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Phil Getts's avatar

Actually, I believe our culture war today is just the continuation of the philosophical war against reason that Pythagorus began by sacralizing math. The entire Western totalitarian tradition is based on Christianity and the writings of Plato, which are both based on taking the purity and certainty of geometry as being more real than reality.

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Doug Jones's avatar

Euclid alone has looked on Beauty bare.Let all who prate of Beauty hold their peace,And lay them prone upon the earth and ceaseTo ponder on themselves, the while they stareAt nothing, intricately drawn nowhereIn shapes of shifting lineage; let geeseGabble and hiss, but heroes seek releaseFrom dusty bondage into luminous air.O blinding hour, O holy, terrible day,When first the shaft into his vision shoneOf light anatomized! Euclid aloneHas looked on Beauty bare. Fortunate theyWho, though once only and then but far away,Have heard her massive sandal set on stone.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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