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At some point (in life’s journey), our inertia diminishes. At this apogee/apex/peak, we start to slide down, captured by the physics of time.
How we handle it is a difference between tumbling downhill like a stone or skiing.
Both will lead you to the same place, yet one is done with skillful control, while the other is painful to observe and takes out anything in proximity.
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When it comes to experimentation, it historically is carried out by those on high, with the testing and results falling on those beneath.
The selection process follows two paths: 1) our compassionate empathy compels us to save you from your wretched self, or 2) your loyalty is rewarded by the uncountenanced opportunity to be raised up.
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You must have experience before reasoning is useful.
Reasoning leads to mutually incommensurate outcomes and antinomies: it is a patch over a tricky piece of reality.
To govern the direction (and hence the usefulness) of "reasoning" we need to look to the fabric of reality, instead of being captured by the delights of assumptive theories.
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By stating science as a matter of belief or faith one shifts the empirical to the subjective, opening the indisputable to the option for disagreement.
In wanting to profess commitment people unwittingly democratize (shift into the realm of popularity) and politicize science’s process into its opposite: a platform for affirmative declaration instead of contingent falsification.
Science does not need your belief. Instead, it is actively harmed by the adherent’s myopic misunderstanding, like most religions.
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to harm stupidity. to destroy the presupposition of common sense. to open up new possibilities. to make change.
