¶ Bias on One Side of the Line
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Bias on One Side of the Line:
“The Greeks defined a triangle as an area bound by a perimeter of three angles and three edges. At one time, the Greeks thought of the Earth as only horizontally extended; their planes and lines went to infinity. The bound area of the triangle was finite. The ‘outside’ beyond the perimeter line was unbounded, infinite, occupied by barbarians, then unknown chaos. Today we know that all systems, as with Earth, are finite and return upon themselves in all directions, so that the triangle divides the definite surface of the sphere into two different areas, both definite and both bound by the same three vertexes and three edges, ergo, two spherical triangles. Both sides of the line are now validly definite.”
“The reflexively deep bias of men for ‘their side’ is built into man’s whole educational experience as relayed through generations since the Greek accrediting of only one side of the line. . . Men as yet speak of flat Earth in respect to which there is as yet an ‘up’ and ‘down’-- where the Sun goes down. Men as yet see the Sun ‘rising’ and ‘setting’ and they as yet see only one side of a line of big patterns as valid or positive, ergo the inability to deal logically in resolving major world political biases.”
¶ Citations
- RBF in AAUJ Journal, p.177, May '65
