On occasion, I might preface a statement with “all other things being equal,” I believe this or that. I find this is a profound limitation on any statement, since in real life all other things are never equal. This seemingly scientific speaking, trying to control for one thing and trying to make all other things equal has a distinct sterility to it. In short, it tries to declare a “context-free zone” that disregards countless connections and relationships in the ecosystem of reality. Functionally, in a discussion, the statement, “all other things being equal,” is often a call to ignore these myriad of interrelationships. Typically, if I do use such a preface, it is merely a prologue to a longer attempt to exhume such lifeless premises and reductionistic cognitions. This is awe the more true when the discussion alludes to some action to be followed in real-whirled conditions. Articulated much more briefly, this poem:
Just Encase
All other things
Being equal
I’d probably do that
Just
Let me no
Till that
Is the case
For freedom
For awe
What new can be borne
Temporary in convenience
Not for the hard headed
Standard baring
