First premise:
There tends to be an assumption in the majority of Western educated society that our technology will progress in linear direction with an implied geometric increase of complexity over time. However, I believe that human society evolves in a cyclic manner, with perhaps nested linear models; ultimately- there is a grand cycle of history. The idea our society is in its "infancy" in regard to technology at least, implies a dogmatic resolution to our origins. Finally, I believe it is a fallacy to say that geometric technological progress is one of the primary identifiers of an advanced civilization.
Second premise:
There is a prejudice to materiality within the Linear/Geometric Progress faction. Our rationalist and materialist forebears have influenced our thinking. Until there is at least an integration of the material and spiritual, the rational and intuitive, I think there will be a dualistic conflict. I think that human society will progress in a nested cycle, but it will reach a limit within the material sphere of influence. In order to cross this boundary, human society, and more specifically human beings collectively, will need to transcend the physical into the meta-physical or spiritual. There is a limit to material technology. If nothing else, I believe the next step of technological progress will be and already is, into the bio/chemical arena. However, I see danger of objectifying subjects and their rights if we advance only partially. This needs to be a holistic transcending. At least an integration. The material has limitations. Quantum Physics is showing us there is a meta-physical reality that transcends pure rationality. The disciplines need to ingrate into holistic unity; imagine your math teacher singing equations while students worked problems on art canvasses that displayed not just the correct data processing, the representation of following proper algorithms and calculation, but the brilliant translation of intrinsic form, the inherent meaning of the mathematical concept. Pragmatic value? Pragmatic values are false values of a house of cards society. Fascist Capitalism is a tyrant to education and the arts. Do we want to produce well conditioned biological automatons to run the machinery of tomorrow society, or do we want to evolve as a human species, to take true leaps into another dimension of life and experience? It can't be done in splinters. We can do it for you wholesale, or not at all! It will take every village on every continent.
Third premise.
The ego needs to be transcended. I would say integrated, but I think it will always usurp the other parts of the human soul. The ego insured our survival long ago, but now it causes a constant war. It reinforces fascism in every sense, nuance and sphere of human relations. It breeds factionalism. By its very existence it insures factionalism. It is the androgynous parent of dualism. While ego exists, unity can only last a generation or two before it is toppled by the ravenous lust of "I". Furthermore, while Ego intrinsically ensures individuation within human society, the negative aspect of Ego generates its dialectical brother of positive Ego. Horus and Set, Cain and Abel, The Yin and Yang, the Left and the Right. I believe too, you must separate the "good" from "truth". Truth stands alone. Truth is pure form, it is not a reaction, a reflection, or a representation. The Good may often represent the truth, but it is always in dialectical reaction to evil. Therefore, when "good" opposes "evil", the very opposition contributes to the dialectical response of evil. "Evil" should be transcended. This is why "Religion" just produces a stalemate, an equilibrium. What is needed to break this cycle is either total entropy or no entropy at all. This to me is an impossible dilemma. However, what gives me hope is the presence of paradox in the world. For me, paradox are 'glitches in the code'. Paradox betrays a different level of reality; when this other reality intersects with our material/temporal one, it produces conundrums, cooperative dichotomies, tesseracts. So, the story is incomplete; the movie is only half over.
I'm just waiting for the house lights to come on.
Tesseract:
There tends to be an assumption in the majority of Western educated society that our technology will progress in linear direction with an implied geometric increase of complexity over time. However, I believe that human society evolves in a cyclic manner, with perhaps nested linear models; ultimately- there is a grand cycle of history. The idea our society is in its "infancy" in regard to technology at least, implies a dogmatic resolution to our origins. Finally, I believe it is a fallacy to say that geometric technological progress is one of the primary identifiers of an advanced civilization.
Second premise:
There is a prejudice to materiality within the Linear/Geometric Progress faction. Our rationalist and materialist forebears have influenced our thinking. Until there is at least an integration of the material and spiritual, the rational and intuitive, I think there will be a dualistic conflict. I think that human society will progress in a nested cycle, but it will reach a limit within the material sphere of influence. In order to cross this boundary, human society, and more specifically human beings collectively, will need to transcend the physical into the meta-physical or spiritual. There is a limit to material technology. If nothing else, I believe the next step of technological progress will be and already is, into the bio/chemical arena. However, I see danger of objectifying subjects and their rights if we advance only partially. This needs to be a holistic transcending. At least an integration. The material has limitations. Quantum Physics is showing us there is a meta-physical reality that transcends pure rationality. The disciplines need to ingrate into holistic unity; imagine your math teacher singing equations while students worked problems on art canvasses that displayed not just the correct data processing, the representation of following proper algorithms and calculation, but the brilliant translation of intrinsic form, the inherent meaning of the mathematical concept. Pragmatic value? Pragmatic values are false values of a house of cards society. Fascist Capitalism is a tyrant to education and the arts. Do we want to produce well conditioned biological automatons to run the machinery of tomorrow society, or do we want to evolve as a human species, to take true leaps into another dimension of life and experience? It can't be done in splinters. We can do it for you wholesale, or not at all! It will take every village on every continent.
Third premise.
The ego needs to be transcended. I would say integrated, but I think it will always usurp the other parts of the human soul. The ego insured our survival long ago, but now it causes a constant war. It reinforces fascism in every sense, nuance and sphere of human relations. It breeds factionalism. By its very existence it insures factionalism. It is the androgynous parent of dualism. While ego exists, unity can only last a generation or two before it is toppled by the ravenous lust of "I". Furthermore, while Ego intrinsically ensures individuation within human society, the negative aspect of Ego generates its dialectical brother of positive Ego. Horus and Set, Cain and Abel, The Yin and Yang, the Left and the Right. I believe too, you must separate the "good" from "truth". Truth stands alone. Truth is pure form, it is not a reaction, a reflection, or a representation. The Good may often represent the truth, but it is always in dialectical reaction to evil. Therefore, when "good" opposes "evil", the very opposition contributes to the dialectical response of evil. "Evil" should be transcended. This is why "Religion" just produces a stalemate, an equilibrium. What is needed to break this cycle is either total entropy or no entropy at all. This to me is an impossible dilemma. However, what gives me hope is the presence of paradox in the world. For me, paradox are 'glitches in the code'. Paradox betrays a different level of reality; when this other reality intersects with our material/temporal one, it produces conundrums, cooperative dichotomies, tesseracts. So, the story is incomplete; the movie is only half over.
I'm just waiting for the house lights to come on.
Tesseract:
