Human psychology evolved under in the social milieu of constrained complexity. Currently, humans live in unconstrained complexity. What has this done to our minds? These topics are addressed in various parts of An Archaeology of the Fall, particularly in chapters 8C and 11B.
[This example points to a strange aspect of the realm of possibility.
The monadic realm includes the possibility of no other possibilities.
This option suggests a mode of operation of sovereign power.
Sovereign power, in the attempt to contextualize itself, reduces other possibilities.]
[Multiculturalism3 is exclusive.
The multiculture2 is full of ‘diversity’.
There is only one cultivation1: the religion of big government (il)liberalism.]
[By the way, this puts the lie to the postreligious (enlightenment) religious obsession labeled ‘multiculturalism’.]
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[The normal context3 is like a gardener who tends her plants and cultivates the soil3.
“Her” garden2 is full of diversity.
However, there is only one garden … one cultivation1.]
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[I suspect that the common rootedness of all normal contexts comes from the fact that they all bring an actuality (which is dyadic and may be decomposed into any number of dyadic relations) into relation with a possibility (which is monadic and so may not be decomposed).]
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[A mirror of the world3 taps into the other triadic relations found in An Archaeology of the Fall and How to Define the Word ‘Religion’. These include:
‘the system3’ of ‘a system3 of differences1’
a symbolic order3
an animating prinicple3
a mediator3
a normal context3
lawessential3
thinkgroup_or_divine3]
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[Given these two nested forms, there are several ways to bring them into relation, including intersection or interscope. Here are two ways to do that.]
[One may dispute these nested formulations. Perhaps, one can claim that the thought experiment should be left out of the picture. However, to me, that runs against a key observation: Choice and the something that can be chosen are two independent actualities.
So, the thought experiment where ‘I choose something’ became a model.
This is not the only way to approach Schoonenberg’s difficult and condensed text. It is the route that I explored.]
