What we call good? This is something like the -direct experience and results- of human superfunction that emerge from active human (and ecological (extensional) unity. The -transcendence of function-, in movement as and toward both expression, resolution, and excellence. This is -the birth of meaning-. It is the source of the sacred.

What we call evil? This is something like the purposeful reduction of unity to manipulable abstractions — parts, descriptions, systems, functions. It is the active denial of superfunction.

When appropriate, this is done to produce focus and precision in highly specialized contexts. When it escapes appropriate contexts… the process remakes human minds and cultures in its image, and attempts to -supplant- meaning and the holy.

That is the current situation in our collectives on earth. They are largely controlled and organized by ‘the tool-mind’; and this mind views living beings, places, and relationships as ‘manipulables or threats’.

Such a mind -pronounces- law, rather than deriving it from good or even common need. It incontrovertibly proclaims that ‘beings are things’ and ‘relationships are functions’. It is an accountant par excellence — except of its own error, limitations, malfunctioning or myopia.

And in its iron grip, it is not only unity — but the virtues and their ecstasies which become ‘merely’ variables in a kind of calculus that rests upon estimates and predictions of values, success, failure, threats, opportunities, and so on. Beauty becomes a mating variable. Kindness becomes an evolutionary advantage in certain group interactions.

Simply stated, the tool is not the master. And from the tool’s perspective? Anything that isn’t a concrete manipulable should become one, disappear, or shut the hell up.

See the problem here? I hope so, because we need to think and act about how we can rescue our collectives from tool-mind. Now. The longer we delay, the more aggressive, violent, and dehumanizing our social structures will become. The paradigm is moving rapidly into one of ‘convert or destroy’ and this momentum has to be hijacked and redirected in order to defuse this catastrophe.

We can see a similar set of processes in organized (declarative) religions; one where an initially altruistic sense of unity becomes one of function. Laws. Text. In our religions, the irony is at least as monumental… as that inherent in our national and even interpersonal cultures.