Mike, given I had just read this I can't let the phrase "the ominous World Economic Forum slogan" go! This is from Jamie Wheal:
"(That WEF meme, BTW, featured above, is inaccurate and hysterical. The phrase "You'll own nothing..." was part of a 2016 slide deck of Top Ten futurist predictions, which included other less sinister sounding statements like "we'll need to get much better at welcoming climate refugees." And it wasn't even WEF chairman/Supervillain Klaus Schwab who said it. It was coined by a Danish woman politician and concluded with "and many of your packages will be delivered to your front door by drone" which when you think of subscribing to Spotify and Netflix instead of owning CDs and VHS, AirBnB couchsurfing and Uber ridesharing instead of home and car ownership, is a pretty obvious prediction)."
The "irrational" list could also be described as your axioms list. If something can be proven, then it can't be an axiom. And if it's something you believe without evidence, then the belief takes on the role of being a first principle that you use to derive other knowledge from.
If you want to take that train of thought further, I have a post about it:
Mike, given I had just read this I can't let the phrase "the ominous World Economic Forum slogan" go! This is from Jamie Wheal:
"(That WEF meme, BTW, featured above, is inaccurate and hysterical. The phrase "You'll own nothing..." was part of a 2016 slide deck of Top Ten futurist predictions, which included other less sinister sounding statements like "we'll need to get much better at welcoming climate refugees." And it wasn't even WEF chairman/Supervillain Klaus Schwab who said it. It was coined by a Danish woman politician and concluded with "and many of your packages will be delivered to your front door by drone" which when you think of subscribing to Spotify and Netflix instead of owning CDs and VHS, AirBnB couchsurfing and Uber ridesharing instead of home and car ownership, is a pretty obvious prediction)."
That rings true to me...
BTW the newsletter that comes from https://www.flowgenomeproject.com/post/intelligent-design-or-malevolent-design is in many ways in very good conversation with your piece!
The "irrational" list could also be described as your axioms list. If something can be proven, then it can't be an axiom. And if it's something you believe without evidence, then the belief takes on the role of being a first principle that you use to derive other knowledge from.
If you want to take that train of thought further, I have a post about it:
https://blurry.substack.com/p/axioms-and-consequences