Politics is war!Ī wider world exists with the third and fourth dimensions, space and time. The Constitution is summed up by the Second Amendment. They are all about straight lines and power struggles. In 2-D, if we don't want to believe it, we won't.ĭespite a certain lack of depth, Flatlanders experience dramas, since two sides can always fight. Whether paper-thin or digital, money seems comfortable, not like the numbers scientists come up with to show how we're destroying our one and only home. These two-dimensional characters flourish in the realm of money, where every big businessman has his angle.
If Abbott wrote today, the Squares in Flatland would be watching cable news on television screens-which, like them, are flat. Characters look like something out of your 10th-grade geometry class.
In a rather famous old story called "Flatland" (Edwin Abbott, 1884), there are only two dimensions.
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