The Growth of Incarceration in the United States<\/a>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\nBut then again, neither did TRUMP.<\/p>\n
The salient feature of WESTERN CULTURES, which puts us AT ODDS with MODERN PHYSICS, indigenous aboriginal cultures, Taoism\/Buddhism and Advaita Vedanta is that WE CULTIVATE AND DEFEND BELIEF IN SORCERY.<\/p>\n
By SORCERY, I am referring to what Nietzsche identifies as \u2018THE DOUBLE ERROR OF NAMING AND GRAMMAR\u2019 which is also known as \u201cREASON\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cREASON\u201d is over-simplistic abstraction which is otherwise known as RATIO-NALITY and\/or GROWTH.\u00a0 For example we REASON that \u2018the TOWN is GROWING larger and more populous and productive\u2019\u00a0 (we can \u2018smell\u2019 the abstract concept of LOCAL SOURCING in this statement).\u00a0 In the REALITY of our sensory experience, we understand that we and the TOWN are included in TRANSFORMATION, which is \u2018everywhere-at-the-same-time\u2019.<\/p>\n
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While inclusion in TRANSFORMATION is something our SENSORY EXPERIENCE informs us of; it is NOT capturable in language-based RATIO-based terms such as GROWTH.\u00a0 RATIO aka REASON which underlies the concept of GROWTH is more convenient a descriptive device than TRANSFORMATION because it GROWTH-based descriptions put a LOCAL spotlight on TRANSFORMATION which is, in reality, NONLOCAL.<\/p>\n
We say \u2018the TOWN is GROWING\u2019 but in reality, THE LANDSCAPE IS TRANSFORMING and what we are really referring to is the TOWNING that APPEARS within the TRANSFORMING LANDSCAPE.\u00a0 In using language based constructions such as \u2018the TOWN is GROWING\u2019, we are constructing a SUBSTITUTE REALITY.\u00a0 For example, construction an enlargement to a shopping centre on a middle deck on the Titanic could be described\u00a0 in the terms that \u2018the Shopping Centre is EXPANDING\u2019.\u00a0\u00a0 This is exemplary of our use of the abstract concept of GROWTH which implies LOCAL RATIO based expansion.\u00a0 REASON is essentially our act of extrapolating understanding by way of RATIO, allowing us to AVOID the reality of inclusion in TRANSFORMATION.\u00a0 \u201cGROWTH\u201d follows from \u201cREASON\u201d.<\/p>\n
If it were not for such RATIO-based ABSTRACTION, we would be faced with having to find language to capture a representation of the REAL REALITY of TRANSFORMATION which takes us beyond our shop on the middle deck of the Titanic out beyond the Titanic into the ocean and atmosphere and beyond that into the all-including universe aka Wave-field.\u00a0 Language that starts with the LOCAL and EXPLICIT can\u2019t \u2018deliver\u2019 on such a challenge and that\u2019s why we have to construct a SUBSTITUTE REALITY wherein \u2018the TOWN is GROWING\u2019 rather than acknowledging the REAL REALITY wherein the LANDSCAPE is TRANSFORMING.<\/p>\n
RATIO aka REASON is an abstract intellectual PLOY that we use to construct a SUBSTITUTE REALITY that is EFFABLE-because-LOCAL-and-EXPLICIT, .. thus avoiding having to express the reality of our sensory experience of inclusion in the TRANSFORMING RELATIONAL CONTINUUM which is INEFFABLE-because-NONLOCAL-and-IMPLICIT.\u00a0 REASON is RATIO based which is how it delivers impressions of REALITY by way of LOCAL PIECES OF REALITY such as \u2018The TOWN that is GROWING\u2019.\u00a0 The indigenous aboriginal culture and its language design avoids this RATIO-enabled or REASON-enabled PIECE-MEALING by retaining the sense of connectedness in language-based expression; e.g. \u2018mitakuye oyasin\u2019, \u201ceverything is related\u201d or \u201cI am all my relations\u201d.<\/p>\n
As Nietzsche points out, we WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS, because we use language that constructs a SUBSTITUTE REALITY for communications purposes infuse this SUBSTITUTE REALITY with the DOUBLE ERROR of NAMING and GRAMMAR.\u00a0 This is how we are able to render in LOCAL and EXPLICIT terms, the reality of our sensory experience of inclusion in the transforming relational continuum aka the Wave-field aka the Tao.\u00a0 In other words, WE ARE NOT ABLE TO RENDER the REALITY OF OUR SENSORY EXPERIENCE in LANGUAGE, we are forced to come up with a SUBSTITUTE REALITY that our language IS CAPABLE OF.\u00a0\u00a0 Instead of giving representation to the transforming relational continuum, which is NONLOCAL-and-IMPLICIT and thus INEFFABLE, \u2026 we switch to representation of a SUBSTITUTE REALITY featuring that which is LOCAL and EXPLICIT.<\/p>\n
With this \u201cSUBSTITUTE REALITY\u201d approach, instead of trying to effable-ize our sensory experience of inclusion in the transforming relational continuum; e.g. of the TOWNING in the LANDSCAPE, \u2026 we use language to abstractly give the psychological impression of the \u201cLOCAL EXISTENCE\u201d of a \u201cTOWN\u201d that is the LOCAL SOURCE of \u201cits own GROWTH and DEVELOPMENT\u201d.<\/p>\n
This LIBERATION of \u201cThe TOWNING in the TRANSFORMING RELATIONAL CONTINUUM\u201d by using, as Nietzsche points out, the DOUBLE ERROR of NAMING and GRAMMAR, sets up \u2018the TOWN\u2019 as a notional \u2018LOCAL THING-IN-ITSELF\u2019 and gives it ITS OWN POWER of SOURCING actions and developments, hence \u201cThe TOWN is GROWING larger and more populous and productive\u201d.<\/p>\n
THERE IS A LOT OF LOCAL SORCERY IMPLIED HERE, and it is this LOCAL SORCERY which allows us to psychologically SIDESTEP the reality of the NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT as in the reality of TRANSFORMATION.<\/p>\n
Our language-based construction of a SUBSTITUTE REALITY based on RATIO (REASON) is a handy tool for articulating the inarticulable, by way of inventing a SUBSTITUTE REALITY THAT IS ARTICULABLE.<\/p>\n
This is where REASON plays the key role in allowing us to construct the SUBSTITUTE REALITY by means of RATIO.\u00a0 Compare the following two representations;<\/p>\n
-1- The LANDSCAPE is TRANSFORMING.<\/p>\n
-2- The TOWN is GROWING<\/p>\n
In the first proposition, everything is in relational flux as if there is a continual melting down, mountains sagging and becoming rounded, and spilling into and filling lakes and valleys up etc.<\/p>\n
In the second proposition, something LOCAL is expanding and becoming more intricate and feature-full like the growth of a crystal with spires rising up and giving domicile to an intensifying busy-ness as in a beehive of activity.<\/p>\n
Geologists <\/em><\/strong>will tell us that the understanding in (1) is a \u2018reality\u2019 that is endlessly ongoing while historians<\/em><\/strong> will tell us that the understanding in (2) is a \u2018reality\u2019 that is continually coming and going like turning the pages and passing through the chapters of a story book.<\/p>\nWhich of these depictions is the REAL REALITY?<\/p>\n
There is a cultural tradition-based choice herein some cultures prefer to believe that \u2018we are included in something greater than ourselves\u2019 so that we are relational features within that \u2018something greater\u2019 as with extrusion and subduction within a flow, \u2026 while we WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS popularly believe that we and other forms are \u2018independent\u2019 \u2018LOCAL THINGS-in-THEMSELVES\u2019 that ARRIVE and DEPART, the \u2018from whence\u2019 and \u2018to where\u2019 being the problematic \u2018great mystery\u2019.<\/p>\n
The modern physics \u201call-inclusive\u201d TRANSFORMING RELATIONAL CONTINUUM aka the Wave-field aka the Tao \u2018makes sense\u2019 to many people but the popularity of the WESTERN CULTURE reality is LOCKED IN by HIGH SWITCHING COSTS because it comes with the abstract notion of LOCAL SOURCING which not only INFLATES or DEFLATES the EGO, depending on what WORKS OF SORCERY are attributed to the individual by the social collective.<\/p>\n
Of course, in Modern Physics as in indigenous aboriginal cultures, Taoism\/Buddhism and Advaita Vedanta, the abstract concept of LOCAL SOURCING, which owes its existence to the DOUBLE ERROR of NAMING and GRAMMAR is not a part of reality.\u00a0 The reality of Modern Physics, indigenous aboriginal cultures, Taoism\/Buddhism and Advaita Vedanta is a relational reality without the abstraction of DOUBLE ERROR based LOCAL SOURCING of actions and developments.<\/p>\n
We WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS sustain a culture that is based on belief in SORCERY; i.e. the DOUBLE ERROR based abstraction of LOCAL SOURCING of actions and developments.\u00a0 This gives rise to EGO and those can lay claim to, or are given credit by the social collective, to LOCAL SOURCING (authorship) of actions and development commonly assessed as BENEFICIAL to the \u2018common good\u2019 are given rewards and respect as well as status and influence over the evolving social practice.\u00a0 Thus it is those who have risen into positions of social influence by the perception of having \u2018SOURCED\u2019 beneficial works, who have increased the rewards for the \u2018chief \u2018SORCERERS\u2019 (leaders and managers) in WESTERN CULTURE communities from a ratio of about TEN-TO-ONE over the average person, to about ONE-THOUSAND-TO-ONE, over the past \u2018generation\u2019.<\/p>\n
This SORCERY based rewards and recognition system of WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS is distinguished from that of POTLATCH cultures where there is no assumption of LOCAL SOURCING of actions and developments, but instead, as also in MODERN PHYSICS, the assumption of NONLOCAL TRANSFORMATION.\u00a0 That is, the LOCAL SOURCING concept does not even arise in indigenous aboriginal cultures because LOCAL SOURCING is a concept that originates in the NAMING and GRAMMAR \u201cDOUBLE ERROR\u201d structure of WESTERN CULTURE languages, as pointed out by Nietzsche.<\/p>\n
Our WESTERN CULTURE languages furnish us with such language based constructs as \u2018the TOWN is GROWING\u2019 which is constructed with the DOUBLE ERROR of NAMING (TOWN) and GRAMMAR (GROWING).\u00a0 The REALITY of TOWNING as a relational dynamic within the TRANSFORMING LANDSCAPE wherein FIGURE-and-GROUND-are-ONE is simply DISCARDED as the SUBSTITUTE REALITY based on the DOUBLE ERROR is embraced.<\/p>\n
There is, meanwhile, a PHANTOM PRESENCE that creeps in with this DOUBLE ERROR and that is \u2018the ghost of the departing Wilderness since no amount of talk about the GROWTH of the cultivated land, the TOWN, the Industries SPEAKS to the disappearance (by way of TRANSFORMATION) of the Wilderness flora, fauna, LANDSCAPE.<\/p>\n
GROWTH as also REASON, is ONE-SIDED ABSTRACTION that cannot and does not comprend and deal with the CONJUGATE LOSSES associated with the GAINS of GROWTH, THESE TOW CONJUGATES BEING BOTH \u201cREAL\u201d aspects of TRANSFORMATION.<\/p>\n
\u201cReason\u201d in language!\u2014oh what a deceptive old witch it has been! I fear we shall never be rid of God, so long as we still believe in grammar.\u00a0 \u2013 Nietzsche<\/em><\/p>\nThe title of this note; Western Culture\u2019s Dysfunctional Belief in Sorcery <\/em><\/strong>employs the \u2018no-no\u2019 word \u2018SORCERY\u2019 which has and continues to lurk in the dark corners of WESTERN CULTURE THINKING, because it persists as an active player in the WESTERN CULTURE psyche and comes into play as EGO.\u00a0 That is, we keep repeating to ourselves over and over again, the notional REALITY of LOCAL sourcing, every time we use the DOUBLE ERROR of NAMING-and-GRAMMAR.\u00a0 For example; \u2018the TOWN is GROWING\u2019 is exemplary of THE DOUBLE ERROR.\u00a0 Our sensory experience of inclusion in the transforming relational continuum informs us that there is TOWNING just as there is HUMANING within the Wave-field aka the Tao wherein EVERYTHING IS IN FLUX, as Heclitus observed and as Modern Physics has reaffirmed.<\/p>\nSure, in order to effable-ize the ineffable-because-nonlocal we have developed a language-based technique of constructing a SUBSTITUTE REALITY REPRESENATION that IS EFFABLE-because-LOCAL-and-EXPLICIT.\u00a0 But that is just for crudely sharing our INEFFABLE sensory experience of inclusion in the Wave-field aka the Tao.<\/p>\n
In this SUBSTITUTE REALITY, we re-cast a HUMANING in the FLOW as a LOCAL HUMAN THING-IN-ITSELF, notionally with its own GRAMMAR-given powers of SOURCING actions and developments.\u00a0 As Emerson warns us, we WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS are falling into the dysfunctional habit of letting our language-and-grammar abstractions-of-convenience \u2018run away with our understanding of who we are\u2019; thus as Emerson puts it; \u201cThe tool runs away with the workman, the (local) human with the (nonlocal) divine\u201d <\/em><\/p>\nWe are not REALLY \u201cLOCAL BEINGS\u201d with our own powers of SOURCING actions and developments.\u00a0 That IS the DOUBLE ERROR of NAMING and GRAMMAR.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\nBut nevertheless, in embracing the use of the DOUBLE ERROR, its GOODBYE to TRANSFORMATION and HELLO to LOCAL GROWTH; i.e. its GOODBYE to REALITY and HELLO to REASON-BASED SUBSTITUTE REALITY.<\/p>\n
This SUBSTITUTE REALITY FEATURES LOCAL SOURCING aka RATIO aka REASON aka CREATION as the basis of REALITY.<\/p>\n
\u201cReason\u201d in language!\u2014oh what a deceptive old witch it has been! I fear we shall never be rid of God, so long as we still believe in grammar.\u00a0 \u2013 Nietzsche<\/em><\/p>\n* * * <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u00a0 Barack Obama \u2018On Trial\u2019 Was OBAMA as BAD as conservatives believe or was he as GOOD as liberals believe? Clue: OBAMA did nothing about the following; The U.S. penal population of 2.2 million adults is by far the largest in the world.\u201dJust under one-quarter of the world\u2019s prisoners are held in American prisons. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apn","count-0","even alt","author-emile","last"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodshare.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodshare.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodshare.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodshare.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodshare.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5049"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/goodshare.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5051,"href":"https:\/\/goodshare.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5049\/revisions\/5051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodshare.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodshare.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodshare.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}