This equation is an exercise in thinking. I’m the type of person to whom ‘1 x 1 = 1’ constitutes a logical fallacy. You’re supposed to balance the equation to consider it solved, right? Both sides ought to be equal. That’s how equations work.
However, it’s a rare, pure soul that stops and questions a thing like that as a child. I was jaded, even back then. The teacher said, “That’s how it is.” And that’s how it remained in my mind for decades.
It’s not the things we don’t know that cause cognitive dissonance, but the things we take for granted.
When the air of rejuvenation presents itself, in the form of curiosity, I ponder. I allow myself to get carried away by these things that don’t often have much apparent practical utility.
Some things are true, and other things are True. What’s the distinction? Normal truths are verifiable. Truths with a capital letter are so ubiquitous and all-encompassing that it’s damn near impossible to domesticate them. Every statement about a Truth is only a starting point for another path to follow. That’s an essential quality to a thing if you ask me. And if you happen to draw pleasure from these types of philosophical inquiries, anyhow.
The most dreadful matters are those meant to be accepted at face value and left behind for good, without second-guessing.
As I’m working, the summer sun is scorching my face, and I listen to John Vervaeke and some other philosophers from Spotify. I hear the words ‘synthetic truth’ and ‘a priori truth’. Immediately I start thinking of this mindfuck of an equation ‘1 x 1 = 2’, which to me seems a lot like an a priori truth. The default ‘1 x 1 = 1’ must be a synthetic truth.
I post to Threads:
1 x 1 = 2
A priori truth
1 x 1 = 1
Synthetic truth
I grow obsessed with this line of thinking, and that leads me to many heated debates with different people. I can’t stop thinking about it. If there are two numbers on the other side of the equation, how is it supposed to equal LESS when MULTIPLYING these TWO units of ONE together??? Makes no fucking sense.
What’s the square root of 9? (What number multiplied by itself is 9?) That’s right, it’s 3, easy.
What is the square root of 4? That’s 2. I assume you, the reader, have already passed the second grade. Congratulations!
Next, what’s the square root of 2?
Even though I’m a fanatic sometimes, I’m not a fool. I’m able to hold two diametrically opposing viewpoints in my mind simultaneously. When you do a Google search or talk to a Chat GPT, you get the answer that the square root of 2 is an irrational number: 1.414213562… Then we get to a territory which is not my strongest suit, I must admit.
However, let me propose something audacious:
Square root of 2 = 1.
To be even more specific, the logic ought not to be drawn from geometry, so:
The root of 2 = 1
Thankfully, we are not in the Dark Ages. That’s when I would’ve been burned at the stake most certainly.
Nature doesn’t decrease. There’s something profoundly evil about that seemingly innocuous equation ‘1 x 1 = 1’. It must be a primordial conspiracy. The ancient mystery cults have devised our most axiomatic mathematics in a way that works against Life itself.
Our cells multiply like that: ‘1 x 1 = 2’.
The world of manufactured scarcity goes like this: ‘1 x 1 = 1’
Where did fifty percent go? Ahh, taxes… Which brings to mind perjury, banking, and the… Oh, let’s not go there.
Anyhow, there’s the Aristotelian ‘Immovable Mover’. There’s ‘The Universal One’ by Walter Russell. The latter was someone Einstein is said to have wished he had studied more when he was on his deathbed. In other words, the number ‘One’ can be considered an Absolute. You know what that means, it equals GOD.
If the number ‘One’ equals GOD, multiplying one by one should yield creation, not reduction.
Eemu Julius 