811.00 Bias on One Side of the Line

811.01 We have all been brought up with a plane geometry in which a triangle was conceived and defined as an area bound by a closed line of three edges and three angles. A circle was an area bound by a closed line of unit radius. The area outside the closed boundary line was not only undefinable but was inconceivable and unconsidered.

811.02 In the abstract, ghostly geometry of the Greeks, the triangle and circle were inscribed in a plane that extended laterally to infinity. So tiny is man and so limited was man’s experience that at the time of the Greeks, he had no notion that he was living on a planet. Man seemed obviously to be living on an intuitively expansive planar world around and above which passed the Sun and stars, after which they plunged into the sea and arose again in the morning. This cosmological concept of an eternally extended, planar-based Earth sandwiched between heaven above and hell below made infinity obvious, ergo axiomatic, to the Greeks.

811.03 The Greek geometers could not therefore define the planar extensibility that lay outside and beyond the line of known content. Since the surface outside of the line went to infinity, you could not include it in your computation. The Greeks’ concept of the geometrical, bound-area of their triangle or their circle lay demonstrably on only one bound-area side of the line. As a consequence of such fundamental schooling, world society became historically biased about everything. Continually facing survival strategy choices, society assumed that it must always choose between two or more political or religious “sides.” Thus developed the seeming nobility of loyalties. Society has been educated to look for logic and reliability only on one side of a line, hoping that the side chosen, on one hand or the other of indeterminately large lines, may be on the inside of the line. This logic is at the head of our reflexively conditioned biases. We are continually being pressed to validate one side of the line or the other.

811.04 You can “draw a line” only on the surface of some system. All systems divide Universe into insideness and outsideness. Systems are finite. Validity favors neither one side of the line nor the other. Every time we draw a line operationally upon a system, it returns upon itself. The line always divides a whole system’s unit area surface into two areas, each equally valid as unit areas. Operational geometry invalidates all bias.