Ontological mathematics
The Ownership Wars: Who Owns YouOntological mathematics is presented as the book’s most ambitious alternative to conventional science and political resignation. It joins mathematics, rationalism, idealism, and a theory of mind into a single worldview, while also serving the book’s program of Jacobinism, meritocracy, and social capitalism. Its decisive claim is that reality is not fundamentally inert matter interpreted by observation, but an intelligible mathematical order in which mind is primary and science reaches its highest power when it becomes mathematics.
Definition and Intellectual Opposition
Ontological mathematics is positioned against scientific materialism, empiricism, and scientism. The book treats the conflict not as a minor dispute over terminology but as a struggle over what counts as reality and knowledge. Rationalism begins from what reason can establish as necessary or impossible, whereas empiricism places decisive weight on the experiences of fallible human beings, their senses, and their inherited conceptual frameworks. The book invokes the long historical contrast between Plato and Aristotle, Descartes and Locke, and Leibniz and Newton to place ontological mathematics within a rationalist lineage.
The book argues that the scientific establishment has never genuinely refuted scientific rationalism and idealism. Instead, it allegedly avoids them because presenting rationalist and empiricist interpretations of the same experimental results would destabilize science’s authority. Peer review and the scientific method are therefore described not as neutral guarantees of open inquiry but as institutional mechanisms that exclude approaches capable of challenging the prevailing paradigm. In this polemical account, science claims to defend reason while suppressing logic, deduction, mathematics, and the principle of sufficient reason.
Reality as Mind and Mathematics
The central metaphysical picture makes mathematics more than a tool for describing physical events. The book states that increasingly mathematical science becomes increasingly powerful, and that, at the limit, genuine science is simply mathematics. A final theory of everything would therefore be mathematical rather than merely physical. Matter is described as bounded by mind: when matter is accelerated to light speed or when a large star collapses into an immaterial singularity, the argument treats these limiting conditions as signs that material reality is contained within something nonmaterial.
This account distinguishes two domains. Matter belongs to a temporal, dimensional, contingent, scientific spacetime domain, while mind belongs to a dimensionless, eternal, necessary, immaterial mathematical domain. Their communication is explained through Fourier mathematics. The formulation turns the apparent boundary between physics and metaphysics into a relation between domains: matter is not denied as an experienced phenomenon, but interpreted as a temporal expression within a deeper mathematical reality. The book presents this as a solution to the puzzle of how mind and matter communicate, claiming that the issue is resolved through mathematics rather than left as an unexplained mystery.
The argument also insists that mathematics cannot be dismissed as non-empirical while remaining indispensable to empirical science. The book asks what evidence science has that mathematics is not the true basis of science, or that mathematical hidden variables, including monadic minds or singularities, do not exist, and answers that there is none. It then identifies a contradiction in strict empiricism: an empiricist system cannot consistently exclude everything non-empirical while using mathematics in its own descriptions and predictions. Once mathematics is removed, the book argues, empirical science is reduced to alchemy or divination.
Quantum Mechanics and the Limits of Scientism
Quantum mechanics becomes the book’s principal example of the competing paradigms. From a Leibnizian and Godelian hyperrationalist perspective, quantum weirdness would disappear, but only because the universe would be understood as mental and mathematical rather than material in the conventional scientific sense. The book presents this as a choice between irrational conclusions compatible with scientific empiricism and rational conclusions compatible with scientific rationalism. It claims that science chooses the former because a mathematical interpretation would gradually transform science into pure mathematics, threatening the scientific establishment that controls the existing paradigm.
The same criticism is applied to the failure to reconcile general relativity and quantum mechanics into a theory of quantum gravity. The book attributes that failure to groupthink and paradigmatic thinking: scientists are said to remain trapped at the same level of consciousness that produced the problem. Their difficulty is therefore not represented as a shortage of technical work alone, but as an inability to transcend the conceptual assumptions of materialism and empiricism. The book uses Einstein’s statement, “No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it,” to frame paradigm change as an intellectual transformation rather than a merely cumulative improvement.
The rejection of scientism is stated in absolute terms. The book argues that an unreal probability wavefunction cannot produce real outcomes, and challenges the notion that observation can indeterministically collapse non-reality into specific reality. It also attacks appeals to the multiverse as violations of Occam’s razor, because anything that can happen is thereby assigned a place somewhere in an indefinitely expanded conceptual structure. Against this, rationalism is presented as a discipline that identifies formal impossibilities, including the claim that existence can arise from non-existence.
Historical Change and Intellectual Conflict
Ontological mathematics is portrayed as a future paradigm that will replace materialism with idealism, empiricism with rationalism, and conventional science with a mathematical ontology. The book does not expect the existing scientific establishment to accept this transformation through persuasion. Drawing on Max Planck’s formulation that “Science advances one funeral at a time,” it predicts that defenders of scientism will eventually disappear and that a new generation, less constrained by inherited assumptions, will accept the new truth.
This historical account makes intellectual progress a conflict between a closed institutional order and a minority capable of radical conceptual change. The book describes supporters of scientism as conservative and closed-minded in a manner comparable to religious believers who treat a fixed paradigm as unquestionable. Social-media attacks on Leibnizian-Godelian rationalism are interpreted as evidence of ignorance and intellectual bankruptcy, while the inability to produce quantum gravity is treated as confirmation that the current scientific paradigm has failed. The proposed transition is consequently not a modest reform: it is an overthrow of the scientific worldview and the establishment that owns it.
Political and Narrative Function
The concept has an explicitly political role. The book links ontological mathematics to meritocracy and Jacobinism, presenting all three as components of an Illuminist cause directed toward a rational world of justice and equal opportunity. It rejects communism while advocating rational capitalism, also called social capitalism, in which publicly elected and accountable meritocrats control the economy rather than unelected bankers and corporate heads. Ontological mathematics thus supplies the intellectual foundation for a political project aimed at the 99 percent and opposed to the Ownership Class.
This political meaning is sharpened through contrast with Donald Trump. Ontological mathematicians are described as infinitely smarter than Donald Trump, yet Donald Trump is far more influential and became President of the USA. The contrast is used to express the book’s “Trump conundrum”: political power does not follow intelligence, truth, or merit, because the world is not organized so that smart people rule. Donald Trump’s victory is nevertheless described as a gift to the radical left because it places hard-left positive liberty, meritocracy, and social capitalism on the political agenda. The unresolved question is whether intelligent people will use their intelligence as a weapon and acquire the will to power needed to change institutions.
The concept also functions as a boundary marker in the book’s treatment of conspiracy theories. The text rejects Alex Jones and David Icke, despite the fact that it offers its own sweeping account of elite power. It contrasts right-wing narratives about the Illuminati and a globalist agenda with its own claim that super-rich Americans and predatory capitalism seek worldwide domination. The film They Live is used as a cultural parallel: its hidden signal creates false consciousness, conceals an alien ruling class, and prevents workers from seeing their actual condition. The book interprets the film’s elite not as Jews or a supernatural cabal but as Reaganite yuppie followers, making the film a denunciation of right-wing wealth and power.
That contrast exposes a tension within the concept’s presentation. The book criticizes the unverifiable claims of reptilian conspiracy theories, including David Icke’s Babylonian Brotherhood, beings associated with the Illuminati, the constellation Draco, Saturn, and the Moon. Yet it also describes the scientific establishment, the Ownership Class, and global capitalism through highly totalizing language. Ontological mathematics is therefore both an epistemological alternative and a polemical instrument: it claims to replace myth with reason, but its public function depends on a stark division between enlightened rationalists and the institutions or populations represented as irrational.
Significance
Ontological mathematics gives the book a unified vocabulary for attacking several forms of authority at once. Scientism is criticized for treating matter and observation as ultimate; capitalism is criticized for allowing hereditary wealth and elite power to reproduce themselves; and political culture is criticized for granting influence to figures such as Donald Trump rather than to the most intelligent or meritorious thinkers. Against these conditions, the concept offers a world governed by necessary reason, mathematical structure, and accountable meritocratic power.
Its significance lies in the scale of the proposed reversal. The book does not merely call for better science or more sophisticated mathematics. It imagines mathematics as the ontology of reality, mind as the eternal container of matter, and rationalism as the basis of both knowledge and social reconstruction. In that synthesis, scientific revolution and political revolution become versions of the same event: the replacement of inherited, self-protective hierarchies by a rational order that claims to make reality, knowledge, and power answerable to reason.


