page 35 jbml thln 75 "to explain a ball falling


FROM
OUR HAND:"
I am on
uncertain ground & intrigued here! When you write, "in this spirit," it seems to me (now, on rereading) you are referring to the "spirit" of a Cartesian-coordinate imagination in which we talk about EFFECTS of FORCES on discrete objects, rather than about dynamic PROCESSES that effect manifestations (or events) as "objects" in the universe.

Tell me if this is right, for it not, I risk continuing onto a path of ridiculousness, ignoring your caution at page 32 above by enthusiati-cally analogizing your scientific discussion to a human social one. But I do not risk it, for the analogy is too tempting to this analytic distinction in ways of talking about human events.

One way of talking is to take the objects (religions, ethnicities) as givens and to talk about forces that affect them; the other is to talk about the processes that produce the "religion effect" or "the history effect." The latter strikes me as both more compelling & more pro-mising for the prospects of discourse aiding us in our attempt to survive. Stanley Diamond dais something like this (albeit more concretely) decades ago:
"FOR EXAMPLE, IN THIS PERSPECTIVE THE MODERN WORLD, THROUGH THE INTERACTION OF THE MAJOR STATES, MAY BE VIEWED AS RESPONSIBLE FOR STALINISM, NOT THE EVIL GENIUS OF THE RUSSIAN PEOPLE, NOT DOMESTIC SOVIET EVENTS ALONE, NOT THE ABSTRACT COMPULSIONS OF THE PARTICULAR VERSION OF "Marxism."

IN THE SAME WAY, OUR CIVILIZATION ID ALSO RESEPONSIBLR FOR NAZISM, NOT THE CONSTITUTIONAL PERFIDITY OF THE GERMANS, ETC.

In the same way, though I think guilt is not called for here, the evident degradation of our immediate future prospects is not
SOMEONE ELSE'S
FAULT.
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