A very good metaphor…rowing with one oar…which is sort of like shooting yourself in the foot and trying to run a relay race! Yes, we are ruining our own chances for functioning at a meta-level, which is where we can stop playing out the binding patterns of our cultural shadows. We are frequently drawn to the shadows because we have lost something in the dark, it is invisible to us, we vaguely recall where we lost it and we are not functioning at all well without it. It seems art, music and syncronistic events help us remember. Art wakes us from Newton’s sleep. I hesitate to call the new structure Quantum but there is a serious scholar of international politics , ( a non-physicist), who has put a foot in both worlds and is coming up with something weird. It a new world order ( which is conservative) but with a twist ( like in a Klein bottle). He claims we are moving out of a classical world view, which dominates our current foreign policies and economic theory, and are starting to re-think matter. We may be walking wave functions. Strange? Absurd? Alternate ways of knowing are happening every day.
