Fundamentals of Crisis

"Imagine every question, large and small, and then imagine beneath them a scaffold, a meta-language, that is the structure that must be in place if we take "answers" seriously. Every question is a crisis. If resolution is not possible then the idea of free-will is of no use. If it is possible, as we maintain by hope and commonsense, that our first place of learning must be meta-language, we have to venture there to see the question. Remember that this structure, the fundamental world of thought and expression of socio-cultural language, is not mere words. It is an active realm where thoughts-words-actions intertwine."

This is why an individuated "process" world of "thinking" or philosophy must be built prior to communication. This is why students are asked to shut up. There is a world beneath our confidence, beneath our politics and beneath our ethics, that lead us to progress. If this individuation does not occur, our words are a random jumble of questions that, ironically, expect no real answer. Most of what humans say is akin to, "My, how the weather seems to be changing …"

If the extent of human life is superficial (no teaching, no politics, no leadership) and is to talk about the weather, then my theory is over-reaching and moot. If however there appears a real crisis, a real question mandating a resolution, the race of sleeping humans are going to be without the tools to properly phrase and answer anything and this crisis will bring them down.

Isn't this our current situation? A real-world of crisis defined by an internal, spiritual world of whim and randomness? What I mean by this is that Earth is an obese person begging for a real-world solution to real-world health problems; and yet, like an obese person's thinking, the real-world resolution has been subordinated to fantasy. The fantasy itself has been elevated to the status of "real." And like this obese person, the planet is on a tangible and catastrophic trajectory that is not subject to whim and not sympathetic to the inevitable consequences of annihilation. What I mean is that without intervention Nature wins.