Going by the previous post, schisms occur in feudal societies as a matter of course, basically owing to this overlap of spiritual and temporal authority. Clair Noto's "Red Lace" captures that idea in a Hyborean-era fantasy that is second to nun (if nuns there were in the palace of Apah Alah.)
This seems to imply that a sorcerous or spiritual dimension is required for schisms to occur or - as noted - the monetary authority becomes like unto a dictatorship. In the modern state, this dictatorship has become fixed on the ego of acolytes of electromagnetism - straight line logic, algorithms.
But, if schisms are real things then this modern straight-line reality is simply an illusion that serves the ego. The ego is convinced because it is convincing, like a fantasy of CG.
But, where does spirit come from? For a start, it comes from schisms, since living things are completely fragmented in their design.
Muscles (a protein) are banded and generally attached to joints by ligaments. They weave round the skeletal structure in elongated, compartmentalised shapes. The shape of a male calf is typically male; the shape of a female calf is typically female.
Why? It's not because one has an X and the other a Y chromosome (that's just information.) The reason is that muscle is inherently shapely, whether snake-shape or male-shape or female-shape (or female-snake).
We live in a world that ignores the fact that shape has spiritual component, that there is an.overlap between the spirit and the temporal.
Because shape is impossible to explain in temporal terms, it is simply ignored (protein-folding can be algorithmically computed, but see prev.) The temporal - the world of pure information or DNA - then becomes a dictatorship.
The dictatorship is convincing to the ego of acolytes of the mirror of illusions. It's a self-reinforcing illusion of fact. I noticed that Kemp commented on "protein spikes" as a consequence of the malprogramming of mRNA, which is certainly feasible.
A programmable worldexists alongside the real world of shape and spirit. Living things occupy different levels of development; higher levels have the development of spirit. Each member of the body is a spiritual dimension. The organization of muscles is schismatic (arranged in mutually opposing groups.) The body is organized feudally and can even turn on itself in the cancerous growths.
This feudal facet of nature is ignored by the "facts" of an.information system. The trend was possibly anticipated by Ada Lovelace (prev), the "poetic" programmer. Without poetry, everything is partial.
Muscles are designed mechanically to operate antagonistically (on joints etc), but with a higher purpose (antagonism or schism is necessary for purpose - acts of meaning.)
That purpose is the shape of the body. Anything that is designed to operate at a higher purpose constitutes spirit. A single human body operating antagonistically in the field (scything, tilling etc) is active in a place of power. The physical strength and fertility renders the psyche palpable.
The physical and the psyche are difficult to disentangle in these active situations (where physical power exists). Traditional communal harvesting rituals under the sun are especially noteworthy. There may be Dionysus in his bull guise.
Possibly, going by ethnologist Paul Radin (prev), the shaman strives upward with the psyche, while the man/woman-of-action strives physically with the scythe.
The intermingling of the mechanical with the spirit or psyche constitutes higher strength; conventional Darwinism (or neo-Darwinism) has no source of strength, and tends to be considered as pure information like DNA (for vaccines etc.)
If the body is a series of stages of development, a community is the next stage, and a society the next. Deities of the universe are next; religious shapes Man gives to societies.
Relating this to Afghanistan, Bruno Maçães (Portuguese politician) has said that American power was remote and "a divinity of sorts". He means here a secular divinity of total authority.
It feels like an end. Not the end of Western.power, but the end of the view that power alonematters and the societies over which it is exercised can safely be ignored. Instead of a distant but absolute power, the recognition that important decisions may well have to be taken outside Washington. Instead of conviction in our own truths, curiosity and an open mind. Instead of abstract human rights, the value of the human being in front of us. Instead of the dream of total control, the virtue of balance. (DT)
Maçães also speaks of his familiarity with the north Àfrican region of Somaliland. Why, he wondered, was it prospering when Somalia was not? He suddenly realized it was BECAUSE of Western noninterference.
Without foreign interference, rgw region was able to build a political model rooted in its own traditions. The parliament has an upper house representing the local clans, and it is this upper house that helps maintain cohesion.
It is easy to imagine what would happen if Western experts were put in charge. The parliament would be reformedand the upper house abolished. The fabric of small businesses covering every corner of Hargeisa would be replaced by local cronies fwd by vast transfers of Western funds. Local elites would be replaced by the local version of (Afghan) Ashraf Ghani, the celebrated author of "Fixing Failed States"_ an academic from an obscure American University to educate his fellow citizens in the Western ways. (DT)
Dictatorial power is an.illusion; the spiritual dimension of society is shapely and incurs taste and belief. Western power is temporal only - and that is the illusion.
I'm not talking about guys like Moamar Gaddafi who are tin-pot dictators (with taste and belief.) I'm talking about absolute temporal power backed by the dollar.
As was previously hinted, Turkey and Iran are shaped by spiritual belief. They may be relatively tin-pot but they still have a normalcy. The same in general applies to India despite Modi's indiscretions.
Temporal authority with a spiritual dimension always has a capacity for schism. The Supreme Leader in Iran may not be as secure as they feel, and rebellion around the next corner.
Who knows? The feudal domain is schismatic and thoroughly unpredictable. It has spirit, active force.
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(BWS Fantastic Islands 1974)
Maçães practically uses the language of fantasy to describe American power. That's because it's illusory without the spiritual dimension that shapes societies.
The West lives an illusion that is convincing in terms of number and monetary considerations, but that illusion was exposed in Afghanistan.
