The Tension
with many thanks to Sheilla Elizza for her Comments

"If anybody happens to feel unhappy or
disagrees with what you [have written],
they should write their own opinions."
~ Sheilla Elliza

Not only is freedom of expression a basic tenet of democracy, it is also necessary for the process of Falsification, as those who have read Karl Popper and studied Theory of Knowledge would realise.

Basically, it starts on the premise that every idea is right... until proven wrong. Through subsequent re-iterations, we eventually come to what is accepted as the state-of-the-art of Knowledge today. Without doubt, Falsification is an on-going process and hinges on freedom of expression. Hence, a scientist's overpowering need to publish.

However, to Structuralists, an idea can only be accepted when a society is ready to accept it, so the advance of science has less to do with scientific proof or the ideas of an individual than it has to do with the general consensus of a society.

Structuralism has been responsible for the persecution and suppression of individuals of creativity and innovation and their ideas since the beginning of time. Structuralists, for example, were responsible for the long-held notion that the sun, the planets and, indeed, the whole universe revolved round the Earth.

This tension between Men of Ideas and Structuralists is one of the things that makes life interesting, to say the least.

It's quite a lot of fun being "born ahead of my time," I can tell you that.