Nos,

Thanks for the feedback, which is what I’m looking for, not a grade.

I would say that I’m not a writer by trade and am simply trying to conceptualize my experience of life.

Which goes to the issue of breaking these ideas into separate works and focus on the details of each.

That goes to the dichotomy of the whole, versus the parts, the general versus the specific, as I am a very physically oriented person, having spent my life working with race horses and agriculture in general. So, for me, these various thoughts that I’ve seemingly jumbled together, do fit together, in a larger, yin/yang, cyclical, reciprocal, feedback oriented experience of reality.

Which doesn’t necessarily work well in a narrative, linear, goal oriented medium, such as writing. Yet that’s my preferred form of expression, because I like reading.

How I’m breaking these ideas down, in Medium, is to go around and comment on other’s writing, trying to specifically address issues that they have raised.

It is when I write my own essays that I try drawing all these disparate observations into a larger whole. Sometimes and for some people it works better, but it seems the more educated someone is, the more they tend to focus on the details and the larger picture doesn’t come through.

Which is probably logical, since the basis of civilization is cause and effect narrative. So knowledge is discrete, categorized and clear, like a still picture, while my thinking is jumbled because it is very much a dynamic, bubbling up and constantly shuffling these impressions around, breaking the more static ones apart and pushing others together.

Consider that in math and theoretical physics the dichotomy is between order and chaos. Yet consider the dichotomy of energy and form;

The form of waves is frequency and amplitude, yet that is not the energy and dynamic creating and driving these forms. As I pointed out, this relationship applies to everything from galaxies, as the energy radiates out, while forms coalesce in, to our bodies, with the gut and heart processing the energy driving us, while the head sorts through the forms.

As I like to point out, there is a reason why the people running armies are called generals, while specialist is a rank slightly above private.

We can’t process both the infinity of detail, while sensing the broader picture being expressed. So we have this society, where our attention to detail gives us enormous knowledge and technology, while our basic understanding of how society functions really hasn’t advanced much in the last several thousand years. So we just patch over problems, as they arise.

As I point out, government, as executive and regulatory function, is analogous to the central nervous system of society, while money, banking and finance is its circulation system. If that simple point was grasped, than we could use the basic knowledge of how these systems interact, to explain, if not rectify, some of the disfunction of society.

One sorts through the various forms and orders them, while the other pumps the energy where it’s most useful. At least that’s how its supposed to work….

Then again, philosophy allows monotheistic religion to conflate the ideal with the absolute and doesn’t bother to question the incongruities, other than reject the simplistic father figure deity.

Given several decades of trying to discuss such ideas and basically having other people steer around me, like a pothole in the road, because they know where they are and where they are going, so it’s much easier to ignore such questions, than try thinking them through, I’m basically just waiting for civilization to finish collapsing. Probably taking me with it, but I’m nothing, if not realistic.

Hopefully some point will arise, as we are truly staring into the abyss, that new ideas are considered. Unfortunately, that is when people are most likely to grasp most tightly to the old.

Whatever rises from the ashes, maybe a few lessons will have been learned.