PANDEMONIUM BOOKS & PUBLICATIONS.
Merida, Venezuela, 1999.
COPYRIGHT: Franz J. T. Lee.
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Errare est humanum
Any historic or even patrian event is not unilateral; it does not only have a single meaning, a unique interpretation. There are no one-sided absolutely "true" facts. Any event, any "news item", any "scientific result" is related to its observer, to the specific circumstances, to the ideology of the day, to the interests of the reigning pressure groups, to errare est humanum , and to so many other things.
The Earth in a Square Hole
In Europe, in the year 1000 A.D. , having discovered that the Earth is round and that it revolves around the Sun and to report this in the "local newspaper" surely would have assured a one-way ticket directly to the burning stake. Nowadays, every baby knows this "fact"; and, who knows what we will think about the shape of the Earth in the year 3000 A.D? Perhaps we will then try to fit the round Earth into a square Dark Hole !
This is the problem with "scientific verification and data"! How do the "historic facts" differ in the "Verwoerd" and the "Mandela" epochs? ! In the Verwoerd era they spell doom with White racist hegemony, in the Mandela heyday : The Future is Black! Poor History Students! In the Soviet Union, "contradiction" was in its element, at least, everybody mumbled about "dialectics"; in the "West", to contradict oneself is the guaranteed password for maximum safety in a mad-house.
En passant, we cannot just take any "raw" material, data and facts to verify or disqualify our scientific inquiry and philosophical method.
For the above reasons, it is not always very easy and simple for us to give excellent examples with regard to our deliberations and conclusions. Furthermore, our very method, our concepts, our philosophy undergo changes, because what they analyse is/are also transacting, transforming and transcending it-/themselves, and again the latter is/are directly related to our own acting-thinking-surpassing.
Also, we can take any well known "historic fact", and yet our
interpretation will be different from the "normal" one-sided inculcated
explanation of the state of affairs. All this has nothing to do with the
"real, true version"; also, we are not interested in the "copyright" of
any "absolute truth" about anything anywhere. This venture we leave to
profit-seeking marauders.
Pico Bolivar (Cosmos) reflects itself (acts within) in its own cosmic Lagoon, at its very "feet". We see three things: Pico Bolivar, its Reflection, the Lagoon. Also, as cosmic beings we act, we see. This is an example of the relation: Act and Percept. The above is an and-relation, a non-relation.
Now, a gifted peasant from the nearby "Nevada Village" also sees this panoramic brilliance. In order to earn a living, she decides to paint this magnificent scenery. If she did it for herself, and if it was not intended for the market, then there would have been no problem with her historic Nature a n d Society Relation, also not with her immediate cosmic or natural "and" Relation; she would not have worked nor would she have entered the general patrian labour process.
But, in conformity with Meridian patrian reality, at the week-end, she sells her paintings on the Soto Rosa Market. Many foreign tourists buy her paintings. They sell like hot arepas in London, Frankfurt, Paris and New York. She becomes very famous, she paints more and more, she and her paintings are in demand on the European and American markets. She is the newly discovered virtually real "Picasso".
Her Act and Percept and Intellect, her Cosmos and Einai-In-Itself become valuable goods. Certain paintings are more in demand; those which she especially likes to paint do not sell at all. Hence her painting ability is now directed and controlled by market forces, by supply and demand.
A huge multinational company which is always looking for sex tourist market lagoons suddenly discovers her; she is employed, she is converted into a wage-slave prostitute; she sells her body and its products for a certain fee. Her cosmic being and acting become goods on the market ; also Pico Bolivar, its Reflection and its Laguna. Her Acting and Perceiving and Intellectual Thinking are frozen into indifferent non-relations; they are cut off from any possible rational potentialities. She has lost the capacity of contradiction, of a n d - relations. She is copyrighted, she has become the Intellectual Property of International Capital, she is completely "globalized".
The above is an example of our method of verification, which ranges
from Pico Bolivar to World Globalization.