Notes from the Decline of America.
"If you can't bash your own who can you bash?"
Propaganda as an art form.
The Shadow speaks. The whole is different than the sum of its parts. Things fall apart on their own.
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Sunday, September 07, 2008
Immediate survival demands immediate attention. Preparation requires mitigation. Anticipation lessens shock. The slow can be quick to react. Some loses cannot be bought. Mathematics is not a social science.
Here's my problem with the "reality" of math.
ReplyDelete1+1=2
Yet, my father plus my mother had 8 children so one plus one equals 10 in that reality. And depending on the time the equal number changes.
So for me math is still at best a theory to convey complex concepts in a logical manner, not to be confused with truth.
I stand by the truth razor that only the absolute truth is true.
As we are learning in the current economic crisis, numbers can lie.