Believe it. Kant was the original who postulated that objects change to fit our judgements.
Physics is "political" too. The current theories of our most regarded scientists and mathematicians always somehow accord to current and recent politcal lines of thought.
Note how Einstein loved relativity and was a absolutist in regard to limitations. Dirac liked relavity too, but felt that limits are not so always. Einstein loathed -- for many years -- the fringy and spastic quantum theory. And Bohr insisted that everything revolve around a simple center.
The chinese physicists loved the balancing acts of buddha-like quarks, and some of us like the constant discomfort of strings thrashing the back of all creation.