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Who Represents the Whole?

But can anyone represent the whole? NO, a wise person says no one person can represent the whole, because no one person can know the infinity of viewpoints, circumstances and needs. The age of omnipotent, all-knowing super-Humans is over; it was a grand delusion of iso-think and iso-ego. And because no one person can represent the whole, we have democracy, we work in social groups, and we accept a range of perspectives on "reality" and so on.

So no one person can represent the whole, but what we can do is recognize our limitations, we can recognize that each of us is part of a whole, that a whole does exist, and that each of us must reach out to that whole, defend that whole, and build up that whole by going outside of our narrow selves. The whole is in our minds, it is an abstraction we must hang on to, an ethereal template to organize the world. Democracy, individual freedom, equality, Human rights, social support and other things compose the whole. These behaviors keep the whole together. The whole is essentially other people; it is outside our narrow selves; it is the Diverse outside our inner Diverse.

So once again, who represents the whole? You do! If you can execute this reversal or "diversal" of thought from the fact that you cannot represent the whole, but at the same time you must represent the whole, then you will understand the essence of diverse thought. Can you represent yourself and your own individuality while at the same time representing the individuality of others, the diversity of others? This diversal is at the heart of this ethic. You are primarily an individual and, yet, you must act for the whole. This is an evolution on the notion of the “golden rule”, it could be called the “golden duality” or “golden diversal”.

Cage Innoye

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