There is dysfunction built into WESTERN CULTURE social dynamics, which David Bohm describes as FRAGMENTATION.  But where does this FRAGMENTATION ‘come from’?

A ‘first order’ answer to this question is that FRAGMENTATION comes from LANGUAGE, from our DROPPING OUT of the FEMALE WAVE-FIELD CONJUGATE so that our LANGUAGE based REPRESENTATIONS of Reality are in ONE-SIDED MALE-ASSERTING TERMS while the FEMALE CONJUGATE, which is naturally deserving of PRIMARY STATUS, is “DROPPED OUT” by way of the SUBSTITUTING of ABSOLUTE EMPTY SPACE.

So, instead of WAVE-FIELD conjugate relation wherein FEMALE ACCOMMODATING induces conjugate MALE ASSERTING, we have, IN OUR WESTERN CULTURE LANGUAGE-BASED REPRESENTATIONS of ‘REALITY’, the ONE-SIDED, MECHANISTIC MALE ASSERTING ACTIONS AND DEVELOPMENTS ON THEIR OWN.  This one-sided MALE ASSERTING SUBSTITUTE REALITY is the COMMON LANGUAGE-based ‘OPERATIVE REALITY’ in WESTERN CULTURE.

EXAMPLE: Where we have the CONIUNCTIO of FEMALE-ACOMMODATING and MALE-ASSERTING as in where ‘THERE IS TOWNING (male-asserting) IN THE  (female-accommodating) TRANSFORMING LANDSCAPE’ , our WESTERN CULTURE LINGUISTIC SIMPLIFICATION SERVES UP THE FOLLOWING ‘REDUCTION’ … The TOWN is GROWING, DEVELOPING and PRODUCING products”.

This kind of language embodies DIFFERENTIATION, as it ‘differentiates out’ the ‘TOWN’, using the DOUBLE ERROR of NAMING and GRAMMAR to impute LOCAL AUTHORING of actions and development (i.e. ‘the TOWN is GROWING, DEVELOPING and PRODUCING products and services’.

This DIFFERENTIATION based (BINARY LOGIC based) LANGUAGE ARCHITECTURE  is very familiar to ENGLISH LANGUAGE users and Common Average European language users, but the INDIGENOUS ABORIGINAL language users, and the Taoists/Buddhists and Advaita Vedanta language users employ INTEGRATION based (QUANTUM LOGIC based) LANGUAGE ARCHITECTURE as exemplified by ‘there is TOWNING in the TRANSFORMING LANDSCAPE (or transforming relational continuum)’.  In this case, we understand TOWNING as an INTEGRAL FEATURE WITHIN THE TRANSFORMING LANDSCAPE WHEREIN EVERYTHING IS IN CONTINUING FLUX.

NOTA BENE!  There is a NATURAL PRECEDENCE in the use of INTEGRATION based language and DIFFERENTIATION based language in the PSYCHOLOGY of THOUGHT AND LANGUAGE as explained by Vygotsky in “THOUGHT and LANGUAGE”;.  That is, as we take everything in that is going on around us in the particular situation we find ourselves in, our outside-inward thinking is in INTEGRATING mode, bringing everything into connective confluence to extract the coherencies, … but in our RESPONDING to our situation, our thinking is now DIFFERENTIATING as we develop different courses of action and make our selection.

 

In ‘Thought and Language’, Lev Vygotsky points out that ‘spontaneous concept formation’ induced by the situation we find ourselves in, and ‘scientific concept formation’ which we can think of as our corresponding intention driven response that is inductively actualized by the unfolding situation, are a single system; i.e. a situational-intentional nonduality.   We might compare this with a Dionysian-Apollonian nonduality

 

PROBLEM!: PIAGET has had a strong influence on WESTERN CULTURE views on thought and learning which relate to the DIFFERENCE between the INDIGENOUS ABORIGINAL and WESTERN CULTURE understanding, where the INDIGENOUS ABORIGINAL comprehension puts INTEGRATION into natural precedence over DIFFERENTIATION  whereas PIAGET (and we can look to his views as characterizing the prevailing WESTERN CULTURE views), ignores the NATURAL CONJUGATE RELATION between THOUGHT and LANGUAGE.

 

In fact, the common WESTERN CULTURE understanding, influenced by Piaget (whom Vygotsky disagreed with), is that we have two separate modes of concept formation, ‘spontaneous’ (situational) and ‘structured’ (intentional) and that intentional concept formation prevails over situational concept formation. Vygotsky strongly disagreed and believed that Piaget (and thus mainstream Western thinking) had it wrong, … in that there was only ONE process of concept formation with two reciprocally complementary (conjugate) aspects (situational and intentional) and that ‘situational’ concept formation was in a natural precedence over ‘intentional’ concept formation.  This is a description of the androgynous WAVE-FIELD structure.

 

This difference in understanding THOUGHT AND LANGUAGE is the same difference as exists in the WESTERN CULTURE habit of giving precedence to BINARY LOGIC ahead of QUANTUM LOGIC (because, as Copernicus noted, ‘it is simpler’).  Vygotsky recognized the CONJUGATE RELATION of the SITUATIONAL and INTENTIONAL with the SITUATIONAL corresponding to the FEMALE ACCOMMODATING CONJUGATE and the INTENTIONAL corresponding to the MALE ASSERTING CONJUGATE, the two together comprising TRANSFORMATION (the WAVE-FIELD understanding).

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THE RESPECTIVE ROLES OF DIFFERENTIATION AND INTEGRATION IN LANGUAGE BASED REALITY CONSTRUCTION:

What we see going on here is that WESTERN CULTURE has chosen a LANGUAGE ARCHITECTURE that INVERTS the ‘natural order’ of INTEGRATION BEFORE DIFFERENTIATION and the result is FRAGMENTATION.  Once we use the DOUBLE ERROR of NAMING and GRAMMAR to “LIBERATE” the MALE ASSERTING AUTHOR of action and development, providing ‘him’ with an ABSOLUTE EMPTY AND INFINITE OPERATING SPACE, we are enabling FRAGMENTATION.  That is, we are putting DIFFERENTIATION into an unnatural precedence over INTEGRATION.

In QUANTUM LOGIC reality, INTEGRATION is BASIC, being secured through the ALL-INCLUDING WAVE-FIELD whereas the DIFFERENTIATION is SECONDARY and by way of CONDENSATIONS of the ALL-INCLUDING WAVE-FIELD.  The ‘WAVE-FIELD’ IS THE INTEGRATION and that is PRIMARY.

The DIFFERENTIATION is by way of CONDENSATIONS of the “INTEGRAL WAVE-FIELD PLENUM” and if that were UNDERSTOOD as applying to OURSELVES and ALL THINGS, we would be understanding reality in the manner of INDIGENOUS ABORIGINALS and MODERN PHYSICS where INTEGRATION is the BASE CASE and comes before DIFFERENTATION, hence the ‘MITAKUYE OYASIN’ (everything is related) aphorism of the indigenous aboriginals which is supported by Modern physics.

WE WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS, on the other hand, have ARCHITECTED OUR LANGUAGE so at to give a foundational role to BINARY LOGIC based DIFFERENTIATION, the SPLITTING APART OF MATERIAL FORMS AND EMPTY SPACE which MAKES DIFFERENTIATION PRIMARY when it is, in reality, SECONDARY.

The REALITY is that we live in a energy-charged (wave-field) PLENUM wherein EVERYTHING IS RELATED since all material forms are CONDENSATIONS of the ALL-INCLUDING WAVE-FIELD ‘PLENUM’.

 

DIFFERENTIATION without the GROUNDING UNDERSTANDING of INTEGRATION thanks to all material forms being CONDENSATIONS of the ONE, ALL-INCLUDING WAVE-FIELD (energy-charged plenum) is a BINARY LOGIC form of DIFFERENTIATION as with ABSOLUTE MATTER in ABSOLUTE EMPTY SPACE, whereas what we know to be the case is INTEGRATION as with QUANTUM LOGIC material CONDENSATIONS in the all-including WAVE-FIELD.

So, the MISTAKEN assumption of MATERIAL FORMS as DIFFERENTIATED BODIES WITHOUT THE INTEGRATION BY WAY OF INCLUSION IN THE ALL-INCLUDING WAVE-FIELD gives rise to the notion of “INDEPENDENCE” of MATERIAL FORMS which leads to the DYSFUNCTION known as SUBOPTIMIZATION:

“The above aphorism (The Name of the Devil is Suboptimization’), attributed to Kenneth Boulding, points to the inherent weakness characterizing the mindset and socio‐economic, political, educational and managerial practices of Western Industrial society as it developed over the past 300 years. It has its basis in the analytic‐reductionist scientific paradigm, which, despite the remarkable technological applications it spawned, is inappropriate, conflict‐generating and dysfunctional in a world characterized by global interconnectedness and mutual interdependence …” — György Jaros and Martine Dodds-Taljaard  (International Society of Systems Sciences)

 

SUBOPTIMIZATION IS NOW RAMPANT IN WESTERN CULTURE SOCIAL DYNAMICS, based on MISTAKEN belief in the INDEPENDENCE of NATIONS, CORPORATIONS, HUMANS, LGBTQ CATEGORIES and more.  The RIVALRY of different species of NATIONALITY, GENDER ETC. are based on belief in the legitimacy of SUBOPTIMIZATION.   SUBOPTIMIZATION IS INSANE in a world characterized by global interconnectedness and mutual interdependence .

Another way to put it is that SUBOPTIMIZATION IS DELUSION which puts us inside a BINARY LOGIC based SUBSTITUTE REALITY such as where our CLUSTERING, which is a relational feature within the transforming relational continuum (like a ‘boiling’ within a ‘flowing’), is captured in a language based description of ourselves as “A CLUSTER” (as ordained with the device of NAMING) equipped with GRAMMAR given powers of LOCAL AUTHORING of actions and developments.  Thus, where there is in actuality a resonance feature or CLUSTERING, we use language (NAMING and GRAMMAR) to RE-CAST the RESONANCE FEATURE of “CLUSTERING” as a LOCAL, EXPLICIT THING-IN-ITSELF, using NAMING to impute LOCAL BEING (i.e. ‘the CLUSTER”) and GRAMMAR to notionally endow the LOCAL BEING with ‘its own powers of AUTHORING ACTIONS AND DEVELOPMENT.

Here we have the SUBSTITUTING of BEING (THE CLUSTER) for an ACTION (CLUSTERING) and in the process we convert a relational activity (CLUSTERING) within the transforming relational continuum aka the WAVE-FIELD, to a LOCAL, EXPLICIT BEING (THE CLUSTER) and we TURN EVERYTHING UPSIDE DOWN with GRAMMAR in the sense that GRAMMAR ENDOWS THE BEING with notional LOCAL AUTHORING POWERS of ACTION, GROWTH and DEVELOPMENT.

What started off as a CLUSTERING WITHIN THE OVERALL COMPLEX SEA OF RELATIONAL DYNAMICS, becomes, with the help of the transformative powers of LANGUAGE, A SEPARATE THING IN ITSELF, ‘THE CLUSTER’ with its own (notional) GRAMMAR GIVEN POWERS OF GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT, so that instead of it being a CLUSTERING inextricably included within the complex transforming relational continuum, it is now a CLUSTER THING-ITSELF notionally WITH ITS OWN GRAMMAR-GIVEN POWERS OF AUTHORING ACTIONS AND DEVELOPMENT.

The ANTS are NOT going to BUY INTO THIS CONVERSION and start believing that their CLUSTERS have their own POWERS OF AUTHORING ACTIONS and DEVELOPMENT, and neither are INDIGENOUS ABORIGINALS, TAOISTS/BUDDHISTS and ADVAITA VEDANTA adherents, but a lot of us WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS, have, in fact, ‘bought in’ to this MAKE-BELIEVE WHERE THE ‘CLUSTERING IN THE TRANSFORMING LANDSCAPE’ … understands ITSELF as having transformed into a LOCAL THING-IN-ITSELF, a CLUSTER, notionally WITH ITS OWN POWERS OF AUTHORING ACTIONS AND DEVELOPMENTS.   Whether we go through this at the level of a GANG or a COUNTRY, this is more of the same attempt at SUBOPTIMIZATION which is INSANE.

The INSANITY is not in the formation of the social collective or CLUSTERING in itself, the INSANITY is the FALSE CONCEIVING OF THIS NAMING and GRAMMAR ANIMATED “CLUSTER” THING-IN-ITSELF as somethin REAL in a sense-experience affirmable context; i.e. as if it were a LOCAL, INDEPENDENTLY EXISTING THING-IN-ITSELF, notionally WITH ITS OWN POWERS OF LOCAL AUTHORING OF ACTIONS AND DEVELOPMENTS.

No wonder that UPSIDE-DOWN MAN, the philosopher buried on BOXHILL in SURREY, ENGLAND, insisted on getting buried UPSIDE DOWN to put himself RIGHT SIDE UP in relation to the upside-down social collective.  What is UPSIDE DOWN is the WESTERN CULTURE SHIFTING of SOURCING AGENCY from the NONLOCAL AND IMPLICIT (as in “CLUSTERING”) to the LOCAL AND EXPLICIT (as in ‘the CLUSTER’) using the DOUBLE ERROR of NAMING and GRAMMAR. This use of language to construct a SUBSTITUTE REALITY based on the DOUBLE ERROR of NAMING based BEINGS with GRAMMAR based LOCAL AUTHORING POWERS is a LANGUAGE based DELUSION that is the source of FRAGMENTATION in the social collectives that ‘buy into it’.

Whether we are talking about ants and the shift from CLUSTERING to ‘the CLUSTER’ and thus the notional shift to LOCAL BEING (the CLUSTER) with LOCAL AUTHORING POWERS (the POWERS OF LOCAL AUTHORING OF GROWING AND DEVELOPING of the CLUSTER), or instead, of the shift from NATIONING to ‘the NATION’ and thus the shift to LOCAL BEING (‘the NATION’) with LOCAL AUTHORING POWERS (the POWERS OF LOCAL AUTHORING of GROWING and DEVELOPING of the NATION).

This is the ABSTRACT CONCEPT OF SUBOPTIMIZATION, BELIEF IN WHICH IS A FORM OF FRAGMENTATION based INSANITY (see inset by David Bohm) COMMON TO WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENCY.

The notion of SUBOPTIMIZATION is built on the false foundation of FRAGMENTATION.

“The above aphorism (The Name of the Devil is Suboptimization’), attributed to Kenneth Boulding, points to the inherent weakness characterizing the mindset and socio‐economic, political, educational and managerial practices of Western Industrial society as it developed over the past 300 years. It has its basis in the analytic‐reductionist scientific paradigm, which, despite the remarkable technological applications it spawned, is inappropriate, conflict‐generating and dysfunctional in a world characterized by global interconnectedness and mutual interdependence …” — György Jaros and Martine Dodds-Taljaard  (International Society of Systems Sciences)

 

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EXPLANATORY FOOTNOTE:  “SUBOPTIMIZATION” IS FRAGMENTATION” and as in example of INVERTING “CLUSTERING” which is NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT to “THE CLUSTER THAT IS GROWING AND DEVELOPING and PRODUCING”, we do so by way of “THE DOUBLE ERROR OF NAMING AND GRAMMAR” (as stated by Nietzsche).  NOTE THAT “CLUSTERING” is a RESONANCE FEATURE or “WAVE-FIELD FEATURE” and resonance features are inherently NONLOCAL and RELATIONAL in their basic essence.  THEY ARE NO LOCAL BEING BASED.  As Zen guru’s like Alan Watts have pointed out, the language based use of VERBS rather than NOUNS is essential to avoid distorting LANGUAGE based representations of sense-experience of inclusion in the transforming relational continuum aka the WAVE-FIELD aka ‘the Tao’.  The REDUCTION, in our LANGUAGE-BASED REPRESENTATION of the fluid dynamical world (aka the WAVE-FIELD world) which requires QUANTUM LOGIC, to a BINARY LOGIC based SUBSTITUTE REALITY based on MATERIAL FORMS IN EMPTY SPACE is achieved (unintentionally or not) through the use of the DOUBLE ERROR of NAMING and GRAMMAR which sets up a notional “LOCAL AUTHOR” of actions and developments.  This leads directly to a SUBSTITUTE REALITY based on FRAGMENTATION and SUBOPTIMIZATION.

While it is easy to see how FRAGMENTATION derives from the DOUBLE ERROR of NAMING and GRAMMAR, SUBOPTIMIZATION is the product of OBSCURANTISM which comes from DROPPING OUT the FEMALE ACCOMMODATING WAVE-FIELD CONJUGATE, as, for example, in the THIN SKULL RULE of WESTERN JUSTICE where we WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS refuse to allow anything other than MALE ASSERTING to explain the dynamics of REALITY.  This is equivalent to imposing the ABSTRACTION of an ABSOLUTE EMPTY AND INFINITE SPACE in place of the FEMALE ACCOMMODATING ‘WAVE-FIELD’ and it plays the FOUNDATIONAL ROLE in our WESTERN CULTURE Common Average European LANGUAGE ARCHITECTURE.

In terms of our SENSE-EXPERIENCE AFFIRMED REALITY, as distinguished from our CONSTRUCTION of ABSTRACT LANGUAGE BASED SUBSTITUTE REALITY which in WESTERN CULTURE is BINARY LOGIC ABSTRACTION BASED SUBSTITUTE REALITY WHICH IS SIMPLER and less representative of sense-experience reality, than the QUANTUM LOGIC SUBSTITUTE REALITY of INDIGENOUS ABORIGINALS and MODERN PHYSICS.

In other words, insofar as LANGUAGE can only stimulate the INTELLECT to conjure up imagery of what purports to correspond to SENSE-EXPERIENCE REALITY which is NOT capturable in LANGUAGE, there is more than one method of INTELLECT STIMULATION as is unfolding in this discussion.  The FULL WAVE-FIELD LANGUAGE-based REPRESENTATION as in the INDIGENOUS ABORIGINAL LANGUAGE ARCHITECTURE employs QUANTUM LOGIC constructions wherein FIGURE and GROUND are ONLY ONE while WESTERN CULTURE LANGUAGE ARCHITECTURE employs BINARY LOGIC constructions wherein FIGURE and GROUND are TWO MUTUALLY EXCLUDING ONTOLOGIES, the ONTOLOGIES of MATTER and SPACE.

OBSCURANTISM AND SUBOPTIMIZATION ARE RELATED:  An example of OBSCURANTISM is where we put FULL AUTHORING CREDIT for the fracturing of an EGG-SHELL SKULL on the person throwing the punch as if that person was FULLY and SOLELY responsible for the damage; i.e. the shattering of the skull, without acknowledging the fragile (and thus ‘female accommodating’) condition of the skull. In reality, we live in a WAVE-FIELD world where the actions and results ARE NEVER ONE-SIDEDLY MALE ASSERTING but are always the overall FEMALE-ACCOMMODATING — MALE ASSERTING CONJUGATE EFFECT.  OBSCURANTISM comes with the DROPPING OUT of the FEMALE ACCOMMODATING CONJUGATE as with the common SUBSTITUTING, in LANGUAGE, of ABSOLUTE EMPTY AND INFINITE SPACE in place of the FEMALE ACCOMMODATING WAVE-FIELD CONJUGATE. Thus if the skull is eggshell thin, the FEMALE ACCOMMODATING will weigh more in shaping what comes of the PUNCH than the MALE ASSERTING ACTION OF THE PUNCH.

The issue here is that WE WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS use a LANGUAGE ARCHITECTURE that DROPS OUT and EXCLUDES the FEMALE ACCOMMODATING CONJUGATE.  In other words, in the real physical world, the dynamics are ALWAYS ‘WAVE-FIELD DYNAMICS’ and WAVE-FIELD DYNAMICS are CONJUGATE in nature; i.e. there is NOT ONLY a MALE ASSERTING INFLUENCE but also, at the same time, a FEMALE ACCOMMODATING INFLUENCE.

IF we lived in a BINARY LOGIC world of MATERIAL FORMS in ABSOLUTE EMPTY SPACE where DOUBLE ERROR of NAMING AND GRAMMAR based LOCAL AUTHORING was ‘REAL’, it would theoretically be possible to CHERRY-PICK the LOCAL AUTHORS, isolating all of the BEST (most productive) LOCAL AUTHORS and putting them in TEAM A, setting aside all of the ‘worst’ LOCAL AUTHORS and putting them in TEAM B so as to OPTIMIZE operations.  But in a world characterized by global interconnectedness and mutual interdependence, SUBOPTIMIZATION IS NOT POSSIBLE.   Being able to SUBOPTIMIZE equates to being able to FRAGMENT the productive agency, but we live in a transforming relational continuum where the FRAGMENTATION into ‘DIFFERENT, INDEPENDENT NATIONS’ etc. is INTELLECTUAL ABSTRACTION and imaginary lines do not hold in or keep out pollution and even if we are speaking of GOLD DEPOSITS, the overall GESTALT of the all-including WAVE-FIELD still rules and what we commonly perceive as SUBOPTIMIZATION is IMBALANCE.  There is no amount of WALL BUILDING and BORDER CROSSING INSPECTION POSTS that can overcome the physical reality of inclusion in the all-including WAVE-FIELD aka transforming relational continuum aka the Tao as in a world characterized by global interconnectedness and mutual interdependence.

Sure, we could amass the best and brightest in one imaginary line bounded area such as we refer to by the name ‘FRANCE’ or ‘THE UNITED STATES’ and pump all the superior stuff in the world in and pump all the inferior stuff out, creating IMBALANCE, but the imaginary lines of international borders do not overcome GESTALT, the beyond intellectual, sense-experience affirmed reality of our inclusion a world characterized by global interconnectedness and mutual interdependence.

In WE$TERN CULTURE, the belief in FRAGMENTATION as in the DECLARATIONS of NATIONAL INDEPENDENCE is a popular ILLUSION or DELUSION (although not so in indigenous aboriginal cultures), which serves to organize the behavioral dynamics of the social collective in support of their particular FRAGMENT in the belief that SUBOPTIMIZATION IS REAL.  As already mentioned, such belief is supported by BINARY LOGIC which remains dominant among WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS while QUANTUM LOGIC, as supported by Modern physics and indigenous aboriginals, continues to be resisted since BINARY LOGIC is LOCKED IN BY HIGH SWITCHING COSTS (e.g. the ‘letting go’ of the BINARY LOGIC based belief in LOCAL AUTHORING).

 

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