C-229. Shards and pots: Scrutiny

Our “ways” (“behaviors”) are like shards and pots. Our ways are point TO’s, not just instances to which names (e.g., concepts) are given, not just properties of bodies. Our ways come with questions: “How come?” and “What for?” – to take the two biologists ask. They point TO, behind and ahead.

Shards point TO pots. Pots point TO needed functionality. Needed functionality points not just TO things of nature (e.g., “basic needs of our bodies”); it also points TO the Nature of Thing’s general persisting conditions (GPC) of partial order, consequentiality and discontinuity … the last of these initially after Big Bang of bodies, later with the animates of steps. The Nature of Things and the pots point TO the World of Possibility. Not to some combination of order and “chance.” The “chance” we are interested in is that offered by – and in – the World of Possibility.

The chance to make the most of our “selves.” As individuals (the “us” of aggregate entities) and as communities (the “We” manufactured by steps). To accomplish this by Union, developmentally via CEM principles, so as to advance them together, not just separately … and avoid the debilitating unbalanced and anti-emergent (“either or”) ratios of CMY/Indiv >1+++ and Indiv/CMY >1+++.

To make the most (see Expansion) of our selves by the steps we make and take. By the technologies by and with which we Help our selves. “Help!” -- what is called for (WICF), points TO needed functionality, the human condition* given the Nature of Things. By procedural (step) technologies. Such as fully investing WISA with Point (R-word) capabilities: TO, OUT and UP in addition to AT and ABOUT.

(Prepositions, we see, play an incompletely realized role in B-speak language. We have seen this with noun particles. Their role limited even though their functional aspect is more consonant with the Nature of Things.)

For procedural step technology to advance we must secure the independence of step from body. Community is only brought about as, in and by steps. Union too requires steps made and taken. To have liberated by pragmatic precept (PP) the behavioral problem and solution from the situational problem and solution is essential. To make the most of emergence. Which we can do more effectively with steps (development) than bodies (evolution). With alloyed step mettles, via Compose capability. Compose capability multiplied via procedural tech, as in R-sense’s Compose to Compose to Compose….

“Better persons” is a familiar (B-ness) solution to problematic situations. It’s our usual WICF. And useful for decision makers screening prospective employees. But for problem solvers this is inadequate. Better Help – i.e., procedural as well as tool technologies – is the solution … and to more than problematic situations. Mind your mettles!**

And Mind your scrutiny. Your “close” Reading. Avail yourself of the “Stop” mettle, as in “Stop to Think” and “Stop to Ask.” Not merely following along, or pausing only to agree or disagree … or exiting all together. Cultivate Think’s point TO’s. Cultivate Think’s pragmatic precept, PP, by actively searching and Stopping for “=/=” relations.

We cannot afford to confound and confuse textual analysis with personal criticism. It helps the author no more than it does the message. This is a troublesome business in mentoring when left uncorrected in either or both mentor or mentored.

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* “Humanity,” as quality, points TO the human condition of shared discontinuities (of body and step) which, along with partial order and consequentiality, are the legacy of the Nature of Things. The quality of needed functionality. Help – i.e., functionality – is the requisite capability. “Humanism” (“is as does”) and “the Humanities” point AT things of nature rather than TO the Nature of Things. “Help,” as an R-word, transforms this conceptual mishap to a theoretical construct. Even in English B-speak the message clearly gets across that what there is to be talked about (WTITBTA) is that Help extends from needed functionality (noun 1) through step Compose (verb 1) and Compose by step (verb 2) to achieved functionality (noun 2). What is needed, technologically re technologies, is an “Involve CEM Grasp” capability, the working core of Compose and the step, that improves on one or more “good deeds a day.”

** What “plastics” has been to tool technology needs to be matched by the next development in technology. In procedural technology, that is. “Elastics”? To capture the quality that needed functionality imposes on Adept (Ae), because Adapt (Aa) and Adopt (Ao) do not-- cannot! -- suffice to meet the demands of Accord with the Nature of Things. Can we reasonably expect to strengthen democracy (“We, the people”) with less than Ae capability?


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