Belief systems rely upon axiomatic assumptions that for the better part of humanity are and remain unexamined. Thus the banner of this blog’s imprecation.
Creativity is often fetishized as some mysterious phenomenon analogous to such magic. But in truth it is when the mind frees itself of the fetters of such faulty constraints that seemingly miraculous breakthroughs in the form of new hypotheses appear as if out of the blue. Such was the development of the usage of an impossible square root of negative one in the complex geometry of Gauss and his successors.
This freedom to question faulty assumptions should be the condition of humanity enshrined in the principle that all humans are created equal. And yet as in the myth of the cave of Plato’s Republic historically religious wars are oft the result of the clash of the priesthood of such false axioms even still regrettably today.
