Culture & Anarchy

<p>When I took Culture & Anarchy for the title of this project - stealing it from a book by Matthew Arnold - I was thinking primarily about how all human understanding is based in useful fictions, though we pretend our concepts are representations of a fundamental reality because we can’t otherwise get our heads around why they’re useful.</p><p>This pretence is often an obstruction to progress, however, because it encourages us to cling to concepts that we must abandon if we’re to adapt to new circumstances. Thus, in all domains of human activity, we go throug...