Extemporaneous musings, occasionally poetic, about life in its richly varied dimensions, especially as relates to history, theology, law, literature, science, by one who is an attorney, ordained minister, historian, writer, and African American.
Tuesday, April 3, 2018
TOWARD A QUANTUM SOCIAL PARADIGM
A QUANTUM SOCIAL PARADIGM
The American historical paradigm of "non-white" exclusion is that which now "hoists," our nation's divisive political-religious-social schemes of invidious, once-legal racism, colorism, classism, sexism, "otherism" (migrants), perilously, "on its own petard," as wrote William Shakespeare in "Hamlet."
An American national Implosion by, from our "own petard," is possible, maybe inevitable, as matters now stand with us, under the fruit of this poisonous tree in President Donald Trump's electoral recrudescence of the above paradigms of exclusion .
This illogical paradox: "of this but not that; of us but not them; of here but not there; of mine but not yours," has pitted, has foisted one against another; under a pretext of Christian brotherhood, doctrinal "equality," juridical equanimity . It is, it was all a fraud that has penetrated, that has saturated, our thoughts, values, reasoning itself, since at least 1619 at Jamestown , Virginia, in the African-English-Dutch expropriation; and in 1620 at Plymouth, Massachusetts, in its Puritans' "Mayflower Compact," which condemned all Indians, even before they disembarked, to oblivion, even any Indians who had helped them to survive starvation, extinction in that first very harsh winter.
As science enters the realm of the quantum where opposites coexist at the same place and time, would not it be reasonable for social and political life to seek to follow physics into a new American paradigm of social well-being?
It had certainly followed older scientific paradigms of conventional physics and conventional chemistry into, through wars, of exclusion and white superiority, enslavement, lies, frauds, lynchings, conquests, genocide, homicide, deceit!
We can do better, we must be better as American people, moving forward into, with, a "more perfect science," one that is quantum, fusion, inclusive, natural.