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Usage examples of "collapses".
The supernaturalistic heritage about the suspension of the laws of nature for the sake of miracles collapses completely.
It is a massive reductionism, he says, that collapses truth and meaning into functional capacity, and reduces intersubjectivity to rather crass egocentrism.
This is what I meant when I said that structural-functionalism collapses propositional truth and intersubjective understanding to interobjective fit or functional fit, and ironically dissolves its own truth status into monological mesh.
Utopian world of infinite wonderment: an infinite above collapses into an infinite ahead, and whether that infinite ahead be endless scientific progress or boundless material possessions or political utopianisms as ultimate salvation, they are all fundamentally ways of fussing about in the finite looking for the infinite, and doing irreparable harm to the finite world in the process by placing demands upon it which it could never fulfill.
If the Blue Wheel Party collapses and its members realign with the War Party or the imperials, every street merchant in Ontoset is speculating on the news the next day in the marketplace.
However well that does indeed describe aspects of mythic dissociation, it has precisely nothing to do with one's own transpersonal potentials, vertical potentials that if they aren't actualized are merely projected horizontally into utterly futile schemes to turn this finite world into a Utopian world of infinite wonderment: an infinite above collapses into an infinite ahead, and whether that infinite ahead be endless scientific progress or boundless material possessions or political utopianisms as ultimate salvation, they are all fundamentally ways of fussing about in the finite looking for the infinite, and doing irreparable harm to the finite world in the process by placing demands upon it which it could never fulfill.