The Reality Master: Ontological Mathematics for Engineers.

Introduction One of the best things about the books from the Pythagorean Illuminati are the little "mini-articles", or "meme-breaks", between the chapters on the more substantial topics. Here they'll analyze more casual faire, and kind of riff on certain ideas. Oftentimes, they'll mostly ask questions and not try to reach any specific conclusions. They actually state this is an intentional literary device to help keep the interest high, especially among readers who might have attention spans conditioned by social media and the internet. I call them snigglets (even though they actually read more like a series of tweets). Anyway, I keep a running series of notebooks containing my thoughts, and after having completed the most recent one, I decided to take some of the more interesting entries and turn them into something like the aforementioned "snigglets". So here is the result. The goal is to entertain, and make you think, not so much to aut...

The pluralists will never defeat the monists. In WWII, the pluralists got lucky – because two positive-liberty leviathan systems, Nazism and Soviet Communism, fought each other to the death, allowing negative-liberty America to assume leadership of the world. But now negative-liberty America is directly up against positive-liberty China, and China has learned everything it needed to from Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, and even from America. It’s much bigger than America, much stronger than America, much smarter than America, and has far superior leaders. -- Sinclair, David. The Wolf Tamers: How They Made the Strong Weak (pp. 291-292). Kindle Edition. Introduction I think it's pretty clear that, overall, I'm a big fan of Ontological Mathematics (OM). As I've said before in several posts it's the most enlightening system of thought I've ever learned, and that's besting a BS in Electrical Engineering, several certificates in Software Engineering, and work...