TWO IS ONE, AND ONE IS TWO
BY DAN VALENTI
PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY
(FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE WEDNESDAY MAY 9, 2018) — We stated Monday that “all dichotomies are false” and left it there — at least until the redoubtable scholar and semanticist Dr. Charles Trzcinka issued an implicit challenge against such brevity, philosophical, poetic, or otherwise. In doing so, the estimable good doctor performed one of the greatest and most miraculous deeds one person can perform for another in these flitting times: He got us to think, and so we shall expound on our dictum, not to discover details of our insight so unspokenly well know to us but to attempt to share them. Therein always lies the rub.
To disprove our truism, one would have to put forth a true dichotomy. No one has been able to do so, because what we call “opposites,” it being a good and useful word, bear that attribute seemingly, apparently. That being said, THE PLANET is not out to convince anyone of anything, least of all what common sense aided by about 50 years of deep thought would be able to articulate let alone show in several hundred words.
East-West. Good-bad. Up-down. Heads-tails. At first look, these might seem polar opposites (speaking of the poles, North and South cap the pinnacles of a singular sphere). Actually, they are complements needing each the other for they very existence, as in the religious bromide that explains the existence of “evil” so that we might know “good.” Countless examples abound. One of THE PLANET‘s favorites involves the “orange peel” map of the world, producing what looks like a horizontal series of pointy footballs joined together at the hip. On such cartography, east is east, west is west, and never the mark twain do they meet.
The actual each, however, is as much like an orange peel map as a stalk of asparagus resembles a car seat. A more realistic depiction of earth can be found in the hallowed desk globe, known to all school children (at least at one time). We remember feeling enthralled looking at our globe, tilted correctly on its axis and providing mountains in bas relief. Place a finger on Pittsfield, Massachusetts, as we often did, and spin the globe from left to right. What happens?
You eventually end up where you stated, proving that not only does the twin meet but that it loses its duality. Go west far and long enough and eventually you head without changing direction. There are numberless examples of this “miracle” in the dichotomies of life. We only have to be aware. With that, THE PLANET spares everyone our ruminations on good and bad (“evil” being an unreal human construct in any kind of literal use).
The point in making our original claim about dichotomy? To indirectly give the thinking person reason to dismiss the truth behind the political divisions that plague (and have paralyzed) city, state, and federal politics. Fortunately, the screaming heads that dominate the 24-hour news cycle illustrate the point far better than we can.
Pro-Trump, anti-Trump. Diehard Democrats, Drink-the-Koolaid Republicans. For immigration, against immigration. Such attitudes and areas derive their phantasmic substance only because we invest in them our pre-existing conditions, the biases, prejudices, and small-mindedness that we desperately cling to so that we may avoid the threat of seeing things AS THEY ARE.
Look at the globe, this time from space. All is one. One is all. We share a spinning rock hurtling through deepest space.
There are, and there cannot be, dichotomies.
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“Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved absolute rejection of authority” — Thomas Huxley.
“OPEN THE WINDOW, AUNT MILLIE.”
LOVE TO ALL.
The Usual Disclaimer.
Why do stupid people have all the brains?
Flip and flop.
The dichotomy concept was invented on Park Square in 1791 by the three Stooges as they were on their way to the Colonial theater.
This City Council has no clue, Neither does Turdocy. Rivers is unlistenable.
Good point. The little secret is that R is basically nuts. Those who know her the best came to realize this long ago.
All Fluff and Puff. Flops like a fish out of water. Votes with the prevailing wind. Self-mindless.
We have a few council members who represent us. The others rubber stamp the “Mayor “! No matter how hard they work, the puppets get things passed. It’s time the people wake up. Vote them out but prior to elections , fight for your city. Attend meetings and speak out. We need to stand up and fight for our city before it’s too late
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I think Dan is making a good case for banning the sales of marijuana.
But if pot makes you hungry, and you eat pot brownies to alleviate the hunger is that a dichotomy or just irony?
The Pittsfield Ma. School budget has no opposition. It is a dog and pony show like no other.Its amazing how few questions there are by these councilors as to how McCandless and Curtis spend my money.Why is it that the idea of spending less money on a better School system does not exist.The question of consolidation does not exist.A plan for Pittsfield schools in 3 years does not exist.
Why we allowed Eberwien and Curtis to look on the internet for answers to Pittsfields school is our fault.Recently Curtis has shown the school committee a Syracuse schools Website and Joe fell in love.The committee was smitten and Mrs Taylor was beside herself with enthusiasm of Joe’s find.She always acts as if she is the only advocate of education.
In the end its the City Councils budget.I just wish there was a passion by councilors to have a complete understanding of exactly how my dollars are spent.Also ask about how cash is handled in the schools.
Wow, TSC, well thought out post! I agree!
The duality is a mechanism to control the subconscious mind.
Its all a trick of the light.
The electro-magnetic wavelengths/frequencies of the 33.3% control the 66.6%.
Moonbat needs to open her eyes to the plight of the city
Poor Tony Roads Ward is in limbo, no chip no seal and no paving.
Some say people are taking the excess from chip seal and building condos out of it.
and if you think the roads are bad now just wait until next spring…with or without the chip seal magic fix
a road without a foundation is a road without hope
e. e. Cummings
I use it for dogs and cats from other neighborhoods as a pooping post, mold into into a hydrant.
North Korea sending 3 Americans home. If Hillary was Prez they’d rot in jail until death. And why didn’t Obama get them released?
Meanwhile, the Progressives think Stormy Daniels is more important.
Great job by our President. Love it!
Thank you President Trump!!!! Another win!!! Keep the good luck for this country going!!!!
Speaking of thanking people, another strong performance by Mazzeo at last nights C C M. And of course the great job geting Walmart out of the PEDA picture.Anyway, It’s time for her to go into overdrive with the water stupidity. I don’t even think those dopes on Kittredge even know about the rates if this project of water sewer goes forward, but then again they pay big taxes and probably can afford it anyway.
Gaetani News Hour tonight at 6 1301 PCTV last week he gave the Planet a shout out.
Right Pat…like Trumps supporters really give a rats ass about those 3 people. Did you know they have Korean blood?? oopsie…do you still care PAT…the reason I ask is that most of Trumps people want America WHITE and while he is welcoming these 3 guys in the front door (because it benefits HIM) he is tossing thousands of others out the back
Attention everyone more fake news above the master dusty, who posted a very anti semetic comment yesterday i might add
You’re a bald faced liar. The vast majority of Trump supporters are not racist at all, and those that are are no more racist than some Hillary/Obama supporters. Actually, I find Progressives to generally be more racist.
Make Korean Americans great again.
Obama didn’t negktiate the prisoners out of North Korea because they weren’t imprisoned until Trump was president.
Matt, Barry would have failed anyway.
I forgot the site where I saw this post to give credit to the person who posted this, anyway here it is.
44 Released 5 Terrorist Hostages and received 1 American Hostage in exchange
45 Captures 5 Top ISIS leaders and got 3 American Hostages freed.
I wonder if Trump is jealous of Putin having BiBi over for a slumber party and military parade without inviting him?
That comment makes no sense, but you suffer from Trump Derangement Syndrome
That the Israelis are getting mote attention from Putin than Trump does doesnt make sense?
As of 1220 DOW up 38 points. So that is the opposite of going down which was promised by the libs
you gotta have some of Einsteins DNA in you dude. That was awesome
The point is all you libs were claiming the sky was falling when Trump correctly killed the Iran deal and that the market would tank.
Wrong again
These progressives just keep making themselves look dumber by the day. They predicted Trump would start a war with North Korea. The exact opposite happened! So when they say backing out of the Iran deal is bad, you can be pretty sure it’s not. These liberal morons are too stupid to realize that a new deal will be worked out, one much better than Obama’s giveaway.
And they are also trying to block the very first woman to become CIA director. They say they are for women, what a bunch of liars.
The Progressives will say and do anything to put down President Trump and his supporters. I was told by someone on this board that I really don’t care about the hostages coming home tonight despite the fact that I have been going on and on about the poor American hostage who did come home and died shortly after his return. He was destroyed by North Korea and myself and many others were really upset about it.
Progressives only support and cheer on women who think just like they do. ANY woman with different ideas is a threat.
Ahh yes…excellent. I hope the new Iran deal Trump makes after trashing what was in place instead of working on improving it is just as good as his new healthcare program with which he replaces Obamacare. Shoot first andask questions later eh Donny?
Matt, you arent making sense again. Stop playing here you are in over your head.
Dow is up 198. The only think that ain’t making any hay is Turdocy, he’s still running in place, ask Tony……soon to be ousted, Roads.
Anyone know where I can buy DDT locally? I plan on spraying my property and don’t give a damn if it hits the neighbors or kills a few birds
There is probably a video on youtube that tells you how to make it from scratch in your bath tub. Just rinse the tub out good after.
Got some DTR for ya, but it doesn’t do anything.
You don’t need DDT. Just have Ruberto breath on the bugs.
Why was Unkamet Drive all redone years ago, isn’t that a dead end?
Love my road looking like turd ocy,it keeps creepy dog walkers off it and short cut drivers. I welcome it. Kittredge Rd. should also welcome potholes.
I wonder if our friends from our sister city in Ireland will be visiting this year. I hope they get to tour the city and can pick up a tip or two about how NOT to manage road repair money.
What is everyone doing with all their extra money.Companies are not hiring or investing but buying back their own stock.Wages not up ,where is Americas oil drilling dividend?Banks having a good time.OIL prices,oil prices,oil prices matter.
Oil prices affect price of roads. trumps a phony.
Trump is awesome and you are fake news
companies are hiring everywhere. Unemployment lowest in 40 years. Stop with the fake news and lies
Then why don’t you have a job Steven?
I have a good one thanks. I was not for example fired by Sherwood Guernsey for stealing
I wasn’t either.
Sherwood Guernsey, never heard of her?
He is a man. Owns a law firm in Pittsfield. Fired a lawyer for theft in 2011
Lawyers are a crooked ass bunch. I’m an Engineer. Although I am debating law school so I can teach after I retire from public service.
Go Sherwood!!!! I read up on the article that guy was trouble
Face it….. President Trump is doing a great job and keeping campaign promises.
The federal government gained a record sum in taxes during the month of April, marking its largest monthly budget surplus ever, according to the Congressional Budget Office.
According to the report, the United States spent $297 billion last month, but took in a whopping $515 billion in taxes, giving us a surplus of $218 billion and beating the previously held record of $190 billion back in 2001.
https://ijr.com/2018/05/1093042-us-budget-history-april/
Fake right wing reporting
My family is tucking away the extra cash and then some for the rainy day midterms fund. Because Pelosi said, We Democrats will raise your taxes,if we take back the house. Will you complain then that you didn’t benefit from the tax cuts and your income stayed the same and now your income will actually be less because of tax increases?
“H : May 8, 2018 at 12:32 pm
Actually want the Dow to be a little down. Tommorrow will tell the tale on Trump and republicans future. I’m saying it will be waaaaay down Tommorrow, thanx Shaq!”
Quote from yesterday’s Planet. “it will be waaaaay down”.
“Trump will never be President”
“Hillary is way up in the polls”
Don’t ya just love these Liberl DemoRat predictions?
“The sky is falling the sky is falling”
– Chicken Little.
Where is the I am selling???? fakest News Yet. I am a big winner. Trumps game is cheat and lie to win taken from Former wwf wrestling great Eddie Guerrero.
Try harder. You are fake news
Trump copied everything right down to the last detail that Former Latent , . , . Vince McMahon invented in the early seventies. That’s ScumP’s model.Vince McMahon the King of dichotomy.
Dennis Rodman set up the N Korea deal. It’s a Script?
Jung told Rodman, if he could be anyone over again, it would be the former Celtic Great Bob Cousy.. I know all this stuff, my cousin was Rodman’s ex wife’s confidant, she told her everything. Dennis liked to talk. She told my Cousin, Rodman was a cheap bastard, wouldn’t support their Daughter when she got divorced from him. He was a real oddball, but a real good friend of Trump
You made all that up
You are fake news and you know it
Dow up 182
Fake Wrestling/Fake Politics -simple -simple –simple!
Dan, very sad today, a couple of class guys in the community died. Bill Haskins Jr. And Bill West, both car guys coincidently.
They don’t make them any better, Godspeed to both.
and also Joe Fox recently. Awesome guy
And Dave Cafarelli
A couple of those mosquito proponents said if bitten they could die.
Gaetani News Hour is a repeat. G-man was in the trenches today working for YOU.
Gaetani has been working tyeresly for the people of Pittsfield,and because of his gruff nature and hostility of his direct approach he has very little backup support. G Man is a decorated Veteran and doesn’t need any help. We will destroy this consultant and lazy council situation why He’s right!
We are for.Mosquito spray! Why, it works
Gruff style as in incompetent boob?
Gruff style as in hung-over.
Gruff style as a drunk 24/7!
The Mayor must do better on less money.Thats life mayor.Dont be afraid of the schools as their problems will never go away…..they are bad ma managers of resources..
ROADS and Crosswalks please mayor please we are begging you
Idle thought from THE PLANET, wondering (a) if anyone caught the supreme irony on display in the final sentence of our non-dichotomous piece and (b) what our good friend Dr. Chuck thought of it.
I fear that the aging process has damaged the analytical processes of my brain and therefore I am unable to deduce why there are and cannot be any, dichotomies. But since everyone born eventually dies that does bring into question if they ever were really here.
Me to. To many dead brain sells to understand a debate with a Dr. and Renound Journalist.
Chip sealing is going to be banned by the city? OK so all of these holes are going to be with us until sometime in the very distant future when the city can afford to repave all of these roads?
Last I heard the schools get most of the new Linda Tyer budget money for their large salaries and not much is left over. How is this going to work when there is no money for road repair and chip sealing is all we have? Did Berkshire Health Systems agree to fork over a million dollars? Dan V. you need to do an article on this million dollars that Progressives want from Berkshire Health Systems since they have run out of money due to their poor money management.
Pat, are you in favor of the death penalty for Progressives? Sounds like they must commit a lot of felonies and treasonous acts. Scary part is, one of them could be living right in your neighborhood and you might not even know it. We need a registry just like the sex offenders for these awful despicable people. I heard there was one working at a hospital once. Oh my!
A registry would be lovely.
Steve, 50/50 chance that doctor that gave you your colonoscopy was a progressive. He must have left something inside you that makes you so constipated and crabby all the time. Kinda like Trump in that way aren’t ya? Always trying to start shit with somebody.
Your comment says a lot about your lack of writing skills and thought process
What we need Dusty is a registry for extremely stupid people so we can put you on it.
So a petition to stop chip sealing from a bunch of whiners who know nothing about road maintenance.
It will be decades before the roads are milled and repaved. And milled/repaved road repairs don’t last very long. And the roads are left in the milled state – which has the same negative effects these whiners are claiming chip sealing has – for a pretty lengthy time.
Ask yourself, why are warning sings for motorcyclists put up for milled roads but not for chip sealed roads? And anyone who states chip sealed roads are slippery is either stupid or lying.
And when these whiners’ roads that weren’t chip sealed turn into a bunch of potholes they’ll be complaining about that next.
The city paid huge bucks for a road asset management plan. Why aren’t they using it?
Granted they could have gotten the same results for 10% of the price, or even not done it at all because they aren’t using it.
Ironically, the key recommendation of the road management plan was to prevent streets from deteriorating to the point where major repairs were needed. Yea, they’re really following that one!!!
Progressives used to be financially slow to spend and now they spend and borrowed the future to the 1.r
It pays to have the right name and family connections in this county. Congratulations April Mazzeo on representing a failing district with your new STEAM program. (iberkshires)
Lone Gun Man shot spotted on masslive.com
crickets elsewhere…
http://www.masslive.com/news/index.ssf/2018/05/pittsfield_shooting_sends_man.html
Oh BIG surprise now….Israel starts crap with Iran…Iran fires back…nest thing you will hear is that Trump is going to reign fire and Fury on Iran….which was what he was looking for an excuse for
stay tuned and fill up your gas tank as Trumps gas is going to continue to rise over $3 bucks a gallon
oh yeah it’s true
oh no it isnt…and let Israel deal with Iran. Iran will be crying in a week. Death to Iran
Check again Stevie…Fox news is saying that Iranians in Syria have killed Americans.. dun ta dun taaaaa…where have I heard this song before? Oh yeah..”weapons of mass destruction” in Iraq. How did that bullshit line work out for many american families who lost so many sons and daughters and fathers? Not too good Stevie and that is the very same path we find ourselves on now. Looks like Trump is going to get his dream war sooner than we all thought
Nope you are stating fake news. Just stop
Dream War. Like he said, why do we have stockpiles of weapons if we don’t use them? Showing strength and entrring someone else backyard fight, isn’t an option ScumP.
You are clueless turn Israel loose
The DOW is up again. So much for the DemoRats shouting their Trump hatred eh.
“The sky is falling the sky is falling”
– Liberal DemoRats
Up over 200 points as of noon.
Turn Israel loose Steven? They would not dare do any mid east war if they did not think we were right behind them ready to fight and pay for it. Check your history big fella.
Check yours. Fairly certain they were in their own before Christ. Gosh you ar ignorant of history
Steve Dean is The release of North Korean hostages as reprted on CNN,MSNBC,CBS,ABC,NBC,and evey other mrdia outlet in the world fake news?….7 billion people learned the news of the hostages release.Is it real we ask
Yes that is. It was real. It was very stuff for them to report that i am sure.
Make North Kprean Americans Great Again. Jung is locked and loaded. Biding time.
your post makes no sense
That post did make sense
Yes it did
Gaetani states a three bedroom toilet would go to ten grand,that without chip seal five grand for one bathroom .Thank God Kittredge rd sters are well healed, they will still have the water deal. They’re special up at Kittredge.
Say this three time fast, Double Tongue Don.
Apparently you hate success. Poor you. Hahahahaha he is your President. Be a big girl and deal with it
To take a page from the great Nota…Trump New Official Name on the Planet~ Double Tongue Don.
So it shall be said and Written.
Rumor is Dow will be bought by Trump.
Wow. You don’t stop
Unless he’s impeached, then it’s all off. Thank You Councilor Mazzeo on your work to Relieve Walmart of their Proposal at the dead end PED site.
Looks like the Lazy Nurses are avoiding the supposed Thumderstorm.
So sad that Berkshire County people can’t be happy for all that President Trump is doing for this country. His historic meeting with the North Korean president, bringing home hostages, and keeping our economy growing everyday with people having more money to spend. It’s all because they think the sun rises and sets on the Progressive agenda, an agenda, by the way, which has done nothing but destroy this area.
Steve, have you got any of that preparation H left over for Pat?
Dusty your lack of facts is laughable
Pat state health insurance is good and cheap.
Not really
Each mayor makes the same mistake over and over.Tyer has a city to run and the let the schools run the city.Time for the ma yor and council to stop the taxpayers from getting ripped off.I want school cross walk s painted,lines in road painted,strets swept….downtown needs to keep their store front clean of litter,cigs ,bottles,leaves,paper…put in more benches…dont be afraid. Mayor take the city back from Mccandless and curtis….matter of fact fire curtis.Find out whos counting cash,cash ,cash at crosby.
Obama got 12 detainees realeased but did not go on TV to kiss His asd
Um don’t think he did
SJ’S,all potatoes at Crosby look elsewhere…