| In the Philosophical review of Eastern and | | | | by the janitorial teams the next evening. Upon |
| Western Philosophy we noted that these individual | | | | entering the dump these cut strings would |
| philosophies could be depicted as representing a | | | | become one with the Earth again to be recycled |
| basketball and a baseball inside a giant empty | | | | in yet another form perhaps hundreds of years |
| hanger where Boeing 747s are built, each hanging | | | | later. This does not seem to be an option worthy |
| on a string very far apart. In Part II we take the | | | | of pursuit either. |
| study and critique of Modern Philosophy a step | | | | The Eastern Philosophy which is represented as a |
| further. | | | | Basket Ball hangs on a bungee cord in the hanger |
| The goal of this allegory is to show that in the | | | | and it too needs to be set free. It could be taken |
| Twenty-First Century the human mind must | | | | and used to pay basketball, but could never see all |
| expand and cut through or pop the linear | | | | the corners or heights of the hanger no matter |
| philosophical thoughts of the past 10,000 years in | | | | how long the game was played. |
| Eastern Philosophy and the past 5,500 years of | | | | We could take the Basketball to outer space on a |
| Western Philosophy. In doing this we examine | | | | Shuttle, but once we set it free into open space it |
| each of the philosophies and the small spheres of | | | | would pop. Eastern Philosophy would be one with |
| thought that they represent. | | | | the Universe but never be able to come back into |
| The baseball (representing Western Philosophy) is | | | | the box or hanger to experience the reality of |
| tightly wound and layered upon each consecutive | | | | this realm or the happenings in the hanger, where |
| historical philosopher's mindset. Thus, laying down | | | | great things are built perhaps to deliver the next |
| another wrap of string around the sphere and | | | | philosophical theories into space? |
| often unwrapping a bit only to re-wrap it another | | | | If we try to combine Eastern and Western |
| way, until eventually it is completed; where a | | | | Philosophies we either get a bump on the |
| cover has been placed on the academic domain | | | | basketball making it difficult to play with and |
| of Western Philosophy and laced shut, through the | | | | unable to bounce (ying and yang) correctly, as it |
| confines of its definitions and categorizations of | | | | would veer off on weird tangents, eventually the |
| types of thought. | | | | basket ball would become flat and ruined and the |
| The only way to expand Western Philosophy in | | | | air would seep out to visit the hangers ventilation |
| future periods is to cut the baseball apart or start | | | | system, yet still be stuck within the system |
| playing baseball inside the Boeing Aircraft hanger | | | | unable to escape the hanger. |
| until the players hit the ball to each corner and | | | | If we pick the best of both philosophies by |
| every possible 3D space inside. After the baseball | | | | deconstructing them and re-constructing them |
| has played inside the hangar for hundreds of | | | | into one, we end up with a smaller ball which is |
| more years of continuous play can we be sure it | | | | not hollow (representing external thought) or thick |
| has crossed every piece of open space inside. Is | | | | inside (representing Western Philosophy), but |
| this a worthy pursuit or is there another way? | | | | rather spongy. We can use this to play both |
| If we continue on the present path then once the | | | | baseball and basketball, but neither very well. |
| baseball representing Western Philosophy has | | | | Thus, if we are to expand human thought into |
| completed this task of exploring the hanger then | | | | the 21 st Century then we need to embark on a |
| we must take the baseball into out space and let | | | | new line of thinking based on unlimited thinking, |
| it lose in orbit around the Earth so it can | | | | not the confines of culture or religion of the past. |
| experience a greater realm of thought. | | | | A philosophy not limited to dead white men, men |
| There is another option we can cut the baseball | | | | of faith or 10,000 years of ancient traditions or |
| apart and separate the layers of string and free | | | | customs. It is time to expand the human mind |
| the philosophy from its own belief systems and | | | | and break down the barriers of thought, which |
| lines of thought. But in doing so the debris be left | | | | are encapsulated in tiny spheres or the brains of |
| on the ground only to be cleaned up and trashed | | | | men. |