Things Without Which We Can Not Have Democracy.

 

 

 

Pythagoreans and Ionians. 

 

Ironically it was out of the Pythagorean Cult, and it's code of silence.  The infamous episode of Hippasus running through a bean field and his penchant for Mexican food, bean burrows and taquitos and such, being an incident that will live in infamy.

 

Swimming with the Fishes, drowning in the Waters.

 

These were the social games people play that led to discovery of a new game in town:  Democracy. 

 

 The List:

 

These two are a start, obviously there will be others. 

 

 Αγεωμέτρητος μηδείς εισίτω, 

 

Ageometritos medeis eisto, 

 

a) geometry.

 

Most commonly understood it is interpreted as ageometritos types being imbeciles, economists (in Greek, "idiots" with their jargon, or "idiom". Imbeciles meaning from Latin, not having a leg to stand on yet also not even like Ted Bundy, with crutches.  We might incorrectly say "postmodernists." Which would be ignorant beyond measure. 

 

Geometry, and the gnome version, Geonomy are thought indispensible because of the superstructure of logic, and mathematics (pythagoreans again). 

 

This is all well and good and healthy and necessary, but a neglection was made, a presumption:  that there be no presumption.

 

There is (one):

 

 

The presumption is the precondition, the ground, out of which the whole of geometry and trigonometry and triangulation or whatever else it is grows, like a mighty oak from a seed.

 

... building on what we said before, an intellectual bully, a sordid sophist, a pernicious punk would start a three-year-old (terrible two?) social game by saying 'presumptions are presumptuous.' Who could refute? By definition, a premise is a premise, and here we have four.

 

Lest there be any doubt, shy Gauss, great Einstein.  These men were not intellectual bullies. On to the next without which there can be no ... sine qua non:

 

 b) family planning. 

 

For now, that's the list, a) geometry. 

 

And b) family planning.