F.E.D. Dialectical Theory: Seldon's “Brief” Definition.

Dear Readers,

In a recent ‘transcripted’ dialogue among Foundation members, Karl Seldon recounted a recent written exchange, in which he provided a remarkably succinct definition of Foundation Theory.

It’s a gem that I wanted to share, also, with you:

“. . .A doctrinaire, state-capitalist “[pseudo-]Marx-IST” recently wrote to me, asking that I briefly define F.E.D.’s Marxian-Dialectical Theory overall.  The tone of his communication clearly implied that he believed that neither I nor anyone else could ever do so.

I responded to him with the following definition --

“The F.E.D. Dialectical Theory is an emergently ‘‘‘Trans-Modern’’’, Modern/Ancient Hybrid, Universal Marxian Theory, one which is simultaneously ‘Trans-Animist’, ‘Trans-Pythagorean’,

‘Trans-Heraclitean’, ‘Trans-Parmenidean’, ‘‘‘Trans-Platonian’’’, ‘‘‘Trans-Aristotelian’’’, ‘‘‘Trans-Leibnizian’’’, ‘‘‘Trans-Hegelian’’’, and ‘Trans-Goedelian’."   

"It is a theory of the dialectically[ ‘aufhebeningly’]-mathematically mimed physical, and ‘ideic’ [i.e., ‘meme-etic’/‘‘‘mimetic’’’], [self-]combinatoric dialectics of ‘self-meta-«monad»-izing’, ‘meta-fractal’, ‘‘‘meta-dynamical’’’, ‘self-meta-evolving’ [i.e., ‘ontologically self-revolutionizing’] «monads», and their ‘intra-dual’ «arithmoi»-of-those-«monads»/‘‘‘units’’’; their ‘intra-dual’ ‘‘‘assemblages’’’ of ‘‘‘individual natural-historical agents’’’; their ‘intra-dual’ ‘‘‘populations’’’/‘‘‘collectivities’’’ -- viewed synchronically, diachronically, ‘diachronico-synchronically’, and ‘‘‘psychohistorically’’’ --  i.e., viewed contemporaneously, and [psycho]historically; described quantitatively, qualitatively, and ‘qualo-quantitatively’.”

I’m not sure, but I don’t think that he liked my answer.”

This is one of the most concentrated verbal encodings of meaning I have ever encountered, either inside the Foundation, or without it.

Of course, even the individual terms that Seldon employed in it name extremely meaning-concentrating memes.

Definitions of those individual terms are available to you from at least two sources --

http://point-of-departure.org/Point-Of-Departure/ClarificationsArchive/ClarificationsArchive.htm

http://www.dialectics.info/dialectics/Glossary.html

Regards,

Miguel