Ah...now do not confuse Ta Panta Nous with the "Man in the sky" mumbo jumbo of the Sungod cults.

The dialectic of Quantum Physics/Wave Mechanics has revealed through this synthesis that, that which we behold is indeed manifest of our consciousness; that Now is the eternal moment; that time and space are our shared fantasy as ta panta.

Socialist Revolution? Do you really want that?

Beware of what you ask for you just might get it! The Universe is entity and every one is the center---we need no other center, especially in the form of man made government. your Socialist Utopia is best left as a dream, for every attempt to manifest in flesh has resulted in terrifying dystopia.

by William Whitten (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 4880 comments [1686 recommended, 28 rejected]) on Monday, Jan 5, 2009 at 2:45:13 AM

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Long live Capitalism! It is eternal, unilateral, universal. It is hen kai pan, it has no negation. Revolution, socialism and socialist revolution ... all are for dreamers, for international Marxists and national socialists. Why worry, we will all adopt and adapt ourselves over and over again. Long live the status quo, the establishment! Surely, you would agree with me, with this kind of illogical ideological jargon, we will get nowhere.

Well, all of these we hear all over every day; they are different opinions, other views, conflicting world outlooks. We accept them, we respect them, we affirm them, we know what they are all about. This is an excellent starting point. Do to others ...

What next? No matter how small, how simple they may be, if we do not have our own logic, science and philosophy, then others will do things for us, will force us to do things for them, will act and think for us, will be our bosses, our masters. We will eventually acquire a slave mentality, a pauper existence. Thus, we need an identity, a class difference, in fact, a 'trifference', to be able to surpass, to negate, to excel, to move straight forward, to transcend.

Without real, true revolutionary imagination and fantasy this would well nigh be impossible.

However, to enter the utopian realm of the new, to do things that we never did before and will not repeat them again; to think things and concepts that we never ever have thought about before,  and should not repeat them again; in other words, we have to surpass the capitalist Mental Moloch, to surpass repetitive practice with militant scientific praxis and to venture beyond ideological straw and religious illusions with optimistic philosophic theory; ... well, only then we could begin to formulate a categoric No, to negate, to act and talk about, to criticize  socialist revolution. There exists no Nes-Socialism, no Socialism Light, only the Negation of Capitalism, anti-capitalism.

As such we can listen to other opinions and ideas, to realize that one is not a walking encyclopedia, a know-it-all, could we enjoy criticism, self-critique, dissension or contradiction too. But this is only looking for, is expecting to find the exit for exodus, the exception for 'exvolution'. ... Yes, the homo novum, the new (wo)man has to act, think and excel all of, by and for her/himself, ... for ourselves, hic et nunc!

Probably, I lost you now. No problem, accompany us, we have just crossed the historic, the labor Rubicon, we are entering the continuum and discontinuum of the micro-macro worlds of Quantum Physics, we are surrounded by natural possibilities, by social probabilities and by 'transjective' transcendences, we do not know exactly where the electron is finding itself; in the ether, fractal geometric music of the spheres calm us, Schroedinger's Cat is still save in her  Pandora Box. We begin to contradict determinism with indeterminism, as two sides of the same coin, as alpha and omega of galactic existence. We forget all about labor, we become creative, creators.

Well, we are leaving Father Xmas, Dagobert Duck, Disney Land, Falujah, Nagasaki and Gaza behind, ... also all fairy tales, prophecies and revelations behind, ... we are leaving the university, universal, unilateral reality; for the very first time in our lives, we are beginning to learn to count beyond one, beyond patriarchal oneness, union, unity, uniformity, beyond the exchange values of the arche, hyle, hydor, pyr, pneuma, aer, atom, idea, logos, nous, morphe, ratio, ... as human trinity, human totality -- human beings, human existences and human transcendences -- rather, much more, as human infinity, we start to  postulate our manifold intergalactic selves, much more than any monotheistic hen which breeds in a  monolithic imperialist frying pan.

We challenge the formal logical, ideological 'hen kai pan', the one and all, including its closed dialectics, its internal, systemic 'development', its evolutionary and revolutionary 'panta rhei'. 

Some of us are already moving in the spheres of neither/nor, of the unknown, undiscovered worlds of Hamlet, we are  detonated the jail house bars of third law of formal logics (and of closed systemic dialectics), we are on the bon voyage of a myriad tracks, relations and contradictions of creative, creating emancipation, of emancipatory creation; yes, the African Arabs, who first 'discovered' America,  knew about these sphere centuries ago; they called them 'natura naturata' and 'natura naturans'. Really, there is no easy road to freedom, socialist revolution is just the rudimentary compendium of juvenile daydreams, is the possible Blochian utopia; it forms the multiple principles of true human hope. 

Thanks for your comment, it is well-received. I hope that you will also enjoy my delicious plate of splendid terrestrial and celestial food for scientific philosophic thought.

by Franz J. T. Lee (15 articles, 1 quicklinks, 2 diaries, 17 comments) on Monday, Jan 5, 2009 at 5:47:13 PM

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I enjoyed it indeed! A brilliant exposition of terrific lingual acrabaics and subtle pulls upon the minds harp. And yet still paradox divides the whole as there is only one which cannot be divided. And yet still we dream and manifest. Viva, Yahoo and screaming banshees too!

 Tasty dressing.

by William Whitten (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 4880 comments [1686 recommended, 28 rejected]) on Monday, Jan 5, 2009 at 11:55:52 PM

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"All our global social problems are man-made, hence we, mankind, can undo, solve and transcend them towards creative, human emancipation."

I agree we have many man-made problems, but why can't man have help in learning to act on solving them?

For example, a child makes mistakes, but why can't his parents guide him to better choices?  Can children solve childish mistakes, or do they mature and develop the capacity to solve them?  What is the maturation process we call wisdom?

How is it that the world has always had prophets that have said the same thing?  They usually contradict whatever the orthodoxy is, be it religious, political or economic.  What do they hear, that you don't hear?

by Steve Consilvio (18 articles, 0 quicklinks, 3 diaries, 184 comments [4 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Monday, Jan 5, 2009 at 7:53:48 PM

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   Socialism is a European political device used to restore European militarism after European militarism has brought nations to economic failure through war.   The two most prominent examples are, of course, the National Socialist Party in Germany and the Communist Party in Russia.  In the Americas socialism has a less spectacular existence that consists of attaching itself to existing political factions and presentation of socialistic agendas in existing political parties. 

by Robert Winn (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 38 comments) on Monday, Jan 5, 2009 at 8:47:52 PM

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There is a lot of truth in your post Robert, but I tend to think of socialism as a response to economc failure.  Capitalists morph into socialist societies, Socialist societies morph into capitalist societies.  Muslims, Jews, Christians have a religious society on their mind, which is why they don't seem to 'fit in.'  (And was why the author of this article started from his mistaken premise.)

Militarism comes about only because all economic theories have failed, and forced is used instead of thought.  All philosophies eventually resort to militarism if they cannot reach the point of transcendence.

 Every government takes shape around the concept of money and fairness, but they have all began from militarism, thus they failed when they began.

by Steve Consilvio (18 articles, 0 quicklinks, 3 diaries, 184 comments [4 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Tuesday, Jan 6, 2009 at 9:22:44 AM

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Folks, thanks for your interesting comments and sincere openmindedness, I really enjoyed their educational  contents; once more you remind me of my shepherd existence as a small boy herding sheep, cattle and horses on the green pastures and plains of my homeland, of apartheid South Africa. Then I was very religious and in the evenings I was reading the Holy Bible to my old aunt.

I enjoyed the natural beauty of Sunny South Africa, I led the horses , the pack animals, towards still waters running deep, I tried to be nice to the sheep, by separating them from the strange goats. I tried to direct them in righteous paths, to be fattened much faster. Alas, all in vain, they could not be converted into good, white sheep. In spite of my patience and tolerance, my mercy and goodness, most of them did not allow me to recruit them for anything else than the savory green pastures.

I took the horses to drink, but I could not force them to relish the natural cool waters from the bowels of Mother Nature. Later, in life, following the thorny, serpentine trails, I witnessed how many of them were forced to pass through the valley of fear and woe, to get the royal treatment. As private property their masters were comforting them by collecting their fallen bits left over after the Skyhawk bytes sent them into infinity. Ever since Sharpeville and Soweto, by using their sticks and carrots, ...  their Aaron rods and Moses staffs, their fraudulent ballots and depleted uranium bullets, ... the chosen few, the Herrenvolk, the master race. anointed the 'black sheep' with consumerist oils, made their wages run over, and told them to dwell in the house of Capital for ever.

A few are still on other orbits, on other wave lengths, are venturing beyond, they know what it means to find somewhere on this god forlorn planet still independent action, original thought, emancipatory wisdom. This novelty, originality, authenticity, is what we should not nip in the bud by mans of senseless aggression ad hominem, with pejorative language and selfish destruction; this is the quintessence of beauty, truth and love, this is that what we as a living species still have left, after a marauding capitalism and a vandalistic so-called 'real and existent socialism'; without any pathological illness, without any ill fate and without any illusions, this is what I treasure, is that what we all should cultivate, preserve and defend. Once more, thanks for such fertile comments and sincere thoughts.

by Franz J. T. Lee (15 articles, 1 quicklinks, 2 diaries, 17 comments) on Tuesday, Jan 6, 2009 at 12:48:06 PM

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...the horses just aren't thirsty.

by William Whitten (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 4880 comments [1686 recommended, 28 rejected]) on Tuesday, Jan 6, 2009 at 9:43:27 PM

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There are only a few in every story ever told.  You told us a story about you and your aunt, for example.

That does not mean that only a few are chosen; everyone is chosen.  Be careful of being to literal, or you may discover that you are the horse who refuses to drink.

by Steve Consilvio (18 articles, 0 quicklinks, 3 diaries, 184 comments [4 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Wednesday, Jan 7, 2009 at 5:42:08 PM

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For what are these 'poor devils' chosen, and by whom?

I do not take all things in the Holy Bible as literate. But when its authors at the end threaten me with weeping and gnashing of teeth in eternal fire , because I changed anything in the Revelations,  then a chill goes down my spine; then for me also ignorance, confusion and make believe become bliss.

Furthermore, then it becomes folly for me to use certain words, scientifically I have to replace them with synonyms like national socialism, Moloch, Murdoch or even Hologram or holograph. Not everybody is allowed freely to choose, to be chosen. Plato, Aristotle and others had their 'chosen people', their 'children of Ham', their 'barbarians', their 'white man's burden', their 'hewers of wood and drawers of water', their 'speaking tools'. Not everybody picked and chose in history. 

In 150 to 200 years from now, that is, if anybody would still exist on this planet, who will still think or talk about us, about the unchosen billions, so why all the fuzz to get what we want, about the danger to be eliminated by socialism and communism?

Whether we like it or not, still mankind will talk about the few, Spartacus, Marx, Lenin, Castro and Chavez! About us, about me, no fowl will crow thrice!

Will capitalism save the unchosen majority? Well, just look around. For what are these poor people chosen, and by whom?

by Franz J. T. Lee (15 articles, 1 quicklinks, 2 diaries, 17 comments) on Thursday, Jan 8, 2009 at 9:20:20 PM

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