The Science of the Political Divide.

[John D. Brey]

We live in a political climate of division and conflict where the separation between the so-called Left and Right is as wide as it's been in a most of our lives . A student of history, anthropology, religion, and or philosophy, is no doubt aware that there's a binary relationship directly associated with living things, and or Being itself (in Heidegger's sense of the word) such that the division itself isn't unique or alarming but only the fact that what we might consider a healthy balance, or unity between the poles, appears to be in the process of an ugly divorce.



John

 

[John D. Brey]

We live in a political climate of division and conflict where the separation between the so-called Left and Right is as wide as it's been in a most of our lives . A student of history, anthropology, religion, and or philosophy, is no doubt aware that there's a binary relationship directly associated with living things, and or Being itself (in Heidegger's sense of the word) such that the division itself isn't unique or alarming but only the fact that what we might consider a healthy balance, or unity between the poles, appears to be in the process of an ugly divorce.

As in any marriage, the battle between the two binary elements in the union is natural and healthy. Even an occasional skirmish usually strengthens the bond rather than damaging it. Nevertheless, there are times when the division between two binary elements formerly in union tatters and tears making repair out of the question. When the divorce relates to two individuals in a marriage the separation though painful and unhealthy isn't a concern for the larger organism or organization of the community or nation. But when the divorce is between the Left and the Right that make up the community or nation, the divorce could be considered the most dangerous and troublesome event likely to occur in the lifetimes of all involved.



John

 

[John D. Brey]

As in any marriage, the battle between the two binary elements in the union is natural and healthy. Even an occasional skirmish usually strengthens the bond rather than damaging it. Nevertheless, there are times when the division between two binary elements formerly in union tatters and tears making repair out of the question. When the divorce relates to two individuals in a marriage the separation though painful and unhealthy isn't a concern for the larger organism or organization of the community or nation. But when the divorce is between the Left and the Right that make up the community or nation, the divorce could be considered the most dangerous and troublesome event likely to occur in the lifetimes of all involved.

And yet there's something even more worthy of fear and loathing than a battle to the death between the Left and Right that make up a community and or nation. It could even be considered a terror, or terrifying, when what R.B. Thieme, Jr. called the "client nation," is the fraying unity that's in the cross-hairs.

In Col. Thieme's parlance, a "client nation" represents the most powerful nation at a given time in history. The client nation often polices the world and provides the guidance that lesser, or less developed nations, attempt to mimic and or follow. When conflict and division occur in these less developed nations, the victims of the conflict often flock to the client nation for salvation from the storm taking place in their own nation. When conflict breaks out in the lesser nations, the client nation often intercedes to settle the conflict in a manner less damaging to the community of nations as a whole.

But when it's the client nation, in today's world the USA, that's beginning to disintegrate and come apart, there's nowhere to immigrate, nowhere to hide, since the dis-integration of the client nation often brings the rest of the world down with it. Historically this occurred when the British Empire frayed, and before that when the Roman Empire collapsed leading to the Dark Ages.

And yet what's before us now will make both the fraying of the British Empire, and the collapse of the Roman Empire, completely pale in comparison since never has the world been so dependent on one nation (formerly under God), and never has it been the case that there's no longer a frontier (other than the final frontier) where the refuges of the conflict can go to escape the carnage and establish a new nation having learned from the mistakes of the last.



John

 

[RestlessSoul]

An interesting analysis, if a little gloomy, and a little Americentric.

 

[John D. Brey]

An interesting analysis, if a little gloomy, and a little Americentric.

I think my intro may have veered off in the wrong direction. My main concern is the abstract dynamics concerning the disintegration or divorce of a formerly healthy binary relationship. In the sense of the binary relationship I'm concerned with there's always a host, or original Being/pole, and a secondary Being/pole that comes out of, as an epiphenomenon (i.e., a secondary phenomena) the origin or original.

In the Bible, Eve, the woman, and wife, comes out of Adam, the male, the origin, the original. Interpreted within the context of of a particular brand of theology, this binary relationship between Adam and Eve is the seminal prototype and schematic for all such binary relationships. Where this theologoumenon (theologizing) is accepted, the relationship between the Left and the Right follows the pattern of the relationship between Adam and Eve, and or a husband and a wife.

In Judeo/Christian theology, the marriage of a husband and a wife is one of the most sacred emblems of God's plan in post-lapsarian history since the proper dynamics of the unity of male and female, husband and wife, are in themselves the proper dynamics in relationship to every other binary unity to include the proper political dynamics of the Left and the Right.

Where this framework is accepted, the first task would be to determine which political pole represents the origin, the male, and which represents the ephiphenomenon, the female?



John

 

[RestlessSoul]

I think my intro may have veered off in the wrong direction. My main concern is the abstract dynamics concerning the disintegration or divorce of a formerly healthy binary relationship. In the sense of the binary relationship I'm concerned with there's always a host, or original Being/pole, and a secondary Being/pole that comes out of, as an epiphenomenon (i.e., a secondary phenomena) the origin or original.

In the Bible, Eve, the woman, and wife, comes out of Adam, the male, the origin, the original. Interpreted within the context of of a particular brand of theology, this binary relationship between Adam and Eve is the seminal prototype and schematic for all such binary relationships. Where this theologoumenon (theologizing) is accepted, the relationship between the Left and the Right follows the pattern of the relationship between Adam and Eve, and or a husband and a wife.

In Judeo/Christian theology, the marriage of a husband and a wife is one of the most sacred emblems of God's plan in post-lapsarian history since the proper dynamics of the unity of male and female, husband and wife, are in themselves the proper dynamics in relationship to every other binary unity to include the proper political dynamics of the Left and the Right.

Where this framework is accepted, the first task would be to determine which political pole represents the origin, the male, and which represents the ephiphenomenon, the female?



John

Well if we’re going to stick with the polar analogy, it may be worth considering that the Earth’s poles are constantly shifting and occasionally, every few hundred thousand years or so, undergo a complete reversal.

Meanwhile, in particle physics, a magnetic monopole has been predicted by theorists, but not as yet detected.

 

[John D. Brey]

Well if we’re going to stick with the polar analogy, it may be worth considering that the Earth’s poles are constantly shifting and occasionally, every few hundred thousand years or so, undergo a complete reversal.

Meanwhile, in particle physics, a magnetic monopole has been predicted by theorists, but not as yet detected.

Very interesting. Particularly since that seems to be similar to where this thread is heading. Properly exegeted, the Hebrew text of Genesis chapter 2 implies Adam and Eve were originally going to be something like a monopole so far as gender is concerned. But there was a very serious slip betwixt the cup and the lip that occurred in Genesis 2:21 such that our lives, every one of our lives, has come under demonic distortions related to a binary duality caused by, and temporarily (even momentarily) unified by, the very phallus whose demonic creation and existence makes the momentary unification necessary in the first place.



John