This is, of course, the Cartesian coordinates.

Once again, the Cartesian kind of cross over.

I'm trying to remember the words monism, dualism, categories all over the place.

And of course fences around the world are all Cartesian, all strictly linear.

So it helped me understand industrial agriculture, which of course is a Cartesian system.

This is well beyond organic agriculture, which is still a Cartesian system, more or less.

And so, if some people have fallen into the pit of metaphysical dualism, some really smart people, too, but we can reject all that.

Unlike the British and the Americans, the French are much less obsessed with sex than they are with financial scandal. Public opinion surveys reveal an interesting dualism the French want maximum freedom in the private sphere and maximum protection in the public sphere.

This is perhaps the main reason why the scientific rejection of dualism may be so hard to swallow it seems to diminish the moral status of people. If we are to accept scientific facts, we need to construct morality on a new foundation, one without souls.

The coming years, indeed decades, will be characterized by an increasingly aggressive US Chinese dualism as China becomes stronger and America s weakness persists. While this rivalry will have a military component, as evidenced by China s enormous military buildup, it will manifest itself primarily in terms of economic, political, and normative spheres of influence.

And this is a lot more than growing food, as you'll see this is a different way to think about nature and a way to get away from the zero sum notion, the Cartesian idea that either nature's winning or we're winning, and that for us to get what we want, nature is diminished.

What lies behind the apparent paradox is the phenomenon of the two Mexicos, the McKinsey Global Institute s evocative term for the extreme dualism that characterizes Mexico s economy. Large firms, oriented toward the global economy, have done quite well, whereas traditional, informal firms exemplified by the ubiquitous neighborhood tortillerías have performed poorly while continuing to absorb the bulk of the economy s work force.

So, in the American tradition, the difference between the technocratic and the romantic, would be the difference between Thomas Jefferson's Cartesian grids spreading across the United States, that gives us basically the whole shape of every western state in the United States, as a really, truly, technocratic solution, a bowing to the in Jefferson's time current, popular philosophy of rationalism.