No Single Theory Ever Agrees

I Had Studied Dadaism After The Second World War. What Attracted Me To This Movement Was The Style Its Inventors Used When Not Engaged In Dadaistic Activities. It Was Clear, Luminous, Simple Without Being Banal, Precise Without Being Narrow; It Was A Style Adapted To The Expression Of Thought As Well As Of Emotion. I Connected This Style With The Dadaistic Exercises Themselves

It Is Clear, Then, That The Idea Of A Fixed Method, Or Of A Fixed Theory Of Rationality, Rests On Too Naive A View Of Man And His Social Surroundings. To Those Who Look At The Rich Material Provided By History, And Who Are Not Intent On Impoverishing It In Order To Please Their Lower Instincts, Their Craving For Intellectual Security In The Form Of Clarity, Precision, "objectivity," "truth," It Will Become Clear That There Is Only One Principle That Can Be Defended Under All Circumstances And In All Stages Of Human Development. It Is The Principle: Anything Goes.

No Theory Ever Agrees With All The Facts In Its Domain, Yet It Is Not Always The Theory That Is To Blame. Facts Are Constituted By Older Ideologies, And A Clash Between Facts And Theories May Be Proof Of Progress. It Is Also A First Step In Our Attempt To Find The Principles Implicit In Familiar Observational Notions.

Traditions Are Neither Good Nor Bad, They Simply Are... Rationality Is Not An Arbiter Of Traditions, It Is Itself A Tradition Or An Aspect Of A Tradition.

When Western Civilization Invaded The Near And Far East And What Is Now Called The Third World It Imposed Its Own Ideas Of A Proper Environment And A Rewarding Life. Doing This, It Disrupted The Delicate Patterns Of Adaptation And Created Problems That Had Not Existed Before.