Thoughts in response to the discussion on Authority


The immediate question of gender in the use of the language should linger with you as we contemplate this. What is hu(man)? What is a person? What is dasein? As the Heideger the philosopher who would go on to embrace fascism would ask. We see the dual problem of supremacy of race and supremacy of gender in asking this question through history. Built from the preconceived biases that we function assuming to be the normative objective unbiased. We must confront the reality that positionality has always directed the bias in this. Humanity is separate in this, from other life and the wider world in which we exist. Nutrients, minerals, water, information, and dogma flow into the being of a single instance of dasein, person, human or man. These flows all construct a given instance both materially and ideologically. Dasein was not that constraint of man though, it is the being of it all which has been debated since antiquity which the intersubjective has formed some agreement upon in various cultural hegemonies over time. Dasein will likely always carry the burden of the Nazis as it came from a Nazi.

Does the ideological flow matter any from that which is external to the single instance of man? As the ideology, religion, science, philosophy, mathematics and understanding of self only exists within a given instance (being, dasein). It becomes unified in the interplay of ideas that are shared and the intersubjective agreement becomes a formal stance classified according to a beaurovariance which has been constructed to comprehend the external. 

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Beaurovariance and Aristotle

We are born into a fully formed world with all its history and processes. We in turn develop within this world. We acquire language, definitions, develop physically, and gain all our prejudices and biases. Some look back to an origin, or even a first philosophy and will soon come to realize that there are many. Our histories are wide and diverse, and often hidden or unknown, only told by consumer products which keep the creator behind a corporate veil. This is the same phenomena of concealment that occurs when we speak tales of great men of history. Those who built the pyramids have been lost to history, namelost laborers who we name a god king to assign cause and responsibility to. We find ourselves in a duality of the individualism of authoritarianism in contrast to the actual act of the collective actions which built history that is recorded in the structure of the pyramids. Every concept we assign to phenomena rose from human imagination, as an attempt to articulate, contain or measure. The form of communication bears the burden of the subjectivity of the articulator. 

There are things we know individually, that which a single instance of mind contains. There are things we collectively have come to know, that which the shared mind processes contains that may be available to us to know. There are things which are not yet known that can be known. Aristotle realized that we are limited by our sense perception in our knowing (His emphasis was on sight). In this we ask is there that which because of the limitation of our biological senses can not be known? Often we find a god or spirituality within this.

Science is the study of the repeatable. Magic is the study of the unrepeatable. The social act of science is verification. Magic thus has no verification. For, when it does it reterritorializes and finds its way into science. In this definition we see that perhaps there is more magic than science in subjective experiences of the world. Then there is the idea of “truth” which necessitates the existence of a truth if it is to truly be what the very definition assumes it to be. Truth relies upon objectivity,  yet is limited to subjective minds, and in praxis finds its claim in intersubjectivity. 

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The Domination Process Part 1

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The Dialectic of Enlightenment begins our journey into the past today, We do get a bit into the enlightenment, but mostly we set the stage for the next episode we will look at.

Check out the Dialectic of Enlightenment out yourself over on wikipedia to get a start there.

You can check out Plato’s Parmenides at the link here.

As mentioned in the episode here is the song Preacher and the Slave on Wikipedia

Plato and the Golden Man

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Today we take a trip back in time to visit Plato and Aristotle and find some things that might just be relevant to our world today.

George Herbert Mead: Mind, Self & Society part 1 Mind

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Today we look at the teachings of George Herbert Mead and in this we address some foundational beginnings of Social Theory and a social constructionist view.

DeWine Raking In Profits as Unemployed Workers Go Months With No Income

While countless unemployed workers wait in the dark not knowing when they will see another dime from unemployment insurance, Governor Mike DeWine took to the media Tuesday to declare we need a Public Private Partnership. DeWine who has already paid 9.6 million to Deloitte who has failed the job of getting the payments out but has succeeded in giving DeWine financial contributions is said to be handling unemployment systems for five other states. As the weeks go on Ohio keeps moving dates further and are saying now that people will have to wait months for payment, February 26th was the date that was given yesterday. And despite having databases full of unemployed workers personal information, they have failed to respond or initiate contact with those waiting and suffering growing desperate.

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