin’ “everything is related” in spite of all the WESTERN CULTURE IMAGINARY BOUNDARY LINES AND BORDER GUARDS which are IN SUPPORT OF THE LIE OF “INDEPENDENCE” (the armed guards DO MAKE ‘EVIDENT’ BELIEVERS OUT OF US).

Now, as we may imagine, the above-cited psychcentral finding Lying by omission is common, and some research from 2022 suggests people view it as a less severe form of dishonesty than lying by commission is what we must expect when we WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS are all SWEARING AN OATH BUILT ON A LIE; i.e. the INDEPENDENCE of the IMAGINARY LINE BOUNDED STATE.

The READER, on hearing this, will likely PROTEST, having already SWORN the OATH to SUPPORT THE LIE.  BUT WHAT IF THE LIE IS SUPPORTING A BOILED-FROG FUTURE?  What if THE LIE is PUTTING US ON A BUS-TRIP TO HELL?  WHAT IF THE HAMAS – ISRAEL STRIFE which is SPREADING SPARKS THAT ARE IGNITING NEW OUTLIER FIRES THAT HAVE NO NATURAL CURE SINCE EVERYTHING BASED ON ‘INDEPENDENCE’ IS A LIE?  POGO WILL TELL US THAT THAT “WE HAVE MET THE ENEMY AND IT IS US!”

There is the LIE OF SUBOPTIMIZATION what has been pointed out by the Systems Science where NATIONS, after spreading the LIE of their INDEPENDENCE, engage in COMPETITION that is not just friendly competition and symbolic as in sports matches, but based on SERIOUS BELIEF IN THE LIE OF ‘INDEPENDENCE’ so that the goal becomes one of getting SERIOUSLY RICHER THAN THE OTHER ‘INDEPENDENT’ NATIONS, based on FAIR COMPETITION.  THAT IS NOT ONLY A LIE, THAT IS SO OBVIOUSLY A LIE, IT IS A JOKE.   SUBOPTIMIZATION OF A SO-CALLED ‘INDEPENDENT NATION’ …. IN A WORLD WHEREIN EVERYTHING IS INTERRELATED AND INTERDEPENDENT …. IS A JOKE.  But NO-ONE is LAUGHING SUCH LIES OUT OF FASHION because of the ARMIES and BORDER GUARDS COMMITTED TO THE SUPPORT OF COMPETITION BASED SUBOPTIMIZATION.  TRUMP HAS A PLAN, .. HIGHER, STRONGER WALLS to backup INTENSIFIED SUBOPTIMIZATION BY WAY OF BOLSTERING THE LIE OF INDEPENDENCE, an ABSTRACTION that provides the FOUNDATION for the PURSUIT of SUBOPTIMIZATION (on the part of a strand in an interrelated, interdependent web).

While INDEPENDENCE started off as A LIE, after writing ANTHEMS of PRAISE to, and PUMPING UP THE EGO’s of the SUPPORTING (if not BELIEVING) CITIZENS (whose land owning status is a reward for bearing arms to support the LIE of the FREE AND INDEPENDENT EXISTENCE of the imaginary line bounded ‘STATE!’.

SINCE INDEPENDENCE ESTABLISHES A FOUNDATION FOR SUBOPTIMIZATION (ONE GOOD LIE SUPPORTS ANOTHER), DECLARATIONS of INDEPENDENCE SET THE STAGE FOR A MOVE AWAY FROM BALANCE TO ENTITLEMENT (of STAKEHOLDER OWNERS OF INDEPENDENT STATES).  While NATURE SUPPORTS BALANCE which makes sense since everything is INTERRELATED and INTERDEPENDENT, once the LIE of INDEPENDENCE “TAKES OVER” which opens the door to the COMPLEMENTARY ABSTRACTION of OWNERSHIP, the PATH TO SUBOPTIMIZATION OF THE “INDEPENDENT LAND” IS OPENED, which MADE NO SENSE WHERE THINGS WERE UNDERSTOOD TO BE INTERCONNECTED and INTERDEPENDENT SO THAT BALANCE MADE SENSE TO PROTECT THE LAND AS THE COMMONS.

As Chief Maquinna of the Nootkas observed;

“Once I was in Victoria, and I saw a very large house; they told me it was a bank and that the white men place their money there to take care of it, and that by-and-by they got it back, with interest.  We are Indians and have no such bank; but when we have plenty of money or blankets, we give them away to other chiefs and people, and by-and-by they return tem, with interest, and our hearts feel good.  Our potlatch is our bank”

 — ‘First People First Voices’, edited by Penny Petrone, University of Toronto Press, 1991]  I.E.  NATURAL BALANCE prevails over ENTITLEMENT in indigenous aboriginal culture.

FIRST LIE; ‘INDEPENDENCE’ OF IMAGINARY LINE BOUNDED ‘PROPERTIES’.

SECOND COMPOUNDING LIE; SUBOPTIMIZATION OF ‘INDEPENDENT PROPERTIES’.  I.E. SO-CALLED ‘IMPROVEMENTS TO THE INDEPENDENT PROPERTY’ ARE A LIE THAT “OBSCURES” THE REALITY OF THE OVERALL TRANSFORMING OF THE LANDSCAPE.

WESTERN CULTURE LIES ARE A HOUSE OF CARDS THAT SUPPORTS WESTERN CULTURE PSEUDO-REALITY, WHEREIN ‘GROWTH OF THE TOWN’ CAN BE TREATED AS A ‘REALITY’ WHILE TRANSFORMATION OF THE LANDSCAPE, WHICH ACKNOWLEDGES SHRINKING OF WILDERNESS, IS OBSCURED BY THE USE OF LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING THAT DROPS OUT THE FEMALE ACCOMMODATING/ENABLING SHRINKING OF WILDERNESS, THIS “LYING BY OMISSION” THAT SUPPORTS THE CELEBRATING OF THE NEW CONSTRUCTION AS IF THE NEW CONSTRUCTION WAS ‘SOMETHING REAL’ THAT SHOULD BE CELEBRATED, WITHOUT MENTIONING THE “REALITY’ OF THE TRANSFORMING OF THE LANDSCAPE WHICH INCLUDES THE SHRINKING OF WILDERNESS.

GOODBYE WESTERN CULTURE HONESTY, HELLO WESTERN CULTURE LIES WHICH ARE VERY LIABLE TO PUT THE ENTIRE COMMUNITY ON A BUSTRIP TO HELL MUCH AS IN THE BOILED FROG STORY WHERE IN THIS CASE THE COMFORTABLE RISING WARMTH IS THE COMFORTABLE RISING WEALTH COMING FROM THE CELEBREATED NEW DEVELOPMENT WHEREIN THERE IS NO MENTION OF THE “REAL REALITY’ OF SHRINKING OF THE WILDERNESS AND THE OVERALL TRANSFORMING OF THE LANDSCAPE.

BUT YES, OF COURSE, EACH NATION IS ‘INDEPENDENT’ SO WE SAY, AND THE ASPIRATION IS THUS ‘SUBOPTIMIZATION’, THE OPTIMIZING OF EACH INDEPENDENT NATION, SOME NATIONS EVEN PLANNING TO BUILD WALLS TO KEEP INTRUDERS OUT SO AS TO SUPPORT A MORE SEVERE SUBOPTIMIZATION AND THUS A NEED FOR MORE MILITARY AS WELL AS MORE WALLS TO KEEP THE INFERIOR (UNOPTIMIZED) OTHERS OUT.   WITHOUT THE ‘LIE’ OF ‘INDEPENDENCE’, THIS WHOLE HOUSE OF CARDS WITH ITS PROMISE OF SUBOPTIMIZATION WOULD COLLAPSE, AND BEST IT DOES COLLAPSE BEFORE ITS BOILED FROG AGENDA FULLY PLAYS OUT.

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Lying by Omission: “THE” Western Culture “IDENTIFIER”

COME ON!  INDEPENDENT NATIONS!?  MAYBE IT WAS A GOOD PLOY FOR AN ERA WHERE WHITE PEOPLE WERE PLANTING FLAGS OF DISCOVERY ON LAND THAT WAS ALREADY OCCUPIED AND FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS, … BUT IT NEEDS TO GO, IN VIEW OF THE REALITY OF MITAKUYE OYASIN AND THE INEFFECTIVENESS OF WALLS IN A TRANSFORMING RELATIONAL CONTINUUM.