The teacher of history’s work should be, ideally, not simply a description of past cultures, but a performance of the culture in which we live and are increasingly taking our being.
Category Archive: William Irwin Thompson
In the domain of cops and robbers, an interdiction serves to structure a black market and a shadow economy.
Hominid and human evolution took place over millions and not billions of years, but with the emergence of language there was a further acceleration of time and the rate of change.
With the emergence of civilization, the rate of change shifted from hundreds of thousands of years to millennia. With the emergence of science as a way of knowing the universe, the rate of change shifted to centuries.
The more chaos there is, the more science holds on to abstract systems of control, and the more chaos is engendered.
Unconscious Polities emerge independent of conscious purpose.
If you do not create your destiny, you will have your fate inflicted upon you.
The conscious purpose of science is control of Nature; its unconscious effect is disruption and chaos.
Catastrophes are often stimulated by the failure to feel the emergence of a domain, and so what cannot be felt in the imagination is experienced as embodied sensation in the catastrophe.
A World is not an ideology nor a scientific institution, nor is it even a system of ideologies; rather, it is a structure of unconscious relations and symbiotic processes.