Foundations

I have had a lifetime to think about this; well, it feels like a lifetime, and then last night something occurred to me: I am writing this, what one might call, a performative treatise-like meditation because I want to show myself that I am not the broken monster I grew up feeling I was.

So, hence, I have been telling myself stories; constructions really, to explain to myself, with a reasonable enough range of probability, just how I got to be the way I am today.

They all ways start off with something like this, way, way deep down, where — I don’t have the words to adequately describe; at least not yet.

But…

Imagine Three fundamental generalities across subject-object interposition in the counter-hiearchical textual integration of language as a first model of thought and behavior revealed in General Historical and Contemporary Literary Rhetorical Contexts; or in other words, imagine a movement towards a more flexible monism wherein ALL is indeed one substance: albeit, a whole consisting of an in-below and an out-above, three intricately overlapping parts.

What would that mean? Well, before we settle on just which historical and contemporary rhetorical text to rigorously, yet with little effort at the outset, analyze, a couple of introductions need to be made.

I will start: my name Thomas Krawford. I am a 57 year old African American person with a lifelong question.

When we consider a dynamic description of general systems of language as alternating-hiearchical exchanges of what I argue are three fundamental generalities from thought to behavior to experience, aren’t we also arguing that the Subject(A=A) is necessary when that which is a general capacity equivalence of effect to affect across a specific interval of time is perceived by the observer as a root necessity?

For the sake of argument let’s say we adopt the previous first general assumption; aren’t we then proposing that as there is a perceived necessity, there is also a counter-hiearchical probable object (B=counter A) when a general quantity variance [counter a] shares the same space but is perceived at a different time of the equivalent capacity (A=A) itself the necessary subject as inherent equivalency?

Subsequently, when we argue investigate or analyze any possible text from these two alter-hiearchical generalities, we can thus extrapolate a third fundamental assumption; that of a Constancy of Occurrence (C=sub counter A) where necessary Subject as inherent (A=A) interposes in joint, direct and inverse counter-relativity to Object (B=counter A) relative to the Greatest Common General Circumstance of either Subject or Object, (A=A OR B=counter A) to the Least Common Individual Result as the integration or dissolution of one or the other OR both.

This last possible generality allows for an overall yet cyclical evolving state of creation, existence and end.

I invented these general foundations in an attempt to successfully manage my own Autistic Spectrum Disordered perception anomalies that have, over the years, swept me along in their frequent roller coaster-ride bouts of turbulence and disassociation.

In it’s root form, the Foundations, as I’ll refer to them hereafter, take on a much more portable form when we begin with a synthesis combining elements of Nietzsche, Heidegger and Kant.

It begins like this: There is a necessity of error in perspective and illusion; in so far as when that which is inherent is neither illusion nor perspective as much as it is counter-equivalent capacity relative to both when both are concomitant; occurring in the same space but perceived at different times — while that which is Object is either perspective or illusion quantity variants of the quantity variant root both have in common. Thus, the counter-hiearchical inter-relation is indeed as necessary as an error of degrees in much the same way as some degree of illusion will generally be necessary for general perspective.

From here the extrapolation should be clear enough: in subject object interposition, as the subject is necessary and object is probable, there is a Constancy of Occurrence of Either to occur in joint, direct and or inverse relation to the Other relative; from the Greatest Common General Circumstance of either to The Least Common Individual Result of the integration of Both or neither.

This Thing started long before I had words and syntax enough to adequately describe it. It is a general model that has evolved over the years that has allowed me to make sense of what Autism frequently renders peculiar and circuitous. It is possible, it operates at conscious and subconscious levels. If that is the case here, the I must argue that our subconscious mind is much more organized than we arr generally led to conclude.

Moreover, I wonder if the two co exists in much the same way as any system of language co-exists: counter-hierarchically; where our instinctive selves, our general capacity equivalence is revealed in a given interval of time to BE in joint, direct and or inverse interposition to it’s subsequent quantity variant, itself, co- relative to the same space but a different time of that interval.

Subsequently then, the field established by the constancy of subject and or object integration, simultaneously operates and co-ordinates its general structure; maintaining a parallel Fundamental Integrity across it’s range of greatest common general circumstance of the the Either: (A=A) Subject OR (B=subcounter A) Object to the least common individual result of the integration of both, as would be the case we might see in relatively balanced personality; OR Neither; in which case the general personality we would encounter would not all appear balanced.

For the sake of argument, I believe we can safely rule out the latter; at least for the time being. In terms of illustration; giving the above jargon, albeit mostly self-invented, some kind of recognizable grounding, at lest recognizable to the general reader, I’m going to briefly describe a recent holiday round-trip Amtrack to see and and spend time with my brother, sisters-in-law and their families and friends living in parts north of Ann Arbor, my town of current residence.

I’ll start with the capacity equivalence; love, of brother, of family of friends and even passersby; the one common undercurrent thread throughout the whole uneventful and yet the most relaxing stretch-your-legs-and-toes-without cramping; in a-ridiculously-over-sized comfy-Chair-Time, this fifty seven year old African American-been around the block-landing-on his butt-in-enough rodeos than he cares admit or even remember- kind-of-Male cares to admit or even remember.

I can’t say that a lot happened. It didn’t; and the precisely the point. You see, I can’t speak for every one out there, but I’m going to hazard a guess that families in general have their share of secrets; ghosts and wishes (undigested morsels of common and sometimes not so common at all) pasts that left a bad taste in someone’s regret; someone’s unresolved guilt or anger or at the time it happened: perceived slight, whatever it was, done of course, on purpose.

We’ve all been there, right?

Uhmm hmm!

Anyway, the point is, well for me that is, this year I clearly chose not to focus on those secrets that have haunted my family in much the same way many families are un-welcoming-ly visited; kind of like when your favorite dog farts and for five minutes they are anything but your favorite.

In the fact, the fart itself happens to be quantity variant; generally probable in joint, direct and/or inverse relation to the dog you know as “your best friend; the love you exchange being that capacity equivalence, that inherent, intangible, definition-resistant cogito that first-bonds a dog to their handler and vice-versa.”

Of course, there is the Constancy of Occurrence of either the inherent love as exchanged and or the probable biologically based fart, in joint, direct and or inverse relation; but as a constant, in and of itself, it’s variant quantity is perceived relative to the Greatest Common General Circumstance of either the inherent love or the inevitable fart to The Least Common Individual Result of the integration of both, in this case, love and farting (which feeling is stronger: attraction or not so much) OR neither.

In the latter case; good luck finding a dog whose farts don’t stink. I’m no expert but I don’t feel such a breed has or ever will exist. In balance, one often will fare better with an inherent capacity equivalence such as love opposed to a probable quantity variant such as the proverbial farting dog.

The same could be said for people too you know.

unfinished and unpublished “Doesn’t really matter what some people say; most don’t know what they’re talking about”

You know; people like family, friends; neighbors you smile at not necessarily because it’s polite (although that in and of itself is generally a darn good reason); but because for other people on the counter-hierarchical side of your eyes, there is a capacity equivalent and hopefully, mutual necessity in generally recognizing those on the opposite side of the garden variety iris-pupil set-up, as inherently (deep, deep down where the sun don’t shine, and the only thing that even comes close, you have to get on sale at Ace Hardware or someplace) something we often come face to face with as parts of ourselves clash with interior regions we thought we had forever banished from consciousness, like Lucifer; growing too big for his britches, unceremoniously booted into a Forever-pit some overzealous monk picked up at a rummage sale when Rome tripped over her vain-glorious arrogance some centuries before.

To make a long story short, we make allowances; not necessarily giving in or implying consent or even brown-nosing for that matter as much as we make deals; we give a little so we can get a little. If we need help and whatever we’re after is bigger than our head, we work in tandem with the like-minded; but at the end of the day — it’s all about the DEAL.

And all deals are, after all, counter-hierarchical.

But there are other examples of counter-hiearchical text and integration in subject and object interposition we can see in the foundations of our common human nature. Take, for instance, the following, somewhat auto-ethnographic, parable, presented in the second person narrative stance.

Imagine for a moment; close your eyes and don’t think; look back far as you can, get really quiet and look; don’t judge, don’t be scared: you’re going back, back before the moment you first began; way, way back before you had words, before you knew sounds or what it was like to be wet, to be crouched in a ball; in a universe of color, darkness and flashes of light; before you even knew what shapes were or were not.

Before you became You.

Before you became You what were you? Who or who were you and where did you come from? You don’t remember, do you? But you came from somewhere; your eyes are closed and still there is — light and darkness; shadows and wisps of unfamiliar things just beyond recollection. And then there was almost as if it came the moment you felt for the first time — You; floating ever so slightly with no knowledge of any word, tilting to and fro to a repetitive… thump — Thump…thump — Thump… thump — Thump; your A=A thus is established .

You have no sense of time, space or identity; the only thing you now know is that you have become You for the very first time.

Much later in life You would describe this moment of winking into existence; the capacity of your first Equivalence; the beginning of the oldest part of your mind; the root of your subconscious and the foundations of the human being you will one day become; instinctively driven by a Functional, albeit rudimentary instinctive Mind; your B = counter A as it were.

But that’s not all.

As you become more and more YOU, you react to that sound you will one day call a heartbeat; to the quantity variant swirl of fluid surrounding you; to the probable things you can’t see but feel; your fingers, your hands your legs, all for the very first time. You were not aware of it at the time, but each movement, each and every reaction was a building block in Constancies of Occurrence between the inherent you, and the You in Object Space that would eventually become Your Procedural Mind — your fundamental ability to reason; to inherently, sub consciously figure things out; to discover; not to make war or even conquer; but to explore; to reach, punch; test the boundaries, kick and roll and pull on that thing coming out of what you and others would call one day — your stomach.

This is your C = sub Counter A asserting itself in a range between Greatest Common General Circumstance to the Least Common (i)ndividuality as result.

This is how you generally and fundamentally became You.

It is, I argue, how we all first came into being; and as it were, also how we exit.

Generally speaking of course.🤔

So.

It would appear that we can get closer to the most probable common root of our fundamental nature if we can picture ourselves in any part of the previous narrative in so far that, in much of the current research, at least, what could be accessed from a public library, narrative inquiry is a qualitative methodology whose core forensic function is to expand a given text, in order to understand what it does and doesn’t do — Or — what it never has done nor will it ever do — in the Greatest Common General Circumstance of its occurrence (Dorst; Atkinson; Pritchard and Morgan ://www.google.com/)

My citation skills are obviously rusty, but I was just thinking — a few moments ago — the most probable common root of our fundamental human nature? The thought alone is a tough sell; especially in light of our general understanding of the HOW in how things have happened in just about everything we basically see as — the way things are.

I thought for a bit; then came the question: what is an auto-ethnographic exegesis? First the search engine came up with Nigel Morgan and Annette Pritchard’s “On Souvenirs and Metonymy: Narratives of Memory, Metaphor and Materiality” a Sage Journal Online Publication; actually, an abstract of one of their Tourist Studies Journals. At the time I thought how odd: the thought of tourism linked social change as an inquiry into authenticity intrigued me especially in light of my inquiry into a word I thought I had made up.

Apparently I hadn’t.

When I again asked the question, I found another abstract of yet another online article in The International Review of Qualitative Research vol 6 number 1 entitled: “Ethnographic Writing: The Avant-Garde and a failure of Nerve” by Paul Atkinson. Here, the key concepts primarily deal the mutual influence between ethnography and aesthetics; what the author argues is sorely in need of (in joint, direct and inverse terms probably) an overall systematization: a reflexive process, described in the article found at a JSTOR Site, as the author’s responsive rebuke to current interdisciplinary practitioners and humanities scholars conducting what the author suggests are “safe” or at least “low-stakes” textual or graphic experimentation; that, represent, the lion’s share of prevailing winds in the Today of general field study design (Atkinson 19).

Atkinson argues in a fairly rigorous critique in favor of Modernism to return to the values and practices of experimental Avant-Garde force (Ibid 19). An yet, if the author is actually attempting to count coup by calling the reader’s attention to a “pervasive lack of nerve” why not really push the boundaries and swing for the fences at a radical empirical Post- Structural perspective that transcends as it redefines demystification all together.

I mean, what’s he got to loose? He’s already out on a limb; why not go all the way?

For instance: Dr. Patrick Grimm in his Mind-Body Philosophy course on DVD; an edition of the Great Courses Series, in the last lecture on that disc, calls for a general interdisciplinary initiative moving towards a Philosophical Science of Consciousness (Grimm L-24). I believe what Professor Grimm is looking for is some way to unite the fields of brain science, philosophy and artificial intelligence in order facilitate an adequate and overall description of an already existing, fundamental condition of body, mind and consciousness; some sort of formal proof of validity that translates from discipline to discipline; across the board.

I’m guessing that kind of proof would look something like this: consciousness exists when; that which is inherent exists as A=A, and thus is necessary; and that which is constructed from that which is inherent is represented by B=Counter A, and therefore is probable. And since change is constant in all things, there is the Constancy of Occurrence of either in joint direct or inverse relation to that which is inherent or that which is constructed from that which is inherent represented by: C=sub-counter A, relative in range from the Greatest Common General Circumstance of either to The Least Common Individual Result of the Integration of both or their eventual joint, direct or inverse dissolution.

In other words: nothing is really created or destroyed; from a counter-hierarchical perspective, everything and everyone is fundamentally and generally, transformed.

That’s how I’ve come to look at most things these days; especially — myself.

Thomas Krawford
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