Re: jwsr. globalization of consciousness

>Social science phrases do not govern the development of social reality.

1. "The virtual is opposed not the real but to the actual.  _The virtual is
fully real insofar as it is virtual_.  Exactly what Proust said of states
of resonance must be said of the virtual: 'Real without being actual, ideal
without being abstract'; and symbolic without being fictional."
       - Gilles Deleuze, _Difference and Repetition_

what exactly _is_ the "difference" between the ideational and the material?


2. "Yes, imagination governs the world."
       - Napoleon Bonaparte

what exactly _is_ the difference between the material and the imaginary?


3. "If the people can be oppressed, even if they are not actually
oppressed, then they are oppressed already."
       - Saint-Just



best wishes/sincerely,
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