I'm building a discussion space for words, phrases and numbers that too often confuse, divide or harm more than clarify and connect. I need your help to make this work.
The function of nouns is to divide the single unified reality in to conceptual parts. We can then rearrange the conceptual parts in our minds to create visions of reality which don't yet exist. That is, we can be creative.
The price tag for this process is a significant degree of distortion, as the divisions created by nouns are only conceptual, not real. These conceptual divisions are useful but arbitrary inventions of the human mind, which leaves them open to various interpretations often resulting in confusion. The word "we" can mean a million different things depending on the context in which it is used, but as a noun it creates the illusion of having a fixed meaning.
Environmental crisis arises from this fundamental process of conceptual division, as "me" is _perceived_ to be separate from "environment". Conceptually this is true, but in the real world it's false. When does a glass of water that I drink become "me"? When does the air I breathe become "me"? We can reasonably draw these boundaries in a variety of places, which reveals the arbitrary nature of the divisions we perceive.
We are made of thought. Thought operates by a process of division. All else for the better and the worse in the human experience arises from that source.
The function of nouns is to divide the single unified reality in to conceptual parts. We can then rearrange the conceptual parts in our minds to create visions of reality which don't yet exist. That is, we can be creative.
The price tag for this process is a significant degree of distortion, as the divisions created by nouns are only conceptual, not real. These conceptual divisions are useful but arbitrary inventions of the human mind, which leaves them open to various interpretations often resulting in confusion. The word "we" can mean a million different things depending on the context in which it is used, but as a noun it creates the illusion of having a fixed meaning.
Environmental crisis arises from this fundamental process of conceptual division, as "me" is _perceived_ to be separate from "environment". Conceptually this is true, but in the real world it's false. When does a glass of water that I drink become "me"? When does the air I breathe become "me"? We can reasonably draw these boundaries in a variety of places, which reveals the arbitrary nature of the divisions we perceive.
We are made of thought. Thought operates by a process of division. All else for the better and the worse in the human experience arises from that source.
The cultural “WE”, we the community based group, climate justice and small ngo’s, especially, in groups and in communities where there is consensus.
Us and them
Them -- racists fascist capitalist industries that have captured regulators, legislators and big NGOs