A thought is not what it thinks about but is artificially identified with what it thinks about

By Charles Brown “My dialectic method is not only different from the Hegelian, but is its direct opposite. To Hegel, the life process of the human brain, i.e., the process of thinking, which, under the name of “the Idea,” he even transforms into an independent subject, is the demiurgos of the real world, and the real world is only the external, phenomenal form of “the Idea.” With me, on the contrary, the ideal is nothing else than the material world reflected by the human mind, and translated into forms of thought.” - Karl Marx https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/p3.htm Perhaps to Hegel , the Idea is Language - Culture - Tradition- Custom - Religion -God , which derives from many generations of brains’ perceptual experience in objective reality or derives from those experiences as reflections of the material world into memories in many brains in the form of words . The Culture is a demiurge , or Natural Soul ( not supernatural, though it does give a certain finite immortality to dead generations through their words ) for individual living brains . The external world is not literally the same thing as the Ideal ; BUT humans conceive of the external world in the form of ideas or identifying ideas with the external world . _The_ human mind is the accumulation of language by and in many brains in communication with each other . A thought is not what it thinks about . The Idea ( a culture , a tradition, a language) is not what it is an idea about . Ideas and thoughts are in the form of words , symbolic signs - signs with an arbitrary relation , not necessary or natural relation , between signifier and thing signified. Words are not what they represent, not what they refer to . Words are artificially identified with what they represent, with their meaning . They are not really what they represent . Saussure : the word “donut” is not a donut Charles Brown : thus , by the word donut living generations can know about the tradition of dead generations eating donuts , because though the donuts are eaten and gone , the word “ donut” is not gone because it is not the donut . A word is not what it represents. A word poses as identical with what it represents. So, Use of language is a unity of opposites : identification of something with something it is not ( by definition of a word or symbolic sign ). For humans , most things, objects , processes , are identified and shaped by the words that represent them . Language , symbolic signs , mediate our perception of objective reality . Is this Hegel’s sense of the Idea alienating itself as nature ? ( as I believe he says ). The Idea is a Language or a Culture -Tradition-Custom. All human individual brains or subjectivities or consciousnesses relate to objective reality or experience or perceive or practice in objective reality through words, culture , by conceiving of it in language . In other words ( speaking of words ), the Idea as brain cells does not create objective reality like a 3-D printer , but humans only cognize and act in objective reality in ideas , words , sentences , paragraphs, books , libraries, songs , the World Wide Web. Words are invented by large numbers of individual brains , dead mostly and living ( now dead not dead when they invented the words . ) in the course of their practice in objective reality . So, another rational , truthful kernel in the objective idealists ,Hegel and Plato , is that for human individual brains -subjectivities , pretty much everything in their objective world is known to them clothed in ideals-ideas -words. The ideal and the real are _not_ each other , but are a unity of difference, a sameness of differences, unity of opposites. This is Hegel’s famous unity of subject-object , a unity of opposites. Remember words are constituted of the experiences of many generations of brains not just the brain of the individual thinking , perceiving and practicing in objective reality . Like Isaac Newton , all humans stand on the shoulders of giants , are scientists. Individual only observations of reality, ignoring the experiences an Individual shares with many other individuals through words , as the basis for scientific discovery is the error of positivism-empiricism .

Walter : “We need to get a 60% position in both the House and Senate to make the Republicans irrelevant. Then some of them will even cross over. “ CDB: Be a People’s Lawyer. Advocate for Democrats. We must be critical of Republicans. Gotta get straight to the bottomline of the whole sausage making process: it was the Republicans. The two Democrats in the Senate were a tiny fraction of the Democrats. Overall the Democrats should be voted for. Can’t get votes for them by criticizing them . Republicans are by far the main problem. Yes two blue dogs are the margin of difference, but that’s not Biden’s fault ! From the news you’d think it’s Biden’s fault. Plus Biden has 3 more years when he can get more . What’s going on is a reason to vote in more Democrats . The media is a distorting drama Queen .

Republicans : Let them eat cake

Why are the Senate Republicans willing to shutdown the US government and crash the economy ? Why don’t they care about the economy crashing or continuously crushing the 99 % ? Why do Republicans always say let them eat cake and give more money to the rich ? Republicans represent monopoly capital . The biggest capitalists make the most killings in recessions when failing companies can be bought on the cheap. One capitalist always kills many capitalists . So, yes they want recession for their vulture capitalist masters. Continuously , in recessions and economic booms , Monopoly capitalWall Street, the 1% , the Upper Class is always waging class warfare against the 99% , the “Middle” - “Lower “ Class THROUGH THE REPUBLICAN PARTY

Make the GOP a permanent minority party on

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Campaign for Democratic votes against Trumpy and all Republicans ; don’t just vote Democratic; get other people to vote Democratic; campaign, canvass , phone bank , letters to the editor. That’s the only way to beat Republicans @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Raymond : ", I don't think anybody is going to abolish anything right now. I know I can't see past the reinstatement of the Voting Rights Act, these two infrastructure bills and the debt ceiling right now. Then there's some shit that definitely needs abolishing after that.... 😏 Charles :That’s right .,It’s a protracted struggle Raymond . California has substantially accomplished relegating the GOP to permanent minority status. I very much agree the immediate struggle is what you say. What is your longer term strategy ? No progress without struggle; the struggle continues; more victories, as in 2018 and 2020 , are certain ; freedom is a constant struggle, especially electoral class struggle; campaign for Democratic votes everyday some kinda way; abolish the Republican Party as We , the Majority know it.

Total subjectivity is not good for yourself

Total subjectivity is not good for yourself . Continuous connection to objective reality is an essential characteristic of subjective reality.

We must abolish the GOP

Make the GOP a permanent mimority party . Why are the Senate Republicans willing to shutdown the US government and crash the economy ? Why don’t they care about the economy crashing or continuously crushing the 99 % ? Why do Republicans always say let them eat cake and give more money to the rich ? Republicans represent monopoly capital . The biggest capitalists make the most killings in recessions when failing companies can be bought on the cheap. One capitalist always kills many capitalists . So, yes they want recession for their vulture capitalist masters. Continuously , in recessions and economic booms , Monopoly capitalWall Street, the 1% , the Upper Class is always waging class warfare against the 99% , the “Middle” - “Lower “ Class THROUGH THE REPUBLICAN PARTY

Displacement ( linguistics)

wikipedia :"Displacement (linguistics) In linguistics, displacement is the capability of language to communicate about things that are not immediately present (spatially or temporally); i.e., things that are either not here or are not here now. In 1960, Charles F. Hockett proposed displacement as one of 13 design features of language that distinguish human language from animal communication systems (ACSs): Man is apparently almost unique in being able to talk about things that are remote in space or time (or both) from where the talking goes on. This feature—"displacement"—seems to be definitely lacking in the vocal signaling of man's closest relatives, though it does occur in bee-dancing.[1] In animal communication systems Edit Honeybees use the waggle dance to communicate the location of a patch of flowers suitable for foraging. The degree of displacement in this example remains limited when compared to human language. A bee can only communicate the location of the most recent food source it has visited. It cannot communicate an idea about a food source at a specific point in the past, nor can it speculate about food sources in the future.[2] In addition, displacement in the waggle dance is restricted by the language's lack of creativity and productivity. The bees can express direction and distance, but it has been experimentally determined that they lack a sign for "above". It is also doubtful that bees can communicate about non-existent nectar for the purpose of deception.[3] Consequently, in honeybee communication, the potential for displacement is limited, but it is there insofar as they have the ability to communicate about something not currently present (i.e., something that is spatially removed). Ants have been observed sending out scouts to patrol for food items, and coming back for other workers if the food found is too large to bring to the nest by the finder alone; for example, a dead caterpillar that is too heavy. This again would involve displacement by communicating outside of the here and now. Recruitment has also been observed by the African Weaver Ant Oecophylla longinoda for the purpose of communicating new food sources, emigration to new sites, and for defense against intruders. Researchers have described no less than five distinct systems to fulfill these functions in this species.[4] The ants communicate using a system composed of olfactory or scent clues from several glands together with body movements. The animals will use antennation, body jerking, and mouth-opening, and will combine these clues with the application of the scent trails or scent release to pass on information regarding resources or intruders. Ravens (Corvus corax) have been observed to recruit other ravens to large feeding sites, such as to the carcass of an animal. However, their motivation for recruiting appears less obvious, and the specifics of their communication system are more elusive. Still, it has been documented that ravens must have such a system, as their patterns of gathering at sites clearly indicate that they must have been informed of the presence of the resource.[5][6] It is believed that non-mated ravens call in a group of other non-mated birds to be able to feed and not get chased away by mated territorial pairs of established ravens. Importance in evolution of language Edit The need to convey information using displacement has been suspected to have been the evolutionary pressure leading to language development in humans, as outlined by Derek Bickerton in Adam's Tongue.[7] The pressure of such need is present in species with a foraging strategy that presents the challenge of directing members of its group to a food source too large to be utilized singly or in small numbers, requiring recruitment of assistance. It's only when you fully appreciate what displacement means, how the absence of displacement is not just a casual feature of ACSs but a crucial defining feature of pre-human minds, that you can start getting the complete picture. — Bickerton, page 217 The unique environmental need selecting for a communication system capable for displacement in humans or their direct ancestors is not identified, but hypotheses include Bickerton's theory of small groups finding large herbivore carcasses, and needing the assistance from other small groups of humans to defend against other dangerous scavengers (large cats, hyenas) competing for the same source of food. Language development most certainly did not stop there—since otherwise bees or ants would have comparable communication systems to humans—but this is where it is hypothesized to have begun, giving human ancestors the ability to take communication out of the here and now. See also Edit Bee learning and communication Corvus corax – ravens and their extraordinary intelligence Design features of language Homo erectus – possible use of language in early humans Weaver ant social structure References Edit ^ Hockett, Charles F., "The origin of speech", Scientific American, 203: 88–96, doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0960-88, archived from the original on 26 April 2010, retrieved 19 February 2011 ^ Yule, George (2010), The Study of Language (4th ed.), New York: Cambridge University Press, pp. 11–12, ISBN 978-0-521-76527-5 ^ Meyer, Paul Georg (2005), Synchronic English Linguistics: An Introduction (3rd ed.), Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, p. 265, ISBN 3-8233-6191-0 ^ Holldobler, Bert and Wilson, Edward O. 1977. The Multiple Recruitment Systems of the African Weaver Ant Oecophylla longinoda (Latreille) (Hymenopetera: Formicidae) Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology: 3,19-60 (1978) ^ Heinrich, B. Winter foraging at carcasses by three sympatric corvids, with emphasis on recruitment by the raven, Corvus corax. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology:3, 141-156 (1998) ^ Heinrich, B and Marzluff, J.M. Do common ravens yell because they want to attract others? Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology: 28, 13-21 (1991) ^ Bickerton, Derek (2009). Adam's Tongue. Hill and Wang. ISBN 978-0-8090-2281-6. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Displacement_(linguistics) .