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