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I've been watching a program about McDonalds and its growth in The People’s Republic of China (PRC) under the watchful eye of Mao Tesung’s huge portrait still hanging conspicuously over Teinamen square.
The PRC, still very much a Communist nation, seems to be synthesizing Capitalism and Communism. What should that synthesis be called?
[Image sizing and placement isn't what it used to be, so in order to see this diagram click on the Dialectical Motion link and dive to the bottom.]
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“Hegel stresses the paradoxical nature of consciousness; he knows that the mind wants to know the whole truth, but that it cannot think without drawing a distinction. Unfortunately, every distinction has two terms, every argument has a counter-argument, and consciousness can only focus on one of these at a time. So it fixes first on the one, then under pressure fixes second on the other, until it finally comes to rest on the distinction itself. Hegel refers to this process of alternation and rest as dialectic. Dialectical motion has three stages: THESIS, ANTITHESIS, and SYNTHESIS.”
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The Dialectical Ascent out of Plato's Cave
“Dialectical motion does not just end when the synthesis is reached. The synthesis becomes a new thesis, and the mind then goes through another dialectical process at a HIGHER LEVEL. So dialectical motion is like climbing stairs; it's the ascent out of the Platonic Cave.”
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Coloration seems to bleed away too, when the article is updated. Doknow why. Too bad. It was beautiful in Word. if'n I do say so myself.
Sighhhhhhhhhh...I kinda miss the olde days.
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