INCEPTION to
SCHOPENHAUER: The World as Will and IDEA
Schadenfreude to Afghanistan.
PART THE FIRST - The Film
As it proceeds, we (speaking as delegate for the audiences) learn that the plot is this: a team of mind-behavior modification/control specialists has been recruited to reprogram the psyche of a powerful Tycoon's son in order to extract from him the combination of his father's safe. It contains his inheritance,"The Treasure", and high intrigue is involved in the enterprise of entering his mind, extracting the memory, leaving everything as it was, and stealing the secret.
"He has to feel like he is doing it himself."
His 'sub-conscious' (as their psychic architecture has it; more later on this) is cluttered by a traumatic event. The last word the son hears by his father's deathbed is "disappointed". This has buffered his psyche; they have to work around it. It is intimated at the end that this might not even have occurred. Maybe he just imagined, or thought it, and had lived
life ever since relating to reality under that particular delusion about himself. This is the "waking dream" 2nd objective conscious state. The action is too quick and blurry to be clear; by that time the audience has already been wrung out of anything except dream-reality to relate to, the question has become irrelevant. But one understands that "disappointed" has been installed in his psyche as Father's judgment, and that is a barrier in his Unconscious (Freud, this time) they have to break down, to get the secret. By the end, you are catching on the movie maker is maybe just fucking with your mind, anyway, but what did you expect?
That's only one thread, however, call it Reality 1 (you watching a movie with this plot).
The brilliance, and Beauty, according to (my version of Schopenhauer's Platonism -- what is Beautiful in beautiful things -- can be traced through this thread:
SYNCHRON ... The Word-sign
-> Text-Token Doubles: One context for text, another context for the token...in this case, tokens of synchronicity (which "SYNCHRON" adumbrates) in the movie to follow. The Word-sign functions textually to suggest what is completed 'below', by audience mix-matching tokens. Ex.: sequence of snippets of DeCaprio's character seeing his children's backs, in dream-state projection; then, at the end, "them seeing him back". These 'folded' doubles occur throughout. (The secret to what they are trying to 'save' is in the 'safe'.)
PART THE SECOND -- Application to America
and the concept of psychosemiotic nonsense
At one point, the girl who has joined the team as a 'pure imaginer', in order to create the 'architechture' of the altered dream-state reality all enter into, warns Tom that his buried personal memories are interfering. The rule is, these must be left out; otherwise, they will find themselves shooting at other's projections. This is a profound touch. All must focus on the 'reality' the target-consciousness relates to, or the mission can't be accomplished. An analogue, substituting 'America' for the Collective entity they are trying to 'save'; and making the mission decoding son-Bush's unconscious craving for Father Bush's approval; would be allowing Catholic and Jewish girls to be the one's creating the religious landscape. The personal memories of these groups, collectively merging through WWII trauma on either side of "the Holocaust", would/do/did block any attempt to cut that tie. In fact, GWBush affirmed in 2001, before 911, that these two groups were the swing votes to be wooed for 2004. This was from his deep personal memory. Thus, the ambient world in which young soul desire finds satisfaction is theirs, and it blocks getting at the psychological roots of Afghanistan, the on-going sacrifice of youth to Militarist Fathers, loved by (M)Others.
This would be profound SYNCHRONicity enough, in our reality analogized to what endangered the Inception mission. But the rudest twist is yet to come. Nobody expects any sort of rational consistency in a dream narrative. Least of all in Double (-ed Double (-ed Double)....) sequences crossing characters and action across category shifts. But there is one thing audiences have the right to expect from the film maker, and citizens trapped inside America's usurped Dream Theatre have a right to demand, I hold. That is this: no unresolved self-contradictions are to be used in predications intended for reality. Will to the opposite effect -- deliberate and intentional predication os self contradictions because they ARE that are excluded in principle from possible rational communication. Among simple examples, the sentence S*: "The Ace of Spades trumps the Double Six" is perfectly grammatical, but nonsense. "Trumps" has rules of use in card games and dominoes, taken separately, but none for both taken together> Though one could be concocted, e.g., "S* says poker is a better game than Dominoes." "Well, whose to say it doesn't?" The point is, there IS no "it", except by false relating, therefore no unanswered question of "what it says". To try to extract an answer is a form of psychosemiotic bullying, since it drives other, latent differences, into open opposition polarized around the misused terms (e.g., "what is trumping?").
This is the most critical point in transcendental psychosemiotics. The consistency in principle principle is the point of agreement between rationality in formal logic, and rationality in dream talk, if it's real. That is the point of each person's individual "Token": an object only you know, whose identity grounds reality through consciousness. A mere "Idea", no matter how grand, fruitful, and self-contained, as access to the 4th state, carries only the potential for grounding 'in the head'. His spinning top grounds him to the reality he has lived with his wife, the '3rd layer' of his subconscious, spiraling the 2nd level of reality-dream processing in the anatomical apparatus onto itself.
When people in their 2nd state dream world relate to each other through architecture from the personalized memory of a sub-class, they are, ipso facto, not living in their own, but in the other's world inner, or soul world.
It is shown elsewhere that "Jew", to which American citizens are required to relate in a hate-tinged way, with the swastika and anti-Semitic graffiti on the synagogue in Maryland, has become a self-contradictory token synchron.
PART THE THIRD - Philosophical Interlude
Following Kant's distinction between phenomena and noumena -- the world as appearance, vrs. the world as it is in itself -- philosophers were stuck with the problem of where to assign various ideal categories, among them Beauty. Experience of Arete (virtue, excellence); Morality; even Religion "within the limits of pure reason" could be constructed on a phenomenal basis through his hypothesis of transcendental unity of apperception, given the structure of empirical consciousness under the intuitions of space and time. Kant restored the unity of the psyche through that which is 'bright to' perception, whereas the British had allowed the flux of discrete content dissolve form, following John Locke's notion of sense qualities as inscriptions*, like on a "tabula rosa", followed up by language, then ideas. But his confusion of qualities and 'ideas', clearly distinct things as phenomenal content, allowed his successor, George Berkeley, to assimilate both to the category of 'deas', preserving the grammar of 'soul' and 'God" as directly applicable. Then David Hume, succeeding both, dispensed with ALL meanings of words not tied to sense-qualities, even "soul", "I", "cause", and "God", reducing the content of human knowledge through experience to pure flux, nothing else; self-organized by the 'gentle attraction' of association, when words for cause and effect, matching 'impressions' whose c->e content are repeated in space-time contiguities, relate to (what is called) 'reality'. This is the broad movement of critical metaphysical thought after Locke began assimilating the language of the causal theory of perception, following the atomic-molecular theory of matter, ...to the language of psychic totality inherited from classical Greece. This was the deep psychosemiotic clash Kant inherited, and which INCEPTION is still reconcilling, in its way..
FOOTNOTES FROM 1st draft
*Two psychodynamic foci of personal psychology of the movie: I. Father-son-relations -- The overall plot pivots on the attempt of The Crew to reprogram his very psyche, in 10 hours, without him knowing it. It is determined that the key to his personality is his feeling of being a disappointment to his fabulous tycoon Father. This is brought about by sedating him on an extended airplane flight, entering his dream-world and re-creating a particular experience buried in his mind from his father's deathbed. "Disappointed' was the last word he remembered the old man said.. This is changed to words that open a metal safe that has appeared, in which he finds a whirly-toy token of early childhood. In effect, the brings back early, pre-Oedipal psychosexual development, where ego-attitudes toward the Father first constellate. On the surface this is a minute, untraceble intervention. In the total scheme of things, it takes a gargantuan effort to change, but focused at the point in one individual's consciousness sufficient to profoundly affect the course of events. Chaos theory could provide the explanatory mathematics thenceforth. (in the presence of a 'strange attractor', a butterfly in China could set off an avalanch in Iceland.)
The second point of psychodynamic focus is Husband-wife relations --
: He can't get back home because he was wanted for murdering his wife.
The story: she committed suicide jumping off a skyscraper ledge, while he watched helplessly and tried to talk her down.
The story behind this story was that she was carrying through with the IDEA he and she had explored -- that what was called reality was a dream and they had to die, together, to escape it. He carried deep guilt, as she carried through what he had suggested -- sown like a seed, grown by his participation until she manipulated lawyers and children to get to die with her. The guilt from this complex relationship follows him through the movie, and at the 3rd and deepest level of (what they call) the sub-conscious. Each level splits off and follows its own narrative thread like parallel octaves on the Ray of Creation. (Ouspensky). On the levels closer to consciousness (this language is Freud's; what it meant was problematic), this part of "Tom"'s psychic apparatus does not come into play. Only when he arrives at the stark contradiction between waking-dreaming///reality-fantasy at the 3rd level does his wife's presence in his unconscious projectively emerge. This is when he must complete the job of altering 'Anderson''s psyche at that level; he loses control of his projections, endangering the mission as the young girl architect had warned.
The stories intertwine in the narrative through the oriental figure of Fisher. In the first flashback, he wants to hire Tom's super sophisticated metaphysical mind-alterers to do the job on 'Son'. He has the power to get Tom HOME, if he can do it. It's hard, entering and returning from limbo, requiring total allowance into Fisher's secrets, but Tom declares it can be done because he's done it.
Fisher participates in the dream-level action, even getting killed off in artic ice layer. But he is present at beginning and end with motives and agenda largely undisclosed in the movie leaving it to that extent unbounded (irrational; non-sense). His continuous existence in limbo for 50 years during the few seconds it takes the bus to plunge through the bridge railing into to the sea water below; and the 10 hour airplane flight. The intellectual meme inviked here is "HIGH TIME". Everyone who has tripped on LSD, or got really high on hashish or marijuana, may be presumed to have experienced the subjective state in which time as-if slows to a crawl, and it 'takes forever' to drive at 30 MPH across a bridge. In actuality, the illusion of 'time slowing down' results from brain-processes speeding up, overtaking the tempo of the steady perceptual process. Carried to its logical extreme, this experience of a gradient in the felt length of a given objective duration extrapolates to the conception of a completed totality of spatial experience, itself, under time. As if there were a conscious content consisting of all and everything present at once, existing in a simultaneous present. Some esoteric schools teach this conception. . It could be said that Inception, the movie, instantiates an inception, as process-controlling idea; and carries it forward through SYNCHRON(-icity). This link of simultaneity of all that is experienced in the two hour frame, plus its outside world context, when you walk out into the real world outside, is, literally, its opening Text-token*. It 'spreads' the Unconscious of the audience over that fantasy-reality frame, and there is strange, isolated-yet-bonded feel in relating to others.
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The 4th e-State (1-> the media, journalistic class; 2.> esoteric state of objective consciousness): presence to all that exists, including all motion and change as geometrical shapes, given at one time.
The conception of Inception is the thing of beauty. 'Beauty Itself', taken as higher level energy shining through through the phenomenon of their creation. This is where Platonic metaphysics needs elaboration. Another time
-Denizen of limbo tie the ends of the movie's reality cycle.
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Eliminating Self-contradictory Synchrons
SYNCHRONS
CAN NARRATIVE HISTORY BE OBJECTIVE?
-Assuming "OBJECTIVITY" entails "intellectually intelligible; independent of how it is thought or represented" -> self-consistent (self-contradictions are incompatible with reality story including everything).
If there are two or more, it is not logically unified
On the possibility of an objective narrative history
An Argument
-"Unsquare synchrons" are incompatible with a single self-consistent coherent narrative impossible.. Therefore they must be prevented, in principle, or the historical narrative will fold latent contradictions into itself in the process of telling it.
Ex. the existence of 'gays', 'Jews'. 'the unborn'.
"Gay" was a term of use introduced by the homosexual community to reverse "sad", which became soul-predicable of them after the onset of AIDS. The new recombinant DNA/RNA viral disease struck them first, hardest, deadliest, with many believing that their form of sexual intercourse was, in fact, causally responsible for the scourge that followed. Since the general population in America, after the Eisenhower 50's, was undergoing a radical de-sublimation of Old Psychoclass sexual positions (pun intended) -- whether it was 'repressive' or not, as H. Marcuse argued (and Wm. Reich would agree that it was) -- the dismay at this terrible turn of events fueled empathy for their 'sexual liberation' in the 70's when 'coming out' emerged. Each person has their own 'sexual orientation'; who are your, or anybody, to judge how others do it? This flowed compatibly with sympathy for AIDS affliction, leading to the reversal of "sad" to "gay". The euphemistic token* caught on. Suddenly in Tokenspace there blossomed a new, historically unique class of persons: Gays. They even had an Originating Moment, in which one of them kicked a policeperson in the groin in a bar.
But the truth is more like this, quoting from NYTimes article
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/26/books/26secret.html
Sexual Outlaw on the Gay Frontier
By PATRICIA COHEN
Published: July 25, 2010
A colleague urged Samuel Steward to talk to Kinsey and the two met in late 1949. Kinsey quickly enlisted him as what Steward called an “unofficial collaborator,” prompting Steward to become an even more compulsive chronicler. On each of the 746 cards that ultimately made up his alphabetized Stud File, Steward listed his sexual partner’s name, his place in the lineup (i.e., the 354th person Steward had sex with), the dates and locations of every encounter, a coded description of penis size and of every specific sexual activity, and a brief comment. Of Valentino, filed under the actor’s real name, Guglielmi, R., he wrote: “Nuf sed.”
In Kinsey, Steward found a kindred spirit, a close friend and an ideal father figure. “I suppose that to a degree I fell in love with him,” he wrote in a published memoir. (The two never had any sexual contact.)
Steward’s tales of frequent sexual encounters as a teenager and undergraduate in Woodsfield and Columbus, Ohio, in the 1920s and ’30s are a counterpoint to the aggressive persecution of homosexuals during the 1950s McCarthy scare. As Mr. Baumann and other historians have noted, there was no homosexual panic in those earlier years because of a reluctance to discuss sex in any detail and the resulting widespread ignorance.
Mr. Spring said: “It’s all about language. If there are no culturally accepted words to describe an experience, it remains off the radar.”
To which may be added here: When the culturally accepted words for communicating an experience are text-token reversals, an impossible-to-square synchron will be installed in the grammar of ordinary discourse.
-Answer to question: only by A. Eliminating Text~Token SYNCHRONS (memory loops from personal life 'not part of the freely imagined architecture')
B. Tracing the thread of internal-objective ("formal") psychological processes.
Argument: the penalty for not doing A. is endless loops of predication on Text-Token self-contradiction.
II. The Jewish Problem --
IMPOSSIBLE SYNCHRON
Synchrons: definition of words concurrently used by a communicating population.
The sentence ""x is a Jew" is true only if x defines themselves as we do" is (truly) instantiated by two opposed "we" users: A. Reformed, Secular, Diaspora (controlling the grammar of 'Israel', as a state; and B. Biblical (Ultra-) Orthodox (controlling the religious grammar by defining converts; some are adamant anti-Zionists). But these, though opposed to each other 'inside' the uses, so to speak, are NOT opposed in the name they call themselves: "Jews".
So is this word a 'name'? - because each of them uses the same word-sound (and translations). Hardly, one thinks. It is clear that the text, what "Jew" is taken as a predicate of, to refer to, has been split off from its token and reversed against itself. But the common token presents to Others some common face of what it stands for to both. It defines a psychosemiotic glitch. But to grammar of ordinary language flowing through it makes not a whit of difference. A name is a noun is a name...
To repeat the form of the glitch: when a token is used by mutually exclusive self-referencers, each denying the other's right to define the generic term for both.
The grammar of ordinary language is infected by Impossible Synchrons.
An analogous psychosemiotic situation results when, for instance, a family has instituted impromptu categories all members have learned and respect as boundaries. Then one day some distant relative comes to visit speaking a language in which the word for 'sink' and 'toilet' were token-identical, as 'bear' is in English for the wooly animal and 'to carry. When told to "dump it in the sink" once, he translated it wrongly in his mind and stood aghast. It obliged all to become aware of how they automatically processed language. So with sexuality, among those who always understood "it' straight. But there WAS no 'straight' before 'not-straight'->crooked->homosexual-gay 'came out'. Nor was there ever a "gay frontier" for "outlaw Sam Steward" to roam. There was just a hyper lascivious, lewd queer getting laid by the best he could,
The principle: People ought not be obliged, in order to carry on their daily affairs, to communicate with others in terms which introducing new categories of self-reference, or redefine old terms used for self-reference and understanding..
CAN NARRATIVE HISTORY BE OBJECTIVE?
-Assuming "OBJECTIVITY" entails "intellectually intelligible; independent of how it is thought or represented" -> self-consistent (self-contradictions are incompatible with reality story including everything).
If there are two or more, it is not logically unified
On the possibility of an objective narrative history
An Argument
-"Unsquare synchrons" are incompatible with a single self-consistent coherent narrative impossible.. Therefore they must be prevented, in principle, or the historical narrative will fold latent contradictions into itself in the process of telling it.
Ex. the existence of 'gays', 'Jews'. 'the unborn'.
"Gay" was a term of use introduced by the homosexual community to reverse "sad", which became soul-predicable of them after the onset of AIDS. The new recombinant DNA/RNA viral disease struck them first, hardest, deadliest, with many believing that their form of sexual intercourse was, in fact, causally responsible for the scourge that followed. Since the general population in America, after the Eisenhower 50's, was undergoing a radical de-sublimation of Old Psychoclass sexual positions (pun intended) -- whether it was 'repressive' or not, as H. Marcuse argued (and Wm. Reich would agree that it was) -- the dismay at this terrible turn of events fueled empathy for their 'sexual liberation' in the 70's when 'coming out' emerged. Each person has their own 'sexual orientation'; who are your, or anybody, to judge how others do it? This flowed compatibly with sympathy for AIDS affliction, leading to the reversal of "sad" to "gay". The euphemistic token* caught on. Suddenly in Tokenspace there blossomed a new, historically unique class of persons: Gays. They even had an Originating Moment, in which one of them kicked a policeperson in the groin in a bar.
But the truth is more like this, quoting from NYTimes article
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/26/books/26secret.html
Sexual Outlaw on the Gay Frontier
By PATRICIA COHEN
Published: July 25, 2010
A colleague urged Samuel Steward to talk to Kinsey and the two met in late 1949. Kinsey quickly enlisted him as what Steward called an “unofficial collaborator,” prompting Steward to become an even more compulsive chronicler. On each of the 746 cards that ultimately made up his alphabetized Stud File, Steward listed his sexual partner’s name, his place in the lineup (i.e., the 354th person Steward had sex with), the dates and locations of every encounter, a coded description of penis size and of every specific sexual activity, and a brief comment. Of Valentino, filed under the actor’s real name, Guglielmi, R., he wrote: “Nuf sed.”
In Kinsey, Steward found a kindred spirit, a close friend and an ideal father figure. “I suppose that to a degree I fell in love with him,” he wrote in a published memoir. (The two never had any sexual contact.)
Steward’s tales of frequent sexual encounters as a teenager and undergraduate in Woodsfield and Columbus, Ohio, in the 1920s and ’30s are a counterpoint to the aggressive persecution of homosexuals during the 1950s McCarthy scare. As Mr. Baumann and other historians have noted, there was no homosexual panic in those earlier years because of a reluctance to discuss sex in any detail and the resulting widespread ignorance.
Mr. Spring said: “It’s all about language. If there are no culturally accepted words to describe an experience, it remains off the radar.”
To which may be added here: When the culturally accepted words for communicating an experience are text-token reversals, an impossible-to-square synchron will be installed in the grammar of ordinary discourse.
-Answer to question: only by A. Eliminating Text~Token SYNCHRONS (memory loops from personal life 'not part of the freely imagined architecture')
B. Tracing the thread of internal-objective ("formal") psychological processes.
Argument: the penalty for not doing A. is endless loops of predication on Text-Token self-contradiction.
II. The Jewish Problem --
IMPOSSIBLE SYNCHRON
Synchrons: definition of words concurrently used by a communicating population.
The sentence ""x is a Jew" is true only if x defines themselves as we do" is (truly) instantiated by two opposed "we" users: A. Reformed, Secular, Diaspora (controlling the grammar of 'Israel', as a state; and B. Biblical (Ultra-) Orthodox (controlling the religious grammar by defining converts; some are adamant anti-Zionists). But these, though opposed to each other 'inside' the uses, so to speak, are NOT opposed in the name they call themselves: "Jews".
So is this word a 'name'? - because each of them uses the same word-sound (and translations). Hardly, one thinks. It is clear that the text, what "Jew" is taken as a predicate of, to refer to, has been split off from its token and reversed against itself. But the common token presents to Others some common face of what it stands for to both. It defines a psychosemiotic glitch. But to grammar of ordinary language flowing through it makes not a whit of difference. A name is a noun is a name...
To repeat the form of the glitch: when a token is used by mutually exclusive self-referencers, each denying the other's right to define the generic term for both.
The grammar of ordinary language is infected by Impossible Synchrons.
An analogous psychosemiotic situation results when, for instance, a family has instituted impromptu categories all members have learned and respect as boundaries. Then one day some distant relative comes to visit speaking a language in which the word for 'sink' and 'toilet' were token-identical, as 'bear' is in English for the wooly animal and 'to carry. When told to "dump it in the sink" once, he translated it wrongly in his mind and stood aghast. It obliged all to become aware of how they automatically processed language. So with sexuality, among those who always understood "it' straight. But there WAS no 'straight' before 'not-straight'->crooked->homosexual-gay 'came out'. Nor was there ever a "gay frontier" for "outlaw Sam Steward" to roam. There was just a hyper lascivious, lewd queer getting laid by the best he could,
The principle: People ought not be obliged, in order to carry on their daily affairs, to communicate with others in terms which introducing new categories of self-reference, or redefine old terms used for self-reference and understanding..
Sunday, July 18, 2010
Psychohistory by S* Today July 18
Psychohistory in Today's Sign Use - 7.18.'10
Text of the Fifth Squared: Schadenfreude, Schopenhauer and America the Beautiful(Psychosemiotics of Times Squared)
Let S* => NYTimes Week in Review
Picture: 6" blue strip just under the heading representing water. Clenched fingers of a hand, up-raised black-tipped thumb breaking the surface like an oil coated shark tail. For an audience saturated since April 20 with news of BP Deepwater Horizon well blow-out in the Gulf of Mexico; plus almost-as-intensive constant saturation since May 31 with one-sided news of Israel's attack on the Gaza Freedom flotilla; the appended subtext "DEEP DOWN" was hardly needed. However: "the text squares the token" in situational communication. "Deep down" translates what is experienced, visually, into what can be re-presented to the brain by words taken from
other contexts, reapplied metaphorically to communicate qualia content. Call this "First Squaring".
It, itself, as an actual (hypothesized: in principle unobservable) transition under the survey of self-awareness, is further "squared" as a subject matter (->token side of psychic processing) by this heading:
A SPILL INTO THE PSYCHE
This "Doubles the Square", of the Unconscious, through the Unconscious. (byline: "From the Gulf of Mexico, a respite from the constant stream of bad news, which seems to be part of the national wallpaper") "WE", generalizing the unconsciouis predication further, and The Gulf of Mexico.
ORIGIN OF GRAMMAR,
...AND WHY IT IS A JEWISH PLOT
--Unintended consequence: strikes note-tone* of parallel octave -> (leading by unconscious association to) HEBREW FLAME-LETTER alphabet => ritualized reproduction of the Holy (<= pre-Birth) in copying most, most venerated sign-shapes of the Pentateuch. Dissimulation of this script as the Received Word of God -> mouthing Holy sounds in higher "WE" talk. The collective "WE" memory ingrained by generations of scrupulous re-copying the token shapes with exactitude, became part of the hard-wired time-loop functioning of the human psyche in post-Jerusalem/Greek western civilization. All neuro-psychic development repeats the transition from pre-post-verbal communication, historically recorded by Sumerian hieroglyphs and Egyptian hieroglyphics as intermediary phases. Alphabetic writing turned up at Phonecian ports (now Lebanon) after 1750 b.c., possibly tracing to upstream trading routes to the Hebrew script. Their calendar dates from
FLAME LETTER WRITING encodes true-false textual content (actual history, cosmic assumptions) of the Pentateuch with arousal of the Oedipal complex: SON DARING TO SPEAK THE NAME AND THOUGHTS OF THE HOLY FATHER ON HIGH IN HEAVEN. This drive for exactitude -> to get it right, in speaking of things Honored by Fathers through history as Most Holy -> or suffer punishment of personal death, as well as failure to preserve the tradition -> THE EXISTENTIAL GRAMMAR OF BEINGS OF NEW FORMATION ) -- What "I" am, as child of Euro-American civilization, defined by a succession of historical "Fathers", most of whom acquired the language of self-reference, during this crucial phase of psychosexual development, is defined in the Unconscious by this stratum of collective memory, through which still burns, as in the Oedipal fire of grammatized flame letters in the Pentateuch.
Call this "the Third Squaring." (From flame letters -> set-theoretical basis of mathematics (E. Cantor) -> truth-functional basis of formal logic -> universal transformational grammar (Chomsky) -> Quine -><- opposed by Russell's predicate based logic). The Third Squaring -- Oedipal complex x grammar -- functions to block the psychosemiotics of self-reference through classic soul-synthesized text. As a metaphysics, it recognizes no source of unity other than mathematics, itself. Therefore, when it came to Jewish set theorist Cantor's use of "God" he simply identified it with a self-contradictory construct: Absolute Infinite, as opposed to quantitative magnitudes illustrating relative infinities in measurement. When Betrand Russell pointed out that his derivation of this predicated over all predicates, a demonstrably para-logical grammatical form; language turned-on-itself, yielding a false, because non-sensical, totality: "predicate of all predicates". Never mind for the moment that Russell's proof doubles this notion, i.e. in "predicates of all predicates that are/are-not predicates of themselves", a S* formula which yields a vicious self-contradiction when applied to instances. The theory of logical types, requiring strict ordering of predicate-extensions to excluded themselves, as an originating totality, blocks Cantor's blithe predication on the Bible's flame-lettered grammatized history by demonstrating it is an illegitimate totality. Reified, as if metaphysically related to, the DNA of bloodstream in his and other East European Jewish descendant's Fathers who faithfully copied them for posterity. Grammar is in the soul of Jews as deep down as flame letters in the psyche of Freud.
Then, this would make the psychosemiotic return of "ZION" from Old Testament script, as an "-ism" -> ZIONISM, -> token of ideology uniting "The Jews" identified with Israel -> "The fourth squaring": a re-cathexis, through the blackened waters of
rebirth in the Gulf of Mexico, of this Oedipal stage of Group-fantasy processing.
"NEXT YEAR IN JERUSALEM" -- Seder meme recited by Obama in the White House this year at Christmas, before he was insulted and conned by Israel's Prime Minister Netanyahu. This pre-empts discourse about settling Jerusalem's future in favor of a U.N. sanctioned international mandate over-riding Israel's authority. It carries out the process of 4th turning, under self-contradictory conjunction with its negation, America. American liberalism is Anti-Zionist, as representing a case of asrrested hisortrical development. That is why it, and its advanced, deep Christian roots, is Israel's enemy. Israel's existence is incompatible with America's liberalism. And they are psychosemiotically interlocked. One must destroy the other in order for either to survive.
Schadenfreude, Schopenhauer, and Beautiful America
How the Greek psychosemiotics of beauty, recovered by post-Kantian philosophy, colors the tonality of pleasure taken in America's suffering
work in progress
Text of the Fifth Squared: Schadenfreude, Schopenhauer and America the Beautiful(Psychosemiotics of Times Squared)
Let S* => NYTimes Week in Review
Picture: 6" blue strip just under the heading representing water. Clenched fingers of a hand, up-raised black-tipped thumb breaking the surface like an oil coated shark tail. For an audience saturated since April 20 with news of BP Deepwater Horizon well blow-out in the Gulf of Mexico; plus almost-as-intensive constant saturation since May 31 with one-sided news of Israel's attack on the Gaza Freedom flotilla; the appended subtext "DEEP DOWN" was hardly needed. However: "the text squares the token" in situational communication. "Deep down" translates what is experienced, visually, into what can be re-presented to the brain by words taken from
other contexts, reapplied metaphorically to communicate qualia content. Call this "First Squaring".
It, itself, as an actual (hypothesized: in principle unobservable) transition under the survey of self-awareness, is further "squared" as a subject matter (->token side of psychic processing) by this heading:
A SPILL INTO THE PSYCHE
This "Doubles the Square", of the Unconscious, through the Unconscious. (byline: "From the Gulf of Mexico, a respite from the constant stream of bad news, which seems to be part of the national wallpaper") "WE", generalizing the unconsciouis predication further, and The Gulf of Mexico.
ORIGIN OF GRAMMAR,
...AND WHY IT IS A JEWISH PLOT
--Unintended consequence: strikes note-tone* of parallel octave -> (leading by unconscious association to) HEBREW FLAME-LETTER alphabet => ritualized reproduction of the Holy (<= pre-Birth) in copying most, most venerated sign-shapes of the Pentateuch. Dissimulation of this script as the Received Word of God -> mouthing Holy sounds in higher "WE" talk. The collective "WE" memory ingrained by generations of scrupulous re-copying the token shapes with exactitude, became part of the hard-wired time-loop functioning of the human psyche in post-Jerusalem/Greek western civilization. All neuro-psychic development repeats the transition from pre-post-verbal communication, historically recorded by Sumerian hieroglyphs and Egyptian hieroglyphics as intermediary phases. Alphabetic writing turned up at Phonecian ports (now Lebanon) after 1750 b.c., possibly tracing to upstream trading routes to the Hebrew script. Their calendar dates from
FLAME LETTER WRITING encodes true-false textual content (actual history, cosmic assumptions) of the Pentateuch with arousal of the Oedipal complex: SON DARING TO SPEAK THE NAME AND THOUGHTS OF THE HOLY FATHER ON HIGH IN HEAVEN. This drive for exactitude -> to get it right, in speaking of things Honored by Fathers through history as Most Holy -> or suffer punishment of personal death, as well as failure to preserve the tradition -> THE EXISTENTIAL GRAMMAR OF BEINGS OF NEW FORMATION ) -- What "I" am, as child of Euro-American civilization, defined by a succession of historical "Fathers", most of whom acquired the language of self-reference, during this crucial phase of psychosexual development, is defined in the Unconscious by this stratum of collective memory, through which still burns, as in the Oedipal fire of grammatized flame letters in the Pentateuch.
Call this "the Third Squaring." (From flame letters -> set-theoretical basis of mathematics (E. Cantor) -> truth-functional basis of formal logic -> universal transformational grammar (Chomsky) -> Quine -><- opposed by Russell's predicate based logic). The Third Squaring -- Oedipal complex x grammar -- functions to block the psychosemiotics of self-reference through classic soul-synthesized text. As a metaphysics, it recognizes no source of unity other than mathematics, itself. Therefore, when it came to Jewish set theorist Cantor's use of "God" he simply identified it with a self-contradictory construct: Absolute Infinite, as opposed to quantitative magnitudes illustrating relative infinities in measurement. When Betrand Russell pointed out that his derivation of this predicated over all predicates, a demonstrably para-logical grammatical form; language turned-on-itself, yielding a false, because non-sensical, totality: "predicate of all predicates". Never mind for the moment that Russell's proof doubles this notion, i.e. in "predicates of all predicates that are/are-not predicates of themselves", a S* formula which yields a vicious self-contradiction when applied to instances. The theory of logical types, requiring strict ordering of predicate-extensions to excluded themselves, as an originating totality, blocks Cantor's blithe predication on the Bible's flame-lettered grammatized history by demonstrating it is an illegitimate totality. Reified, as if metaphysically related to, the DNA of bloodstream in his and other East European Jewish descendant's Fathers who faithfully copied them for posterity. Grammar is in the soul of Jews as deep down as flame letters in the psyche of Freud.
Then, this would make the psychosemiotic return of "ZION" from Old Testament script, as an "-ism" -> ZIONISM, -> token of ideology uniting "The Jews" identified with Israel -> "The fourth squaring": a re-cathexis, through the blackened waters of
rebirth in the Gulf of Mexico, of this Oedipal stage of Group-fantasy processing.
"NEXT YEAR IN JERUSALEM" -- Seder meme recited by Obama in the White House this year at Christmas, before he was insulted and conned by Israel's Prime Minister Netanyahu. This pre-empts discourse about settling Jerusalem's future in favor of a U.N. sanctioned international mandate over-riding Israel's authority. It carries out the process of 4th turning, under self-contradictory conjunction with its negation, America. American liberalism is Anti-Zionist, as representing a case of asrrested hisortrical development. That is why it, and its advanced, deep Christian roots, is Israel's enemy. Israel's existence is incompatible with America's liberalism. And they are psychosemiotically interlocked. One must destroy the other in order for either to survive.
Schadenfreude, Schopenhauer, and Beautiful America
How the Greek psychosemiotics of beauty, recovered by post-Kantian philosophy, colors the tonality of pleasure taken in America's suffering
work in progress
Saturday, July 3, 2010
The 6th Sense
The human skull brain, capped by the cerebellum, processes (into S*) stimuli reaching it from two sources of body stimulation, exterior (peripheral sense organs) and interior (nerve discharges terminating in organs and areas inside the body). On the hypothesis followed here, Sixth Sense content ‘totalizes’ content of perceptual consciousness, bringing it under a unity of its own, “my experience now”. These moments of present self-experience have their own history of developing linkages, finally ‘coating’ the I-position returned to in dream-thought regression. This coated I-position is the ‘eye’-center of consciousness latent in the (Birth->unto cosmos –> unto death) sequence built into a completed life trajectory is the “agenda” manifest in the process of the totality becoming a unity. This coated-agenda may also be depicted as center (‘Yesod’) of an imaginary spiral of expanding energy, circling as a wavefront through events related to this individuation.
It follows from this hypothesis that major aspects attributed to “soul” by users in philosophy and religion can be metaphysically reconstructed as ‘coating’ and learning to use the Sixth Sense. These include: non-identity of conscious unity and qualitative content, as if ‘higher forms’ were imposed on the phenomenal qualities ‘from within’, i.e., ‘on the token side’. The Sixth Sense adds “Situational Frames” to externally originating phenomenal forms, from the running notion of ‘myself’ as a continuing potential unity, synthesized through active token memory.
It follows from this hypothesis that major aspects attributed to “soul” by users in philosophy and religion can be metaphysically reconstructed as ‘coating’ and learning to use the Sixth Sense. These include: non-identity of conscious unity and qualitative content, as if ‘higher forms’ were imposed on the phenomenal qualities ‘from within’, i.e., ‘on the token side’. The Sixth Sense adds “Situational Frames” to externally originating phenomenal forms, from the running notion of ‘myself’ as a continuing potential unity, synthesized through active token memory.
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