Nature doesn't know how to stack. There are no right angles in the organic world (unless you consider crystals, but crystals seem kinda semi-mythological to us, so we exclude them from our definition of the organic world). Right angles only appeared on Earth with the abstracting mind of man. Right angles are an example of the simplification through examination that the human mind finds necessary to survive amongst the natural insanity of space and time. The right angle is a concept derived from an anti-holistic view of nature that has helped guide us toward the iPod and the Academy Awards – two phenomena that would be impossible without a penchant for oversimplification.

  The right angle predates capitalism, so we can't blame the current state of economy for this simplification. We can do the exact opposite though, and blame the right angle for capitalism. In a round about away – and what other way is there when in engaged in pile dialogs – the same anthropomorphic tendencies that gave us the right angle, led us to devise the capitalist system. This tendency is our reliance on simplicity over understanding. The comings and goings of the protons and petroleum that form the entire web of our experience are too much for our overburdened senses to intake, so we've developed these abstract simplifying machines like capitalism to do the hard work for us.

  Human history, up to this point, can be looked at as a never-ending quest toward simplification. Granted, the

  This drive toward simplification has also reduced the scope of our thought. The scientific method, which, in its most gracious moments, has delivered us to the moon and allowed us to harness energy from wind and water, has played a sinister role in the reduction of thought. This iconoclastic statement may strike some as counter-deductive, but we assure you it is plenty inductive. We are not disparaging science, we love the moon and hydro-electric power and all the other untold fantasies that await us in the future, we are simply eschewing the linear, exclusionary thought that is a by-product of the scientific method. We (mostly Scott) are not fans of Francis Bacon.

  The scientific method, following in the lineage of the right angle, abstracts a single environmental variable and hopes to explain it through concise experimentation. This process unquestionably adds to our knowledge of the exterior world, which is arguably a very good thing. However, it is the confidence derived from this knowledge that is suspect. Just because an experiment proves that nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium allow for soil fertility doesn't mean that these elements alone are all that is required to grow proper corn. There are variables outside of simple soil fertility that play a crucial role in designing agricultural systems.