"Strange Distinction"

"We have the ability to identify ‘everything’ as a whole (or a ‘One’), which, once we’ve done that, makes it a part rather than the whole.  If I can put ‘it all’ into words like ‘it all’ or ‘everything’, I’ve distinguished it as, in a sense, other than me.  ‘It all’ is now scratchy marks on a page like e = energy.  We could give ‘it all’ any label or symbol we want to.  But then this is the 'strange distinction' between part and whole...."

-Fragments of Memetica, No. 15, pt. 2, adapted  [20201018]