Theory is such a strange phenomenon. It is due no less to a physiological process than anything else, such as the metabolizing of carbohydrates or one’s leaning harder out into a strong headwind. Nobody is independently obligated to be humble, but surely humility, if it’s in the room, would ask that the factors that feed our theories be acknowledged as having priority to them. Surely humility would quietly ask us to remember that nobody is ever in a position to claim territory for the crown, whether it be a Christian, pagan, capitalist, scientific, or nihilist crown.