The Literary-Mathematical Mentalities and their Contradictory Polarities

I. Arithmetic
II. Geometric
III. Algebraic
IV. Galilean Dynamical
V. Complex Dynamical

The first year of a given college’s core curriculum could be devoted to the Arithmetic and Geometric mentalities; the second year to the Algebraic; the third year to the Galilean Dynamical mentality, and the final year could focus on complex dynamical systems in multi-generic arts and the emergence of a new planetary culture. Those familiar with St. Johns College in Annapolis and Santa Fe will recognize that mine is simply a more global approach to their Graeco-Roman, Western Civilization, Great Books curriculum. My recommendation to Ontario would be that a college within York University, or Trent University in Peterborough, should try this out as an alternative to what they already have in place.

We are now in the time of bifurcation in which we experience the shift to a new world-system – intellectually and politically. As we shift out of modernism, we are experiencing the return of the seventeenth century’s age of religious wars and the emergence of novel mathematical mentalities that we went through at the time when Western Civilization truly broke away and began to pass up the Ottoman Empire.¹⁴

From the influence of Dutch capitalism on England in the Glorious Revolution, England founded the Bank of England and began to use indebtedness to expand the phase-space of its economy. In the debates in Parliament, the old Tory lords defined the gross national product of England as the sum of all the rents of the land of England, and thus they showed that they did not understand the new economy and were still locked into a classical geometrical mentality.