Challenging complementarity

Women and the Underside of Meetings (Part #10)

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To the extent that such cognitive dissociation does apply, a possibly ironic confirmation (worth exploring in some detail) is the historically concurrent emergence into global awareness of two seemingly quite unrelated concepts -- articulated in similar language:

• sustainability: as a principal focus of international gatherings since 1992, which continues to be framed as the "holy grail" of global strategy through which (obsessions with) "growth" may be sustained -- effectively associating "globalization" with "growth". Remedies to the current economic crisis around the world are described as vital "stimulus" packages for flagging industrial sectors and economies
• "viagra": patented as the drug sildenafil in 1996 (and aggressively marketed worldwide under various names) to remedy inability to sustain a satisfactory erection to complete intercourse -- and associated with (obsession with) a corresponding form of "growth" and its necessary "stimuli"

It is curious that both may be framed in terms of aspirations and quests for "globality" -- one understood objectively and the other subjectively, whatever the psychology of projections and mirrorings between them. To the extent that similar language is used, there is of course a concern that, if only unconsciously, cognitive modalities would be unfruitfully constrained in both cases. There is some probability that the same insights are being brought to bear in each case. It is unfortunate that the economic growth of the first case is then to be construed, in the light of the second, as an unconscious aspiration to a form of "economic priapism".

Needless to say, given the age and predominant sex of global leadership, there would appear to be a desperate need for some form of "cognitive viagra" to respond to the seeming impotence in sustaining the much needed political will for change, irrespective of issues of "growth" and getting the financial system "up" again -- even efforts to "talk it up" (echoing the efforts of the snake charmers mentioned below). Cognitively, is it a case of aphrodisiacs for male models beyond their retirement date?

Condoms in Quest of Globality? (not to scale)
Entering Alternative Realities -- Astronautics vs Noonautics (2002)

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