In Really Understanding Evolutionary Progress , I explored how the portion of science we are exploring is limiting. I also tried to show you how the Postman Prejudice of technology truly works, how a computer programmer making a calculator may feel everything is right, the universe is solved, we are enlightened, and how the some programmer creating a painting software or a card game will find their tools inefficient, the world as wrong, and drugs and addictions bewitching.

Growing up, I was surrounded with science and scientists. I soldered thermocouples, and learned how the pneumatic switch of a locomotive switched by the wheel rotating before I had learned how to ride a bicycle. I never graduated the university, I never wrote any paper with a nice scientific method applied to it. I don’t like its world. But I love it anyways. One of the most exciting things for me is to read scientific work, and watch scientific documentaries. Do not make the mistake to believe what I’m about to say is in any ways in contradiction to this!

My growing up happened inside of LEGO, and it shaped me, and my understanding of the world. LEGO was an immensely beautiful system. Its bricks were designed to connect together in all sorts of ways, they were over killed in engineering, and they looked amazing, and best of all, they had such a coherent world around them. Even the LEGO Technique and LEGO System were inseparable. But it was the most limiting space in the whole universe. If you created a LEGO house and you had a room, you could only fit one thing in that room. The people were huge, the bricks were huge, like Minecraft, you had such a limited space. And you had such a limit in what you could make in those worlds. So the Postman Prejudice was impossible to ignore. I didn’t need to read any Maestro Postman for that.

One day out of the ordinary, my uncle looking at my usual creations had asked me “Haven’t you ever thought about creating your own bricks?”. And that simple question was like giving an undeniable reason to a really religious person that God simply doesn’t exist, and the falling of dominos on all the elements of their life built upon this one… I never thought that one could have the possibility to shape the world, change these rules, that alternate worlds can exists. There was a bigger world to my system and my system just couldn’t capture it.

Think about many different problems in this world. I live in Iran, and this country is in a very strange and bizarre situation. We have a form of opposition. These are people who have left the country either months ago, or decades ago. Many of them have no idea how life in this country is. They don’t know anything about our ways of life, the music we listen to, what we do, what we care about, what we are. They are locked to their perception of a life decades ago, while life here has changed. It has branched away from their realities. Now these people are still counted as Iranians. While knowing nothing about this country the go to rallies and demand things that are asked in a parallel world. They have the right to vote, they are counted as Iranians, while their lives have nothing to do with us. They demand that other countries wage sanctions and war upon us so that Iran becomes open and they come back here, while they live in their fancy homes away. How is this fair? Well they are Iranians but they have such an advantage that we don’t have. systems break this easily, and what they solve perfectly are always these tiny dots in the wast scatter of spaghetti. The calculator in the computing.

Much of the Cinema actually exists because of the same thing. Much of the literature too. If you look at them, they show how humanity cannot be forced pushed into systems, and in that they define humanity. Think about The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (Stieg Larsson) , it is all about how the whole design of the world ruins the life of Lisbeth Salander, or all the Asghar Farhadi’s films, the Dreamers film we had recently seen, anything, almost, always, any film.

And how do you explain sociology? education? thought? mind? how can you capture these complex things? We have had giants like Maestro McLuhan who didn’t stop with no tool, he had his conclusions, and his conclusions happened to be all true. Yet the world is like me with its LEGOs, we fail to see that systems never capture anything fully, that they are partial, and they have horrific Postman Prejudices.

We need something better than mathematics and sciences. Not hallucinatory crap, and superstition, and not philosophy for that matter, but a way better tool, a way better medium, I have no idea what that is, what that it can be, and you can certainly observe from my inability in articulation that I don’t even know how to put the words together for this essay, but it must exist, a new way to see this world and capture its essence.

The problem is also not solvable, although Guy Debord was wrong in many fronts, the simple fact that:

Our best tools are the incapable spectacles. Math is the spectacle. Yes it captures some essence but it is not capturing everything, and capturing everything will be impossible. My inability to write is a testify in that our means of thinking, and communicating, are just so basic.