The Wall of Assumption

Everybody has their own opinion from their personal perspective. We each can go into great detail about what we know, especially when asked about one of our pet topics. We keep up in the area, learn the jargon and have a sense of what is cutting edge - the part where what we know brings together what we don't know and integrates the new in a weigh that makes sense.

By the same token, most of us know when we don't know and need to defer to more informed judgment. We keep tabs with a number of people who have taken the time to explain their logic in terms that coincide with the way we think. We really should find people who disagree and have them explain the concept - it would stop reenforcing the common myths.

How deep the myths go reflect how deep your personal rabbit hole extends. The more you know for sure, the less you understand other viewpoint based on 'lesser' realities. I define a lesser reality as one that you will gladly write off because it doesn't conform with the facts in your personal myth. It does not suggest hierarchy below - because you don't believe it, you give it little credence. Thus it is lesser - it holds no real value to you.

But really, is that true? You may not agree, but sometimes there is something said that strikes a chord. You cannot let it go - it gnaws and finds time to use thought - the arena is whetted and a theory no longer holds water. How deep? When in trouble, check your premises.

Group theory concerns itself with the symmetry of relationships. We are more comfortable with groups that fit a Fibonacci set and have trouble with misbalanced groups. Getting larger than eight is quite a task, because each additional atom (or person) adds a complexity that has to fit into the whole.

Inversion is a symmetry theme, just compare your left hand to the right one. Nature attempts to accommodate, but eventually abandons things that don't work in favor of things that do work - hence 'progress' occurs. Our current human operating system was hijacked long ago and now changes that are coming can provide a fix - if we can grok a perspective that the institutions that we are trying to 'save' are imaginary failures that we no longer need.

We don't need no education, we don't need no thought control, no dark sarcasms in the classrooms, hey, teacher, leave those kids alone. Time to stop adding bricks to the wall.