[MD] Social Imposition ?

[craigerb at comcast.net]

[Ian]
> "The quality of an intellectual pattern is inversely  proportional to
> the level of effort (needed to be) imposed by society to maintain that
> pattern, (but is proportional to how widespread it is believed by  free
> thinkers)."

IMHO the belief in absolute time & space is the effortless & widspread default, while every new generation needs to be convinced of the high quality, little understood Theory of Relativity.
Craig