The following was a piece which came to my mind some two years back after coming across the "Book Draft" of the Ethiopian PM Melesse Zenawi, who was looking for the "Economic Remedy" of Africa and Ethiopia; promoting the ill-popularized ideas of his "economist guru", Prof. Joseph E. Stiglitz on "develpomental state".
You know, theses days the Prof. is paying back the tribute to his adoring "Student" (cf. Audience at the Columbia University). An occasion to look at the piece again:
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Words of Emotion*
"Make it as simple as possible, but not less simple" (Einstein)
"Oh," said the mouse, "the world is becoming tighter with each passing day. First, it was so wide that I was afraid. I ran and ran on and was happy to finally find a wall in a distance. Left and right in the distance I saw the walls, but these long walls rush so quickly to each other that I already find myself in the last room, and there at an angle, is the trap in which I run."-
" You only have to change the direction, „said the cat and ate the rat. (Kafka fable…My translation; 1/)
OH! POOR AFRICA? Lacks the State, The “Stick and the Stock”?
One can never undo the past. Therefore one has to get acquainted to it positively and inclusively as authentically as possible. Deconstruction (revolution, class struggle etc.) may be a phase in a life process, on the conscious or unconscious highway of "the search for truth"; down deep at the bottom of the spirit to understand or at least to imagine what is at stake. But once so deep to conceive what IT is or can BE, one has to take IT the way it came, as events of time and appraise it critically, unbiased by agency which may prefer to see it otherwise, be it moved by some utilatrian ulterior purpose, or driven by some ideological motives (ex. colonialism, ideology or systems of faith etc) of this or that colour...
In this objective, whithout being in a position to evaluate the authenticity of scholarly reports and documentation, I think the following "blog" has a lot of quite interesting contributions concerning "Ethiopia" and our African Past. It is high time that we attain some sort of self-esteem without claiming any form of "superiority" or any notions of ideologically motivated exclusiveness (ie. being better than this or that or the "other" and the "counterpart"; the concern of nature has never been the point of being better or worse but contention and concerted actions and events to develop by the way of the nuances of differences signifying different qualities; ie. singularities, every single of them in their innate rights and legitimation "to be and become" what they are!), and manifest sovereignty in reflecting on the past, in order to make a breakthrough into the future. Africa and Ethiopia had enough sufferings and require the immediate "light" and "peace" along every line and aspect.
In this perspective reading the blog: "An Ethiopian Journal" is indeed interesting; if you prefer of course always critically ... I prefer to be critical too but always "positive in a difference" /a^ la Deleuze/.
Correlation of the Micro-Particle with the Socio-Natural Reality (Part I)
At the micro-particle level, “four types of interactions underlie four types of forces:
gravitational, electromagnetic, strong and weak.” *
And the fifth fundamental interaction is between the masses of the
fundamental particles. It is in a way enchanting to notice that “reality” is always interpreted along 4 lines – right from the antics –be it philosophy, religion, science or arts…i.e. like…the four fundamental elements “fire, earth, water, air” of classical philosophy…. up to the modern Einstein interpretation of space x, y, z, t… the three coordinates of space and time…. And even today, after such a tremendous leap in experimental science during this century, modern quantum science has also not discovered categories, which are in principle different to these four lines of interpretation.(1*
It seems that this has to do with our very early initial conditions of existence ...the source …the big-bang or creation…it is irrelevant which way you take it!
And our limitations of dimensioning, since we are ourselves amidst this substance…and for good…always in a process of emergence and creativity….whatever our imagination would be and wherever it would suggest to take us …the destiny. And thus …no wonder that the micro-particle level has also to manifest the very four lines of interpretation….with the four fundamental types of interactions; and I believe the macro perspective does not make an exception too. Instead it even shows a rather congruent correlation with the micro dimensions, perhaps giving us a clue to our social problems.
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From the macro-perspective, in the parlance of
“The Harmony Model”(I= hq2 & E=mc2)
The correlations would look like the following:
1. Gravity goes with the “material plane” with
“mass”/m as the Strange Attractor of Meaning/SAM;
(Objective: wealth/ perfection; scale: development of science)
“Gravity is perhaps the most familiar force to us; its effects are tiny in particle
processes. On the largest scales, gravity is the most important force.”*
2. Electromagnetic force corresponds to the “spiritual plane”
with the “speed of light”/c as the SAM of the plane;
(Objective: faith/enlightenment; scale: space as far as non-dimensionality)
“Electromagnetic forces are also familiar; they are responsible for binding the
electrons to the nucleus to form electrically neutral atoms. Atoms combine to form
molecules or crystals because of electromagnetic effects due to their charged
substructure. Most everyday forces (such as the support of the floor or friction) are
due to the electromagnetic forces in matter that resist displacement of atoms or electrons from their equilibrium positions in the material. The carrier particle of the
electromagnetic force is the photon”.*
3. The Strong force belongs to the “cultural plane”
with “quality of music/aesthetics “/q as the SAM;
(Objective: human culture; scale: cultural development)
“The strong force holds quarks together to form hadrons; its carrier particles are
whimsically called gluons because they so successfully "glue" the quarks
together. The binding of protons and neutrons to form nuclei is the result of the residual strong interaction due to their strongly interacting quark and gluon constituents.”*
4. The Weak force correlates with the “social plane “
with “humanity”/h as the SAM;
(Objective: peace; scale: history)
“The weak forces are the only processes in which a quark (or some other
elementary particles) can CHANGE to another type of quark (or particle); they
are responsible for the fact that all the more massive quarks decay to produce
lighter quarks. In a nucleus where there is sufficient energy, the weak
forces make a neutron become a proton and give off an electron and an antielectron
neutrino. It is because of the weak forces that the stable matter around us contains
only electrons and the lightest two types of quarks.”*
5. And the fifth interactional force is the “human plane”
The four interactional forces at the micro-particle, which correlate with the four planes of the socio-natural reality at the macro-level of social dynamics, may indicate complex intrinsic relations with one another (as if the micro-particle is the last instance of bifurcations in nature and its structures).Given this fact, with social harmony as the all encompassing attractor of meaning for a social-complex at large, the macro-coordinates of social-dynamics, can be interpreted alongthethreemodesof syntheses , mostly employed by philosophers (Deleuze , Whitehead, & Kant, all under their own parlance but suggesting close similarities) and an additional one, which follows out of the logic of the “harmony model”:
Connective Synthesis
Disjunctive Synthesis
Conjunctive Synthesis
And
Reflective Synthesis (cf. Harmony model)
The following table shows the relations of the four syntheses with their harmony-co-ordinates determining their social-functions and attractors of Meanings. The complete overall interrelations and interactions between all the coordinates of the social complex can be made more transparent with the pictures that follow:
Syntheses
Harmony co-ordinates
Functional-precipitation
Conjunctives
Planes
Consumption
Connectives
Dimensions
Production
Disjunctives
Axes
SAMs
Reflexives
Cross-sections
Values/social & material
All syntheses take place at the same time and have the same duration, in their abstraction phase and their conceptions begin right from the virtual to be actualized according to the given social conditions, with all possible differentials and multiplicities, be it intensive or extensive. For an algebra employmentof social dynamics, these modes of synthesis would have coefficients of...x ( where x is k; h,q,m,l; p; or r . ) is less than "one/1/" and more than "zero/0"
A flash of reflection on social work and transformation:
We can see at a glance without further analysis (follows in the appropriate space-time), that the material (universe, nature & mankind) and the spiritual planes (faith/philosophy, religion & conscience) are the most important instances (since there is no life devoid of gravity and light/ ie. Mass and photon/), which would bring about a substantial change of meaning to initiate a social transformation and effect new structures in the social (state, community & family) and cultural (laws, ethics & love) planes, with the cultural plane, (as the correlating strong force at the particle level suggests) playing a big role in consolidating the transformations, which are always in the process of formations.
Nonetheless there cannot be a sustainable social change without the harmonious play of all the four planes evoking the creative becoming process of the human plane.A process of reality (a lá Whitehead & Deleuze), which makes sure through the continuity of the human plane’s intensive emergence, that the singular, autonomous, harmonious and sovereign individual would develop through generations to come.
Legacy politics: When two people quarrel rejoices the third – to rule over them… (up to the 20th century)
Visionary politics: When two people come together rejoices the third – to join them in their Human Empathy…(… 21st century ….)
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Human DIGNITY:
21st century is the era of Liberation Movements for Human Dignity, encompassing all other Movements, to make them superfluous – non-dogmatic, non-religious and non-ethnic with the great Common Collective Will for Human Empathy!
11 0220 11 - EGYPT's Dignity Day, the Landmark for a radical break with all Tyrannies!
