A theory has ... I don't know what to call them ... postulates, maybe? They're core components. When you assemble them you end up with, maybe, let's say, results.
So, I'll call them postulates. Postulate 1 is: you can only see what's on the screen.
Scrolling is a divergence from Postulate 1. It's a pretense. It's the pretense that you can see things that aren't on the screen. Because you can, in all these situations, deduce that there is something off the screen to see, from what's on the screen, scrolling gives the appearance of working, but because scrolling pretends that something is true, which in fact is not true, it causes endless problems. In particular, it gums up the works.
Under certain circumstances, and we encounter them all the time - in life - a pretense is a valuable tool. I'm seeing these dualities all over the place the last couple of days. Without pretenses we could accomplish nothing, but with only pretenses we cannot progress ... beyond the pretenses. So, checking myself, I am not proposing the abolition of scrolling, but I am proposing that we give thought to this question: what is the alternative, the one that, where scrolling is a pretense, is real? What is the other side of the scrolling coin?
