Positionality

THE CONTRADICTORIAN POSITION

(Q. Could One Person be Right in thinking everyone else was wrong? How?)


I. The subject. What this is about.

Colloquialisms in English for psychosemiotic processes others are assumed to share include these:

'official story', 'what every body believes', 'accepted opinion', 'prevailing point of view'

These terms descriptive of a type of content communicated in the media of mass communication, and personal conversation. In objective terms, they indicate a common flow of brain 1 process under sign use. ("Ask anyone: they will all tell you the same thing in so many words.") Such phrases are used ubiquitously to categorize linguistic 'fronts', 'lines' or 'positions' aligned with other sign-uses, e.g.:

"of 911", "We are the good guys", "Iraq had WMD",
"its fucked up"

That to which such extended phrases as "The official story of 911" apply, are present and known to consciousness through the sense of 'audience': that space imagined to be full of people in a dark 'theatrical' womb-surround-- siblings in the first row, listening to one warble, twang, bellow into microphones or otherwise act out ('show off'). Audience* is Quadrant III (NE corner) of the Cartesian Scintellizer*. On it, I -> III -> II -> IV bow-tie line, swooping lower-left (I), up, over (II) and out (IV) lower-right, traces: I - processing in the anatomical apparatus; II. Consciousness under Sign Use; III. Audience; IV. Historical Output; completion (what the moving finger wrote). On this schema, The sense of Audience includes all that a consciously speaking person assumes about the actual containers of their planetary body, from birth to death, womb to cosmos. That would be the totality addressed As a totality. This is how the CS* Squares consciousness.


II. Consciousness

Consciousness is used here as the term for the awareness that accompanies those manifestation of the planetary body which constitute its content.

1. Content of consciousness under sign-use is taken as worked up by processes of the anatomical preparation to the degree of articulate self-awareness that any two, or indefinite number of other, people will share identical content under identical sign-use as shown by identical associations and applications.

In addition to its signature S*, a content of consciousness includes, as components: A. (a) Quality-complex; and B. (an) Intensity (dynamic, force factor). In abbreviated terms:

C'C =>df. S*(Ql, v)

where "=>" stands for "psychosemiotic definition". (Content of consciousness is defined as an occurrence in which use of a sign -- S* -- articulates the presence of quality Ql with Intensity v.)
Thus formula is provided merely for succinctness, and has no further use in the CS* schema than to link the respective categories of the phrase "content of consciousness under sign-use" which is taken as primitive.

2. In addition to its being 'capped off', or completed by its S*, consciousness is also characterized by

A. Present duration (continuous, with respect to thought, which is intermittent flow through of distinct brain function; discontinuous w/r/t ebb and flow of the sleep-wake neurological intensity threshhold).

B. State. Variations of Intensity-factors can alter conscious flow of process as a totality, as in the use of psychedelic drugs and other induced flows of energy (via exercizes, elixirs, tonics, electronics)

The CS* does not presuppose a map* of states,, though it would be useful to have one for other purposes, perhaps. It concerns only the energy expended through S* manifestations, whatever organic three-brain being state of consciousness they express. One foremost gradient between psychedelic state polarities is "high" vs. "stoned".

C. Positionality .. Every actual content of consciousness occupies a place in the schemata of S* used to address the Audience, which is assumed to exist in, and share, identical localizations*: as in, on the same planet with the same history. (Communication with "Aliens" is a fantasy construct, and was once recognized as such. Then came X-files.). The position and situation of the planetary body as object common to the person's subjective and the Audience's external awareness, is one determinant if S*, defining their positionality in space. However, there is another, inner Positionality of consciousness, determined by the 'lines' and 'positions' they align with in communication. Older heads are given credit for being able to 'hold the line' on a certain topic or issue, against challengers, and having individual 'positions on issues". If these are self-consistent and Square, they are said to have become wise.

3. Contrarian Positionality

Definitions of Contrarian on the Web:

A contrarian is an investor who buys things other investors are shunning. If most investors are buying stocks, a contrarian is concentrating on ...
apps.nasd.com/investor_Information/Smart/401k/401KGlossary.asp


An investor who does the opposite of what most investors are doing at any particular time. According to contrarian opinion, if everyone is certain that something is going to happen, it won't. ...
www.comerica.com/vgn-ext-templating/v/index.jsp


Investor who does the opposite of the majority at any particular time.
www.americasvalueinvestor.com/individuals/questions/glossary.html


An individual whose opinion is the opposite of the majority.
www.bwfa.com/glossary/c.asp


4. Contradictorian Positionality: new here

When majoritarian opinion is rejected because it predicates on internal text x (negated) token self-refuting constructs for primitive sign uses, it requires confronting and rejecting in formal terms as an impossible completing totality.

. Ex.: praising democracy as a good thing because it brings more peaceful, stable nations, while creating conditions that undermine its possibility. This must be confronted as wrong in its own terms; not just opposed, but opposed through what it proposes. What they do is not just non-democratic, but anti-democratic.

A contradictorian position is required to confront such self-contradictions deliberately squared as truth. Confronting doctors who have spread diseases which they sell medicine to treat, is one paradigm twist. Listening them defend the right to do that, or predicating on it as OK, challenges defense by the contradictorian position.


Don't be swizzled out of your soul.