The maps and models we use to frame reality break down over infinities and disappear at zero/equilibrium. Yet our cultures, from monotheism to math, believe them to be foundational, not mere abstractions.

The problem with God, for example, is that ideals are not absolutes. A spiritual absolute would be the essence of sentience, from which we rise, not an ideal of wisdom and judgement, from which we fell.

The light shining through the film, than the stories playing out on it.

As for math, epicycles were brilliant math, as a model of our view of the cosmos. If the premises are flawed, all the 'shut up and calculate' is just GIGO.

You need various mental tools in the tool box and know which to use where.

The people running armies are called generals, while specialist is about one rank above private.

The people who would make good generalists are the kids interested in everything, as they come to sense how all the parts fit together, but they are diagnosed as attention deficient and medicated until their minds fit back in the boxes. Leaving this global Tower of Babel, with all the specialists talking past each other.

Where the obsessive compulsives all go spiraling down their various sociopathic rabbit holes, echo chambers, feedback loops with no circuit breakers and insist everyone else are infidels.

The bigger the crowd, the lower the common denominator, but the more power. Stupid rules.