I had 3 older sisters and brother, so there wasn't much getting words in edgewise, but it taught me to step back and try to see the bigger picture. There are two sides to any argument, or there wouldn't be an argument.

The biggest problem with Western culture is this monotheistic assumption of some objective reality, some map, model, omniscient omniscience that explains everything, from God to Math.

Yet the reality is bottom up. Knowledge, the signals we extract from the noise, are what resonates and synchronizes with our prior beliefs, so it becomes self re-enforcing feedback loops, in everything from religion to academia.

It really is mostly a light show. Galaxies are energy radiating out, a structure coalesces in, so information tends to be centripetal. That locus at the center really isn't some shining city on a hill, but the eye of the storm.

Maintaining balance in a storm is an art.

The bull is power. The matador is art.

https://medium.com/@johnbrodixmerrymanjr/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-western-mind-906dc73cffe2