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TexasAnarch [OP]

2005-01-19 19:57 | User Profile

Definitive Essay for OD board, publication

[B]HOLY PSYCHOSIS, BATMAN !

Are these real being-deficiencies?

An Essay of the New Transcendentalism on present process*

Squaring Out Eternity
               To Buy Another Day’s Time[/B]

Al Franken may have introduced the phrase “kidding on the square”, but what he observed ramifies geometrically. . .

Yesterday it was Anne Coulter, nutcase, expunging liberals. Today it’s Condi, aka Dr. Rice, taking tough questions before assuming the role of Secretary of State. Aunt Jemima following Uncle Tom as latchkey lackey, with Jewish supremacist Michael Chertoff heading up “Homeland Security”. A joke, you say? Just kidding?

No. On the square. And not just: on the cube, as well.

Adapting geometry to sign-use, in communication in general there are: [B]- points --single S* - first dimension -- names, objects predicated of - lines --(sentences, statements), squares (arguments= positions), - cubes --positions developed by argument projected as reality, in 3-dimensional space. - Solids – cubes filled with remembered, lived experience.[/B]

  Points, starting places in conversation, are ‘moved’ to make lines, in the analogy. Adding a predicate-term [B]S*2[/B] to a subject-term, [B]S*1[/B] makes the sentence [B]S*1 is S*2,[/B], the common form of all basic units of true or false discourse.

  This ‘line’, for example “the wall is 8’ in height”, composed of the subject term preceding the predicate, with “is” linking the two, is an analogue of the act of [B]a.  [/B] pointing to an object, designated as the subject of reference in the presence of another person; and [B]b. [/B]  asserting “(that) is (8’ in height)---“ of the object referred to (referent). In reality, as inclusive container of everything existing, what appears as the written line, in tokenspace* as the distinction between subject and predicate, is the analogue of the acts of referring to an object and asserting something of it, in the presence of other persons, which takes place in experience in an entirely different way.  The duality of the sentence models the duality of elements in the act.  The transition from subject to predicate models the transition from object of reference to what is asserted of it.  The verb “is” carries the reference-to element in the ‘verbal’ situation -- when the two components are simultaneous -- over to the conjunctive link between subject and predicate.

The particle “is” can thus be taken as a kind of connecting “hinge”,  shuttled back and forth between written lines and actual occasions in the use of signs to communicate.

 A very simple way of defining truth and falsehood presents itself. If [B]S*1[/B] , in sentence [B]S*3[/B] (abbreviating “[B]S*1 is S*2[/B]”) correlates to object O in a situation of actual reference, e.g., the wall;  and S* corresponds to its measured height, S*3  will be called “true”. If  the subject term corresponds, but the predicate not, the sentence will be false.  If the subject term does not correspond, the line is neither true nor false: it lacks the qualification for truth OR falsehood, namely,  something for the predicate to be true or false of.

The “is” of the sentence, on this way of defining truth and falsehood, is like the “bend” in dimensions of experience, tracing from perception to speech -- even though this takes place simultaneously as we talk. Perceiving is one thing; talking is another.  When brought together, as actually occurs and imagined here, they belong to an experience heretofore lacking a ground of transcendental, apriori unity.  That is in Kantian language.  In simpler words (but needing his as conceptual background):  no ground of unity of a person experiencing themselves as perceivers and communicators, at the same time, exists in metaphysical theory.  It is assumed by all, but explained by none of the sciences, including philosophy.

 This, of course, remains to be established in detail.  From the constructions made evident in tokenspace even so far, however, it should be apparent that what Kant called “analogies of experience” can be carried over from perception to communication, giving  the concept of a genuine dimension of reality opened up in/through sign-uses.

 I propose to carry this concept further here by relating the definition of truth-and-falsehood to the duality of perceiving (a fact) and talking (about it) through the conce[pt of [B]"squaring*” [/B] in tokenspace.  The duality of predicate-on-subject in the sentence,  repeating the duality of property and object in the situation, can be schematized as figure with four sides that fit together, like a tessara, when it is true.  A tessera, according to Webster’s New International Dictionary 2nd ed., is:  “L. a square piece; cf. tetragon. 1. A token or password;--from guest and host sharing a broken die”. Surely a more apt phrasing of the concept I advance here as a transcendental apriori ground of mere inclus8ive metaphysics could not be found.  The fact that it already existed in the dictionary, as if Daniel Webster had already thought it out, cubes the square.

But back to the neocons…..

[B]Reconstruction of Objective Criticism of America[/B]

         [B]  In 3/4   dimensional tokenspace[/B]

– what it accuses others of does not square with what it does. It condemns others for that which it is most guilty, for example unconscionable, heinous abominations demonstrating shameless mentality.

This is the result if splitting off what it demands of others from what it demands of itself, either a.  by not perceiving that it apples (unconsciously) b. or seeing that it applies and ignoring it (consciously and immorally).

[B]2. Bonehead [/B] - mentally inaccessible to correction. Imposing “freedom” and “democracy” on a country whose people did not ask for it, have suffered incredible devastation, loss of life, rape of soul and control of their future….ignoring all who would correct their thinking with facts and realistic prospects.

Boneheads produce the signs from a position that doesn’t “square” with reality.  Pangloss is the paradigm:  whatever happens, everything  is getting better and better.

 What a person supports with arguments, taking themselves to be connecting true “is” sentences [B]S*3[/B] in sentences [B]S*4, [/B] is the reality they relate to, moving from one range if perceived facts to another.  This is the “plane” they are on.  What they “square in”, as, for example, under “the four corners of the earth” (NT) contains what is laid out under sign-use – “God”, if that is taken as closure of all;  is matched from outside by what is “squared out”: that part of reality that has been split off, then denied, rendered unvailable for them to relate to.  This is the psychologically “unbounded”, “beyond the pale”, outside the enclosure of perception brought under sign-use.

 While the phenomenon may have been thoroughly familiar to Voltaire (see below) its diagnosis as a malady is 20th century.  A person determined to do so can reason automatically to self-consistent, but wrongconclusions.

*/

[B]Interlude

Voltaire Chapter 4 - How Candide Found His Old Master Pangloss Again and What Happened to Him

The next day, as Candide was walking out, he met a beggar all covered with scabs, his eyes sunk in his head, the end of his nose eaten off, his mouth drawn on one side, his teeth as black as a cloak, snuffling and coughing most violently, and every time he attempted to spit out dropped a tooth. Candide, divided between compassion and horror, but giving way to the former, bestowed on this shocking figure the two florins which the honest Anabaptist, James, had just before given to him. The specter looked at him very earnestly, shed tears and threw his arms about his neck. Candide started back aghast.

"Alas!" said the one wretch to the other, "don't you know dear Pangloss?" "What do I hear? Is it you, my dear master! you I behold in this piteous plight? What dreadful misfortune has befallen you? What has made you leave the most magnificent and delightful of all castles? What has become of Miss Cunegund, the mirror of young ladies, and Nature's masterpiece?" "Oh, Lord!" cried Pangloss, "I am so weak I cannot stand," upon which Candide instantly led him to the Anabaptist's stable, and procured him something to eat.

As soon as Pangloss had a little refreshed himself, Candide began to repeat his inquiries concerning Miss Cunegund.

"She is dead," replied the other.

"Dead!" cried Candide, and immediately fainted away; his friend restored him by the help of a little bad vinegar, which he found by chance in the stable. Candide opened his eyes, and again repeated: "Dead! is Miss Cunegund dead? Ah, where is the best of worlds now? But of what illness did she die? Was it of grief on seeing her father kick me out of his magnificent castle?" "No," replied Pangloss, "her body was ripped open by the Bulgarian soldiers, after they had subjected her to as much cruelty as a damsel could survive; they knocked the Baron, her father, on the head for attempting to defend her; My Lady, her mother, was cut in pieces; my poor pupil was served just in the same manner as his sister; and as for the castle, they have not left one stone upon another; they have destroyed all the ducks, and sheep, the barns, and the trees; but we have had our revenge, for the Abares have done the very same thing in a neighboring barony, which belonged to a Bulgarian lord."

At hearing this, Candide fainted away a second time, but, not withstanding, having come to himself again, he said all that it became him to say; he inquired into the cause and effect, as well as into the sufficing reason that had reduced Pangloss to so miserable a condition. "Alas," replied the preceptor, "it was love; love, the comfort of the human species; love, the preserver of the universe; the soul of all sensible beings; love! tender love!"

"Alas," cried Candide, "I have had some knowledge of love myself, this sovereign of hearts, this soul of souls; yet it never cost me more than a kiss and twenty kicks on the backside. But how could this beautiful cause produce in you so hideous an effect?"

Pangloss made answer in these terms: "O my dear Candide, you must remember Pacquette, that pretty wench, who waited on our noble Baroness; in her arms I tasted the pleasures of Paradise, which produced these Hell torments with which you see me devoured. She was infected with an ailment, and perhaps has since died of it; she received this present of a learned Franciscan, who derived it from the fountainhead; he was indebted for it to an old countess, who had it of a captain of horse, who had it of a marchioness, who had it of a page, the page had it of a Jesuit, who, during his novitiate, had it in a direct line from one of the fellow adventurers of Christopher Columbus; for my part I shall give it to nobody, I am a dying man."

"O sage Pangloss," cried Candide, "what a strange genealogy is this! Is not the devil the root of it?"

"Not at all," replied the great man, "it was a thing unavoidable, a necessary ingredient in the best of worlds; for if Columbus had not caught in an island in America this disease, which contaminates the source of generation, and frequently impedes propagation itself, and is evidently opposed to the great end of nature, we should have had neither chocolate nor cochineal. It is also to be observed, that, even to the present time, in this continent of ours, this malady, like our religious controversies, is peculiar to ourselves. The Turks, the Indians, the Persians, the Chinese, the Siamese, and the Japanese are entirely unacquainted with it; but there is a sufficing reason for them to know it in a few centuries. In the meantime, it is making prodigious havoc among us, especially in those armies composed of well disciplined hirelings, who determine the fate of nations; for we may safely affirm, that, when an army of thirty thousand men engages another equal in size, there are about twenty thousand infected with syphilis on each side." *[/B]

 While Voltaire, as a man of the world, had intimate acquaintance with this process of “false squaring”, its explanation as a human, not just ‘deranged’ condition, awaited the twentieth century

 Two compartments of the psyche come into play in accounting for its possibility:  the distinction between conscious “mind” processes and those of the body; and the dynamic of their interaction.  What is given in experience, and how.

 The first compartment would be the result of cortical neuron firings in the brain.  This “logs in” that part of its vast store of memory links connecting textual meanings, arranged in some logical order, however rudimentary and mistaken.  It gains breadth, accuracy and depth (three dimensionality) the more it is objectively pursued.   With objectivity must come impartiality. The textual consciousness, responsible for linking truths with truths to get truths, and not departing from that path, is the chief function the organism, as an interactive unit, has to rely on to transcend mere moment-to-moment succession.

 The second compartment lies physically below, and emotionally at the disposal of, the cocscious perceptual level of anatomical function.  Communication through this deeper function of the anatomical preparation is prior to, does not depend upon, nor does it recognize the authority of, acquired secondary sign meanings as relating to reality.  Who would trust reason as guide, when their brain was receiving warning signals from “something inside” -- their instincts?  What is going on, using a memory of trauma and split-off states overrides thought when it comes to action. It is not illogical or “non-logical”, just naturally pre-‘ or ‘a-‘ logical, in the sense of the word used to constrain action.  Primary process would explain movement of the body by unconscious forces.  Trauma memories are retained as templates (for ‘warding off’ abuse, e.g.).   What may happen in childhood, and apparently did more often, the further back one goes historically, is installation of such early neurological devices as kept children alive.  These are repeated later in ego-defenses of groups who raise their children a certain way.  These make as if it were “rings” around the contemporary consciousness of individuals relating to persons in groups through sign-uses.  And it is the source of conflicts, up and down the scale of opposites on the token side of wrongly forged, “God of Gods” communication.

1. Hollow, Self-Contradictory, Doomed.

   The 3rd dimension in tokenspace ranges over the 2nd dimension of tokenspace, which ranges over the three dimensions of physical space, plus time. Thus the 3rd dimension of tokenspace ranges over what happened in a given time frame, its history. This is now seen to include both the events coordinated with each other in Newtonian space and time and the signs (language) used in communicating about them: tokenspace. Through it, nature itself becomes modified, as humans learn to modify the feedback to keep themselves happy all the time.

   However, here comes reality. Knocking at the door to be recognized.

   Only the adaptable can be allowed entrance. This means reversing all tokens not fitting the text. It's democracy and freedom the U.S. is imposing on Iraq, by God, and you had better believe it.

   Here, the 3rd dimension of real physical space has been projected as if filled by the 4th dimension of tokenspace by those whose processes are not square, and who have shut out all corrective feedback. [B]Hypocritical [/B] [B]boneheads[/B]. They project unsquared panglossian fantasies for each other in order to defend their egos, individual and group, from the devastation their way of being has brought. Which is visible to anyone outside their empty 3D Tspc box. They write scripts for “the classless society”, “equality for all” “justice and peace”, “fair wage”, predicating on terms like “the American people”, “faith”, “God”, “the birth of a New Iraq” by the January 30 elections in which the candidates are terrified of publishing their names and the largest turn-out is from absentee ballots from American expatriates. No kidding.

   What do Michael Chernoff, Condoleeza Rice and the media of mass communication have in common? --apart from being the obvious delagatees to do the cha cha shuck**** on the American mind.

   They are all three totally empty, as entities on earth, of any relation in actual personal experience to the reality of the content of other peoples lives they deal with on a daily basis. Secretary of State Rice dealing with questions the efficiency of training of the projected New Iraq national police force.

   Chertoff dealing with America’s – our – homeland security, as a Zionist Jewish supremacist.

   The media, for example CNN, now owned by Joe Klein, a Jew, broadcasting the image of what America is 24/7, for the world to see. Responsible to no one except advertisers and warrant servers, with judges from Texas appointed by the new attorney general, whoever that is.

   /*

   What is taking place transhistorically is not yet full-scale psychosis, it is merely the loss of all boundaries recognized in the given 3D historical world as flowing from an absolute fixed reality – whether of the fixed stars in the heavens, as the ancients divinesd; or the fixed universe of discourse for the language of science, its modern descendent. What is lost is the shared textual basis for transcendental unity of apperception – what “we” are, even to ourselves. Lost are shared assumptions about the inner constaining realities, along with how any intellectual and emotional authority for these is justifiably arrived at. These were previously given by use of “God” as text for the totality completing itself in each person’s life, and, for all lives ever lived, in history. After that became no longer defensible as a justified container of the inner life, whose inner tokenspace origins begin afresh in each person[B] inn [/B] [B]utero[/B], the token by which it was previously communicated acquired an “internal” meaning, communicating a place, or ‘position’, as a transcendental unity. To this deduction of Kant’s, given the name “spirit” by Hegel (who corrupted it on the token side by tying it to the German language, itself -- great as that is, as a human phenomenon ) Freud found what the anatomical preparation added from the unconscious side, discovering the latent fantasies and symbolic acts. “Chaos”, the ancient Greek god of origins, is back as the 4th dimensional tokenspace of transcendental unity collapsed into the boundless -- Mother Tiamat of ancient Babylon.

Psychosis is the result of metaphysical linkage of psychological opposites (Jung). In sign-use, it begins by predicating on contradictions as true. This sign-use is incipient in the U.S. now, as it is on the verge of officially acting in domestic dissent cases, in the name of “God”, to kill those who say they are the Devil. That would be full-scale psychosis.

Sid Thomas, Ph.D.

Walter Yannis

2005-01-21 13:15 | User Profile

Whatever this guy was smoking, I want some.

TexasAnarch

2005-01-21 18:24 | User Profile

[QUOTE=Walter Yannis]Whatever this guy was smoking, I want some.[/QUOTE] Good shit, all right. Wish I could send some. "To Bush...." Dioxin squared.