as mcluhan pointed out, it is common to be unable to "see the relational transformation for the events" [one cannot see the ground for the figures]. this dualist-blindness seems to crop up in predictions, as well as in social organization. the event of the new factory in the valley can be understood either in non-dualist terms of the transforming of relations in the valley dynamic [figure-in-ground] or in dualist terms of the construction of the new factory [all-figure no ground]. the relational change is more basic than details of whether the factory makes cornflakes or cadillacs [McLuhan --- "the relational medium is the message"].

trends and predictions also come in these two flavours [non-dualist and dualist] and the difference between them is far more than 'splitting hairs'.

nostradamas dealt in dualist predictions as in the Biblical tradition; i.e. the forecasting of plagues, earthquakes, wars, floods, invasions, murders, droughts, and battles. nietzsche deals in trends in non-dualist 'relational transformation' [where events are local features within a transforming relational medium; i.e. where event-and-relational-medium are a non-duality];

" And do you know what “the world” is to me? Shall I show it to you in my mirror? This world: a monster of energy, without beginning, without end; a firm, iron magnitude of force that does not grow bigger or smaller, that does not expend itself but only transforms itself; as a whole, of unalterable size, a household without expenses or losses, but likewise without increase or income …” –Nietzsche, ‘The Will to Power’, 1067

the Western orthodox 'reality' is the dualist 'semantic reality' featuring 'events' based on 'what things do', such as 'DDT is killing mosquitoes' and 'US military science and technology is getting rid of Saddams'.

for 'dualists', 'what things do' is 'all she wrote'. in other words, dualism puts inherently subjective and incomplete logical propositions, like the DDT and Saddam propositions, into an unnatural precedence over the relational transformation of our experience-based intuition [going with the logical propositions which disregard the 'externalities' that constitute the physical reality of our actual relational experience].

when non-dualists speak in terms of relational transforming, dualists' eyes glaze over, because, in the dualist view, 'what things do' fully determines the unfolding world dynamic. this is like the scientist who measures the performance of the baseball hitter. he assumes, 'ceteris paribus', that the ups and downs in the hitter's performance derive from the hitter [ignoring the physical reality of our experience wherein the pitching/fielding is inductively actualizing, orchestrating and shaping the hitter's 'genetic expression'].

When Louis Pasteur acknowledged that Antoine Bechamp had been correct in claiming that 'le microbe n'est rien, le terrain est tout', this was supported by the fact that there are over 200 bacteria and viruses whose proliferation [to the point they become a problem] correlates with pneumonia. 'correlation' does not mean 'causation' since if 'le terrain' (the equivalent of 'the fielding') is nurturant to bacteria/viruses by being low in vitamic C, such fielding inductively actualizes the genetic expression of various bacteria/viruses, just like a warm ocean and atmosphere inductively actualizes hurricanes [figures we disconnect from ground with our noun-and-verb language-and-grammar and use to construct dualist 'what things do' event-based semantic realities].

the confusing of non-dualist prediction based on relational transformation (Nietzsche) and dualist event-based prediction (Nostradamus) derives from the dualist view that 'what things do' based 'events' are 'all she wrote' [separating figures from ground is done by replacing the relational 'ground' with empty Euclidian space, leaving only the figures and what they do as if in a non-participating space (i.e. blindering oneself so that one is unable to see the transforming relational ground for the figures)].

Nietzsche's point is that Western civilization has fostered a trend in which 'logical propositions' have been progressively taking over from experience-based intuition. This is what Bohm refers to as 'incoherence'.

Trump is a businessman and businessmen are the epitome of those who would put 'logical propositions' into an unnatural precedence over the relational transformation of our experience-based intuition. What this means is that the more that powerful groups succeed in fulfilling their logical propositions, the more externalities that are generated, which are not addressed in the business plans and which everyone will experience and that someone else will have to pay for. Businessmen do not have to pay for 'externalities' but the collective they operate in, including those they fire and exploit have to "eat" such externalities. The successful businessman has the worst qualifications for the leader of a community, insofar as he commits to operationalizing logical propositions [which generate externalities not addressed in the propositions, that are the physical reality that we actually experience, which transcends 'logical truths' such as "we succeeded in using DDT to kill mosquitoes" and "we succeeded in using US military science and technology to get rid of Saddams".

Summary: As the political leaders in Western colonizer civilization have continued to push dualist logical propositions, unpredicted externalities have continued to rise [externalities are the physical reality while logical propositions are intellectual semantic realities]. the mounting push-back of externalities makes the fulfillment of logical propositions hollow ["yes, Saddam was removed but the externalities unleashed were far more significant and troublesome than the gains associated with the achievement of the logical proposition (his removal)" this has made political leaders more cautious about claims that they can deliver a promised future [and so it should be since every local system/nation is included in a relational suprasystem whose epigenetic inductive influence is in a natural precedence over their genetic expression].

the businessman, meanwhile, continues to push and achieve his logical objectives, generating all kinds of externalities (loss of local jobs, an exploited have-not class etc.) that he will never have to pay for. a businessman like Trump can get things done and make political leaders look incompetent. but the political leaders also have to manage [pay for] the externalities that they and the business magnates they represent generate as 'side-effects' of fulfilling their logical propositions [the side-effects are the physical reality we experience]. thus, Trump 'appears' far more competent than the political leaders, because, as a businessman, he does not have to manage the externalities. for example, he could have contracted to 'take out Saddam' in which case he would be well compensated for the successful fulfilment of the logical objective, ... but the disastrous externalities would still be an outcome, but one which he did not have to pay for.

if Trump carries his aggressive/unmoderated logical proposition oriented approach into the political leadership, he will generate externalities bigtime, and he will need stronger police and military to fend off the pushback. The logic-based 'semantic reality' he will commit to building, is not the physical reality of our experience. the physical reality is the externalities which will have us, the more we push fulfillment of logical propositions, "going to hell in a handbasket".

This is a relational trend that we can predict will worsen. it is like driving a car in circles in a closed aircraft hangar and speeding up to keep ahead of the exhaust fumes which are becoming more and more suffocating. Trump is effectively an advocate of that strategy. Nietzsche would say that people are eventually going to realize that Western civilization has its "reality ladder" up the wrong wall [up the wall of logical propositions instead up the wall of relational experience as informs our intuition]. That is a situation, like the building of fumes in the aircraft hangar, that could easily reach and exceed a tipping point threshold as in 'self-organized criticality' in avalanche/earthquake phenomena.