Crisis and Catastrophe

Dear Dialecticians & Colleagues Across Our Curriculum,



SYSTEMS SYSTEMIC Thinking
(standing-together: relationship)

as opposed to
non-systems thinking
a “this,” a “that, “an individual
part apart
a research project, a sabbatical; a
thermonuclear program in Iran, a night
out on the town painting it red
a _______

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Consider
For the Sake of Argument

X) Non-Systems way of thinking & talking:

I sit on a rock: the rock is hard.

Z) Systems way of thinking & talking:

The way Me & Rock get along:
it’ s a hardness
know what
I’m sayin”!

Y) “hardness” = what I call the ratio-relationship
between my butt and rock.

The rock itself is what it is—but when my butt
and rock get together a hardness emerges.
See what I’m saying?

No no no no: don’t be reading-in; talking literalistic
here—not metaphor. Hardness is an emergent
phenomenon rising up as a relationship. It’s not
an adjectival property of rock—except in our manners
of speaking.

You can extrapolate: find other examples. Myriad—
where we reduce relationship to an adjective and
slap it on the OTHER as if it carried the feature all
by itself and not systematically as a non- unilateral
reciprocation between any 2 or more in “converse-
action”—in relationship. Proximity. Bumpetty bump.

It’d be like calling my cat a sneeze-maker, when
SNEEZE is actually the result of a me + cat in
relationship , my nose and cat.cat-ing around &
a choo!

(Damn cat, I say: unthinkingly. Scape- goating: casting
my because and affect blame of SNEEZE on poor puss.)

QUIZ

Which of the 2 (non-systems/systems) ways of talking and
thinking is more conventional? Prevalent? Dominant?

Which of the 2 is a more accurate description of what’s
actually HAP Happening?

1) Dualistic: (x) me and (z) hard rock,

2) Ternary (triadic):

..........Y) hardness
x) Me........ z) Rock

Ok: if that distinction [( x ) binary thinking (z) ternary thinking]
is clear to you, how do you (Y) relate the 2 ways of thinking
and talking, and what do you call it (the "Y" relationship)?

Y
....
ME My Cat Schrodinger

This is also suggests a difference between
dialectical thinking and the popular sense
of dialogue but we'd probably have to
put it in play and argue this out.

xxxooo, Sam