WESTERN CULTURE AS A BIPOLAR DISORDER<\/p>\n
What we call \u2018normal\u2019 is a product of repression, denial, splitting, projection, introjection and other forms of destructive action on experience.\u201d\u00a0 \u2014 R.D. Laing<\/em><\/p>\n Not every culture SPLITS into two opposing polar opposite views of \u2018reality\u2019 of \u2018conservative\u2019 and \u2018liberal\u2019.\u00a0 That\u2019s because not every culture makes EGO and the power of LOCAL SOURCING the cornerstone of its concept of \u2018reality\u2019 as WESTERN CULTURE does.\u00a0 In culture\u2019s where TRANSFORMATION serves the foundational role in \u2018reality\u2019, there is no polarizing BIPOLAR DISORDER, neither of the overt \u2018conservative\u2019 \u2013 \u2018liberal\u2019 BIPOLAR DISORDER variety where the polarizing division is over the question of the presumed LOCAL SOURCING of actions and developments (is it \u2018one-to-many- sourced? \u2026 or is it \u2018many-to-one sourced\u2019), or the introverted psychiatric-clinically defined INTERNAL splitting of the psyche POPULAR version of BIPOLAR DISORDER.<\/p>\n WESTERN CULTURE has become blind to its inbuilt, pervasive BIPOLAR DISORDER that manifests as the conservative \u2013 liberal split as to how one should understand the process of LOCAL SOURCING of actions and developments; i.e. does it take a whole community to raise a child, \u2026 or does one bad apple spoil the barrel?\u00a0 Which way does LOCAL SOURCING work?\u00a0\u00a0 Does the whorl in the water source the flow and movement of the water, \u2026 or, does the flow and movement of the water source the whorl?<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Among WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS, this question splits the populace into two polar opposing groups.\u00a0 The \u2018conservative group\u2019 maintains that the individual sources the stirring of society into action while the \u2018liberal group\u2019s maintains that the social collective (society) sources the stirring into action of the individual.<\/p>\n WESTERN CULTURE, on the other hand, along with modern physics, contends that THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS \u201cLOCAL SOURCING\u201d of actions and developments, \u2026 that that is abstraction deriving from the DOUBLE ERROR of language and grammar (Nietzsche), the first error being NAMING to impute local thing-in-itself existence, conflated with the second error of GRAMMAR to impute the power of LOCAL SOURCING of actions and development to the NAMING-instantiated thing-in-itself.<\/p>\n EAST CULTURE and MODERN PHYSICS do not get bogged down in the BIPOLAR DISORDER that arises from \u2018taking sides\u2019 on this question as to the \u2018true nature of LOCAL SOURCING\u2019 since there is no such thing as \u201cLOCAL SOURCING\u201d in the understanding of reality in the EASTERN and modern physics Weltanschuang, \u2026 there is only TRANSFORMATION which is relational and INEFFABLE-because-NONLOCAL-and-IMPLICIT.<\/p>\n BIPOLAR DISORDER BELONGS TO US WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS, arising form our imputing of a reality based on LOCAL SOURCING, an abstract (double error of grammar-based) conceptualizing of reality that \u2018does an end run\u2019 around the INEFFABLE-because-NONLOCAL-and-IMPLICIT reality of the all-including transforming relational continuum aka \u2018the Wave-field\u2019 aka \u2018the Tao\u2019.\u00a0 In other words, \u2018transformation\u2019 is \u2018everywhere-at-the-same-time\u2019 and that is the basic reality as accepted by modern physics and by EASTERN CULTURE adherents (indigenous aboriginals, Taoists\/Buddhists and Advaita Vedanta).\u00a0 As Wittgenstein points out, the fact that language and grammar have to rely on DOUBLE ERROR based constructions (i.e. \u2018things-that-do-stuff\u2019) does not mean that we have to accept\u00a0 such language and grammar as directly and explicitly \u2018capturing reality\u2019, as WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS are doing, \u2026 we can employ language as a \u2018tool of inference\u2019 to trigger in us an INTUITIVE LEAP to understanding beyond the reach of explicit language and grammar constructs.<\/p>\n 6.54 My propositions are elucidatory in this way: he who understands me finally recognizes them as senseless, when he has climbed out through them, on them, over them. (He must so to speak throw away the ladder, after he has climbed up on it.)<\/em><\/p>\n He must surmount these propositions; then he sees the world rightly.<\/em><\/p>\n 7.0 Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.<\/em> (\u201cWovon man nicht sprechen kann, dar\u00fcber muss man schweigen\u201d),<\/em><\/p>\n \u2013Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus<\/p>\n What Wittgenstein is addressing is that reality is TRANSFORMATION which is NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT, so that in order to come up with a language-based articulation, we must avoid the EXPLICIT and use INFERENCE to infer that which is IMPLICIT (the continually in-flux transformation).<\/p>\n OK, it is not my intention to \u2018re-write\u2019 the essay in this introduction since WESTERN CULTURE AS A BIPOLAR DISORDER is the central contention of the essay. \u00a0The reader can think of \u2018conservative\u2019 and \u2018liberal\u2019 as two opposing POLES of a magnet as in the case of a magnetized compass needle.\u00a0 NOTA BENE: The analogy being made here is between the magnetized compass needle and the BIPOLAR DISORDER in the human psyche.\u00a0 If the compass needle (the human psyche) has been STRONGLY polarized, it will always move swiftly and point in one of two opposing directions (a conservative will orient strongly and swiftly to one understanding, while a liberal will orient strongly and swiftly to the polar opposite understanding).\u00a0 But if the compass needle (the human psyche) is only WEAKLY polarized, not only will it not move swiftly and surely to its particular polar orientation, it may dawdle undecidedly between the two choices which often involves going into a spin instead of going into a firm alignment in one or the opposite BIPOLAR orientations (conservative or liberal).<\/p>\n The WESTERN CULTURE BIPOLAR DISORDER that is most OVERT and accepted as \u2018part of the WESTERN CULTURE MAKE-UP, is the polarization into \u2018conservative\u2019 and \u2018liberal\u2019.\u00a0\u00a0 But since we WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS have come to accept this WESTERN CULTURE BIPOLAR DISORDER as NORMALITY, we no longer see it as a DISORDER and have made it part of the NORMAL CONDITION of being a WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENT.\u00a0\u00a0 But we WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS, whether we are of the conservative BIPOLAR DISORDER strain or the liberal BIPOLAR DISORDER strain, will agree that the individual that goes into an indecisive spin IS THE ONE THAT HAS A \u201cBIPOLAR DISORDER\u201d.<\/p>\n Here, it is useful to recall the polarized Liliputians and Brobdignagians satirized in Gulliver\u2019s Travels who argued over which \u2018pole\u2019 of a hard-boiled egg should be used to gain access, the pointy end or the roundy end.\u00a0 This satirical mockery was aimed squarely at the conservative \u2013 liberal BIPOLAR DISORDER.\u00a0 However, since having one or the other of those \u2018polarities\u2019 is considered by the WESTERN CULTURE social collective as NORMAL, \u2026 what gets classified as ABNORMAL is when the compass needle is only weakly polarized and keeps going into a spin without LOCKING ON FIRMLY to EITHER one polarity (e.g. conservative) OR the opposite polarity (e.g. liberal). NOTA BENE: these polarities are psychological and run deeper that political alignments; Ask yourself if you prefer to believe either that \u2018continents drift\u2019 or \u2018the seafloor spreads\u2019.\u00a0\u00a0 In trying to make this EITHER\/OR choice, you (your psyche) is on the cusp between EUCLIDIAN flat space and NON-EUCLIDIAN SPHERICAL SPACE.\u00a0 If the sphere is entirely fluid so that continents can subduct and extrude, you do not have to make an EITHER\/OR choice between \u2018continental drift\u2019 and \u2018seafloor spreading\u2019; i.e. you don\u2019t have to succumb to BIPOLAR DISORDER, you can understand the reality in terms of purely relational TRANSFORMATION.\u00a0 By \u2018purely relational\u2019, I mean that in TRANSFORMATION, \u201ceverything is in flux\u201d and there is no need to make the DOUBLE ERROR of NAMING and GRAMMAR to represent such dynamics in terms of \u2018things-in-themselves\u2019 with \u2018their own powers of sourcing actions and developments: i.e. \u2018continents that drift\u2019 (male pole of the BIPOLARITY) or \u2018seafloors that spread\u2019 (female pole of the BIPOLARITY).<\/p>\n HOW DID WE GET INTO THE BIPOLAR DISORDER MESS?\u00a0\u00a0 We got there through the need to \u2018effable-ize\u2019 the ineffable (TRANSFORMATION which is inherently INEFFABLE-because-NONLOCAL-and-IMPLICIT), however, unlike the EAST, which employs the reduction to EFFABLE-because-LOCAL-and-EXPLICIT as a \u2018Wittgenstein ladder\u2019 or \u2018tool of inference\u2019, we have used the reduction to EFFABLE-because-LOCAL-and-EXPLICIT as our OPERATIVE REALITY, and that is a CRAZY-MAKER by way of BIPOLAR DISORDER.<\/p>\n No-one would argue that the sacrifice of reduction needed for the tool of language to be born is not warranted, the EAST\/WEST issue here is that while the EAST and modern physics employ reduction of the INEFFABLE-because-NONLOCAL-and-IMPLICIT to EFFABLE-because-LOCAL-and-EXPLICIT as a disposable<\/em><\/strong> \u2018Wittgenstein ladder\u2019 or BOOTSTRAPPING DEVICE, the WEST is employing the reduction to EFFABLE-because-LOCAL-and-EXPLICIT \u2026. AS THE OPERATIVE REALITY<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n What results is that when we say; \u2018The area of farmland that I have cultivated has grown from 2 acres to 160 acres, we acknowledge this as \u2018real GROWTH\u2019 and we know that our system of economics assigns real value to such GROWTH.\u00a0 But what happened to any acknowledgement of the SHRINKAGE of the Wilderness or in other words, the GREATER REALITY of TRANSFORMATION?\u00a0\u00a0 What if we have an \u2018economy\u2019 that recognizes GROWTH without acknowledging TRANSFORMATION?\u00a0 The rewards for GROWTH could result in TRANSFORMATION goes unaddressed, like a loose sheet flapping in a gale.<\/p>\n There is no such thing as GROWTH, unless you live on, and \u2018grow your farm\u2019 on a flat plane of infinite extent so that there is no reciprocal REDUCTION of Wilderness inextricably bound together with GROWTH so as to point out the greater (real) reality of TRANSFORMATION. \u00a0\u00a0We don\u2019t acknowledge TRANSFORMATION linguistically because it is INEFFABLE-because-NONLOCAL-and-IMPLICIT, but just because it is INEFFABLE doesn\u2019t mean it is NOT REAL.\u00a0 It is REAL and the EAST and modern physics treats it as the PRIMARY REALITY, while we WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS have elevated the EFFABLE-because-LOCAL-and-EXPLICIT to the status of OPERATIVE REALITY, and abandoned the embrace of reality as the INEFFABLE-because-NONLOCAL-and-IMPLICIT (the Wave-field, the Tao), as is the understanding of THE EAST and of modern physics.<\/p>\n * * * end of introduction * * *<\/p>\n <\/p>\n W<\/span><\/em>ESTERN CULTURE AS A BIPOLAR DISORDER<\/strong><\/p>\n How and Why we WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS EFFABLE-ized the INEFFABLE<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Indigenous aboriginal cultures and modern physics both point out that the reality we are included in is \u201cthe transforming relational continuum\u201d aka \u201cthe Wave-field\u201d aka \u201cthe Tao\u201d, aka \u201cthe FLOW\u201d, thus one cannot speak of a \u201cDIVERSITY\u201d of things in a flowing reality, \u2026 there can only be a DIVERSITY of forms in the FLOW that\u00a0 are continually gathering and scattering.<\/p>\n One needs a different type of logic as in EASTERN CULTURE, aka \u201cquantum logic\u201d to speak of this fluid reality; i.e. the BOTH\/AND logic of the INCLUDED medium wherein FIGURE-and-GROUND-are-ONE as with the \u2018boil\u2019 in the \u2018flow\u2019 in a fast-flowing river.<\/p>\n Our WESTERN CULTURE \u201cstandard logic\u201d is the EITHER\/OR logic of the EXCLUDED medium wherein FIGURE-and-GROUND-are-TWO as where we (wrongly) perceive the boil as a separate thing that is \u201cmoving through\u201d the flow (there is ambiguity in this case as to whether the boil is sourcing the flow or the flow is sourcing the boil.\u00a0 The \u2018conservative\u2019 view is that the individual boil is sourcing the collective flow while the \u2018liberal\u2019 view is that the collective flow is sourcing the individual boil).\u00a0\u00a0 This Zen paradox has a simple answer; i.e. there is no such thing as local SOURCING, there is only nonlocal TRANSFORMATION.<\/p>\n Since the EAST understanding of reality is in terms of NONLOCAL TRANSFORMATION, the LOCAL SOURCING AMBIGUITY does not arise and there is no conservative \u2013 liberal BIPOLAR SPLIT<\/p>\n A KEY DISTINGUISHING OBSERVATION is that in the reality of the EAST, mitakuye oyasin applies, wherein all things are related within the transforming relational continuum aka \u2018Wave-field\u2019 aka \u2018the Tao\u2019.\u00a0 Thus DIVERSITY IS NOT REAL.\u00a0 It is only a NAMING based distinction as with \u201cCanadian\u201d, \u2018Mexican\u201d, \u201cAmerican\u201d, thus \u2026<\/p>\n Diversity Is a Linguistic Dis-Order<\/p>\n As NIETZSCHE has pointed out the DOUBLE ERROR of NAMING and GRAMMAR employs NAMING to impute LOCAL thing-in-itself existence and conflates this with GRAMMAR to impute the power of sourcing actions and developments to the NAMING instantiated \u2018thing-in-itself\u2019.\u00a0 This gives us LOCAL SOURCING of ACTIONS and DEVELOPMENT.<\/p>\n The DOUBLE ERROR based concept of LOCAL SOURCING overcomes (by way of language sourced intellectual abstraction) the INEFFABLE-because-NONLOCAL-and-IMPLICIT by substituting the EFFABLE-because-LOCAL-and-EXPLICIT.\u00a0 This in turn sets the stage for the notion of LOCAL OPTIMIZATION aka \u2018SUB-OPTIMIZATION\u2019.<\/p>\n As systems scientist Martine Dodds Taljaard has pointed out in \u2018The Name of the Devil is Suboptimization\u2019, this intellectual language-based fragmentation of reality, taken literally, is a CRAZY-MAKER.<\/p>\n \u2018Black Lives Matter\u2019, \u2018Indigenous Lives Matter\u2019, \u2018LGBT Lives Matter\u2019, are initiatives that presuppose a DIVERSITY that does NOT physically exist.\u00a0 DIVERSITY is a Linguistic Dis-Order that is based on the expedient but fictional substitution of the EFFABLE-because-LOCAL-and-EXPLICIT for the INEFFABLE-because-NONLOCAL-and-IMPLICIT, \u2026 the LOCAL particle-ular pseudo-reality for the NONLOCAL Wave-field reality.<\/p>\n We WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS are screwing ourselves up with this delusion.<\/p>\n p.s. The WESTERN CULTURE DELUSION manifests as well in the conservative \u2013 liberal BIPOLAR DISORDER.<\/p>\n This general WESTERN CULTURE-wide BIPOLAR SPLITTING is the strong version of the BIPOLAR DISORDER as with the strongly polarized compass needle.\u00a0 In the case of a weaker BIPOLAR DISORDER, the orientation can fall into a spin due to ITS lack of strong polarization while being immersed in a mixed assemblage of strongly polarized others.<\/p>\n Neither of the BIPOLAR DISORDERS that plague the WESTERN CULTURE; i.e. NOT the conservative \u2013 liberal polarization and NOT the so-called individual bipolar disorder are a problem among EASTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS.<\/p>\n WESTERN BIPOLAR CONCEPTS such as PRODUCTION(CONSTRUCTION) and DESTRUCTION(CONSUMPTION) usurp the real-world experience of inclusion in TRANSFORMATION; i.e. the WESTERN BIPOLAR DISORDER has us talking about \u201creality\u201d in BINARY POLAR terms of PRODUCTION and CONSUMPTION as if that \u201ccaptured reality\u201d.<\/p>\n SORRY!\u00a0 PRODUCTION and CONSUMPTION are a BINARY pair that fail to convey TRANSFORMATION, the real going\u2019s on.\u00a0 WESTERN MAN \u201cgrows\u201d his production by increasing the land under cultivation which is, at the same time reducing the Wilderness which is NOT COMPREHENDED in \u201cthe GROWTH of PRODUCTION (these two effects together imply TRANSFORMATION).<\/p>\n In other words, there are no such processes as \u201cCONSTRUCTION\u201d and \u2018DESTRUCTION\u201d and the real reality is instead, relational \u201cTRANSFORMATION\u201d.<\/p>\n There is a psychological problem here in that \u201cCONSTRUCTION\u201d and \u201cDESTRUCTION\u201d have been invented because they are EFFABLE-because-LOCAL and EXPLICIT, while relational \u201cTRANSFORMATION\u201d, the \u2018real dynamic\u2019, is, as a Wave-field is wont to be, INEFFABLE-because-NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT.<\/p>\n \u201cTRANSFORMATION\u201d as in the Wave-field is \u201ceverywhere at the same time\u201d.\u00a0 While \u201cTRANSFORMATION\u201d is the primary reality, it is INEFFABLE-because-NONLOCAL-and-IMPLICIT.\u00a0 In other words, we are experiencing inclusion in TRANSFORMATION but in order to EFFABLE-ize it, we must reduce it by substituting an expression which is EFFABLE-because-LOCAL-and-EXPLICIT.\u00a0 CONSTRUCTION and DESTRUCTION are thus used as substitutes that are EFFABLE-because-LOCAL-and-EXPLICIT for the INEFFABLE-because-NONLOCAL-and-IMPLICIT relational TRANSFORMATION.<\/p>\n * * *<\/p>\n <\/p>\n ADDENDUM: OBSERVATIONS<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n -1- The NON-REALITY of LOCAL SOURCING:\u00a0\u00a0 — Because language cannot capture the reality of real-time TRANSFORMATION that is all including and thus includes the observer\/experient who is all the while transforming\u00a0 together with the forms in the flow he is observing (i.e. FIGURES and GROUND are ONE), … reductions in the conceptual capture of impressions of reality are necessary in order the render the INEFFABLE (TRANSFORMATION) because NONLOCAL-and-IMPLICIT, in terms that are EFFABLE-because-LOCAL-and-EXPLICIT.\u00a0 The DOUBLE ERROR of NAMING and GRAMMAR that sets up the notion of LOCAL SOURCING of actions and developments deserves our attention, in the respect that by CUTTING IN to the transforming relational continuum aka ‘the flow’ aka ‘the Tao’ aka ‘the Wave-field’ we come upon the LIMITATIONS OF LANGUAGE in respect of its inability to directly capture TRANSFORMATION.<\/p>\n HERE COMES THE PROBLEM OF LANGUAGE-INJECTED AMBIGUITY because in order for us to dodge the issue of NONLOCALITY (and thus infinity) as troubles the objective of a language-based representation of the transforming relational continuum, we have to come up with our own (human intellect based) contrivance of imputing LOCAL incipience to reality to PIECEMEAL the capture and representation of the unending Tao, and we have answered this need for piece-mealing with the DOUBLE ERROR approach of NAMING and GRAMMAR.\u00a0 The DOUBLE ERROR constructs the expedient falsehood of locally incipient action and development which engenders, in turn, the abstractions of CREDIT and BLAME for the abstract LOCALLY SOURCING actions and and developments which leads to EGO-inflating and EGO-deflating, in association of whether the LOCALLY SOURCED action and development is deemed to be CONSTRUCTIVE or DESTRUCTIVE, BENEFICIAL or HARMFUL.\u00a0 In reality, there is no such thing as LOCAL SOURCING, it is the DOUBLE ERROR of NAMING and GRAMMAR, but we WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS treat such DOUBLE ERROR abstractions as if they were ‘reality’.\u00a0 Here is an example of the complications that arise from this use of the DOUBLE ERROR construct in the instantiating of CREDIT and BLAME as if it were ‘reality’;\u00a0 (Watch out!\u00a0 here comes EGO inflation and deflation).<\/p>\n