User:Reversedragon/FirstNineThousand

I (R.D.) am a bit obsessive about numbers. I had a problem with the idea of items having small numbers that at the same time were arbitrary. What would be number 10?? What would be number 1??
I considered making all the entries in this wikibase take their IDs from the timestamp they were created at, but after all the trouble it took to install a Wikibase instance, I decided it would be easier to do this instead: map out the first 3000-9000 Item entries to the best numbers I can think of, and then stop worrying.

This is the first prototype of every Item in order. After this, I began to create specific "Ontology" pages for particular fields and media series, and to create hue list templates to more consistently display the same proposed Item across pages. This page will not use those templates in order to preserve a more basic and manual version of the hue list markup. However, some especially verbose sections of chapters, episodes, short stories, etc. have been moved to Ontology pages to make the list easier to navigate.

You should be warned that there may be a lot of particular opinions on this page. Whenever I wrote any idea down I poured out the first thoughts that came to my mind on it. I had no intention that any of these first-thoughts would be a permanent part of any of the Item pages that would not change. Some of them were meant as loose guidelines for further examining each thing and collecting research or analyses of them on their pages in a general way, but only really as a starting place. I've always had the rule that "angry" does not belong on Item pages, thus I sometimes absolutely went off here to avoid it going there. Also, you are encouraged to create alternate prototype pages scrawled on Category pages or in connection with other thesis portals — the only major rule is that when somebody actually establishes a block of useful concepts in the Ontology namespace you must build off what is already there.

Item status: Item namespace now half functional / Items not yet created / Lexemes cannot be created because there are no language Items / database needs fixing prior to creating filler items
Once the items on this page have been created, it will be natural for the names and purposes of the items to evolve somewhat over time, and there is no need for anyone to worry about whether the current set of items is "following" this. Items will become grouped into specific topic-based Ontology pages such that following the list is less unwieldy, and/or paginated numeric lists including the actual Items by template if that proves to be possible.

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618. [S2] Deltarune is an example of historical existentialism [1] -> the claim that Deltarune broadly (not necessarily super literally) embodies the concept of treating history as something that can always be defied; this claim is blue because an Existentialist also could and would make this claim. to be precise, Deltarune only talks about prophecies and narratives, but whether in reality or fiction history is a narrative, so the claim would be that Deltarune throwing around tropes about prophecies and narratives is significant because these tropes resonate with the way players intuitively want to understand history. you can see a similar thing going on in Wings of Fire: wars in a Europe-like "fantasy World War I" setting should be a matter of history, but again history is being spun solely as a matter of Free Will, especially in the Pantala arc which is literally covering the history of where the earliest wars came from. back to Deltarune: there is a really really common motif people have when talking about it: the only kind of story there can ever possibly be is the story of an individual life, therefore, all discussions about prophecy tropes are appropriate to relate back to a single human life cycle and the fact they all end in death, the "one ending" to life. only.... that is not true. that is not even true. you'd know this if you live in the United States, where some people died slaves and some people died free. that's not the same ending! people genuinely have different endings to their lives because of the fact history exists. it's flat out beneficial to racists to pretend that everyone has the same life cycle and the same ending, because if everybody's life begins and ends the same way they can then act like the era of slavery is totally irrelevant and can be left out of history books just because it's not happening any more. the really sad thing is that progressive Existentialism will put this lesson into the meat grinder too, by claiming that slavery is a deviation from history rather than being part of history, because the only real history is the history created by Free Will, and everything else is fake history, essentially. fake history that bad people concocted the contents of and then enacted but which overall taught people nothing and got in the way of real correct history unfolding that would actually teach people something. but, again, if bad history isn't real history there's a terrifyingly good argument to leave it out of textbooks, because if only Free Will matters in writing the future, wouldn't it be better to leave out everything White supremacists ever did and fill textbooks only with progressive incidents that taught people how to build the future? I hate that idea but I'm just a dumb Communist, I'm not an expert, intelligent postcolonial anarchist Lacanian. so you know, I've gotta stop being such a freedom-hating dictator for just a moment and give the actual "good" ideas a try.
618. [S] fake historical period / fake, bad history -> the motif of bad events in history being treated as a detour from "real" history. this motif is orange because, quite honestly, this is exactly what the Trotskyite conspiracy was alleging, whether you commandeer Zinovievism as supposedly being Liberalism or whether you interpret it as saying Trotskyism is the real history. (my response, always: then why hasn't it happened yet??) famously this motif also comes up in the Christian bible, with the hypothetical reign of the antichrist being a kind of fake historical period, or the reign of the Roman emperors being suggested as one.
618. [F2] Biographies only have one ending -> this is one of the falsest things I have ever heard that people still keep saying. literally using biographies as the example the whole point of reading them is that different things happen in them, meaning they have different endings. this is a very important distinction because this difference in "endings" provides a material difference which can become a pattern that can be studied and in some cases broadly repeated.
618. [S2] Biographies have many different endings -> I don't have an example text right now but I swear the Bolshevik party knew this. look at what happened afterward. before 1900 people in Russia and China had one kind of ending. after 1930 their stories had new kinds of endings. this is almost the definition of what history is. if people didn't have different endings, we'd all live in an episodic sitcom and nothing would build on anything else.
618. [S2] The biography of a bisexual has at least two possible endings -> this seems pretty self-evident, yet somehow nobody thinks of it. bisexuals break psychoanalysis. and they break Existentialism because there isn't necessarily an inherently better individual choice, but there are still multiple outcomes.
618. [S2] Boring relationships in Warriors happen due to psychohistorical biases -> if you think the story of an individual life has only one ending, it's awfully tempting to slot every single individual into the same trite, boring heterosexual romance. diversity of gender and sexuality alone leads to multiple endings.
618. [S2] The history of slavery doesn't belong in textbooks -> no need to spend much time on the actual reactionary arguments, none of which are worth anything. I'm much more interested in the potential arguments that teaching about the history of racism is theoretically unnecessary for anti-racists just because most of them reject historical materialism, and if historical materialism is truly unnecessary and you really can fix everything with Free Will and protests and inclusion and Community, the hardships of the past should in theory be less relevant than the study of actively constructing the future. I feel like what I've really uncovered is the potential racism of anarchism, how utopian thinking could potentially crush people of various demographics under the material hardships they currently face which stand in the way of simply moving on.
618. [S2] The Subject affects ideology as much as classes do -> classes affect ideology because they are part of the creation and operation of free-floating structures or social graphs inside society: feudal manors, connected parishes, regional states connected into a kingdom, corporations, regional subpopulations, etc. manor lords, bishops, barons, corporate owners, people who mediate White supremacy against minority towns, these figures gain power based on the network of people they're conflated with. similarly, the mere state of being The Subject can corrupt people, inasmuch as The Subject is a biological organism that has needs against everything around it, and gains freedom against everything around it. a group of investors in a corporation can become detached until there's a giant protest against them. the exact same thing can happen with individuals merely being The Subject. falsification criteria: there are probably exist some, but I can't think of any right now.
618. [S2] Creating a republic is a transition from networkism to existential materialism
618. [S] higher mind / higher spiritual nature (Christianity) / rational mind (secular philosophy) / superego (psychoanalysis; generic) -> the motif of a "better" part of the mind or personality that takes control over "lower" impulses. this + ?? = Being afraid is a choice.
618. [S2] Being afraid is a choice / Most of human problems are because we hide away from the bear rather than being able to face or navigate the bear -> it's really not. it depends on having great levels of information and knowledge about the thing you'd otherwise be afraid of. to face a bear you need a whole lot of knowledge about bears. to face something like Trump mobilizing all the country's weaponry and prisons against immigrants, you have to have a lot of knowledge about how the entire physical structure called "The United States" develops and functions and what could stop those directions of development. and nobody wants to actually have the knowledge of how societies develop, there is a lot of hostility about actually gaining that knowledge and compiling it.
618. [S2] In lack of knowledge, fear is the only option / Being afraid is the natural reaction to a lack of knowledge -> as negative as this sounds, it's descriptive rather than prescriptive. the prescriptive angle is that knowledge gets rid of fear and inaction.
618. [S2] The United States military picks teenagers so they cannot possibly know what they are getting into, and throws them away after they learn about war [2] -> believable. I think this has probably been happening. the one thing that bothers me about the way this was recounted is how much the focus was on individuals and the individual life cycle. there's a whole big existing, physically-behaving structure called "the United States" that is deciding on wars and rounding up soldiers. if you don't study that actual structure, no amount of psychohistory and analyzing every individual one by one is going to fix it.
618. [S2] History is the progression of lines of Lived Experiences -> psychohistory proposition, often casually put forward by many people who have no idea what Lacanianism or psychohistory is, simply because Existentialism Is The Simplest Philosophy That Everybody Already Believes.
618. [S2] History is the progression of groups operating -> this claim entails that even if the study of historical materialism up to now is wrong or lacking, Bolshevism could still be correct for reasons other than the reasons it believed to be its explanation. namely, Bolshevism could be correct because it is a sensible method of ordering people into a nation-state and functional nation-states are nearly fundamental.
618. How the Gay Rights Movement Radicalized and Lost Its Way [3] [4] [5] [6] -> an absolute piece of work, but pretty valuable as a Nickel.
618. [S2] Legislating the definition of gender is equivalent to a revolution
618. [F2] A gay relationship isn't an individual, so it can't have rights [7] -> the more I listen to news about case law in the United States, which used to confuse me endlessly, the more I'm starting to think this is the logic behind it. why insist that gay relationships are covered under "sex discrimination", only to fight a right to gay marriage? because you want to break down something that only exists in the context of a social graph of two people down to a study of individuals. for some reason we have to argue that individual A has the right to get married and individual B has the right to get married, even though any reasonable person should be able to realize that defining marriage as a social phenomenon has to be a multivariable function of human interaction that produces something new. Steven Universe was wired, I'm just saying. relationships really are new entities, even if they aren't people exactly. one remaining question: what ideology is this exactly? I feel like you need to divide Existentialism back into multiple things to separate this from the forms of Existentialism that aren't terrible.
618. [S2] If there are just wars, it's possible Che Guevara was fighting one / If there's such a thing as a just war, then it's possible Che Guevara was fighting one -> my thought today when I remembered what I think was either PragerU or Fox News complaining that 'kids these days don't understand that there's any such thing as a just war'. I think it was PragerU. this is the comeback you hit them with. ok, so there's such a thing as a just war. what is the definition of a just war? do you really want to open that can of worms? if you simply decide to believe there is no such thing as a just war then you don't have to accept Che Guevara's war, but you also lose the ability to defend the Trotskyite conspiracy tearing apart Stalin's government to create its own. so choose wisely.
618. [S2] A war to defend the proletariat is a just war -> the full-stop version. there are definitely texts containing this one.
618. [S2] Che Guevara invading Latin America is the same kind of phenomenon as the United States invading Vietnam or Korea -> notes: A) this claim could be false. B) "same kind of phenomenon" isn't a value judgement, any more than "France and Spain were both kingdoms"; it's a historical-materialist or existential-materialist claim. C) if true, this would re-frame a lot of discussion around Soviet occupation of buffer states being or not being "imperialism", etc, because none of those questions would be moral questions as much as structural "historical chemistry" questions of what happens when civilization inevitably turns into large connected systems or axes of allies. D) this would frame the Cold War as a collision of separate gigantic-scale civilizations based in a particular sociophilosophy (interestingly, this is about the way it's already seen in the United States, minus genuine reterministic modeling of the world), as well as frame the hypothetical conflict between mainstream Marxism-Leninism and Trotskyism as a conflict between two hypothetical civilizational blocs.
618. [S] women are people, Marty [8] -> the usually fictional motif of a character invalidating women so badly that either the characters or the reader want to say this
618. [S] disabled people as less than real people / ableism (motif) -> I feel slightly uncomfortable labeling this one along with the "stupid idiot garbage trash" entries because of the way it's possible to take it literally — Tories saying disabled people not being able to to do things should mean they're not good for things. so I guess we Take It Seriously on this one
618. [S2] People have many subpopulations, so disabilities have many subpopulations [9] -> it seems obvious once you actually say it.
618. [S2] Disability diagnoses are relative to cultural norms / Disability diagnoses are culturally relative
618. [S2] The DSM changed because experts made up new opinions -> careful with that. sometimes the DSM changes because there are new stacks of factual observations that invalidate older categories and make it a bit clearer what's happening if not necessarily perfectly clear. you can't just go Guattari on the DSM without potentially carrying out your own ableism.
618. [S2] Rights-based strategies create a bunch of bureaucrats -> when explained by the right person who actually knows things, I actually have to agree with this one. Liberal-republicanism can seem so pointless at times because although people sort of get to argue over the rights of demographic subpopulations, there is this tiny crust of representatives and experts and owners that actually "receives" the rights when most people don't even really get anything. are you a disabled senator? movements for human rights will probably be perfect for you. are you anybody else? tough luck. this is the thing. I make fun of Trotskyism and anarchism at times because sometimes they really have no idea what they're even saying. but at the core of it you have this very sympathetic problem of the book-intelligent Trotsky figure who should be good for something and is thrown out of his society because this particular crust of really elite representatives who are good at what they do and better at things than anyone else totally invalidates the guy as having any place in the country and leaves him not able to articulate what the problem with anything even is beyond "I think I am mad at The Bureaucrats". and I'm tired of that too. on one hand people need to not have entirely stupid interpretations of Marxism, but on the other, if they would only listen, I don't really want people thrown out like that.
618. [S2] Anarchism can understand The State if it understands anarchy / Anarchism can have a reasonable explanation of The State if it has a reasonable model of anarchy -> apply meta-Marxism to anarchism, and a lot of the frustration goes away, as long as you can briefly explain what anarchist secret operations are actually defending. as long as an anarchist population is something in particular, then all the logical contradictions relating to anarchism and The State and hierarchy become matters of how words are defined rather than real problems. the anarchist population that is a particular thing orders and administers itself in a particular way and defends the population in a particular way and everything is logically coherent, it nicely fits into history as a material entity... if you can only explain what the anarchist population actually is at the time all the cats have slain the boars and the dust settles.
618. [S2] Any reasonable definition of The State must be able to explain the historical process of national independence movements -> one of the barest criteria for judging whether anarchists are spouting nonsense. The State forms in plurality as populations dividing into plurality differentiate. if anarchists can't explain why a country such as Ukraine would form a nation-state separate from Russia, or North Korea or East Germany would form a nation-state separate from the major axes of Liberal-republican countries, they are not ready to tell anyone else about The State.
618. [S2] Wars are hierarchical -> I think there's a pretty good argument for this given any definition of what a hierarchy is. given the medieval definition of a layout of people which is conflated with owning individuals of particular classes, a war easily turns into a Napoleonist phenomenon with one population-government stomping over the top of the other and trying to extract debts or treaties. given the crude definition used by anarchists, a war is the act of leaping one State over another population to enforce a particular way of being, which is to say one population is more important than another. this is the fundamental contradiction that comes up whenever an anarchism tries to build itself entirely out of secret operations. that turns the whole thing into a hierarchical activity putting one Social-Philosophical System over another Social-Philosophical System. this wouldn't be a problem if the SPS in question wasn't an anarchism, and was a Marxism or something. Che can try to make the case that a Marxist war on another country that only takes out the owners is justified, because he's not basing his entire theory on "hierarchy" and whether hierarchy is bad, he is basing the justification for wielding power on how important it is to realize a proletarian civilization. all Marxisms know on some level that they are an incomplete group of people competing against the rest of the world, and the concept of hierarchy isn't good for describing an all-directional conflict, but anarchisms somehow don't know that.
618. [S2] Civilians are a social construct -> I think this is the major fallacy the deep end of anarchism believes. it's obvious to Marxists that there exists such a thing as civilians, and maybe even that the existence of civilians creates the boundaries between different countable Cultures and different parallel national histories. but it doesn't seem like anarchists find that obvious. they seem to easily devolve into a population of soldiers with no civilians out of some weird tendency to assume that anyone who is a civilian is being programmed not to resist The State — as if there is just one State and not one separate State for every population including some political parties or ethnicities inside national populations. newsflash, deep-end anarchists: you are The State. you've transformed your whole population into The State. the only question remaining is whether that's categorically bad, which admittedly is an open question.
618. [S] secret operations -> the motif of underground operations attached to a particular SPS which may not be known to the whole SPS, and are hidden from the public until the "payload" of the operation comes out. secret operations which have happened within the past five years or so should not be coded as Items, regardless of ideology, although this is only a rule of thumb and any which are old enough to be considered historical and relatively well known to historical-materialist theorist types may be coded along with any generalizations or motifs. the nature of secret operations makes them incompatible with the task of creating a reliable source — either adding citations contributes to the secret operation getting caught, or the entry is too vague and unsourced to be considered useful information.
618. [S] attack everything -> the motif of an ideology's secret operations attacking anything and everything that is presumed to be destroying society based on minimal theory and mostly Lived Experiences. [10] circa 2012-2018
618. [S] secret operation attacks, random people harassed / secret operation made some attacks, random other people harassed by The State -> this is one of my biggest problems with making everything secret operations. the Soviet Union is widely known as a place where people were "reporting each other to stay out of trouble". but this is specifically as viewed from a Trotskyite perspective. if you were a Trotskyite, you'd be hiding out making trouble while The State hunts down random people they think are you, and indeed, perhaps some people are doing everything just not to get caught up in it. but in the end, the Trotskyites' efforts were terribly unsuccessful and resulted in widespread prejudices against Trotskyism for anyone who continued to pick up Marxism — under a decade of attacks resulted in prejudices lasting almost a century. as much as if you ask Trotsky all the secret operations were just a side thing to the effort to ostensibly create a better Leninism, no "other" Leninist ever sees it that way, and you don't even really see Western Marxists lining up with Trotsky raring to create a worldwide Marxism as if Western Marxism and Trotskyism are the same thing but in the end Menshevism isn't. everyone more or less thinks Trotskyites will hurt them. Existentialist-Structuralists and the bourgeoisie, maybe justifiably if Trotskyists knew anything. mainstream Marxist-Leninists are afraid of Trotskyists because they think there will be another secret operation to explode workers' states that basically dumps a cascade of racism on Third World countries for no reason. anarchists are afraid of Trotskyists because if they know anything they will build Hierarchy and The Bureaucracy (ironically). I think the history of secret operations as they have already happened shows that anarchism really isn't what anarchists think it is. no matter how nice or how violent anarchism is, it's always the formation of a new countable Culture, which is localized to not all the world's people and has to have a border because it has new internal content. you can theoretically tear open a revolution on any basis, not worrying about who is and isn't the proletariat, but if you do that you absolutely must know what its internal content is. you have to have rudimentary knowledge of the structure of the new society in order to stabilize the new forming entity which inevitably won't contain all the world's people and will inevitably have a border.
618. [S2] Anarcho-nihilism and Trotskyite conspiracies are the same thing / Zinovievism proposition -> I swear that all the stuff Žižek says is indistinguishable from the deep end of anarchism, which is indistinguishable from chaos magic, which is indistinguishable from Trotskyite conspiracy texts. A) history stopped making sense, the future is unknown B) if we Freely Will our favorite future hard enough we can grab it, as long as we don't aim higher than the present state of things suggests C) when culture doesn't feel perfect we are so oppressed D) when the other half of non-capitalism fights back on our attacks to grab its freedom and its future we are so oppressed E) it's more important to endure through the period of chaos and destroy the enemy than to actually achieve any particular goal. if both groups of people totally obliterate each other maybe that's a victory. — I am so damn tired of this the more different places I see it. I do know it's not fascism, as that would have to be at least a little more premeditated and specific. I think this is just some weird phenomenon of societal mitosis where regardless of where classes are at populations simply go insane and rip themselves in two. they think they're achieving something by "doing something" and carrying out attacks, but they're actually going precisely nowhere. the crisis that populations go through is that people stop being able to expand into and over each other even though everyone is expanding, and the easiest, crudest way to resolve it is to just take the population and rip it anywhere so there is one more hard border between all the expansion, or at least so that there is no more expectation that if the new populations expand over each other there won't be war. it's like one of the best results of these "stress fractures" would be East Germany, which is what happens when the proletarian subpopulation or lowest-ranked people all end up on one side of the rift and the high-ranked people end up on the other. this + ??? = East Germany is indistinguishable from an anarchism
618. they suspended habeas corpus??? [11] -> the motif of center-Liberals being shocked that the House on Unamerican Activities would suspend due process and stop sitting on the fence about the worth of factions of people just to defend the population of the United States from treason against the raw bulk of the unelected socially-linked population. breaking news: that's what laws are actually for, and you shouldn't be surprised.
618. Red Spark [12]
618. A Truncated Marxism: On the Ideological Structure of Western Marxism (Boer 2023) [13] -> this looks like a good one, wish I could read it
618. Western Marxism and Its Development (2018) [14]
618. Australian Labor Party
618. Australian Council of Trade Unions
618. The Dominant Ideology Thesis (Turner, Abercrombie, & Hill 1981)
618. [S2] There is no such thing as the dominance of capitalist ideology [15] -> cool thought, but I am gonna have to push back on that one. ideologies exist in the form of socially-linked groups of people configuring themselves a particular way (sociophilosophies). some of these ideologies benefit the reproduction of capitalism. some ideologies are neutral, like a socially-linked group of Trotskyists scrambling to try to stoke workers' movements but maybe not figuring it out. some ideologies are particularly bad, like Existentialism-Structuralism. almost everybody believes this ideology just because it's the easiest ideology to subscribe to aside from fascism. yet when people believe Existentialism they go off in every direction competing against each other, thinking that changing their own perceptions of what's possible and Freely Willing really hard can get them whatever they want, and continuing to believe that even when it leads different demographic identities to fight over economic structures and hate each other's identity politics movements. some fraction of them and some small fraction of that with rather specific goals will become territory owners. thus Existentialism generates the bourgeoisie, and it helps them, and it's everywhere, "dominating" the country, but the bourgeoisie don't actually design Existentialism specifically to suit their own interests, they just let it keep spreading around because it helped them get where they are and the lack of good ideologies aids them. there's no need for owners to deliberately promote their own bespoke ideologies to manufacture a particular kind of society, not when people's default stupidity literally achieves the same goal. right-Liberalism goes around every so often but only a select few people believe it. at the same time, "capitalists' favorite ideology" they would much rather see than Marxism can still predominate, and it can still predominate in a replacing, "let's put South Korea over the top of Korea" type way, exactly to the point it is acting in the sense of "bourgeois ideology" mentioned in older Marxist texts. "bourgeois ideology" means something, and Existentialism-Structuralism is basically serving that role.
618. [S2] Upper classes create the only visible ideology
618. [F2] Upper classes create the only ideology that exists [16] -> yeah. in these two forms the point is fine. if the claim is that a proletarian SPS cannot be generated and some models are saying there is only one society with no plurality of countable ideologies at all, that is clearly not correct. you always see a few people trying to push for everyone that isn't owners and notably people who can't work physically or are arbitrarily pushed out of society like the Stonewall "illegal gay bars being funded by the mafia" incident. the weird thing about the "class consciousness" you actually see is that it is very often anarchist and really bad at recognizing ""artists"" as owners and some other kinds of small shops. the natural class consciousness people develop without being organized is bizarrely a lot more ideological than we want to admit, in the sense of developing into a very specific philosophy rather than just an understanding that the proletariat exists.
618. [S2] National borders are a social construct / National borders are always made up ad-hoc before they become accepted / People-groups owning land is a social construct / No group of people actually owns any particular area of land -> a troubling realization but very important. if you find a way to support this claim and use it effectively, then no group of nazis can ever claim to rightfully own an area of land ever again. thoughts: A) while Native American reservations are a problem especially in how artificial and externally-imposed they are, historically they exist because a treaty constructed them as an attempted solution to ongoing wars — two groups of people tenuously came together and fabricated that. B) two or more groups of people came together and fabricated Ukraine in its form as a nation-state rather than a subpopulation. C) "a pure Germany" is a fabrication inside one subpopulation against another. D) Israel is fabricated. E) one of the remaining questions here is if Palestine would be fabricated. note that whether Palestine is fabricated has no bearing on the human rights of individuals, as shown with the creation of Ukraine. F) arguments about why or when it is okay to fabricate a national border to protect the people inside or at least stop fighting them are separate propositions. this is only the statement that all national borders are fabricated on some particular day before they become officialized and accepted by everyone.
618. [S2] Fiction is educational -> for a very long time I had a hard time believing this, although I never would have said that fiction doesn't teach people about creating art or about using language — only that there is an open question on whether it teaches people about ""life"". typically when people say this they mean that it teaches about "experiences", and gives people a model of a demographic of people without exclusively boxing them into a stereotype.
618. [S2] Fiction doesn't teach us anything -> Aron Ra's proposition. I don't think it's true, on a subtle level of failing the question-begging test. it's technically accurate to say fiction doesn't contain any educational information. but that's not what people usually mean by the statement "fiction teaches us". they are referring to a more abstract notion of learning by picking up general patterns and comparing analogies to the real world — a process of building ontological models through true or untrue scenarios using every scenario as a thought experiment. if you do that systematically enough it's essentially similar to applying a scientific method in different environments, although it entails you'll probably stop believing in Christianity after reading a few secular books and the bible and trying to compare all of them to each other and real life.
618. [S2] Non-fiction doesn't teach us anything -> counter to Aron Ra's proposition. if you actually understand the way people learn, though ontological models and metaphors, it's easy to see how a factual book could fail to teach people anything because they can't understand it through their current models and fail to believe that it looks plausible. in some cases people don't learn well through facts and learn better through questions. but I think the "street epistemology" concept is shortsighted too, because you have to ask what it is about questions that actually makes them work.
618. [S2] Tribal populations are a model for a classless society / primitive communism claim
618. [S2] Tribal populations are a model for anarchy / primitive anarchism claim
618. [S2] Tribal populations are a model for not destroying the environment / primitive environmentalism claim / indigenuity claim -> before anyone makes fun of this one, we have to remember that the tribal populations could be proposing it in this case. this doesn't mean they can't be wrong.
618. [S2] Tribal populations are a model for government programs / primitive Menshevism claim -> why do we not. take a moment and realize that tribal populations are much smaller than the huge population we want to apply government programs to. they don't have government programs. (?) not in the specific large-scale sense the United States would have.
618. [S2] Tribal populations are a model for Deng Xiaoping Thought / There is such a thing as primitive Deng Xiaoping Thought -> this sounds like a total troll proposition purely put here as a joke, but I swear it's a proper jamming proposition. this is the claim that the thing tribal populations model is solid borders between physical populations where the people in the population interact mostly with each other and only sometimes with the outside and this encourages the population to develop or to take care of itself. it is then proposed that Deng Xiaoping Thought is a way to restore "primitive Deng Xiaoping Thought". if this proposition is accurate, it would provide evidence that there is a missing step in mainstream Marxism-Leninism. a country can achieve Whatever This Is before it creates Bolshevism, or it can create Bolshevism before Whatever This Is while risking that outside countries totally tear it apart. it also may be possible for a country to create Whatever This Is inside a country using multiple subpopulations, and in the process get rid of one of the major problems plaguing the United States that people become stuck on elections but every election becomes about badly arguing over whether subpopulations should destroy each other.
618. [S2] There is no primitive Menshevism / The "primitive communism" concept doesn't apply to Menshevism -> many people observe over and over that tribal populations in North America, Australia, etc, or around ten thousand years ago, often had this particular configuration where people inside a tribe "take care of each other" without attaching payment to the concept. what practically nobody realizes is there is a very particular set of conditions surrounding a tribe under which this happens. a tribe is often isolated from other groups of people by a large physical area such that even if they meet occasionally they cannot come into conflict. this one thing is drastically different from the modern age where tribe-sized subpopulations are constantly squashed into each other and fighting each other over things. the real question to ask ourselves on primitive Menshevism is whether societies of old would be able to take care of their people if they were constantly fighting each other, or constantly fighting European empires.
618. [S2] Industrial societies are a model for Existentialist-Structuralist ideologies / primitive Existentialism claim -> I think this is relatively easy to show. this is just a statement that the assumptions inside early-existentialism, Lacanianism and psychohistory, and so forth come directly from baking in certain aspects of Liberal-republican capitalism without ever thinking they could be different.
618. Farewell to Reality -> contained definition of acceptable models of reality
618. Surreal Numbers (Knuth) -> in dialogue format.
618. Winning ways for your mathematical plays (Berlekamp, Conway, and Guy 1982)
618. [S2] Game theory can be used to create a number system / Surreal numbers proposition / Hackenbush numbers proposition -> very interesting. looks like some version of complex numbers with more axes?? or maybe some form of superpositional numbers. I'm surprised I haven't heard of that before. I mean, how can it be that there are all these quantum physics equations and no superpositional numbers regarded as their own objects instead of just error bars? the wikipedia article says it's a weird new form of infinitesimals.
618. [F2] Bolshevism is a far-left ideology -> false for complex reasons. "Bolshevism is a left-wing ideology" could be a true statement, but "far-left ideologies exist" is not. it's even arguable that "far-right ideologies exist" is false, given that the gap between Toryism and fascism is much smaller than people think.
618. [S2] The E.U. is a bunch of bureaucrats / The European Union is a bunch of bureaucrats -> thanks Baher. [17]
618. [S2] Calling reality true or false is a category error / Asking "if reality exists" is nonsensical; a statement in a proof exists, reality behaves -> in traditional philosophy, it's easy to get caught up in "if reality is truly real", but that whole question is sophistry. imagine Deltarune is perceived as a fully physical world by its inhabitants — basically what is implied by the narrative already. if Deltarune is full of physics, will any of the characters behave as if it isn't real? in order to write fictional narratives we always assume that particular pieces of real-world physics lead to particular reponses. for instance, if the fictional world contains death, fictional people will create ethical theories and standards of behavior around death. what we don't think about is the same pattern may be true of reality. if death behaves within the Factical space of reality, then human beings will interact with death as behaving objects connected by the same overall consistent set of objects and behaviors. all philosophy is the interpretation of what we call Facticity or The Great Behaving, because The Great Behaving is always behaving against us and we are always obligated to behave back. the fact that multiple people all behave in The Great Behaving moots every question about the truth of reality, because whenever you call The Great Behaving not true you potentially call another person not true, or an ecosystem not true. and the fact is that if you burn down the Amazon the toucans will have no fucking idea what set of reasoning led you to do that. if you treat reality as not true, the toucans will only know you're a world-ending disaster.
618. [S2] The Algorithm is the same thing as The Market -> very intuitive if like me you grew up with Algorithms all your life. both of them are a disorganized cloud of producers on a certain territory trying to shove themselves into your face before others do. the sinister thing is that many people on Algorithms are not even earning any money; at this point we're just training people that people-gambling for attention and stomping over the top of other people to get attention is inherently good.
618. [S] chaos magic [18] [19] [20] [21] -> TJ Kirk's stated ideology. I'm not satisfied with this answer just yet, because I like to find the internal ideologies inside ideologies that they really evaluate to.
618. [S2] Will is what transforms the abstract into the tangible -> okay yeah. chaos magic is straight-up Existentialism with a little ritual thrown on. this is one blatant definition of Existentialism. it has also made me realize, unexpectedly, that the "law of attraction" is Existentialism.
618. [S] invented dice god helped me navigate the world -> the motif of using mythological or "religious" symbols purely as metaphorical models of a chaotic world and the supposed ability to use Free Will to create or discover a desired future. I have no problems with this in terms of whether it's religion. it's clearly just a philosophical ritual. what leaves me concerned about this is
618. [S] leviathan cross / infinity patriarchal cross
618. [S2] Unpredictability is the currency of power -> TJ Kirk. I am not sure what ideology this is. he definitely doesn't know what culture is, and isn't the kind of guy who would discover existential materialism. it kind of sounds like some variety of psychoanalyst bullshit — Jung? the word "shapeshifter" is suspicious — but I'm not sure what it actually is.
618. [S2] Humanity has left the era of ideologies and is in the post-ideological period / Previous historical periods were about finding a good ideology and trying to build the world to fit it but this one is not -> I don't think this can be true given that every identity graph has principles no matter how abstract they are. a group of White people tossing out a bunch of arbitrary screen-beliefs as fancy hats for white supremacy is a principle, even if it's one real principle pretending to be fifty that are all made up. to even be in a group of White people is to have at least one principle, just like being in a group of Trotskyists or anarchists is to have at least one principle or you're not in the group and going off to associate with somebody else. I think when you say things like this you've probably bought into some kind of claim that being a nazi can be ideologically neutral because national populations are not political when whole groups of humans as material objects fight each other. I know we all "do things and try to justify it", but... can you really do that with nationalist chunk competition? I don't think you can. this man makes me want to entertain the otherwise stupid anarchist idea that physical populations are made up and leaving a toxic population any way you can is better than trying to stay.
618. [S2] History used to be ordered, now everything is breaking to leave something entirely unknown -> this is like. a Zinovievist theory of history? the minimal version of Zinovievism without any Trotskyism in it. confuses me to see it from TJ Kirk when unlike Žižek he is not even pretending to be a Leninist, so this has to have come from somewhere else.
618. [S2] Mount Tambora caused Crumbl cookies -> interesting for the reasons in the middle
618. [S2] Lacanianism aims to replace historical materialism with psychohistory / Freudians are trying to create a non-Marxist replacement for historical materialism, and that alternative is psychohistory -> I could really tell something was up with Lacanianism shortly after I heard of it but had so much trouble fully explaining exactly what they were trying to replace Marxism with. I'm more confident now that I found the actual name of the thing. Rothenberg and Žižek's whole weird bridge about Heidegger is this: Marx bad because the development of populations is the physical and intellectual development of a cloud of brains. what they don't realize is that this is equating history with culture. practically speaking, the total or average behavior of a cloud of individuals is that group's culture. so if you think history is most explainable through psychology, you're pretty much necessarily asking how the culture of a group of people develops and why people are Spanish or German — as well as how they could stop being Spanish when they happen to have a definition of what their country means to them which is bad. this is so much more offensive than Marxism, because if Marxism says bad things about "the bourgeoisie" or what should happen to them, it also makes no serious effort to mess with what anybody believes to be Chinese or North Korean, and limits itself to the practical study of how an existing group of people can build a republic, industrial structures, and various possible stages of development. the premise of psychohistory implies there are superior and inferior Cultures and societal transition means transitioning Cultures into a different Culture. the implication of Deleuze & Guattari's concept of "plateaus" next to psychohistory existing unchallenged (though that relationship is only "as far as I can tell") is that separating Germany off into East Germany and West Germany is bad but staying "in-between" by making people not be Germans and making them all be Better Germans is okay. what makes people go for this? what makes us think this kind of framework is acceptable?
618. [S] object term -> a noun which refers to an arrangement of matter or arrangement of particular pieces
618. [S] process term -> a noun which is not necessarily a verb but refers to an action or series of actions; a verb referring to material events
618. [S] process adjective -> an adjective which refers to a material process of some series of events having happened. ex.: "subdivided", "polymerized"
618. [S] standard term / meta-ontological or post-linguistic term
618. [S] hypercorrected term -> a term which has been corrected from its standard form in some other ideology to a local, ideology-specific form. Trotskyists hypercorrecting "Trotskyism" to "Leninism" is a great example. anarchists hypercorrecting "anarchist" to "postcolonial" looks to be another example. hypercorrected terms should not be used in Item labels unless there is no standard term or they genuinely make things clearer
4999. [S] I'm not anticommunist, but...
4999. [S] Zinovievize / Zinovievizing / Zinovievism (process noun / nominalized verb, similar to "imperialism") -> to declare another entire ideology a conspiracy based on the whole group of people believing the wrong culture, and attempt to bash the SPS to pieces. I have a bad feeling that given enough time most Anarchisms naturally do this to each other.
4999. [S] I'm a Marxist-Leninist but China needs to be Zinovievized / I'm not anticommunist, but... (Zinovievizing China) -> this feels like one of the biggest blunders of modern Marxism besides people around the world thinking Trotskyism is more valid than any of the Marxisms that have actually worked. like, no, you've lost the plot. one of the major reasons for Marxism is to understand how countries have developed in order to understand how countries can stop fighting each other, and this does neither of those things. you genuinely need some kind of meta-ontology to understand China, which actually deals with the prospect of a totally different Marxism existing and the "correct" Marxism having to exist alongside it, broadly predict what it will do, and take appropriate kinds of actions to unify with it against non-Marxisms.
618. [S] meta-anarchism -> the application of meta-Marxism to anarchism. in practice a lot of my meta-Marxist theory on societies so far is technically doing this, explaining how various anarchisms have failed to properly evaluate themselves to first produce successful theories of existing societies and then produce successful theories of how to build a named Anarchism, and how they could produce more successful theories consistent with reality and capable of evaluating previous largely-Idealist anarchist theories. god, all the time I have had to spend just scrambling to correct the way anarchists understand the historical development of countable Cultures.... why have they spent so long accumulating so much clearly wrong theory on that?
618. [S2] Anarchism doesn't explain real societies / Anarchism is an insufficient theory of society
618. [F2] It costs zero dollars to not be racist / Not being racist costs money (dismissed possibility) / If it costs zero dollars not to be racist, why spend money on anti-racism education? -> an unfortunate reality in places like the United States. to have any idea how not to be racist people have to actually form mental models of other groups of people, and every method of doing that from media to travel to university programs costs money. any time that people don't have the power to earn a lot of money and outcompete other people they are at risk of being racist or producing racist children, just because they will become stuck in spending all their energy surviving and focusing on whatever things they can afford that manage to make them happy. and the more generations of that you go through the more racist people get and the more incapable of climbing out of it they get. this is why it is really, really concerning whenever you get anarchists trying to characterize racism in terms of "greedy people" and "corporations getting bigger". people reverting to smaller towns or villages all too easily results in them ending up in the exact kinds of limited-income, limited-opportunity situations that make them and their children incredibly racist. at the same time, it is worth recognizing how Careerism and Existentialism encourage people to compete to create or occupy all of society's slots and how that divides people into incapable people who are at risk of becoming racist and capable people who are at risk of becoming nazis to try to preserve what they've taken. Existentialism is one big lose-lose game that's great for dividing your society into two groups of nazis that both still deeply hate each other.
618. [S] racialized Hatfield attack -> when people become afraid of each other and preemptively attack each other before The Law can intervene specifically based on ethnicity or similar demographic. I pick these item titles a little strategically so nobody can take any of the Items and go "haha, lynching" and attempt to meme racism. "racialized Hatfield attack" sounds boring, and that's a good thing.
618. [S] Emmett Till looks like a hamburger [22] -> the motif of attempting to educate students about racism only for them to already respond with racism.
618. [S] Take It Seriously -> case of: project policy. Ontology category for serious subject matter where it is inappropriate to pull things like funny jamming propositions. it might feel a little unintuitive when this applies. some things like historical periods of racism receive Take It Seriously, but other things like "Celebration axe murder" which may be horrifying but fail to be more profoundly terrible than fictional horror works distinctly do not. Take It Seriously tends to apply to phenomena which generate strong "Sunny" fallacies and present a risk of people refusing to have empathy / honor human rights.
618. Fools Crow -> biography of a Sioux civil chief and medicine man. interesting in terms of historical patterns. happens to contain a bunch of history of blatant racism, simply because over the past century that's what had happened.
618. Our Daily Bread August 2025 - DSV2508ND
618. Ella Enchanted
618. [S2] Systems come from experiences growing up [23] / Systems of consistent behavior come from Subject formation -> this is a form of psychohistory. that is what this is, whether it knows it or not. it's using a roughly Lacanian model that it's all about The Subject and early development in an individual and you can reduce all of society down to that. I can't help but feel like psychohistory is terribly reductive. in a world where it is super forbidden to ask why people have identities, psychohistory would probe the whole existence of culture in a mechanical way and ask why people are German. people should know by now that populational identity is a circular thing where being it is having membership in it. a big reason anyone is in religion any more in the United States is they perform the behaviors to have a group of people to be in. the same goes doubly true for Trump fans. they're all just performing those behaviors to form a group, which falls apart and leaves them isolated as soon as they stop; worse, if they fail to perform the set of arbitrary behaviors the Democrats want they'll be thrown out of that and left wholly confused.
618. cause-breaking dome / dome problem (Newtonian mechanics) -> this + series of unique events = chaotic system.
618. chaotic system -> a chaotic system is a system which can be simulated as having steps that are individually predictable but where the overall set of steps of the process looks wildly different depending on the unknown initial condition. one example which is somewhat famous now is the "dome problem": a perfectly smooth ball sitting on a perfectly smooth dome has particular physics which are easy to understand when the ball rolls off the dome and goes down a particular path, but before the ball rolls off it's mysterious how long it will take to move or what direction it will go. if I'm understanding all this correctly, the dome is the simplest version of a chaotic system, with just one or two interactions. a chaotic system can have any number of understandable interactions after the first one which depending on the first one knock the system wildly down different courses.
618. [S2] God wants us to love our neighbor regardless of ideology / God wants us to love our neighbor regardless of nationality, political party, or other distinction -> now that is a whopper if I ever saw one. you put together "nationality, political party, or other distinction" and the first thing I think of is a fucking Trotskyist party. I think there is a really good case to be made that when you've said those three categories it totally counts. but I am pretty sure that most people wouldn't turn around and say "oh, if the United States is slated to be taken over by some kind of Leninist movement they're my neighbors so all of that is totally okay". nobody turns around and says "hey, wait, I don't think the Cold War is very Christian, I think we have to stop it".
618. [S2] God wants us to love Leninists
618. [S2] God wants us to love anarchists
618. [S2] God wants us to welcome gay men / God wants us to welcome lesbians
618. [S2] God wants us to welcome gender identity
618. Universal declaration of human rights
618. [S] Celebration axe murder
618. [S2] The creation of violence is a two-way process / The creation of violence is a multivariable function of two physical objects acting according to game theory -> the claim that Hatfield attacks or "crimes" occur when people hate each other in both directions and absolutely cannot get along. committing active violence in "self-defense" is a more common and attested phenomenon than people want to admit. there don't have to be any Tories hating whole groups of people for violence to happen; there only has to be a pedophile who is not getting brought to justice and an angry former victim with an axe, or a beat-up child knowing his mother has a gun in the house and contemplating whether to fire it.
618. [S2] The only way for societies to avoid violence is for all populations to progress in the same direction -> if Stalin-followers progress toward Bolshevism and Trotskyites progress toward Bolshevism, and it's the same unique physical arrangement of parts containing both of them, all is well. if Stalin-followers progress toward Bolshevism and Trotskyites progress toward Liberalism, all is not well. even if one population progresses toward center-Liberalism and one progresses toward Toryism, it's possible the society is headed toward violence and people will murder each other.
618. [S] instructions unclear -> the motif of some statement being cast down that sounds good and necessary but which has a totally different effect on reality than expected.
618. [S] right to housing -> I recommend inputting human rights as motifs because motifs never have to be marked true or false.
618. [F2] All people deserve housing / Everyone across the total of two towns deserves housing -> a contradiction. we want it to be true, but it can't be materially true because two million people can never fit in the same space meant for a thousand people. "all people" always live in some particular area, but each town constitutes a separate population such that "all people" is multiple separate groups of people. to successfully receive housing a person has to first pick between the two towns, and in turn may be picking between an entirely separate countable Culture and government, as if every town was a separate nation-state. this has important consequences for any form of "democracy": the Demos is always split into multiple Demotes each creating separate Democracies, and discussions on issues can always become skewed as people get forced into one Democracy or the other.
618. [S2] The abuses of the Khmer Rouge left Cambodians with nothing but monkey abuse / The Khmer Rouge stopped Cambodia from having any doctors and left them with nothing but selling monkey torture -> I don't have a lot of information about the reality of what happened with the Khmer Rouge, but this is a pretty outrageous thing to claim with a straight face. looking at the most important part of the claim, that being in a poor country is bad, it would be just as accurate to say that people showing up from other countries with money is harmful and dangerous to a country because the people with money can pay money for this, or for people to sell the United States slaves, and only Mao or Kim Il-Sung putting up a barrier around the country and forcing it to develop inside itself can prevent slavery and monkey abuse. cursed exports are weirdly like a reverse Nigerian prince scam. both of them are a kind of toxic connection between a First-World country and a Third-World country which doesn't create anything productive and where everyone would have been better off if that one particular interaction between the two countries didn't happen.
618. [S2] Only Kim Il-Sung can prevent monkey abuse / Protectionism prevents cursed exports such as animal abuse for money -> a bit of a troll proposition, but it does make you ask what's wrong with it. if a country creates Juche-socialism and closes itself up, at whatever peril comes with that, it will almost certainly prevent US people showing up with a bizarre amount of money to pay the country for the world's weirdest export. everyone will be busy stumbling to create industries inside the country. so there are downsides but there are also clear upsides.
618. [S2] If Indonesia transitioned to Deng Xiaoping Thought, there would be no monkey abuse -> I keep thinking about how one of the single most successful policies of workers' states has simply been refusing connections from the outside until they're ready. is this to say it's possible to go directly to Deng Xiaoping Thought before trying to create Bolshevism, and it isn't a form unique to a country sliding backward? have we been interpreting history wrong? and if so, what exactly is the logic for Deng Xiaoping Thought actually being a necessary step — what is achieved by gaining solid control over the internal borders of a country if the Archons of the population still drive it? what's the huge reward everybody gets from those Archons being free from the outside world? I feel like answering that could yield a significant breakthrough in understanding Liberalism as well as Third-World countries. this is clearly a hugely important step for some reason, so important that the United States is desperately trying to do it erratically across the inside of the United States.
618. [M3] What is consumerism? -> everyone throws around this concept like it actually means something, but have you ever thought about the actual question of how consumerism came to be a problem and how it happens? I cannot remember hearing a single "how" explanation of consumerism, only shallow descriptions of "this is bad and I don't like it".
618. [S2] Asserting society's problems boil down to a few villains Choosing to be bad is inherently statist -> this aspect of anarchism and Fanon fans really bugs me. "xenophobia and choosing to do terrible things to another group of people cannot be termed natural" okay. "a small group of people had to actively do this" you're beginning to lose me but, okay, technically correct. "if everybody has the right attitude and coheres together like A Community we can fix this" how? any way of doing that given the first two implications you said effectively creates The State. you have just defined the concept of crimes and criminals and hunting down criminals, and that imperialists and billionaires are criminals. how the hell does having a better attitude or emerging countable Culture make that go away and make you not need what amount to anarchist police or the anarchist national guard that has the explicit authority to kill people for being criminals, deport them, or put them in prison?? every time I think of a real event of millions of people uniting to stop something as uniquely bad and unnecessary, that's either a law or law enforcement. or, well, sometimes it's a highly xenophobic anti-Arab "assassinate the evil monstrous American-slaying threat" mission, AKA an international blood feud. you can have a phenomenon to excise an unwanted "villain" from a population that isn't law enforcement but is pure bigoted violence. this is why every Communist movement is the enforcement of Communist laws: so that nobody is authorized to kill people just because they're another ethnicity or another demographic, and the violence comes to a stop when people are acquainted with the new external borders, internal structural borders, and ideology.
618. [S2] Consumerism is the perfection of slavery -> what the hell does this mean. investigate it later
618. [S2] All Idealism is actually intuition-ism / Idealism doesn't exist because all Idealists are intuition-ists -> the claim that whenever Idealists try to insist that contradictory things inherently go together, or there are exceptions to things that everyone is inherently supposed to know, that what they are actually doing is operating totally off intuition. they really do have an inner ontology of the way things are supposed to be but they are just really really bad at visualizing it or articulating what it is, so they clumsily try to explain things by listing off all the things those things aren't. this model is useful because it doesn't treat anarchists and Existentialists as stupid just for being bad at describing what things they actually believe and having to resort to describing everything in negative terms.
618. [S] Small businesses can be harmful -> a depressing number of people don't even realize this.
618. [S] Scalpers are small businesses -> this is just a fact. of all things, I had this seared into my mind by Neopets, where most of the residents of the game world can't actually produce anything and you generally make money by scalping. (or in better scenarios, hoarding things that are very old.)
618. [S] Existentialist inspiration porn -> the motif of a "heartwarming" story of everyone in A Community coming together, rich and poor, Black and White and Native-American, all spontaneously exerting Free Will and donations of wildly varying values to do something in precisely the way that no other city in a country of millions and millions of people can possibly do, but where this highly local solution the writers admit doesn't apply everywhere is presented as somehow the way to fix a nationwide problem. this motif does not apply if there is actual repeatable theory behind the local plan which is being replicated in many regions.
618. [S] interdemocracy between eating, breathing space-occupiers -> the only way out of capitalism. Liberal-republicanism very vaguely recognizes the idea of interdemocracy, but not the concept of people actually being living things that eat and occupy space. anarchism partially recognizes people as living, breathing organisms, but totally rejects the concept of interdemocracy. Marxism has never been properly ready for interdemocracy between Marxisms. a "democracy" of existence itself and populations themselves would be a genuinely new thing.
618. [S] the Rarity / benevolent territory-taker / benevolent networkist -> the motif of a high-ranking person or business territory owner of any size acting like they're the only definition of humanity just because they have the power to donate to the poor or they "make an effort to produce quality work". you see this every fucking day when people argue against "AI": taking away the humanity of everyone but the highest-ranking people in order to then argue what being human supposedly is. this removal of humanity as people stratify into territory-takers and followers is the crux of where "colonialism" must come from. every single territory-taker that exists must be a contributor to the creation of empire. but every territory-taker will lie to you and claim they are all capable of doing something nice and the only people that can make arguments about social change, even though they are necessarily the creators of oppression just because they divide society into people with ability and people with disability, people with prediction-power and people with insecurity.
618. [S2] Any ideology which would toss one specific Archon in prison to fix a population and change nothing else is an anarchism -> I'm not sure if this is true, but it certainly seems like a decent distinction between Marxist versus non-Marxist ideologies. alternatively, it could be the distinction between Marxism and Existentialism, where anarchism and Existentialism are not the same thing. I think one potential problem with this is it threatens to label Deng Xiaoping Thought a named Anarchism; in practice it tends to run on things like regulating capitalism by finding specific bad actors and bringing down penalties on them while leaving everyone else "free" of state intervention to do capitalism. that doesn't feel like a correct categorization. I think it's fair to claim that anarchism doesn't truly exclude a State from forming in real life, and real-life Anarchisms probably will have States, but even so I don't think a huge party-nation with a parliament building sounds like an Anarchism. I definitely don't know enough anarchist theory to say why. all I know is from the angle of Marxism if you have chunk competition and elite winners of Careerism or investing who take charge of particular chunks, practically speaking those should be the Archons, and anything which is purposefully leaving Archons around materially couldn't construct a logically-coherent realizable named Anarchism as a theory, so it shouldn't make sense to call it anarchism right now.
618. [S] ring of non-competing businesses versus expansion / distinction between stability and expansion -> the existence of anarchist theories seems to come not from any distinction between workers and owners, but from the distinction between a stable ring of non-competing tiny businesses and a chaotic clamor of businesses expanding from tiny to larger. the distinction between tiny businesses and larger businesses appears right before the proletariat proper even comes to exist, and in that sense it's a very archaic conflict from an early stage of populational development.
618. [S2] Anything that removes colonialism from an empire is a revolution -> this would be following from the claim that any government emerges directly from a population of people itself and the class or rank structure inside that population; whenever you remove the upper class or the Archon you change the resulting government and the population's entire paradigm about government. colonialism, depending on your definition, is the actions of a few particularly malicious Archons (India), or the expansion of a population onto another continent or country mediated by the highest-ranking people who are the most able to secure territory that the more common people stand behind to get handed the ability to produce a sellable product and feed their kids (United States, maybe South Africa or Ireland, but not India).
618. [S2] Filling an area with people in order to instate a government is colonialism -> how do you disqualify Gramscianism from being an instance of this? for that matter, how do you disqualify Liberal-republicanism from inherently being an instance of this even when it's governed by progressives? I would say indigenous or previous people-groups are exempt and they can't forcibly occupy a territory that was invaded by somebody else. but beyond that, how can you possibly argue that an LGBT+black&brown party isn't colonialism unless it dismantles Liberalism and somehow creates a new government that materially isn't colonial? anything that actually, successfully removes colonialism is definitionally a revolution, and nobody wants to acknowledge that.
618. [S2] Every class or rank of people uses Christianity to defend their current behavior
618. [F2] Christianity is the appropriation of Jewish writings to serve empire -> false because it didn't happen in a straight line like that. Jewish texts were passed to Jewish Christians, who then were Christians, and then I think what basically happened was Christianity was divided into common people and literal emperors and the emperors or upper classes of each kingdom overshadowed everyone else and created the new interpretation. the whole issue of people "misinterpreting" Christianity is bizarrely a class issue from the moment it first appeared all the way through to today.
618. [S2] "Settlers" is a Maoist text -> I'm pretty sure this is true. there might be some technicalities I'm missing, similar to the notion that at the time Christianity was created a group of people was splitting in two so nothing was arbitrarily copied and the use of Christianity for modern empires is more complicated than modern empires simply twisting Jesus. I am still confused and trying to figure out how the hell a Communist text was totally appropriated by anticommunists to mean that somehow we can purge racism out of everything and we have to before there can be workers' movements. I still don't understand how that even became "allowed" or "acceptable".
618. [S2] Snatching Marxist texts to achieve center-Liberalism is cultural appropriation -> more of an "interesting thought" than a solid argument. relies on the concept of a "culturally-defined Communist" in the sense of an East German, etc., emerging as a nationality whose nationality is then appropriated.
618. [S2] Society are not singular / Society cannot be uncountable / The division between societies occurs at gaps containing no social ties, not at territorial borders / population-society conjecture -> note that the grammar is an intentional joke. it is very very common to act like "society" is an uncountable idea that exists independent of actual populations and countries, when that doesn't explain why there are countries in the first place rather than the whole world being part of one government like in Dragon Ball. separate populations exist before any particular historical concept of "society" exists such as "United States society", "Roman society", "Ukrainian society", or "old Hawaiian society"; the mere existence of separate populations as separate objects precedes identity per-se and culture per-se.
618. [S2] Escaping Bolshevism causes the same things to happen anarchically
618. [S2] Epic-of-Gilgamesh stories mean that effort is not owned -> a not-obvious interpretation of this story type that I like a lot better. it seems like history got a lot worse the day the Afrikaner attitude arrived that all effort you put into existing is something you inherently own, instead of it being possible that a lot of the effort put into existing is purely fighting against pressure from outside and doesn't represent any kind of progress or creation or ownership at all.
618. [S2] Populations continuing to exist is equivalent to immortality -> everything dies, and a great number of living things have a maximum lifespan. but populations are the one thing that is alive and can die and yet wants to live forever and ever. we don't want populations to die and one population to be able to slaughter another out of bigotry. but no population can necessarily live forever. how do you reconcile that? I think that's a really difficult question. but the one thing I know is Epic-of-Gilgamesh type stories are a really bad way to go about it. if Sun Wukong wants to preserve his population... isn't that what every population wants? doesn't every single population not want to be subject to genocide? so, to cast the concept of preserving a population through the lens of an individual king wanting to stay in power just seems totally wrong. existence is not a king, but more like the republic itself. it doesn't make sense to characterize existence as a form of power that needs to be limited as much as something you want to take the locus of power out of and understand as a bunch of connected moving parts.
618. [F2] Gender identity cannot possibly be secular / "You think a man magically changing into a woman is secular?" -> found in a comments section on a news story about parents opting out of LGBT+ lessons in school because they were supposedly "porn". (how would you expect them to have gotten into schools if that were true? these people have never seen fandoms and the absolutely gigantic controversies that LGBT+ people get into over a single mistagged tweet that wasn't for kids.)
618. [S2] The Magna Carta was the barons creating parliament / The Magna Carta was the nobility Freely Choosing to create parliament -> an example for the Existentialist / anarchist misconception that Liberal-republicanism is baked into a Culture or latent inside a whole countable Culture and is "obvious". this event appears to have happened, but it's the framing. the framing that all the barons and the king simply had to sit down and agree that We Are All The Subject So We All Have Rights. this subtle twisting of the historical event from a concrete struggle of a group of barons versus a king or the slow process of connections to nobility or parishes turning into representative units of people into the act of Everybody Casting Off Archon To Be Properly Human. it says a lot about anarchism and why everyone is so goddamn anarchy-brained.
618. [S0] human right -> a human right is the category of motifs of all human beings deserving something. unfortunately, many human rights are typically conceptualized as "I believe that everybody" statements.
618. [M3] How do people obtain the content of a human right? / In what way do people obtain the material object described in a human right? -> this is a very important question that nearly everybody glosses over. if you ask Existentialists like Deleuze and Guattari, they'd say that simply having Freedom as an individual enables everyone to obtain human rights. but as far as I can see that just generates Liberal-republicanism and many people not successfully being able to make use of Freedom in this way. this is why I get so upset about the thing I call the Existentialist-Structuralist tradition and have made a whole big project to try to study it.
618. [F2] All human beings deserve housing -> this is only "false" because it's an "I believe that everybody" statement, and needs a more precise counterpart which more accurately describes how to obtain human rights within material reality.
618. [F2] All human beings deserve appropriate medication -> this is only "false" because of the question of how.
618. [F2] Human beings deserve hormone treatment -> sub-case of: All human beings deserve appropriate medication.
618. [S] Stalin showing up without any cash -> motif found in center-Liberal attempt to explain the continuing evolution of capitalism, originally found in Stalin: The court of the red tsar (Montefiore 2003). [24] this sounds to me like a PMC model trying to argue for the existence of "The Pigs" as a class. bringing up "Stalin showing up without any cash" is such whiplash against the rest of the argument that makes me question if the speaker actually knows anything about the development of societies if he is characterizing the Soviet Union in ways that could come out of people that clearly know nothing about it.
618. [S2] Gravity can be quantized into four gauge bosons -> when the weak force was quantized into three different particles depending on how you count them, this hypothesis seems reasonable to me. the real question is always how you test it and show that the model lines up with reality.
618. [S2] Global civilization will begin with a single currency / Just as nation-states began with a single standard currency that allowed for taxes, banks, and sherrifs, global civilization will begin with countries consolidating onto a currency -> proposition sitting behind Trump's "new Breton Woods" axis of green and yellow countries; the whole thing revolves around a bunch of countries being connected by the U.S. dollar. to me, the observation that even center-Liberals can blatantly point out allied blocs of countries as a major way this thing works is more interesting. should we instead be looking specifically at the formation of a bloc of insiders and a bloc of outsiders to explain how these axes develop and what they will further develop into? the fact this is about strengthening the dollar's "ally currencies" into a particular cluster of currencies is suspicious.
618. Anti-Dühring
618. [S2] Influencers spreading the ex-gay model is dangerous -> this isn't not true, but is potentially misleading. it suggests individual public figures actually have the ability to Freely Will what everyone else believes and can design everybody's culture better if they only make the right choices, and it's unclear if that's actually true.
618. neo-paganism -> the charcoal swatch can be situationally used for neo-pagan religions now, as long as they have vaguely anarchist values. partly because I just don't know what swatch to use otherwise. I'm tired of putting the blue one on everything, and the green one seems mildly insulting unless it's simply a novel with occult themes.
618. [S2] The history of religion is at least twelve times bigger than Christ / Christianity is just one historical period in a bigger progression of at least twelve totally different historical periods containing no Christian god -> astrological claim that is technically correct, if for somewhat wrong reasons.
618. [S] age of Aquarius -> this just sounds like religious anarchism. am I wrong? this notion that an existing order will be shaken up through the flow of information and "freeing" things. the only thing about all this garbage I actually kind of like is the concept of using zodiac signs to demonstrate how big history is. to say that Christianity was actually small and insignificant because it's only one of at least twelve big historical periods. one of little those moments where fringe science becomes almost wired. like when astrologers and alchemists realized that really big patterns in the universe and really small patterns inside matter they didn't quite understand yet had to be connected somehow. I mean, yeah, they are, whatever is going on near the scale of photons does lead up to the thing we call time which does ultimately lead up to the patterns of galaxies. ancient astrologers just got it a bit backwards really
618. [S2] The heart of Marxism is historical materialism / Proposition zero of Marxism is historical materialism
618. [S2] Escape routes choose people / People don't choose escape routes; escape routes choose people -> this is it. this is my problem with schizoanalysis. they think "lines of flight" are a model of Free Will, but they're not, because no matter where you go, your success in finding freedom, safety, or happiness there depends on the uncontrollable actions people take at the other end. it's really the other people that choose you, not you that chooses your friends.
618. [S2] Intelligence is not advantageous to animal survival / Complex self-aware intelligence is not advantageous to survival -> the claim that human-like intelligence is not useful for understanding the physical world. this is about where you end up if you keep believing that statements about "not generalizing" actually constitute information rather than a lack of information. if that's really true, the human ability to learn was a terrible idea that has mostly led humans to internalize models about things where there is no actual pattern and hampered the survival of every individual. a less intelligent creature would have no prejudices in the human sense.
618. [S2] The United States is an instance of multicapitalism -> here I go coining words again. I have been kicking around this concept for a quite a while in MDem drafts, but up to now it has always been through the lens of emerging nation-states and the development of different forms of "democracy", rather than through the lens of capitalism. multicapitalism refers to the creation of multiple capitalist blocs inside the same country which function as different nations tearing apart the overall country because they are disconnected blocs of capitalists.
618. [S2] Expulsions and schisms are the same thing -> if one person can be a tiny group of people by being a countable Culture, then the major difference is just that an expulsion is one person and a schism is several people.
618. [S2] Liberalism is a large-scale Anarchism / Liberalism is what anarchist philosophy looks like when it realizes into a material population / When anarchist philosophy realizes, it will generate a Liberal State -> follows from "Anarchism is acting as if you are already free". if true, would explain why everyone in the United States is so dead-set on transitioning to Anarchism: it's always been that way from day one.
618. [S2] Marketing was invented by capitalists -> I really doubt this is true when people-gambling seems to be something that emerges by default and pre-dated capitalism, and people-gambling can create the need for marketing.
618. [S2] Marketing was not invented by capitalists -> the inverse claim. may be changed to any currently reasonable hypothesis about where marketing comes from.
618. [F2] Correct knowledge is found because of effort [25] -> no. this is just taking an appeal to authority and removing the specific figurehead so that the person's rank or the person's university is the appeal instead of the person. a person can spend all kinds of effort learning the wrong things and come to incorrect knowledge. it takes something else entirely to come to correct knowledge that is accurate to reality.
618. statement with logical contradictions
618. statement which is logical but not sound -> a lot of the brown propositions and some of the blue ones are literally just this.
618. statement which is technically true in some contexts
618. statement which is technically true in most contexts
618. [S2] Societal progress is relative to a population's own goals -> implied in most mainstream Marxist-Leninist texts, even if some did also jump to particular assumptions about what those goals might be; self-determination was taken more seriously than a country developing the same way as other countries. this point of view makes it easy to define progress, and easy to define countries which are still developing. if a population internally has goals to realize into something else then it is still developing; if a population is completely content with its way of life it is not.
618. [M3] How will your civilization obtain insulin? -> one example of a genuine problem for Anarchists where the current "organization" of the world through primitive Existentialism, chunk competition, and Market Societies is hard to overcome with sheer utopian thoughts and individual will. you get to live in peace in your hidden Anarchist village if you can produce insulin. but all the production operations are taken up by giant patent-hoarding corporations that don't want anyone to know how. what are you going to do?
618. [S2] The United States is one big religion of SEX -> Christians are weird sometimes. I clicked up this video thinking it would be like, modern countries worship money, or modern countries worship expertise, or something that made some kind of sense and would make me sigh but nod and say okay, you got me there. no. instead what it comes up with is this. I just laughed and couldn't even keep watching because I just knew it was not going to get any better and it had peaked right there. I can't think of any justification for this statement. I need... better creative inspiration to justify this stupid idea than is probably in this video. [26] ...you know. if the United States worships sex, and Trotsky wanted to ban sex, does that mean the United States is messed up because Trotsky lost?
618. [S2] "The proletariat vs the bourgeoisie" is undialectical / Invoking "the proletariat vs the bourgeoisie" out of context of different levels of set-plurality ignores relativity and is undialectical -> sometimes I love saying outrageous things for one second before I give the much longer description of what they mean. this is the major thing that's wrong with Trotskyism. it doesn't understand the simple concept that because people are lifeforms that eat and occupy space, there can be genuine conflicts between two national populations over the same space or ability to arrange things just because they're alive. each of these cases of real conflicts makes a populational border necessary, and gives all the people in the population the responsibility of defending each other against outsiders. of course, "defense" doesn't have to be violent. it could be millions of people coming together to form the Soviet Union and then making the empire stop and signing a peace treaty. but there does have to be a populational defense in the sense of all the people taking responsibility for the population and agreeing to form it into a particular shape which will bring an end to war. this is the sense in which I hesitate to say Deng Xiaoping Thought doesn't qualify as Marxism. the one thing it actually does is provide a method for defending the Chinese population from foreign capital by requiring it to take on a particular structure and create its own capitalists while refusing only some things from the outside. so... it's doing the most basic thing that Marxism should do as of the time of Stalin but it's just doing it a very weird way.
618. [S2] United States African-American populations should transition to Deng Xiaoping Thought -> really dumb thought that crossed my mind, I have no clue how bad an idea this is. this is a shitpost. anyway. the "logic" behind this is: China has a herd of cats effect. racial subpopulations in the United States have a herd of cats effect. each of them has to line up behind a layer of bourgeoisie possibly wrapped up in a Liberal-republican party because they have to defend their population from getting crushed by the momentum of outside populations. so what if racial subpopulations transitioned to Deng Xiaoping Thought? I have no idea if this makes any sense. I just don't know.
     [edit:] W.E.B. Du Bois was kind of calling for this by another name? [27] well that's something.
618. [S2] Novelty theory [28] -> so. this is silly. the way it's phrased it's bullshit, and the author literally admits it was made on drugs. but looked at from a better foundation? this is just an assembly theory, which isn't not true. the universe is full of a lot of things, and they bump into each other to create new things which follow from the things that already exist but might not be predictable if you don't understand the things that exist. that much is fairly possible to substantiate.
618. [S2] Computation space is largely interchangeable with computation time
618. [S2] A supply chain is like a human computer [29] -> sounds weird at first, but this is specifically in regard to the tradeoff between space and effort. the more you mess with different layouts of people and how effective they are, the more you observe that manufacturing is basically people computing physical objects, in the same sense that a computation can be made of any number of particular layouts of smaller computations, some of which are faster, some of which are more effective, some of which are more understandable from the outside.
618. [S] Chen Jingrun sitting inside shelter solving primes -> the motif of a big historical event going on and someone just being a person rather than their story being used to serve any particular agenda. [30] unironically great. it's so easy to take an incident between a workers' state and some group of people inside or outside it and spin it into the deepest depths of anticommunism, instead of simply reporting what happened in the incident and who was there. you see the slightest implications in the narrative based on what details were chosen of "imperialism!! China trying to control any particular borders is imperialist!" but it's relatively subtle. why don't we tell the actual conflicts like this
618. [S2] Bamboo is a weed
618. [S2] Bamboo is an invasive species
618. [S2] Weeds are invasive species -> this cannot be true but I don't know how to dispute it.
618. [S2] Proletarians are a finite resource capital is constantly running out of -> again and again, I keep trying to figure out the connection between the persistence of capitalism and migration within a country. I know there's something in there somewhere. workers in the United States, of the Careerist type that easily stretches back out to contractor, only stay in each area so long before they try to level up to high-quality contractors or new businesses. you only get to squeeze a few years out of each person before the proletariat just runs out, so it's like a pseudo ponzi scheme to keep trying to fill them back in. a local independent/subsidiary sized business definitely disintegrates on its own unless there is very careful attention to it
618. [S2] Distrusting scientists equals stereotyping humans -> hate this. facts aren't accurate or inaccurate because people like or don't like people.
618. [S2] The concept of truth is mainly for educated people -> what I now believe. you should never invoke the concept of true or false with uneducated people or even people who might be too lost in the weeds of philosophy, and instead always explicitly reference bisimilarity to reality with words such as "accurate"/"inaccurate".
618. [S] generalized dictator
618. [S2] Complexity in a theory is not as important as accuracy / A theory is not true purely because it's nuanced [31] -> yes! the Existentialists said something genuinely smart. this is the basic concept behind how propositions are rendered on this wiki. even when models are complicated if you want to become an expert in them, render them simply, break them down to simple distinctions of what they claim, in order to make it easier to analyze whether their most central concepts are accurate or inaccurate.
618. [S2] A bunch of crusty reactionaries showing up to the Labor party is the very beginning of class struggle [32] -> thanks Trotskyism. this is. I really have to doubt this. how can you people see regular people saying "Labor is turning into a reactionary party just like the Tories", and then say people joining a reactionary party is a good thing?? let's think up a counterpoint really fast. what if we lived in the timeline where Trotskyists invading the British Labour party actually succeeded and it turned into an inert Marxist party like the Japanese Communist Party (only this one is Trotskyist)? wouldn't people joining that party be a lot better than people joining the Labor party only after it's gone reactionary? like, hell, even if I say bad things about Trotskyism I'd prefer that outcome to having reactionary parties by a long shot. there is some weird subpopulational fuckery going on to create these Liberal-republican parties that definitely isn't the kind of class struggle you expect it to be in this video. from everything I know, it seems like modern populations prefer to try their best to separate into new ethnicities whenever they get upset with all the other individuals in society which they always get upset at really indiscriminately except for a narrow group of people they deem to be demographically similar to them. everything you've said has made me think the Labor party is filtering people out of the pool of people who can possibly bring progress, and the next thing everyone across miscellaneous classes would realistically do is fight the Labor party
618. [F2] Insanity is doing the same thing for a different result / Insanity is doing the same thing and expecting a different result -> this weird old saying contradicts the efforts of center-Liberals and poststructuralists to crush stereotypes. what would you say if a racist claimed that insanity was tolerating some particular demographic of people a third time? that said, the concept that "not expecting things to be the same" can fix all prejudices seems wrong to me, because prejudices are often just terrible interpretations of real problems, and doing nothing but crush signifiers seems like simply ignoring the problems.
618. [F2] A lack of data means future experiences will be perfect / A bad experience doesn't teach about similar experiences / Bad experiences can't teach anything / People-gambler's fallacy -> a lack of data means it's just as likely bad things will happen as good things. this can be very scary to some people who can't afford to have any more bad experiences.
618. [F2] Pointing out demographics facing racism is racist
618. [S2] Contractors sell labor; proletarians sell purpose -> the claim that the difference between proletarians and contractors is precisely that everything about a proletarian's daily life becomes patterned around work, including what town they get to live in, what people they're allowed to know and talk to, and what activities they do when not at work. the concept of "time" is a distraction because nothing depends on time, despite what scientists up to now will tell you about physics equations and "determinism". connection and appropriateness for a structure are the things that make capitalism run
618. [S] What Would Joel Do? -> the motif of a videogame story railroading the player into the thing the protagonist would do, as one particular definition of "roleplaying". Joel = The Last of Us.
618. [S2] I think, therefore I am / The writer cannot be the writer's hallucination / The writer cannot be a proposition inaccurate to reality -> classic, famous proposition used by Descartes as a basic axiom. one good argument against it is that by Gödel's incompleteness theorem no computer or logic book can reason about the actual computer or things outside the computer and certainly be correct. there's always a causal separation between computer, brain, or logic book and reality itself in the sense that one can say physics "is" the separation between objects.
618. [S2] Transgender people think therefore transgender people are -> this is the crux of my problem with current theories on gender identity. this Cartesian construction was overturned for crusty old White men within their own philosophers' groups so it seems strange we should be using it for anyone else. "I think, therefore I am" + gender identity = this.
618. [S] allegory of the cave -> a metaphor for the gap between noumenon and phenomenon. probably greatly exaggerated. the more time goes on and the more science has been done the smaller the gap between "object" and "shadow" seems to get.
618. [S2] Susie being herself can change the Prophecy / Ralsei believes that Susie being herself can change the Prophecy (variation) -> there we go! straightforward Existentialist interpretation of Deltarune. I have to be neutral on this theory "as a model" because there's nothing inherently wrong with this inside the context of fiction. I like it far better than that one early-chapters schizoanalyst interpretation that is infamous in my mind for how bad the original real-life theories are [33] [34]
618. [Z] Color, Communism, and Common Sense (Johnson ??)
618. [S2] Manning Johnson orchestrated a Communist plot to divide Black churches [35] [36] / Stalin planned to use Black people as expendables (sic; referring to a proposed vanguard) -> it appears the main error here is taking the phrase "general conflagration" and not realizing the key word is "general". looks like the substance of the plan is that if there is a rebellion in the United States then it will occur when Black people and all the other workers join together. but in reality, the Soviet Union has made an error because since about the US Civil War its subpopulations don't really spontaneously join together like that. it's always been movements for really specific identities only that on top of that take a really really long time or sometimes go backward. so yeah, "Stalin's" theory was wrong. look at people today and weirdly, the most effective and popular issues for joining people together are negative issues against things, especially a million people against a specific individual. people are very "anarchy-brained" and seem really incapable of comprehending actually creating policies versus exactly and precisely not having something bad that's annoying or frightening them.
618. [S] Highlander school of Communist troublemaking [37] -> this phrase makes me laugh. it's really the cherry on top that it has the same cadence as "Hogwarts school of wizardry". it sounds so official.
618. [Z] Laziness Does Not Exist (Pryce 2021)
618. [S2] Laziness does not exist -> I have my doubts about this. I mean, it's true that the concept of individual effort being connected to the ability of individuals or towns to live is bogus. there are many kinds of effort that are simply wasted, and where "laziness" would have been just as good. primitive Existentialism sucks. but the real problem with people "being lazy" is that towns need a balance of particular things and individuals need a particular amount of connection to other people that recognize them as useful (income) to raise their children. it doesn't seem like the streamers who are arguing that YouTube channels are productive have thought through what would would happen if all the people doing important basic things in other towns turned out to be reactionaries and disconnected from them. so, the only kind of laziness that exists is people being lazy about forming the correct social graphs that are totally resistant to reactionaries. but almost everyone has it.
618. [S2] "Infinite growth on a finite planet" comes from births / "Infinite growth on a finite planet" comes from individuals / "Infinite growth on a finite planet" is a bad talking point (births and primitive Existentialism) -> if you listen to Tories long enough, or if you simply look at the way job openings decrease every generation, you realize that the problem of "infinite growth" comes from individual households. individuals want to believe there will always be jobs for them, and things for them to create and contribute to society, the total number of things that exist always expanding. but the reality is that everything is finite. the space in a city for buildings is finite. the number of people you can sell something to is finite. the amount of attention people have to listen to ads and look at things is finite. and at a certain point of development whenever any new people try to elbow their way into society society pushes back. it seems to be true that society wasn't meant to expand infinitely, but in order to effect that every single individual has to miraculously calculate the probability that having babies or creating new things is not best for the population and miraculously pick the correct action. that is really hard to do without Bolshevism and a central government that literally moves people to different cities. infinite growth is tied to disorganization, while to keep growth "finite" you have to genuinely organize it into the same interconnected patterns. you have to give up the concept that civilizations are "made of Free Will" and accept that there is some kind of predictable correct arrangement of a particular set of people which has ways it can be done wrong.
618. [S2] South Africa's Black Economic Empowerment program (BEE) has failed -> I am not sure if this is true or false but the arguments for it sound very fishy. [38] the people making these arguments really want to crack some walnuts. but could it be true that this program amounts to corporate welfare that hasn't done much of anything? maybe. I'd need to look at it more closely.
618. [F2] The only two ideologies are small government and big government / There are two ideologies: small government and big government -> this is so far beyond untrue. it's... provably untrue with just a few historical events. let's say Stalin is in favor of Big Government. well, Trotsky is also in favor of Big Government! he wants all the world's countries to spontaneously form into a world government. by some metrics you'd think that's the biggest government. how many people are even in the parliament or council of soviets?? but the two of them are fighting each other even though they both believe in Big Government. there are more than two ideologies. they're all separate and they all begin from different local sets of interests and goals. how do you even square the notion of small vs big government with the United States fighting over Catholicism? Protestantism and Catholicism also show there are more than two ideologies, once you get to Islam and Buddhism and all the other religions there have ever been.
618. [S2] A republic exists for upper-rank people to fight over land -> the claim that Mexican political parties are primarily about allegiances to specific upper-rank people who arbitrarily choose opposing parties just because they have pre-existing rivalries with each other, after which they only pretend to believe what the parties believe. [39] I find this one pretty believable. it matches general patterns of party affiliation in other countries. look at the United States going through a phase of making its parties about who is Protestant or Catholic, or who is the most or least similar to particular "successful" White people. this is the proper response to the claim that conservative parties "stabilize" republics — do you really want people pretending to believe things just to legitimize socially-linked cults around specific wealthy individuals fighting for pure territory and power?
618. [Z] Rule and Ruin: The Downfall of Moderation and the Destruction of the Republican Party, from Eisenhower to the Tea Party (Kabaservice 2012)
618. [Z] How Democracies Die (Levitsky & Ziblatt 2018)
618. [S2] There are four kinds of conservative parties -> the reactionary; the republican; the tycoon; the cult leader. [40] well, that's a claim. I think these categories are not very distinct from each other. also. what makes you think you can control any particular kind of conservative subpopulation and magically make it smarter? saying the United States can choose what kind of conservative parties it will have is just an empty "I believe that everybody" statement.
618. [Z] Constructing Democratic Governance: Latin America and the Carribean in the 1990s — Themes and Issues (1996)
618. [S2] Democracy is the act of convincing upper-rank people to vote instead of merely capturing the population -> claim about the causes of governments labeled as authoritarian in Latin America. very interesting, but sounds dubious. raises the question of, is a democratic republic even achieving anything whatsoever or is life exactly the same with or without it? seems like a glitch in the model that we should be asking that question.
618. [M3] What is the purpose of a republic?
618. [M3] What is the purpose of Liberal-republicanism? / What is the purpose of a democratic republic? (Liberal-republicanism / Liberalism) -> many people think the answer is obvious, but it really isn't.
618. [S] Signifier Case / signifier case -> the motif of presenting a concept In Capital Letters to defamiliarize it as a commonly-accepted word within the same language and offset it as a strange ontological construct which needs to be investigated, or as a specialized academic usage within some particular philosophy. this concept may be considered identical to practices like quoting terms or putting them in italics, but is not the same thing as putting a term in title case simply because it is the title of a wiki article.
618. [S] sentient toys -> — + "modest" proposal = Poppy Playtime. — + television = Deltarune. — + playing card / trump deck = Alice in Wonderland.
618. [S2] Getting a job is the act of playing both sides in a genuine social conflict
618. [S2] Bilingual boxes will kill hobby shops [41] -> misleading. fails question-begging test. the real issue here is whether or not you can make the corporations themselves print multilingual boxes, not whether produced boxes will or won't be allowed in Canada. this is a democulture issue: is democulture materially possible, or will it devolve into segregation according to what culture each island of people naturally performs and which localized countable Cultures accept which other ones? you'll notice that the hobby shop getting upset is accelerating the exact problem the regulation failed to fix by almost intentionally (we don't know for sure they're bigots from such scant information) choosing the English-only boxes. the other thought that hit me after a while: why doesn't Canada buy its boxes from Europe? odds are those boxes would probably have French on them. of course, we know why. Canada's population is spread across multiple countries into Third-World factories that create things only for particular businesses in Canada but not the rest of Canada — or the same factories are attached to the United States. that's the basic reason.
618. [F2] If repression is the problem, Trotsky only needs to tell Stalin his vision of Bolshevism is terrible -> Rothenberg seemed to be claiming (hey now, I literally recommended the book to someone else and neither of us were able to follow all the way through it, so I'm not just lazy) that repression is causing all our problems and that's why "conversations" can supposedly solve everything. but if you apply the Trotsky model that makes no sense. historically, if all the Trotskyites were perfectly honest everyone would laugh them out of the room because of the perception they don't know anything. best case scenario you've got two totally different would-be countries that want to do things totally differently leading one to marginalize the other because people just want to get on with their lives and don't want the other group of people building and living the wrong way over the top of them. worst case scenario one of the countries is many tiny countries of bourgeoisie and it's a blatant lie. on the other hand sometimes people are blatantly racist and think they have an impossible equation to find the superior ethnicity to produce on a given plot of land. you never know if people are doing that, from a different angle, to the Trotskyites.
9901. [S] assume a spherical cow -> the motif of mathematics problems, or perhaps general thought experiments, presenting a test case which makes perfect sense yet to any reasonable person looks unlike reality
618. [S2] Language can never touch grass / A book can never touch grass -> every single book is a Cartesian system of reasoning unable to see outside itself, mitigated by the ability of any particular resource to collect more information or reference other things. this entails that copyright is pretty terrible for our ability to understand the outside world and not have prejudices.
618. City of Six Moons -> ontology exercise. fun idea in my opinion.
618. Mother -> RPG with opponents that seem like they should be recruited, ultimately leading to Deltarune. also possibly to IronShard/Aurora if that comes to be
618. EarthBound
618. Mother 3
618. Endling -> animal ecology.
618. In Stars and Time -> trauma adventure, like OMORI.
618. [S] green book
618. [S2] Feral dragons are the only happy ones (Roses in the Flames) -> my crazy theory for what the twist of this story is going to be. everyone is an unreliable narrator and we'll find out that none of the main characters that thought they had it so good is truly satisfied and only the area of feral dragons that's supposedly destroying civilization is held up as satisfied with their lives and in Freedom. maybe it's just me, but all the descriptions of the world the characters give feel disingenuous. I kept thinking, the protagonist speaks like no actual human being and the characters don't talk about anything as if they were experiencing it as much as if everything was a bunch of floating propositions. but then I saw the game get polished from its earlier drafts to where it was a little more convincing. so maybe none of this is bad writing. maybe the game is planning some crazy twist where the things all the characters were saying at first weren't meant to be believable, and were all misdirects. maybe it's here to blow our minds by first setting up a strange, surreal, not-quite-believable setting of dragon capitalism and then the actual point is to shatter those expectations and show that genuinely none of it made any sense and here's the way dragons are supposed to live instead. the funny thing? if that was the point I'd probably like the story. you didn't portray civilizations as utopian, but you did metatransitional realism instead of just assuming dragon tribes are made of culture and Free Will. even if the depicted transition is effectively an Anarchism that is an achievement.
618. [S2] People won't form coalitions just because you "believe that everybody"
618. [S2] If Liberal economics exists because property values are the price to get somebody to willingly give up a social slot that was hard to obtain, how can we know that elections are ever fair? -> A) expensive land areas or buildings are hard-won slots B) elected offices are hard-won slots C) if somebody wants control of a country enough, they will work very hard to stay in and put in allies of the same demographic or belief unless someone somehow paid them not to. whatever that might mean.
618. [F2] Lived Experience is indisputable -> false on a technicality because it can and will be disputed constantly. this is the problem. the problem is that Lived Experience is already getting disputed, but if you propose Lived Experience to solve that problem, it will perpetually be unable to prove itself using itself because the problem is that people can't be forced to consider it proof.
618. [S2] Every lived experience contradicts lived experience -> every time I hear somebody say "you can't contradict lived experience"... no. Lived Experience is something of a paradox because the whole reason people "haven't respected it" is their own Lived Experience has blinded them to seeing others, or for various reasons, having a material incentive to see others. appealing to Lived Experience is a really bad idea.
618. [S2] Some people's "own meaning" is Toryism / Given the ability to make their own meaning, some people will make Toryism -> early-existentialism is a tautology. after being alive for 30 years it kind of shocks me that nobody realizes this. to say people create their own meaning is to say each person builds ontologies of what is important. but people already do that whether early-existentialism ever existed or not, even if there is religion. early-existentialism just characterizes religion from a new angle: if nobody knows what the afterlife is, what will you create? and that leads to a plurality of religions all believing different things while in conflict as material groups of people. early-existentialism never answered the most important question for humanity, which is, what is the meaning of people chunk-competing? the meaning of individual existences is totally irrelevant compared with that.
618. [S2] Constitutional amendments connect politics to history -> case of: Q93 argument for general-sense historical materialism. when you think about it, if constitutional amendments didn't do this, they wouldn't even be doing their job. the United States constitution especially is a narrative about history — what kinds of progress are said to have occurred and issues been solved. but if the daily operation of the United States, every little thing people did, didn't already make sense, then the constitution wouldn't make sense to anyone. in other countries like the United Kingdom there isn't even a written constitution, there is just a bunch of case law. yet the country doesn't fall apart purely because it doesn't have a constitution. every decision doubly has to make sense.
618. [S] freedom-hating atheist -> we need to talk about how bizarre it is that like, everyone has been programmed with "door theory" to the point that many center-Liberals actually believe that there are anti-religion people who actually genuinely hate religious people as living beings and don't want them to have any Freedom. that Richard Dawkins isn't just a xenophobe that should be tossed out of atheist circles, but is bad specifically because he denied people Individual Freedom Of Religion. this stupidity has made me hate Existentialism more than I dislike religion. like oh my hecks invent Christian Bolshevism if you really have to, just everyone please stop telling people that relationships are strictly voluntary. you should know by now that reactionaries reject marginalized groups of people because they think God declared them the enemy (the opposer) of Real Genuine Human Beings and they will get their reward from God for either braving through those people's disappearance or getting rid of them. cooperating with religious people is just dividing the United States into a big ragnarok battle between the god of reactionary-subpopulationals and the god of all the East-German types the reactionary-subpopulationals consider too weak or poor to "really" be White, plus the loudmouths that expel all those people and claim to speak for all society just because they're the best at unrelated things. I think I went over the angry line. anyway, letting people believe all relationships are strictly voluntary and any religious people can Show The Door is very bad for the prospect of getting people to include marginalized groups of people in society without considering it a breach of their Freedom.
618. [S2] Prejudices are not obviously bad / It is not inherently obvious to everybody in an equal way through an equal path that prejudices are bad -> the claim that it is difficult to realize prejudices are bad, even if they are bad. most prejudices that center-Liberals would consider "good" are not obvious as prejudices unless you look closely, but they sure do exist.
618. [S2] All Freedom-respecting theories can be explained to a child / The most Freedom-respecting theories can be explained to a fifth-grader -> follows from "solidarity is optional" plus the claim that every new academic theory about society is ideology. this claim is really interesting to test, but to be frank, it doesn't look too good for this claim when literally Kent Hovind can say this, while ironically any grade-school textbook can explain evolution.
618. [S2] All academic-level theories are ideological / Any academic-level theory is ideological -> the claim that Existentialist-Structuralist periods and basically all of traditional philosophy along with such things as Marxism are ideologies according to a particular definition, although anything that can be taught in a fifth-grade textbook without leaving a lot of questions might not be. if this claim is true, then it would be impossible to claim that a textbook based on insights found in critical race theory (not to say such a thing literally exists, but hypothetically) is non-ideological. if this claim is false, then it could be that a Trotskyist could write textbooks based on insights from Trotskyism and Tories wouldn't even notice that there was Leninism in their textbooks and would just nod and say "that's probably correct".
618. [S2] Critical race theory is an ideology -> although people aren't going to like it, as far as I can tell this is technically true because the theory contains assumptions. theories of ethics are ideological, and theories that say society should be fixed one way instead of another are ideological. this doesn't make them bad, but it does make them ideology. this is an unfortunate thing to combine with the fact everyone believes in Existentialism and the ability for anyone to choose to walk away from anything that is an ideology. get rid of Existentialism, and the problem is solved.
618. [S2] Liberal-republicanism is postmodern / George Washington was a postmodernist -> everybody who isn't already a Marxist would find this really confusing. but here's the thing. if Liberalism is designed to be all political systems, it is definitionally postmodern. people think that there was a particular era of "modernism" and then there was "postmodernism", because they're looking at culture and trying to define kinds of visual expression that they then try to connect back to deeper processes, but they've greatly underestimated how soon postmodernism actually starts within philosophy or politics. postmodernism begins in at least 1776. maybe earlier. believing Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson could exist and get along in the same country is the loose prototype of postmodern philosophies. the general cause of postmodern culture is populations sharding into millions of separate population-societies that all operate separately, and 1776 is about when it begins.
618. [S2] Trotskyism's internal structure differs from Stalin Thought -> add to other proposition?
618. [S2] Everything decentralized is itself centralized -> one of my biggest beefs with most anarchist projects on the internet. from everything I've seen it seems like a lot of anarchists are incredibly bad at set theory. a lot of them really don't understand the problem of distinguishing a set from an atomic data structure, or the notion that what they were really fighting is atomic data structures and when you are talking about human beings atomic elements are inevitable — worse yet, the more you break things up the more inevitably you have to deal with highly-specific graph nodes or points in space people absolutely have to use and their failure rates.
618. [Z] determinacy game / Gale-Stewart game [42] -> interesting in terms of demonstrating existential materialism. think about how one player forcing the other player to make particular moves and evolve their actions in response to another free-floating agent is similar to Liberal-republican elections and who forces what people or what issues into what parties. this game is like a weird bridge between Existentialism and dialectical materialism
618. [S2] fiction allows people to learn about each other and make them better people -> not always false, but a rather Existentialist model of fiction. for a counterpoint, see "Grimey the neckbeard"
618. [S] Grimey the neckbeard [43] -> this anecdote is very interesting sociologically because it provides such a counterpoint to the "Susie" narrative that coming together around fiction will allow people to learn about each other and make them better people. in this story, letting Grimey into the tabletop group actually just brought out the worst in him and revealed that he was not meant to be friends with the people he was attempting to roleplay with. it did not help make him more empathetic toward the characters or the players through exposure to them, it just shocked all the other people when they were exposed to him and made them want to get rid of him. this is such an important concept. almost every "progressivism" in the United States tries to assume this will never happen to people, especially that it will never happen unpredictably. Grimey the neckbeard + Friendship is Magic = Mud Briar
618. [S2] humans perceive random behavior as malicious / inconsiderate
618. [S2] behaving compassionately requires cultural conditioning / education of specific facts about reality
618. [S2] smashing signs turns behavior random / smashing signs leads to random behavior / poststructuralism is a terrible idea
618. [S2] many acts of marketing perform education / consumerism is inseparable from media representation
618. [S2] god belief is a Cartesian system of reasoning
618. [S2] Solarpunk is a class ideology belonging to empire / Solarpunk equals imperialism / Solarpunk equals colonialism -> please understand that I regard this as a statement that could be false. this is the claim that because the purported cause of British global empire in North America is Britain thinking one country is the world and it's the world, any Anarchism which thinks only about itself and not about its relativistically-gapped relationships with the rest of the world is essentially colonial and cannot be postcolonial. there's some chance this claim could be sophistry. I do not entirely know. this claim is related to: Q?? Pokémon is not metatransitional literature.
618. [S2] Mr. Satan's path is never certain / Mr. Satan's road to victory is never certain / No rest for Mr. Satan / Mr. Satan will always be waiting for fans / If Peter Singer has a charity, getting connections is always a waiting game -> Peter Singer and the Vegeta effect... there's something there. it's immoral for any particular person not to give to charity, or to not watch videos and Like videos and click the YouTube subscribe button. but no particular Goku can Freely Will what any particular Vegeta actually does. so if we've got the earth people over on one side, and Goku and Mr. Satan over on the other side next to an important cause, they'll experience a totally stochastic kind of cooperation with their cause regardless of what people "should" do or what the charity organizers "believe that everybody" should do. any particular charity organizer or thing you're supposed to give to will always be left awkwardly waiting and telling a bunch of people who can't be the ones to give to give as they wait and wait to find the perfect person who actually has the money or is the proper person to be subscribed to the YouTube channel or has the ability to lead whatever they're trying to do.
618. [S2] If Marcuseanism was true, Trotskyism would be true / If subjectivity-Marxism actually worked, nobody would have dropped out of Trotskyism -> it suddenly occurred to me, only in the middle of 2025, that, Marcuse's whole concept of people Subjectively choosing not to be part of capitalism? how does that make sense with the observed fact that so many people drop out of Trotskyism and go back to Liberalism? it's actually a very big thing in Trotskyism to go around trying to educate everyone on Marxism and get them to choose not to be members of capitalism any more. so if that hasn't really worked for Trotskyism, why would it work for Marcuseanism?
618. [M3] why hasn't Canada spontaneously merged into the United States? -> a question that sounds silly but is actually a really good question, philosophically. if Existentialism is true, Canada is a bunch of individuals, and the United States is a bunch of individuals, and they're all unpredictable and can choose to collectively do anything at any moment, so why do they always wake up every day and form Canada and the United States respectively? as well, you see some Anarchisms talking like there could be a world without borders. not the postcolonial anarchisms, clearly, because in those you effectively have to fill up big protest spaces through and around the territory of marginalized people-groups and essentially enforce a populational border. but in other anarchisms... if the world could function without borders why is it the case Canada still exists. the more history that happens, the more it will be that any general category of thing that is actually likely to happen will have already happened before you were even born. so if as many people have already been born as there have, why aren't we already living in the world where there isn't a Canada? a couple billion years go by and you get dolphin-shaped things multiple times. a couple of centuries go by and you get Marxism multiple times, and even the teeniest shred of Trotskyism off in the corner. so why don't countries spontaneously merge into each other through a bunch of individuals flooding between them and all the people suddenly saying "I guess we don't have separate governments"? personally, my best answer is that countries are socially-linked graphs of people and labor connects people into structures that are required to be there and function well for workers to ever be able to take them over. so if people started flooding between the United States and Canada it would be harder to work out reasonable solutions to housing them, providing health care, and getting them what they need, even assuming nobody hates each other. every human right depends on people being connected into exactly the correct graph structures to have everybody producing enough stuff, and that's why people don't flood around wildly, because on some level they vaguely understand that they have to contribute to building towns correctly to have what they need, and even if they don't have much agency it still seems like they have more agency staying where they are than through going to a lot of effort to go somewhere else.
618. [S2] It's easier to imagine impossible matter fractals than the end of capitalism -> a much funnier realization than the elephant proposition that came to me when explaining Avogadro's number. how is it there are multiple sci-fi stories about universes being atoms in bigger universes, or universe-timelines being quantum foam to a bigger universe (thanks Project Palisade), but nobody is able to imagine countries being objects and people being chemistry, much less able to imagine that being a neutral thing. Childhood's End: horror story. every center-Liberal-approved theory about many people changing society: treats them as many individuals at once, rather than a larger object. every news article: still thinks people are part of one big object called Our Democracy, even though by every other remark anyone has ever made people are just a bunch of completely unpredictable helium atoms? like, if people are all individuals, how are there even countries? why hasn't Canada spontaneously merged into the United States?
618. [M3] Why doesn't Europe have horrific suburban sprawl? / Why didn't Europe end up with horrific suburban sprawl? -> every time I try to explain the weird development of the United States, and how people build cities to create connections but then the cities run out of space and they move way far away from the city to have kids, Europe comes up. but I don't have a good answer to what Europe has instead of suburb hell.
618. [S2] All Cops Abandon Balance / All Cops Are Bolsheviks (in reference to "government control equals Bolshevism" fallacy) / center-Liberals see abuse by police as a matter of exceeding Moderation -> the claim that "ACAB" was accepted as, counterintuitively, a model that police abuse is still a matter of individualized Evil. center-Liberals want to believe that abuses by the police are individuals being Extreme. by default they want to believe that "the police system" is a simple self-contained activity of society, and racist abuses occur when people exceed the Moderate operation of the police system to become Extreme. when they are forced to accept "ACAB", they simply shift over the category lines such that being a police officer is a terrible thing and the worst most Extreme and Immoderate people in society become that category of people. but at the same time people's fundamental ontology of the situation remains the same.
618. [S2] Racists know stereotypes don't apply to everybody / Racists know the stereotypes they use to define people don't apply to everybody
618. [S2] Racists do not hate people because of perceived "bad taste" -> this is an easy conclusion to come to after observing real racists: they hate "bad music" and confusing or "tacky" vernacular. so, the performance of these things must be closer to the actual reason people make bad impressions with racists, right? no. racists actually know that stereotypes don't apply to everybody, which means they ultimately know that calling out "bad taste" will not be a good excuse to hate the entire group of people and will only buy them a short amount of time.
618. [S2] A nation of ideas is definitionally an empire -> takes a bit to explain. a nation must be made of structure; the subpopulations inside a nation must be connected somehow to actually produce a combined population instead of literally producing two or more populations. a person eats and occupies space. any particular chunk of socially-connected people eats and occupies space. conflicts over the ability to eat and occupy space result in violence. The State mediates conflicts over the ability of social chunks to eat and occupy space. when Liberal-republican "democracy" is created the representatives of different chunks all contribute to creating The State, although the representatives do not equal The People. what this means practically is chunks of people compete for the right to submit the set of ideas that will rule everyone. but even if representatives were perfect reflections, The People don't really choose what sets of ideas they believe as individuals, they determine them as whole groups that already enforce group ideas on all their individuals. there is something like a tiny undemocratic "republic" inside groups of people before there is any government at all, or even any capitalists — essentially, The Spanishness Office. (the big mistake people make is less thinking it exists at all than thinking it's controllable.) as a result, the Spaniards Machine sputters along spitting out both what people are going to believe and who people's representatives will be, designing and placing people to obey it while oppressing them at the same time; there isn't even really any "manufacturing consent" step in the middle where people choose to be oppressed, the reason people support bad things is they're literally already part of them from the beginning, before they're educated, before anything. ISAs are the societies while The State is their apparatus. anyway. chunks of people which already contain Spaniards Machines generate representatives that represent the Spaniards Machine, the Social-Philosophical System. this leads to Social-Philosophical Systems themselves pushing each other back and forth fighting over parliament (hegemony politics), and fighting over the country. each Spaniards Machine is a tiny nation of ideas already, even if it may also have racist ideas that it is a superior cluster of White people, or whatever. this means when they fight each other over a republic, and inevitably play hegemony politics of "this is a rust country now", "this is a sky country now and all the rust people have to obey sky rules continuously spat out every day by the sky-colored Spaniards Machine", all they can practically achieve is creating a population-to-population hierarchy of one Spaniards Machine directly ruling the other.
618. [S2] A glass of water can unbreak and refill itself given enough time -> funny saying by physics teachers/journalists used to explain the arrow of time. also arguably illustrates exactly why Trotskyism hasn't happened.
618. [F2] Trotskyism succeeding will be a black swan event -> the claim that all the previous events of Trotskyism failing are not predictive of what it will do in the future relative to those events. honestly, this is basically what Trotskyists already say. but given that it has had almost a century to happen and hasn't happened, while mainstream Marxism-Leninism and Deng Xiaoping Thought each have happened during the same time, it's probably fair to mark it false.
618. [S2] The Bolsheviks did not have the historical data that Leninism was possible -> what a smart Existentialist would argue every time Marxists claim that some particular non-Marxist movement "hasn't worked yet". what Existentialists really love to do is equivocate the lack of data on any particular event with the concept that Free Will is the only factor that makes the difference in something happening or not happening. however... this is silly. if this were reasonable, then one could argue for Trotskyism and absolutely against any form of Liberalism. because if Trotskyism hasn't happened yet, can you really rule it out if every Trotskyist believes in it hard enough?
618. [S2] soviet union occupied east germany because no socialism in one country
618. academic-level material -> to be used with "field, scope, or group". refers to anything which requires a book's worth of reading by a college-educated person just to understand its terminology.
618. [S2] Not all proletarian class interests are revolutionary [44]
618. [S2] Bordigism is an SPS [45] -> here I see a description of a party with path-finding behavior that Lattices from one group into another. in my mind that's generally a good thing, unless they somehow describe a method of filtering the party together that doesn't actually make any sense. there's only one small problem: the more specific a party's theories are, the greater the potential of accidentally creating a plurality of different named Marxisms that have to study each other as separate systems. you keep seeing this. you see bodies of theory about how to build a reasonable Leninism and discard methods that don't work, but what you don't see is how to navigate a world that might end up with multiple incompatible Leninisms that all have to have additional textbooks on each other.
618. [S2] Organic centralism is a bunch of ill-defined fluff [46] -> was creating a new rating sheet of a YouTube channel. presenter absolutely cracked open a problem I didn't even know existed. it is remarkable how we are at a point where you have to go through a phase of absolutely deciphering old Marxist theory and how it was applied in reality before you can even analyze if it was effective.
618. [S2] If Trotskyism is about uniting the populations of the world, and the CIA undermines populational governments, undermining populational governments does not support realizing Trotskyism
618. [S] approval voting
618. [S2] Existence-philosophy is The Colonizer Attitude -> 1) early-existentialism is the statement meaning comes from the assignment of meaning by individuals. 2) the assignment of meaning by many individuals at a time is near-synonymous with culture. 3) in capitalism groups of people and areas of land are conflated with individuals. 4) capitalism amounts to allowing individuals to assign entire ontological models to areas of land and groups of people and make those people pretend to believe them. 5) when a million White people occupy an area, own pieces of the area, dictate who they will individually sell the pieces of land to and who they will deal with and assert that it "is" the area belonging to a White Culture, early-existentialism is the mechanism that makes intolerance of other countable Cultures possible.
618. [S2] In any particular anticommunist fable, Liberal countries exist -> the generic fan theory that if a story like "1984" continued on it would be ~10 external Liberal countries that show up to destroy the anomalous civilization, just like in real life
618. [S2] In any particular anticommunist fable, other socialisms exist -> the generic fan theory that every anticommunist fable is technically meta-transitional literature and if it went on other kinds of civilizations with particular named ideologies would happen. appears to be the case for The Giver, where people are blatantly constructing Anarchisms.
618. [S2] The Soviet Union exists in the Fantastic Beasts films -> if realistic footage of World War II exists this is technically true.
618. A Tale of Two Cities -> this book is about the French Revolution. I somehow did not know that until today.
618. [S] rebuilding civilization after apocalyptic war -> this can be used in combinations to get Posadism, Adventure Time, one or more SCP stories, etc.
618. [S2] Little Einsteins are rebuilding the world in Europe's image after mutually-assured destruction -> amusing theory. example of how every work of fiction will get read in relationship to what the motivations of a particular thing might be if it existed in real life
618. [S] popular-level text about accepted model / popular-level book about accepted ontological model or research field / popular-level book about accepted theory of material reality
618. [S] popular-level science text
618. [S] popular-level history text
618. [S] popular-level historical materialism text -> haven't seen very many of these. it's my hope to make them more popular
618. [S] popular-level class analysis text -> I'm not sure a "popular-level dialectical materialism text" is even possible. dialectical materialism has been too arcane in its presentation despite the content being unobjectionable at worst. so currently you're more likely to see a clumsy non-Marxist explanation of what people think classes are
618. [S] popular-level dieconomics text -> basically doesn't exist until a workers' state is created
618. [S] global climate change based on average temperature increase -> yes, the label does have to be that long. the thing has always been the same but Tories get so offended that the name ever changed and insist that changing the name is being used to lie to them and protect people's confirmation biases. I'm not making this up. you can't make this up.
618. [S2] Discussions of global warming existed before 1970 / Writings about global warming existed before 1970 [47]
618. The US Clean Air Act wasn't meant to include carbon dioxide [48] -> statements like these are important for a different reason than you'd think: they illustrate how Liberal-republicanism becomes meaningless when people are allowed to make history all about Free Will and interpret objects and phrases any way they want to. Existentialism is the killer of democracy, not its savior.
618. [S] 1960s level of consumption -> trying to retrieve the general context I heard this thing recommended in
618. [S2] Nobody would choose 1960s consumption / No individual would choose degrowth (stabilization to 1960s level of consumption) -> a point that keeps coming up in relation to East Germany: that West Germany was supposedly worth Individually Choosing because it had better growth. terrible, horrible thing to say if you ever later want to argue that individuals should Freely Choose to keep using old items and stop creating product treadmills against the environment.
618. [S2] ordinary people don't care about democracy -> descriptive statement.
618. [S2] Tories don't care if immigrants are claiming jobs, what they actually care about is immigrants taking up housing without meeting some standard of being "productive" -> and it's a very contradictory belief, because many Tories are stuck in their houses old and retired, etc., and can't meet their own standards.
618. [M3] why do US people say "inside thoughts" in public -> there are multiple causes
618. [S2] privacy is the separation of individuals from society
618. [S2] private is a smaller scale than public
618. [S2] town squares are public spaces
618. [S2] social platforms are public spaces
618. [M3] why are social platforms regarded like houses when they are public spaces?
618. [S2] social platforms are capitalists parcelling up the smallest scales of society
618. [S2] social platforms operate on Filamentism -> the very smallest competing unit is two connected people, not one. either one creator and one commenter/viewer, or a team of creators
618. [S] pacifist route of otherwise violent narrative -> CUT Tree + pacifist route = Sudowoodo
618. [S] violence route of otherwise peaceful narrative
618. [S2] Ignorance is not the cause of racist violence -> there are many things people can fail to know without it causing them to commit microaggressions or worse acts of racism. you won't behave in racist ways because you don't know calculus, or because you don't know how to draw animation smears, or because you don't know how to taxonomically identify a particular species of bird, or because you don't know how to build a computer, or because you've never written a book on manufacturing different kinds of lenses. XKCD 1053 illustrates this nicely. equally, many people would probably agree that you could take a hateful person and make them learn tons of history and facts about a group of people and examples of firsthand Lived Experiences without any of it ever making them less hateful. this is why narratives like Zootopia and Undertale don't feel quite right as accounts of prejudice. they're intersubjectivity theories; they assume that just feeding people a lot of information will compel them to change. what seems to be closer to the truth is that every population is constantly trying to mind its own business while trying to aggressively forget the fact that multiple populations exist and populations are naturally in competition because they consist of living individuals. the moment every population growing outward independently causes one population to step over another, the other population feels threatened and gets really really mad, mobilizing every surrounding person of the same socially-linked Culture against the other population. the notion that humans consist of spatial areas rather than socially-linked groups who are the ones that actually construct and enforce all notions of laws and morality is the fatal error that's been eating away at Liberalism. divide White people into many small population-societies based around molecularized theories of the physical workings of industries and towns and there would be no real reason for people to be racist versus letting people in.
618. [M3] How is it that while being perceived as shallow video games are the most likely to make people study other countries? [49]
618. Brandish
618. [S] knight of justice / archetypical high-fantasy knight / 勇者 (ゆうしゃ) -> it's arguable there is not a big separation between the high-fantasy knight and the unironic mountain sage. in a series like Dragon Ball or Street Fighter those two just turn into the same thing. sure, a sword character in Street Fighter would be surprising and funny, but look at Tekken where there's a bear or Pokkén [50] where there's a metal bug, and you'd see that there aren't any hard rules on what appears in a fighting game. knight of justice + crisis = hero's journey. knight of justice + postmodernism = conflicted knight of justice.
618. [S] king of injustice / prince of darkness / lord of darkness / 魔王 (まおう) -> king of injustice + ??? = Vegeta
618. [S] conflicted knight of justice -> when a knight of justice or hero's journey type character is stuck in the middle of an unclear narrative which isn't easily solved by "fighting for good". very common and intuitive, almost the second most obvious place to go after knight of justice itself. Live a Live gives one of the most basic examples
618. [S] knight of justice versus Mao -> the concept of archetypical heroes fighting to prevent Communism. with the connotation of the heroes maybe being fantastical. this has gotta be a trope somewhere. the only thing I can think of is like, MLP's Starlight Glimmer episode where Twilight is totally just defending a feudal order and being the Russian Empire to Starlight's Peter Kropotkin.
618. [S2] "strategic essentialism is an anti-essentialist act" [51] -> what? I wish academics would like, speak in logically-coherent sentences. it doesn't matter what words you use but please use them to convey concepts that make any logical sense and are at all comprehensible.
618. German church tax -> an optional tax only for members of churches that actually collect it.
618. [S2] German churches run kindergartens / German churches run schools and hospitals -> the observation that religious institutions in Germany are existing mostly as culturally-tinted charities which are funding local social structures more than a place for convincing people to actually believe in religion, leading to the customary "church tax". in some parts of the world, this doesn't cause problems, while in the United States people truly want government programs to be separate from churches. very important to think about when people are pushing for universal health care. in Europe, are localized taxes already picking up part of the cost in most places? is the key to getting health care actually to create local structures as opposed to simply going on and on about how all the individuals in the country should pay taxes?
618. German solidarity surcharge -> color swatch references: Voluntary Socialism. concrete example of people misusing the word "solidarity" to refer to pure nationalistic unity or the notion of people being united by big corporations that do everything paying taxes while all the little people don't get to do much of anything. Germany quite literally replaced Bolshevism with charging people taxes and letting them pat themselves on the back. when you see "solidarity" being appropriated to promote Free Will theories of history, don't let people tell lies.
618. [S] colonial racism -> do not refer to this as "colonialism" within Item labels. reserve that word for the physical processes of global empire. you may refer to colonial prejudices with any number of terms such as "colonial racism" or "alterity" if you think readers would understand them.
618. artistic advertisement -> advertisement which tells some kind of story tangentially related to the product, taking the form of a short film, mock TV show episode, etc.
618. Soviet short-film advertisement -> a real thing that happened. the Soviet Union set down a certain mandatory budget for advertising. studios could get more money by making short films instead of ads. suddenly there were a bunch of weirdly artistic ads that only clearly stated their product at the end. some people actually reported the advertising blocks to be their favorite "television show". similar in concept to the notion of "Japanese commercials" where particular kinds of ads sort of just turn into silly miniature tokusatsu shorts, the Geico gecko "show", or Masnick's statement that "advertising is content, content is advertising".
618. [S2] The key to creating Bolshevism is uniting people into the same countable Culture -> I have my doubts about whether this is or isn't true. what this is is a crude, dumbed-down explanation of the Lattice model for normal people. this is the claim that workers unite and possibly or ultimately realize a named Bolshevism when they consider themselves part of the same Culture, while when they consider each other part of different Cultures they fight each other and never form a single proletariat, unless they manage to segregate themselves into groups that do manage to function as the same Culture. if this claim is true, then the most remarkable thing about the Soviet Union was that it united each of 14 nationalities together locally rather than all the nationalities messily fighting each other over the same Russian Empire, and the success of China and North Korea to the extent they had it was partly due to people already wanting to form into the same national population or federation of five major ethnicities.

• [Fy] [S2] Sentient beings are easily separable into standardized tribes / creationism of countable Cultures -> fantasy trope. some people have remarked on the racist or xenophobic implications of this trope in that it fails to capture the concept of anti-essentialism. far fewer people have noticed how it hilariously suggests fantasy worlds are capable of forming international-conference Trotskyism. that would be the funniest Avatar AU. it's many times as nonsensical to apply to Warrior cats. but it would also be one of the only sensible futures for the Dragon Ball universe, speaking objectively. there's something to be said for how to some extent people probably secretly like Pokémon for the Marxist appeal of Pokémon: other fantasy works portray war, conquest and hatred as things that intuitively go on for centuries and centuries, but Pokémon portrays the world as inevitably ceasing war and transitioning to an age of everyone spending their time on "boring", mundane civilizational structures and activities. something to think about. if you were to parse fantasy works as history, what processes do they go through to lead to what kinds of civilizations?
• [F2] The universe is fundamentally made of information -> this is almost demonstrably false. silly argument against it: if that were true, there would be no difference between physical objects and Digimon, and we would have to seriously ask ourselves why you can't create an Agumon or a simulated coffee machine on a computer and then print the simulated coffee machine into the real world as data without having to copy every piece of the coffee machine using things that already exist inside the real world. I saw this claim in Existential Physics that you couldn't simulate a human mind without creating a human mind, and by extension you couldn't duplicate a human mind anywhere else without creating a second individual. the thing nobody realizes is that this is also true of a coffee machine. the most accurate model of how a coffee machine functions would be a coffee machine, in the sense the most accurate model of an Agumon would be a living creature. but you cannot shift a simulated coffee machine into reality without manually duplicating the coffee machine, any more than you can the Agumon. what this means is there is actual physical stuff in the universe between information. you can call every arrangement of things information but that information is always made of stuff. the crux of general relativity is that things are made of stuff. that's why everything can be a reference frame. because there are objects, and all the interesting stuff can only be seen while standing on them. some of the objects are really small and constantly re-divide themselves, because they're hardly big enough to even hold together, and that's okay, because we still see the interactions they create clearly enough that we can stand on them and call them objects. then more interactions and information happen between atoms, and so forth.
• [S2] There can't be a proletariat without first defending the bourgeoisie / There can never be a proletariat without first defending the ring of owners that creates each "community" -> I keep seeing this utterly terrible contradiction in modern Marxisms. they are like, don't listen to the bourgeoisie, the bourgeoisie are always trying to mislead you into doing what's best for them. and then they seem to immediately misuse dialectical/historical materialism to start arguing that you have to defend groups of bourgeoisie against badder groups of bourgeoisie because of some random principle of "community" or something. is this some kind of bad-Materialism fallacy that nobody else has seen but me? or could it be that these arguments are fine but every single person explaining Marxism has totally oversimplified Marxism to the point it doesn't describe reality? I don't actually know which of these things is true.
• [S2] Pinkie Pie was revived by Steven Universe / Pinkie Pie is actually a non-pink pony revived by Steven Universe -> one of the funniest probably-unserious theories I have ever seen. if you were some out-of-touch grapnda who only ever watched one episode of each of these shows you might have a hard time telling whether it's false. a large language model with insufficient data might just see each show as connected to fantasy elements and magic and themed names and tell you it's true. but at the same time, nobody who's actually watched both shows expects somebody to come up with this theory. how we recognize this theory as silly says a whole lot about how we reason. we pick up this completely unspoken intuition watching TV shows that each universe is separate and elements from it don't suddenly exist in other fictional universes. how do we know that? if we weren't allowed to point to corporate owners and copyrights and trademarks and we only had the inner contents of the shows, how do we epistemologically know they're separate? I think the answer tells us a lot about ideologies and whether people will be able to accept new models of how societies work. and not just new Bauplans of mainstream Marxism-Leninism or Kropotkinism or Deng Xiaoping Thought, but fundamentally, inner mental models of things like Menshevism and anti-racism and any change in society whatsoever. but funny enough, I think you begin fixing all that if you get mainstream Marxist-Leninists to coexist with Trotskyists, because the exact same basic difference between inner universes is manifest there.
• [S2] Whether human individuals have Free Will is simply irrelevant -> MDem entry Philosophical Research:MDem/5.2/1111 FreeWill. in particular, this is the claim that even labeling human behavior "deterministic" is irrelevant and possibly incorrect. this will seem confusing until you see the recently-added definition of relaterminism, and then it makes a lot more sense. most definitions of determinism ignore relativity, except relaterminism, which acknowledges the ability of events to propagate out in ripples from any point in the universe and from multiple points independently. if there had been no such thing as human individuals, this would have been harder to discover, but simultaneously, the existence of human individuals has blinded us to the existence of both social movements and the way such things as chemistry, quantum physics, and maybe possibly gravity function.
• [S] fictional population or species with super form
• [S] character with super form / character with transformation
• kamen rider & ultraman / Sailor Moon & "duck" etc [52] / Digimon. conceptually you can see the theme of characters upgrading into powered-up versions in Tamagotchi as much as you can see it in Digimon. it's kind of funny Tamagotchi were never portrayed as magical girls. why didn't that happen? either way you see Tamagotchi, then you see the Digimon show, then you see "duck" and "shugo chara". people say magical boys are not given attention on magical girl shows but it's not really true because the "magical guys" were the tokusatsu heroes. but Digimon is glorious because it's like the same thing a third time without gender. some of the characters are magical guys, some of them are magical girls, and some of them are just wolves or dinosaurs. some of them just are.
• [MDem] [S2] The history of every object is separate unless it isn't / The history of every material object is separate unless it is not -> follows from statements in general relativity and the discovery of gauge bosons. came up in entry "least-action"
• [S2] Companies can produce great numbers of things when there is already a contract to buy them -> grade school chairs. defense contractors. Pokémon games. the logic behind futures markets. there are so many examples of this, of how it's actually way easier to run industries if they go toward predetermined goals rather than being based on the presumed "free choice of individuals" — which doesn't even exist because retail stores also function like smaller, more informal purchasing contracts.
• [ML] [F2] It's acceptable to be a Trotskyist in The West [53] -> a lot of mainstream Marxist-Leninists believe this out of some kind of envy for the people they imagine having successfully become "non-Marxist passing", but I'm pretty sure that as of the 2010s it isn't even true. what's more correct is most people have a really, really low opinion of anybody who claims to be a Leninist or quotes Marx or Lenin at all. "non-Marxist passing" is more like "White-passing" than it is like "cis-passing"; it's a thing of intolerance, not acceptance. this could vary a lot by country. but I think it's fair to mark it false just because believing it will give you wrong impressions of at least one First-World country.
• [S2] It's acceptable to be a Trotskyist in Britain -> this is the proposition I find a lot more interesting but genuinely don't know the answer to.
• [S2] Human life isn't made of discourses -> my beef with Foucaldian theories of prejudices. human life is made of socially-linked humans performing tasks. discourses of any kind always come second. it doesn't matter if you define "discourse" as any ontology made of sign equations, the way it appears these philosophies do. by that definition you've identified a countable Culture itself, and if you want to call that oppressive, you're making use of the same first principles that can easily be used to define racism. even if you haven't gotten all the way to racism yet, I don't see how that can be a humane way to treat human beings. imagine Stalin points to Trotsky and says that Trotskyites have put together an oppressive discourse that needs to be broken up, and they'd better not associate together as Trotskyites and talk about Trotskyist workers' states because being part of that kind of countable Culture is literally always covering up an antisocial underground operation to destroy social progress within the Second and Third Worlds. Foucauldians generally wouldn't like that, so why do they go around saying this?
• [S2] Prediction markets could pick the best researchers -> there is definitely something wrong with this but it would take a lot of unpacking to figure out exactly what weird thing is going on. I'm thinking this is a matter of networkism, where in one sense Serializers rule the world because every successful industrial structure can be phrased in terms of a prediction of the future and when everybody believes the future is not a matter of physics investors profit off all of us.
• [S] Carl Sagan was lucky to land the best professors -> Demon Haunted World. I find it pretty funny I cite this book for Careerism more than for secular philosophy against religion
• [S2] If everyone wanted someone to choose them, no one would achieve anything -> nah. this isn't inspiring. when there's capitalism a great many people's life stories are about searching all over to get chosen by someone and how inspirational it is to hear about someone getting chosen. what is going to a university and getting hired for an exclusive "opportunity" as one of the brightest experts if it isn't being a chosen one? our fantasy books reflect our
• [S2] Truth is a zigzag between hypotheses and antitheses -> I found this really neat zigzag chart on... what is probably a scam. the chart is great outside of it being coopted for that weird self-help book though. it showed two sides of a Socratic dialogue bouncing off each other in a zigzag and each of them getting closer to the most accurate model of reality they can have. I like it. the point of a jamming proposition or collision of different propositions isn't that the antitheses have to be strictly correct, it's that they make you think and figure out what is.
• [MDem] [S2] Something being retermined doesn't mean it's good -> counter to the walnut proposition. if all the countries around the Soviet Union (I know that doesn't have to be the example) retermine it having to be a certain way, that doesn't mean they've all decided that correctly. it baffles me that it's so easy for people to see this with LGBT+ identities and certain really narrow definitions of "racism" and "xenophobia" but at the same time they can't see this. all the cases can be generalized into one pattern: groups of people retermine their individuals as groups, but sometimes you have to join people together to break out of retermination even though in the process they will begin a new subpopulation that retermines itself all over again.
• [M] Does anti-essentialism apply to Trotskyists? -> subset of: Trotskyism jamming proposition.
• [S2] When people point out "Liberals", they belong to a specific ideology / When people point out Liberal-republicans as a different group, they belong to some specific ideology
• [S2] Marxism is the opposite of center-Liberalism
• [S2] Queer theory is the opposite of center-Liberalism -> subset of: When people point out "Liberals", they belong to a specific ideology. mostly in reference to antinormativity.
• [ES] [S2] People created monarchies because they believe in predetermination -> whoa whoa whoa. this isn't simply the truth, this is an Existentialist statement. many versions of Christianity see the Christian god as a Subject that actually responds to the overall state of earth, so no, even the divine right of kings isn't equal to predetermination. it only equals doing the thing the smartest or most capable person ever to exist would do in people's opinion. you can begin to see where all the anti-science propositions come from: that anyone trying to exert control over anyone else OR trying to claim more expertise than anyone else is preaching predetermination. this is a dangerous proposition, because it's exactly what gets science defunded by reactionaries, and climate change scenarios rejected, and disabled people stuck in their houses when people wouldn't get COVID vaccines. all of that ties directly back to Existentialism and how the notions of choices and freedom are absorbed by reactionaries.
• [ES] [S2] Choices are identical with character development (fiction) / Choices are identical with Subject formation (real-life psychology)
• [S2] Individuals express themselves through the people around them -> one of the sharpest things I heard in an Existentialist video. you really have to pick this apart and look at it though. at first glance it looks like an acknowledgement of relaterminism: people don't choose everything about themselves, so finding good friends that fill in the gaps in you is important. then you look at it closer and you realize there are much worse interpretations of it. one is that our main character is determining the presence of the other characters and vice versa and they are all choosing to be together. that's a bit disgusting. it allows people to come together and express themselves through their connection and then be prejudiced against other groups of people because being prejudiced is their authentic self. if you think that can't be someone's authentic self at least at one particular moment in time then you have never actually met a reactionary. just like a Goth kid, they will insist that even if it's a phase bigotry is exactly who they are.
• [S2] Individual will is not the same as Free Will -> sounds like gobbledygook until you have seen either relaterminism or The Subject defined as a material Animal.
• [S2] If people don't have individual will, the Soviet Union was inevitable / If people don't have individual will, then the Soviet people didn't choose to create the Soviet Union -> jamming proposition, logical contradiction. why would the Soviet Union exist other than people deciding in some manner that it should exist? but if people don't have individual will at all, it's impossible anyone could have chosen to avoid the formation of the Soviet Union; it was fated it would happen, and First World countries punished people for nothing. when you think it through enough you eventually end up discovering relaterminism.
• [S2] If people don't have individual will, then they didn't choose to vote for Donald Trump / If people don't have individual will, then something outside individuals voted for Donald Trump -> jamming proposition to get people to realize that the question of Free Will and individual will isn't a trivial thing you can answer however you want. MDem v4.3 entry "Determination"
• [F2] early-existentialism is the opposite of predetermination -> some people distinctly seem to treat (early-)existentialism as a single proposition rather than a field of philosophers. the funny thing is that everyone explains the contents of the proposition a little differently. thus making the single proposition back into a field of philosophy containing many propositions. in an act of pettiness, I'll label this statement false in the strict binary logic sense, purely because it can be demonstrated to be a category error.
• [S2] making a choice is the opposite of predetermination -> this one is fairer. it seems probably untrue — you've got relaterminism going on in your head retermining your actions — but is more difficult to decide as clearly true or false.
• Demon-Haunted World
• [ES] [S2] Wrong ideas can be corrected if you simply cease thinking -> I've been a little wrong when I said everything in Liberalism is about turning everything into metaphysical quality sliders and claiming that artificial excesses of particular adjectives must be solved with "moderation". there's just a little bit more to it than that. some people seem to believe that when people have wrong ideas or prejudices it's possible to simply stop thinking entirely and become able to take in new information that way. I know from experience over a period of five years this is almost wholly false, and only leads to great confusion. I am being very generous by not marking this F2. but, there could be some subset propositions of it that are technically true.
• [Fy] [S] hell as warring states period over definition of sins -> rather inspired. SCP-7603
• [S2] People subject to the laws of a country are citizens of the country / People who are subject to the laws of the United States are citizens of the United States -> part of United States fourteenth amendment
• [S2] Those who control the correct mathematics control the future -> the only way "nonviolence" successfully solves anything in and of itself. say we want Stalin and Trotsky to coexist nonviolently. there is going to be a correct way for this to happen, and many incorrect ways which won't result in it happening. if Stalin solves the correct method for Stalin and Trotsky to coexist as part of one structure, he holds the power. there's nothing Trotsky can say. if Stalin arranges all the Trotskyites into the correct structures and all of them are content with those structures, then whenever the two or so that aren't commit violence, all the former Trotskyites which are already coexisting nonviolently will stop them and squash their rebellion. the future is retermined. people don't choose what the future is; it's calculated from the multivariable function of people that surround each other put together. the sheer power of retermination is why Existentialism has worked the way it does and been so effective at stopping anything else from coming into being.
• [S2] the cause of Property is people seeking to control relationships
• [S2] Kris is the Deltarune version of Frisk
• [S2] Kris is the Deltarune version of [CHARA] -> if you have the interpretation that "Chara" is a placeholder string and "true name" is a joke, seems kind of obvious
• [ML] [S2] If victory is not in sight, it is better to wait / "if relative superiority is not clear, it is better not to act" (Guerrilla warfare: A method, 1963) -> I have to reiterate that the Lattice model is mainly focused on like, a wave of strikes or things like that. but, Che Guevara has his own version of a Lattice model for violent situations. I think the more we look at different models of Marxist revolutions or movements the more we'll find the same graph mathematics popping up again and again
• [Z0] fictional conspiracy theory -> conspiracy theory speaking about fiction. fiction-internal conspiracy theory would be a separate Item
• [Fy] [F2] The universe begins with imagination but ends with entropy -> cool proposition in Adventure Time. bad proposition in progressive theories.
• [MDem] [S2] Much of the "hard work" people do is actually the easy way out -> every time reactionaries talk of "hard work"... isn't there always something missing there? there'd seem to be a difference between Constructive Hard Work and Destructive Hard Work, where most "hard work" is actually the latter one. people working hard for almost literally no reason but to destroy someone else's hard work while doing the same work over again. I wonder what the world would be like if we literally stopped calling Destructive Hard Work "hard work", and told people, no, all of you are doing busywork, that stuff is already done, you're not doing the actual hard work any more.
• [MDem] [S2] Inside a proletarian civilization, further transitions are about graph arrangements / After creating the dictatorship of the proletariat, all subsequent transitions are about structure more than class -> currently controversial but really shouldn't be. a proletarian society has to actually have policies to build itself. and what are those policies going to be? if everyone's the proletariat, you can't make all your policies based on who is the proletariat or who is the owners, because there aren't any owners to pick on, there are only the factors that make your workers or experts able to do their best work. now, if you're a Trotskyist and you also somehow have a brain, you could argue that all the owners are in other countries so the next step is to overcome other countries, shatter their borders, and join the people of various populations together into a single civilization. fortunately or unfortunately, the Trotskyist perspective has more or less been defeated in favor of every single ideology on the planet considering countries fundamentally separate, some arguing that they are actually separate for "cultural" reasons and others simply realizing that populations have to have autonomy for anything else to happen at finer-grained levels. the other major argument you can make is that the division between workers and experts is a problem to be solved, and if you said that you'd be right. the only issue is nobody truly knows how to solve it because it's connected to chunk competition across the spatial slot hierarchy, networkism, and Social-Philosophical Systems, and up to now nobody understands any of those. defeating Napoleon's Pigs is no easy feat.
• [S2] The Subject is not just a specimen of a more encompassing order -> claimed within an explanation of education. seems to stand in contradiction to most political theories about Subjects, which typically believe The Subject is important and relevant because Subjects are all comparably The Subject and that causes us to have empathy.
• [S2] Groups of people are just manuals on how to be / "we can take the elements in other cultures that are positive and bring that to our own" -> for the longest time I only saw this strongly implied in what people say, until today for the first time I finally saw it said out loud. honestly, I do not think so. that statement may be true of South Korea or China but it's not true of the United States, because the United States really is just a bunch of individuals bouncing around in bitter rivalry and hating and trying to tear apart anything that resembles an institution or a structure. there is no central "United States culture" to even change, it just doesn't exist. There Is No Spanishness Office.
• [S2] There is no Spanishness Office -> the concept that culture cannot be changed through any deliberate effort, even by most movements. one could believe there is no Spanishness Office because culture is defined by the borders between populations, or because culture is produced through deterministic factors that individual will can't successfully pilot without a thorough science of society, or for any other number of reasons.
• [S2] City center equals city -> interesting claim made in urban planning discussions by people from Europe. I don't have anything against this idea nor am I making fun of it. at the same time, I have no real idea if it's true or not. each time you show people one of these claims that suburbs are a disaster you get a variety of responses that amounts to people having gone to exactly where they wanted to be individually unless they were physically or financially incapable — you know, primitive Existentialism.
• [S2] Animal testing can end if the right humans buy the labs -> I watched this supposedly inspiring video about rescuing lab cats. [54] the beginning of the narrative was that lab cats are being tortured — they are raised to trust humans, then they are put in their cages with insufficient food and no enrichment, and you can say that because their life is engineered for suffering they learn to comply. sounds uncomfortably familiar; I swear the whole concept of Lacanian discipline and great portions of Existentialism is just this. but at the end of the narrative, the only way to save those cats was for people to pool together some money and buy the building. the cats never cease to be treated as objects, the objects just change hands. and I think that reveals a lot about modern industrial societies. "Filament of people conquer space and control it" is one of the only things that's worth anything. it solves great abuses, after also having created them. how different are collections of workers serving built-up Audiences from collections of lab cats? how do we know when a protest is meaningful versus when people are just chunk-competing over an area meaninglessly and different people controlling it won't actually make anything change?
• Everything is made of something / Physics is when everything becomes other stuff / Physics is the study of everything being made of stuff -> the problem of what a black hole is rests on the definition of physics that matter and energy always become something else physical because everything is made of something
• [S2] Waiting for a disclosure of meaning gives the one who discloses it power -> no. just, no. if that were true there couldn't be any identity politics movements, because people really do wait at the door of identity politics to get the answers. identity politics says something, and sometimes people reject it for reasons that aren't easy to fathom logically, but if it does catch on, then people just swallow it without questioning it no matter how out-there a particular philosophical justification sounds. whether that's a good or a bad thing doesn't matter, what matters is in real life things work that way. and when that's the case, believing this will create a bunch of reactionaries who are all like, I'd rather not wait for a disclosure of meaning from The Left, I'll just make my own bogus definitions of things instead. (Butler)
• [S2] Destroying signs is no triumph because anyone can do it / Destroying signs means nothing because anyone can do it / Anyone can destroy a sign / There is no real triumph in deconstructing signs because anyone can do it -> literally every reactionary claims that progressive ontologies are becoming the new entrenched signs that have to be destroyed or picked apart. that's like, one of the basic axioms for how reactionaries exist. you have to settle onto some things being true, or else reactionaries will try to claim power and replace other ontologies with their ontologies whenever it's possible for them to do that. the only real way to get out of all this is to go one step higher than poststructuralism and do meta-ontology, presuming that all arrangements of signs "exist" and can be compared to find the points at which they overlap and maintaining "sign power" isn't necessary. I don't fully know yet how that fixes racism, but I've got a fairly good idea how that unites Stalin and Trotsky, or Existentialism and Marxism. there's no huge distinction between sociophilosophy and culture that makes one not the other, so there probably is a way.
• [S0] constantly-changing empty vessel -> one of the first totally abstract concepts I'm willing to make an Item without a real or fictional referent. this pattern is solid enough it's worth noting. it can be used to define class territories. it can be used to define The Subject. it can be used to define entrenched signs, apparently. but there are two major feelings about it: A) plurality of these things is frustrating and inherently causes problems as they collide, leading to some change good or bad whether we like it or not B) plurality of these things is easy to control with enough "ought" statements.
• [ES] [S2] The postcolonial project is about constantly smashing signs / Colonial Racism exists within the inability to smash existing signs -> this.... hmm. I don't know whether I feel positively or negatively about it. I think it is true that ontologies can always make errors, and we need the ability to pick incorrect ontologies apart to properly investigate the world and learn what is accurate in a scientific sense. but I have never really liked the notion that signs are an inherent form of power. it takes some unpacking. I have argued that Lacanian discipline is bogus because people can oppressively teach each other the wrong things. but is that all because of signs, rather than people? I'm not sure I'd say that. my thoughts right now are, the video I watched said that letting signs be is allowing metaphysical divisions of reality into arbitrary elements. which I half agree with. but then it said that the notion of breaking up sign monopolies is defeating metaphysics. and I feel like there's an error there. whenever we try to think that power is a deliberate thing somebody grabs and choppify things or push individuals back to stop power grabs and push the world into "balance", I feel like that's the moment we truly construct metaphysics. metaphysics lies not in the construction of specific categories but in the sheer false idea the world can be in perfect balance when it is always growing and changing. modern metaphysics is an empty vessel. a perfectly-balanced wheel of constantly-changing empty vessels that can grow and change and deconstruct themselves but are always in conflict, always hating each other, always trying to smash each other to break each other's power and then accusing each other of being the real power-grabbers. that's what metaphysics is now, not the content.
• [MDem] [S2] A language is only bisimilar to reality as a whole -> important counterargument to the notion that language does not refer to reality. it does, and it does it almost the way a sign refers to a signified. but only the whole language at once does that. inside the language, terms only refer to other terms. then the whole language serves as a model for the whole reality in a bisimilarity relation.
• [ES/MDem] [S2] Terms gain meaning from relationships to other terms / Signifiers gain meaning from their relationship to other signifiers -> Saussure. solid hit, home run. should be part of Marxism. what people don't realize is this is because language comes from physics. physics has relationships between things first and then language has them because it is trying to model and mirror and explain physics — or whatever material process it is trying to explain. networks of objects come first, then language and perception come second. this is Hyper-Materialism.
• [ES] [S2] Nobody can perceive reality through anything except models / We can never understand reality without using models -> this one... I wouldn't say it's false, it's probably true, but oh boy it's not my favorite. sure, we need to be aware of the plurality of philosophies each perceiving the world through themselves. but I think meta-philosophy is totally possible. I think it's totally possible to step outside philosophies for a moment to actually compare them and ask where they came from. we will easily make errors in the way we do it, but I don't think all philosophy is doomed to be fully locked inside models and effectively inside prejudices such that it is constantly eating itself. I think people primarily think it is because they do not have consciousness of the material phenomena of graph struggle and chunk competition. if they did, they'd realize how silly this all is. they'd go, oh god, why were we promoting philosophies that ask everyone to fight and kill each other as nicely as possible instead of asking how to turn around and become the puppetmasters of chunk competition. why were we doing any of this when we could have stopped what generates prejudice at the source.
• [ES] [S2] Human language is rooted in Lived Experiences / "language is rooted in human experience and relationships" -> no. no. human language is rooted in the fact humans belong to social networks. graphs. language has networks and humans have networks and when you are part of a sea of free-floating entities you must physically obtain information about that system while inside it. that is Einstein's theory of relativity. a camera can do relativity just by being physical and being part of the world as it takes a picture. it doesn't have much to do with human "experience". we could all be philosophical zombies and still have language. in certain limited senses, The Subject is a machine and relativity is a piece of the machine.
• [S2] Balancing a fictional universe requires understanding its physics -> the proposition or approach that different characters, etc, with different talents should actually "play" fundamentally differently in ways that would change the structure of the game or narrative. Adventure Time giving its moments to BMO and Ice King near the end, good. Angry Birds movie suggesting that success is purely about trying hard, bad. it's like, the reason so many authors are bad at balancing things correctly is our aversion to historical materialism and the notion that history is based on physics and you get particular paths through understanding each kind of physics.
• [S2] Science turns The Subject into an object but philosophy doesn't -> I genuinely don't think this is true. I really feel like philosophy does turn Subjects into objects if it's doing its job. what does it mean to turn something into an object? it means studying the pieces or processes that compose it and comprehending it as a physical thing. reductionism in the ontology sense: reducing things into a graph of sign equations, an ontology which is plural and not definitive but may go part of the way to explaining how something works.
• [ES] [S2] Humanist theories squash The Subject under prejudice / Subject theories are bad because they do too much prejudiced Subject-squashing / Humanist obsession with The Subject is bad because it has too many prejudices -> not making this up, really saw this one. possibly the most Existentialist criticism of Existentialism that I've ever seen. why does nobody ever ever ask if theories centered around prejudice are a prejudice? anyway. I think this highlights some kind of major division inside Existentialism. should I divide Existentialism into humanist periods and... prejudice-obsessed periods?? I still don't quite understand. I study and read and study and read and I still never understand what's going on. trying to understand where the hell these modern prejudice philosophies come from feels like Simon researching the ice crown and turning into an idiot and being stuck there forever.
• [S2] Ice King fits the mountain sage archetype / Ice King is a sen'nin character -> this is a joke proposition but I think it's fun. like when you really think about it is there a good way to separate mountain sage, wizard, and fantasy alchemist? I feel like those three things kind of merge together the way draconic creatures merge together and turn into one big umbrella of dragons. as for the fact Ice King kidnaps princesses... no comment. that's become associated with the more atheist yet unserious definition of mountain sages, but yeah, no comment. this is more about the archeology and immortality stuff.
• kimba -> lion king, lion guard -> bravelands -> my pride
• [S2] the major split between the concepts of "liberal/Liberalism" and "liberal/liberalization" is whether people are shameless Existentialists -> I have never seen anybody else say this, even considering that they wouldn't use my fancy new word "Existentialists". it's almost like everybody is too trapped in this way of thinking to even notice they're doing it. but here's what it is: people become convinced the stuff in the United States constitution is created anarchically as a thing that is followed by every individual making every other individual do it because they are human individuals. that the United States constitution is like a bible. that if there was no United States government and no elections the constitution would still be true. and in practice that isn't really the case. no individual honors freedom of speech and no church honors freedom of religion. those things are only reliably done by governments because governments contain multiple subpopulations and have to represent all plural subpopulations. the people who speak of "liberalism" and "liberalization" as synonyms are the ones who believe that processes inside social graphs create democracy rather than democracy actually being government and existing in the form of republics — that democracy equals democulture.
• [MDem] [S2] The main problem with social structures is people are bad at results / Capitalism sucks because people are bad at doing things / Bureaucracy is maddening because people are bad at doing things -> this one needs a little explaining but is very important. ever felt when going through some kind of paperwork process that nothing makes sense, the whole thing is undesigned, and everything is all just a bunch of drifting humans going in every direction that have no idea what they're doing or how to do what you need them to do? that may be literally what's happening. there is a conflict between the fact we need to rely on other people to do things, materially, not just because we "desire things in the Other" psychologically, but because we really can't do everything ourselves and other people really have to do it, this and the fact that in reality other people are just people and often have trouble actually doing the things we need them to do. every time any individual or group of people ever tries to do anything ever there is a complicated tug-of-war between whether it's worse to take on too much ourselves and not trust anyone, or worse to trust other people who may be too imperfect to actually do what we need them to. practically no period of Existentialism ever gets this concept right. it always seems to devolve into these really weird ego-based statements that "you can't rely on others in order to function and grow as you, you have to trust others in order to function and grow as you, impossible contradictions always totally make sense if everybody just wills them to enough". that is not an answer. that is not a model. that is a bunch of mystical nonsense. individual psychology does not get us to dipsychology.
• [S2] Unending happiness simply does not exist / Unending happiness is not a thing / The concept of unending happiness cannot be resolved into a real-world problem -> an important dimension to "utopias" that I never see discussed. if something doesn't actually exist, then people are going to read it as a metaphor even if it isn't, just to have an opinion about it. the human brain chunks models of reality inside visual signifiers, and when people see an imaginary thing they search for the real-world image that matches it and start interpreting it that way. this is how you get the speedrunning guy seeing the image of speedrunning, looking up his mental image of "seeking shortcuts to success", and getting upset. what I never see when someone discusses "utopias" is the recognition that people are doing this. I never see people consciously listing out all the internal real-world signifiers that they think utopia actually means. the... bisimilarands? the analogy targets? the Z Items to the S Items, anyway. one possible "bisimilarand" is addiction. one is imperialism, as shown in the Winter King episode: a population that oppresses another has a much easier time. one is national independence: it is easy to accuse postcolonial Anarchists of "utopia", but they really just want some kind of independent population. all of these "bisimilarands" are very different, and which one you think of is based on your model of society, your social-political-economic ideology. the problem happens when people assume a particular pathway of signifier-bisimilarand-mechanics simply is what something is across fiction and mythology and real life. in one sense, fiction is how we all share and agree on misinformation without realizing that's what we're doing. and this is really popular for Existentialists to do. to assume that particular works of fiction are portraying such things as The Subject exactly the way they work in real life, when necessarily they all come from generalizations and assumptions. fiction argues about "unending happiness". but such a thing is complete nonsense. like, so nonsensical that even speaking of it hypothetically is hard because you have to suspend several things about reality and effectively make up fake prejudices about which real-world things you don't believe in. so what is fiction really arguing about if the thing it's arguing about doesn't exist? it's arguing about prejudices and which sets of prejudices people think are the better prejudices when literally speaking all of them are wrong.
• [S2] People form opinions on fiction by assigning fictional images to real-life targets
• [S2] Any wholly made-up thing will get read as a metaphor / If something is wholly made up, viewers will read it as a metaphor
• "when you're infected you don't want others to get a choice" -> I swear I have heard people say this about Communism. because their bisimilarity process was Communism -> unending happiness -> imperialism, or something vaguely like that. when the process should be more like Communism -> proletarian Social-Philosophical System -> republic. like, the reality is almost boring compared with the fictional misinformation. you could look at it a bit deeper and uncover the potential problems. Communism is bisimilar to proletarian SPS realizes mechanics of republic realizes mechanics of Dark Rhizome is bisimilar to assimilation.
• [S2] The Candy Kingdom is a superstructural fantasy world -> not sure if this is literally true or just a misdirect but it sure is a theory now. there's something to how Fionna and Cake were considered a story in the Ice King universe, but the Candy Kingdom is a story in the Simon universe. do we have a circular Deltarune going on? did Prismo make each universe make up the other universes? it is so interesting that only certain very specific parts of each world become stories. Fionna & Cake e6
• [S] non-magical magic creatures -> somehow Fionna and Cake and Deltarune are like the exact same genre of thing. Fionna and Cake is exactly the Deltarune of Adventure Time
• [S] trouble in the bazaar -> literal scenario. when there is an open-air marketplace and somebody absolutely screws it up and gets in trouble. Fionna and Cake ep 3, Wings of Fire the book with Possibility in it
• [S] worker less welcome than mouse / microaggression against worker's existence (in fiction) -> fionna and cake e1. very interesting episode because at this point we have already had two microaggressions that workers aren't good enough at arbitrary job tasks to belong in their city. this is just it. most capitalism isn't a well-established set of factory procedures workers just need to take over, it's an absolutely floundering mess where nobody knows how to keep businesses in existence but owners and certain subsets of immediately-appointed managers decide to believe there's a right way to exist and harass people about whether they're being people good enough and gradually kick them out of the city if they aren't. capitalism is individuals or tiny groups of individuals exerting their will over spatial territories and then existing and living and multiplying and inviting friends and acting really offended like that existence level of things is being challenged if anything about the person's act of exerting will over the territory and controlling every object in it is challenged. jobs are like this. people treat houses like this. it's a nightmare. it's a mess. at its heart, it's every person behaving like a separate population and slowly expanding as if nothing else exists while there is absolutely not enough space for that to not cause conflict. chunk competition.
• [MDem] [S2] "Is", "can", and "should" are different things -> a three-way is-ought distinction. first is everything that is exactly as it is, second is what can and will be, the alternate normals at various levels of functional and dysfunctional, third is what you want to happen but has no existing mechanism of happening. practically nobody these days understands the difference between the latter two. and there's a good reason: everybody tries to define Can and Should through specific ideologies that amount to specific Social-Philosophical-Material Systems. and when two people belong to different sociophilosophies they don't predict each other correctly because they each use their own. they each toss out "I believe that everybody" statements that just plain aren't happening, because they think that Should equals Can.
• [MDem] [S2] "Symbolic castration" is the same as "inauthenticity" -> this is my biggest problem with Žižek. this utter paradox right here. he is totally sure that the Lacanian model of human development is correct, including forming models of parents to one day become a parent (The Father) and symbolic castration. but then he complains about inauthenticity and Liberal capitalist society forcing people into the inauthentic. the more I look into all this, the more I can't see a difference. I think by any reasonable definition, every single time Liberalism or capitalism makes people chop off part of themselves and fit into it is the same as symbolic castration. I think he is complaining about his own system. which is kind of funny — Žižek is a Zinovievist Trotskyite, while one of Trotsky's biggest problems was projecting onto Stalin the things that Trotsky does, effectively making "Leninism" into this weird never-ending cycle of deciding you don't like Leninism and exploding it to create Leninism that somebody else inside it then explodes again.
• [S] confusing the problem with the solution -> I'll think of a catchy trope name for this later. the thing that Trotsky and Žižek do, as well as Deleuze & Guattari. fighting fire with fire + phenomenology?? = this
• [S2] The world goes on after any particular character narrative -> beautiful trope but has some nasty implications when you ask what influenced it. I like the authenticity of Adventure Time having historical periods that don't have to connect to each other, and a potentially infinite number of historical periods; there's a great poetry to that at the same time there's a certain kind of realism. what I don't like is how it comes down into any particular set of present events. it makes it feel like it's unimportant to have morality because if having patience and surviving things can fix anything, why bother to get other people to be moral instead of holing up in an ice cocoon? you can say that it's possible to accept just anything that happens because you can't control it, but there are some things that really are bad. people being isolated from each other like Simon and Betty really is bad. the collapse of society into warring states or world war really is bad because it doesn't stop the same cycle from happening again. and just walking away from the notion that some things really are bad feels like abdicating the responsibility to make history go the right way.
• [S] the impending horror of history -> important thought relating to Ironblood series concept, but seen in many existing works. "Come along with me" is a great example.
• stopping wars with psychoanalysis -> I do not like how this is similar to real actual psychoanalytic theories. it's like. sometimes I sit back and ask myself, am I imagining this whole Existentialist-Structuralist tradition thing? could it be that Lacanianism isn't actually the same thing as early-existentialism? and then I see this garbage. and I'm like. oh god.... Lacanianism says we cause trouble for each other because we individually have fake ideas about reality that need to be cut off. symbolic castration / discipline. schizoanalysis basically says that democulture is the mechanism that cuts off fake ideas and is the rationale for Liberal republics. postcolonial theories say everything is due to prejudices. Lacanianism is talking about prejudices too. it's saying all our fake ideas about reality and refusals to compromise are prejudices. that's what it's really doing. and I hate it. because it diminishes the reality of beliefs and philosophies as actual matters of identity and experience that people truly live their lives by, kinda treating people as mere instruments in a way, mere instruments of building an empire of people who miraculously guess the correct way to behave for people to get along, and haven't even thought it through to figure it out, who have all just been beaten into place like cattle. all the individuals or countable Cultures or ideologies are the instruments and the Liberal republic experts just own them all, like a capitalist owns a group of workers and makes them behave a certain way for their place of work to exist. if the Existentialist-Structuralist tradition were true then Liberalism would be a scam, and it would be a scam. it's a lot better for everyone in it if it's not true, because then nobody can come label them an evil conspiracy to turn countries into oligarchy. when you think about it, there's a fine line between scams and incorrect theories of society. if people don't know they can be forgiven, but if they do know they're labeled conspirators, con men, or any number of uglier names. (adventure time season 10 episode 13-16)
• [S2] A scammer differs from an incorrect hypothesis in that the scammer knows / The difference between an incorrect hypothesis and a con man is the con man knows -> ties back to "corporations are the prediction of history". in a sense, a scammer is just a bad, fake oracle in a world where history actually can be predicted.
• [S] grayble -> a specific kind of short story which has a theme in the sense of a writing prompt but is mistaken for having symbolism or lessons when it may not really have those. graybles sound infuriating but in my mind are actually pretty respectable. you'd think, when I get mad at Existentialism so often, that I'd hate the idea. but I don't. the notion of graybles expresses itself as Adventure Time goes on through the art of making a stupid meaningless story and then explicitly being aware of that and pointing it out with unnecessarily thoughtful philosophy. and I actually like that, even as some people seem to have not understood it and hated it. it cements that the "stupid" nature of Adventure Time plots as a stylization and not something the authors do because they're bad at writing actually-good narratives, or because they're useful idiots to Liberalism/capitalism/Existentialism (although there could be a bit to unpack with that last one of the three) and make misinforming narratives because it socially supports them and pays them to.
• grayble foreshadowing -> when a lot of people in the audience mistake simple foreshadowing of a fictional historical event for meaningful symbolism, either unintentionally or as the author intends. I didn't really get the joke behind the graybles until seasons 8-10 when I fully identified grayble foreshadowing that was very confusable for a message about character development and was like. ah. I see it now. I think there is also a lot of grayble foreshadowing in FNaF. people genuinely take some of the clues as symbolic when they truly only refer to characters or processes or things in a superficial visual kind of way. one thing I think isn't true is that grayble foreshadowing is exactly the same as Chekov's gun, because grayble foreshadowing seems to be a statement about history in the sense of the history of fictional worlds or the history of fictional characters' lives. grayble foreshadowing is a statement that somewhat-arbitrary things drive history within fiction, but it's still history.

• [S] "Beauty is in the hard work itself and the, oftentimes false, sense of purpose we feel when doing it. It's a fleeting sensation that drives us to repeat our actions in order to capture it again" -> I get that this was used as a joke like it isn't actually as deep as it thinks it is — props to adventure time on that — but also who originally wrote this and why would they think this. this only intuitively applies to art. many things do have literal uses, and our failure to build onto the same literal uses drives a lot of unnecessary conflict in society. (adventure time s10: "diamonds and lemons")
• [S] "The only friend I have is violence!" -> Adventure Time s9 e7, Dragon Ball
• [Z] Wackytown, or, every kids' movie ever (2017 video) [55]
• [S2] The four elements lived in harmony until the fire nation attacked -> Avatar: The Last Airbender, Adventure Time, Pokémon, Wings of Fire
• [S2] The four elements were never in harmony -> one of those lines from 4.3 that I really liked but didn't think was profound, until. until I realized that fantasy stories almost always use elements to argue this really medieval way of thinking that empire can be stopped with metaphysics, and kingdoms will never conquer each other if they just try really hard to Exist In Moderation. that is not a thing. the opposite of it is not a thing either. it's one of those stupid instances of making up a slider and trying to find the made-up middle.
• "sit tight like a windowpane, and you'll be back to normal" (Adventure Time s9 e2) -> dystopian setting where there is no particular kind of oppression, everything is simply off and everyone acts like it's normal. this is one of the only kinds of civilizational horror stories I actually like. because it never actually brings in any kind of underlying assertion of the way things should be that you have to tease out to figure out how to interpret it, and which can take a long time to interpret properly. instead it's just like, everyone is much too cool with this and we have absolutely no idea what to do. there is a certain kind of created awe within it which by itself makes it compelling, akin to a good fae story, cosmic horror, etc. Adventure Time s9 e2, The Shuteyes
• Adventure Time s9 e2 - magic as bending the world to one's will. unfortunately PB becomes this
• [S2] Every single wrong choice an individual has ever made is due to prejudice / Every single wrong thing an individual has ever done is due to prejudice -> I hated this idea until the day I put up this wiki and came up with the notion of F2 Statements or wording wrong things really confidently. and now it's just funny. I don't think most people take the proposition quite this far. I think you'd have to make the propositions people actually use subsets of this, and I think it's the notion of making it completely absolute that's funny. but just imagine. some random Dave Andrews off in Arizona made a bad desktop application in Rust because he was prejudiced against good programming languages. some Erma Waters over in Newfoundland wrote yet another detective story when nobody needs any more because she was prejudiced against good books. the notion of every single wrong action being a prejudice is quite conceptually funny.
• [S2] If predicting society was impossible, corporations wouldn't exist / If historical materialism was impossible, corporations wouldn't exist
• [S] my flower left me -> AZ. I don't know what this trope means in terms of any other series but I know it already has a great name
• it's possible to have political positions without it being a team sport - no. it's not. chunk competition / CCASH and Social-Philosophical Systems / SPS prohibit that. center-Liberal rationalists are so stupid. you know what the worst thing is? this was used to justify Trotsky in the same sentence. Trotsky violently attacked a republic. I mean, what else do you term an assassination? anybody who doesn't realize hegemony politics currently exists (even if it's not a good thing) and treat it as if it exists is just, hanging out feeling like they owe nothing to a population continuing to exist and it's okay to let every other individual die except maybe a couple friendly businesses they buy things from if current policies benefit their own business. when you refuse to play "team sports" whole nationalities and ethnicities of people cease to be because all the people in them scatter to different capitalist cities. only a few things are more prejudiced than that. every population is based on a molecularized yet competitive process of people building populational structures through free association that at times harm each other and exist in mutual exclusion. you can't just "criticize" these without understanding their physical interaction and the fact that some of them have to be treated as correct and some as incorrect. correct structures bring down regulations on incorrect structures. this is the basis of Liberal democracy. SPS-based democulture. if one person standing by and writing a bunch of Zinovievism could change the world just because they had "good ideas" there would be no need for elections.
• it's possible to be anticommunist without being racist - no. it's not.
• you're not allowed to be prejudiced against people who have slaughtered other groups of people
• prejudice is the ultimate sin
• adventure vs daily life - in AT, weirdly. s8 e27

• [S] cultural exchange -> the concept itself, without value judgements about "Existentialists thinking it will magically fix everything". Take It Seriously.
• [ES] [S2] The world needs adventurers to keep culture from stagnating -> Dragon Ball, Adventure Time season 8. there may be a kernel of truth to this in that when different populations interact they learn things, at the very least about the existence of other populations. that said, wow. it's really blown out of proportion how helpful seeing other places actually is. if things are bad at home you won't really find the holy grail somewhere else. your people will still need you to apply the knowledge you find. and as the centuries have gone on, people don't really come back to the places that need them the most, it's just turned into permanent migration out of unsuccessful places to successful places. we really need to talk about the fact that neither Goku nor Finn wants to come home to share their knowledge, both cases begin with assuming home is too far gone, and you can only be a hero through never coming back. (I think I already know what the Existentialists will say. they'll try to claim I'm turning this into a case of "Rudolph was useful". but it's not me doing it. it's the fact people are physical and there are real solutions to real material problems below the level of "discovering better culture". I also know why people make this error. they can't see that any nice group of friends is just a graph and any case of "cultural exchange" is just making the graph bigger. sometimes bigger graphs become easier to operate without becoming more efficient, but they also become more capable of oppressing anybody who actually believes in improving the structure of the graphs. really unfortunate when it comes to worldwide shipping and climate change.)

• [S2] "It's your responsibility to help these misguided Hiders" (Adventure Time season 8 episode 24 "Hide and Seek") -> in just 11 minutes, this episode has so many accidental things to say about dystopian literature and anticommunist fables. one, anomalous societies are bad because they don't allow arbitrary individuals to split off and form another Culture. there is a notion created here of Culture-monopoly. two, some anomalous societies are formed as a matter of group cohesion to make sure everyone survives. this.... is one of the most accurate things a dystopian narrative has ever said, because it's the only anticommunist accusation that's actually just a true fact said in the wrong tone. yes, it is true that North Korea, early China, the Soviet Union, and kinda most workers' states really, formed to make sure people survived, and captured people into party-nations for that purpose. that's actually true. you usually have to read a bunch of Marxist texts to find that out, because most accounts of Third World countries are so stupid they don't even mention that. three. there is such a strange notion in fiction of populational creationism where populations really are made out of culture and they just culture culture culture every day to produce people, rather than people producing culture. thus, the anomalous society made out of one big blob of culture with a bunch of people skewered on top has to capture people back into culture. it's like a parasite, it's gotta get its hosts back. which leads to.... four. if culture shouldn't be capturing people, then Rhizome has inherent potential for oppression. you can't tell me Rhizome is a model of movements and it models this special movement thing people do for a moment and then stop doing. people are physical things and if Rhizome is actually going to change their minds then there's a form of Rhizome when it's expanding and flipping people over and another resting form when it's done. that resting form is the Social-Philosophical System, the loosely-linked network of people that in their daily lives all support anti-racism or whatever the movement is. that's what has to form for people to actually go vote and get other people to vote. but according to this Adventure Time episode resting Rhizome is bad, because all humans have times where they want to break out of an SPS even if its ideas are correct. this episode seems to think that all populations are Cultures and all populations can be bad anomalous Cultures from somebody's point of view leading them to break out of the population and call it dystopian. we'd better think about that kind of thing when we're trying to ask what creates Tories.
• [M3] "In what way isn't a crab a robot? ... I don't understand why BMO's not a crab" -> finally, we get to the real meat of a philosophy encyclopedia: the totally useless questions that still might somehow teach you something. (Adventure Time season 8 episode 22)
• [S2] Fern trying to be Finn is like Finn trying to be a doctor -> a really weird metaphor. it absolutely shouldn't be true, which of course is why it's funny. there really is a correct way to do medicine. but the episode proposes a world where medicine quite literally works like Existentialism (adventure time season 8, episode 15)
• [ML] [S2] Men enter into definite relations not of their choosing -> one of the big problems within Marxism these days is Existentialists do not believe this. Existentialists, the majority of all people, instead believe that every relationship is a choice, and every change in relationships is a matter of Free Will. the important consequence is that Existentialists rely on people finding okay bosses versus terrible bosses and okay landlords versus terrible landlords and okay towns to work in versus terrible towns as an important part of the process of building progressivism. Deleuze & Guattari and the notion of "lines of flight" or "rearranging bodies/machines" — this is what is meant by all that
• [S] Q?977 your friend and the windmill disappeared -> one of the most iconic pieces of imagery in Petscop. somewhat related to "the door that never opened"
• [S2] All magic is is scientific principles presented like mysticism / "All magic is is scientific principles presented like mystical hoodoo" -> one of my favorite ideas ever said in Adventure Time, which is a complete mindfuck if you think about it yet is thrown in there totally offhand. Adventure Time can't be a science fiction universe due to things like Jake spontaneously reimagining significant parts of the world. but if you take the alternate timeline where those episodes aren't true and this one is, it's one of the most single most interesting questions. if magic isn't magic then what is it? clearly, it has to be a new form of physics that doesn't exist in the real world but does exist in the fictional world. a simple set of fundamental rules complete with equations. and to some degree, isn't that observably the case? in a Pokémon game, there is an equation that damage equals base damage times type matchup multiplier. that is a physics equation. it doesn't tell us very closely about how the world works underneath, but neither do a lot of real-world physics equations! until quantum mechanics a whole lot of processes and mathematical information about them were left out. a concrete equation about how something repeatedly behaves is a physics equation. the only way out of that is to invent the term "metaphysics equation".
• [S] magic man (Adventure Time) - incidentally resembles - Slavoj Žižek - metric - disregarding what is normal
• [mdem] [F2] Each quark is constantly popping in and out of solidity, thus there is no matter -> joking analogy for what Existentialism has done to the analysis of societies.
• series of events which is hypothetical inside fiction
• [S] advancement (virtual pets or characters) / progression (virtual pets) / evolution (Pokémon)
• [S] level-up evolution
• [Z] Large Hadron Collider
• [Z] IceCube neutrino detector -> I've mentioned both of these facilities about twice or three times in MDem drafts. time to add them.
• [mdem] [S2] Empathy is an act of science -> empathy is an act of deliberately understanding something from the outside in when it was not previously understood because that knowledge was not had. in contrast to the notion that empathy is this, like, faster-than-light telepathic process where people instantly know the inaccessible facts of another person's existence just because they are both The Subject, and you're practically not allowed to ask any questions about how people are the way they are because it would undermine the power of the fact They Just Are and have the power to out-exist you out of reality if you make them mad
• [S2] Liberal capitalism produces philosophy describing Liberal capitalism as it is Ontology:Q2101
• [S2] every Social-Philosophical System mostly produces philosophy describing the SPS as it is, and not as it isn't Ontology:Q2101
• [S2] proletarian subpopulation can burst a capitalist SPS Ontology:Q2101
• [S2] proletarian subpopulation will produce philosophy describing the SPS as it is Ontology:Q2101
• [S2] proletarian subpopulation can be constructed around the same theory that it would later produce if that theory can be preemptively discovered Ontology:Q2101
• [S2] whenever somebody belongs to a marginalized or imperialized group their current position compounds on any effort to get out of it / Frantz Fanon conjecture -> this guy has been used to argue "prejudices" and the notion that colonialism is in our heads, but if you look at what he's actually describing it would seem it's true. [56] I think it isn't too hard to formalize this into a mathematical theory of Populationism or Everybodyism
• [S2] Buffer states always get invaded anyway -> a claim on the Wikipedia article I couldn't agree with more.
• [S2] You can't build Zinovievism in one country / Rhizome requires a global momement just like early Trotskyism -> only when writing a new B-side chapter where the speaker totally believes in Rhizome did I finally realize that the standard version of Rhizome + Multitude theories + scraps of Liberalism was actually rather similar to a world Zinovievism only actually having a little bit of internal content this time, and attempting to be more elaborate and improved
• [S] built on the ashes of fae bones -> Wings of Fire Pantala arc; SCP-001 The Queen's Gambit; "pignite" tale. I have a lot of scattered thoughts about this but it isn't productive to put them here. I have dumped them on the "4.4/sundew" entry.
• put bootleg names on db characters
• [S] SCP foundation database -> runs narratively parallel to: Pokédex. it killed me when a commenter on an audiobook said "the SCP Foundation is just playing Pokémon on impossible difficulty". yeah, sure, I mean, they both have a serialized index of things
• [S] D-class benjamin whatsisname [57]: runs narratively parallel to - Kris Dreemur - reason - possessed by player in occult ritual
• [S] There is zero difference between good and bad things actually -> this should be considered the quote or comic, not the actual statement. this was a @dril tweet apparently. [58]
• [S2] There is zero difference between good and bad things -> this one is the statement itself as a claim. there is probably a Nietzsche / BGE quote I don't currently know that applies?
• [Z] SCP-8000 - example of: careerism in fiction; references the 001 proposal with the mallet guy. features signifier: Ghost of Individualities Future
• [S] physically slaying one's inner child -> Giggleland ep 2, Fatum Betula. I think there's something to be said about the vague analogy between cartoon furries slaying their inner child in Giggleland and the myth of the lion turning against the lamb in Pitch haven / other works like Kimba, Beastars, and Zootopia

• Don't talk about politics (Sarah Stein Lubrano) -> field: center-Liberal books that make entirely too much sense
• I am the Cheese (Cormier 1977) -> weird precursor to SCP reports
• Animorphs: The Ellimist Chronicles (2000)
• Dactyl Hill Squad (Older 2018)
• The New Prophecy: Twilight (vol.5; Warriors)
• The Darkest Hour (vol.6; Warriors)
• Stealing Home: The Story of Jackie Robinson (Denenberg 1990)
• The Age of Zeus (2010)
• Alchemy and Academe (McCaffrey 1970)
• Decision at Doona (McCaffrey 1969)
• Crisis on Doona (McCaffrey 1992)
• Treaty at Doona (McCaffrey 1994)
• Outcast of Redwall (McCaffrey 1995/1996)
• Wings of Fire (Todd 1998)
• Riding Freedom (1998)
• Winterkill (2022)
• The Guardian Herd: Starfire (2014)
• A Month of Sundays (2024)
• When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times (1997)
• The Quality of Life (1970)
• Orthodoxy (Chesterton 1908) -> some Christians think this is a profound work of general-sense philosophy, apparently. I have no idea if it is or not. I suspect it's not.
• Beyond Good and Evil (Nietzsche 1886/1913)
• The Capitalist Unconscious (Tomšič 2015) [59] -> part of a certain localized underground effort to attempt to explain away all Marxism and Liberalism through molecularized or atomized Lacanianism. I cannot stand this bullcrap. I have so much other stuff to read that's actually good in some way and you throw this shit at me. deliberate Existentialism gets more swearwords out of me than almost anything because there are almost no words in human language for how stupid this is, there is basically nothing else to say. anyway. this is not really a conspiracy or anything, it's just a very very stupid trend that has been slowly hatching itself as everything in First World countries resembling Marxism has squashed and degraded into these bizarre attempts to construe everything through themes of "free will" and "prejudice". like, when I say everything I mean everything. I don't mean people saying "racism is more prominent than capitalist abuse". I mean "resistance to questioning capitalism is literally a prejudice", "resistance to Menshevism is literally a prejudice against empathy for the poor", and Lacanians in particular trying to conceptualize every case of somebody not taking an action and not supporting a progressive movement as a prejudice, like every single thing wrong in the world ever is a prejudice. I cannot stand this. things have to be physical at some point. there has to be some physical object we are or process we are doing that we aren't conscious of the workings of, and some other process whose workings we could replicate instead, or else we'll never become conscious we're doing things wrong. if every wrong thing in the world is a prejudice including capitalism and imperialism, then none of us have human rights just because we're The Subject, because anything about our existence and identity and expression could contain prejudices that have to be smashed away, and thus existence doesn't equal freedom, existence equals inherent un-freedom and mutual exclusion between some identities and localized "cultures". Lacanians can't even agree with themselves, because some of them seem to believe in intersubjectivity / the Shenlong effect and some of them believe Subjects are uncontrollable, which would mean that calling things prejudices or using psychoanalysis on them is useless because the separation or joining between people or groups controls everything and history is all about populational structure. which ironically is almost getting back to historical materialism. so, I've come to halfway like the uncontrollable Subject model because if you're not a Lacanian it does seem fixable.
• [S2] Profit is basically Muten Rōshi -> I gotta admit I don't fully understand Lacanianism, thanks to all the absolute spaghetti every book or talk on it hits you with and makes you decode, but what is this. they make such strange models of things. we're beginning with symbolic castration or Lacanian discipline, where people in incomplete stages of growth form incorrect ideas about being an adult / Father and when people interact with others the incorrect ideas have to be cut off. also known as "desire", also known as "a". then we are throwing in jouissance or climax. the point of that is that to cross people's boundaries you have to do it the right way, and if people try to get there without going the right way, without seeking to know and understand the workings of the person, they get in trouble, and people forcefully teach them the rules of engagement with either that person or society. many kinds of addictions can be taken as crossing boundaries in a different sense, trying to skip to satisfaction without going through the material route that actually produces it. but the Lacanians say that profit is some kind of improper crossing of boundaries or something. whose boundaries? the boundaries of perfectly-shaped "degrowth" growth? the worker's boundaries? the figurative boundary between doing "real" things that are satisfying and becoming obsessed with profit?
• [ES] [S2] Addiction results when we misplace the journey and skip to the end / Addiction results when we skip over discovering the correct path through something and skip to the end -> this is probably what the speedrunning guy actually meant. but it was still a really stupid way to apply it. the speedrunning guy seems to believe that only chunk competition and slaughtering other groups of people is the natural way of life that can make us happy, and walking away from that imperative makes us addicted. this is why I don't like Freudian models. because whatever theory of society you have in terms of a Social-Philosophical Bauplan, you're likely to believe your ideology is the only correct way and having any other heretical ideology results in maladaptive escapism or addiction. even Communists fall into this fallacy and don't realize they need to think harder than this. if Trotsky can go around saying Stalin is ignoring the truth just because Stalin's government made his people unhappy, we need to think harder about how anybody actually looks outside any particular Marxism and actually discovers what's true.
• [MDem] [S2] Historical materialism is the opposite of addiction / If addiction results from skipping over boundaries to get to the end, then historical materialism is the opposite of addiction -> the perfect corollary to "surplus jouissance" that no Lacanian would ever think of. if we make ourselves unhappy by convincing ourselves it's easy to be happy by skipping to the reward and not considering the proper way to get there... is it not also true that the proper way to get anywhere is dictated by physics and the repeated behaviors of the world, and we can only do things the correct way by understanding the way the world works? if we don't understand how the world really works, then we'll never actually know the correct way to get through boundaries or go through a journey and not merely skip to the end. if we never actually learn the correct way, then getting stuck in addicting patterns or escapism isn't actually anyone's fault, it's just the inevitable outcome. we can't exert our will to do something we don't even know. yet Existentialism also wants to tell us the road ahead is impossible to know. if that's true most of us are slated to be addicts. the great majority of all the content on social platforms about "how society keeps us lazy or distracted" is totally and utterly wrong.

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Critical concepts and best-known countable philosophies

1. process of Being
2. sea of free-floating entities
3. countable entity
4. countable concept
5. countable object
6. spatially-unique object / unique object
7. spacetime-unique event / unique event
8. series of unique events / timeline of unique events
9. series of non-unique events / repeatable historical pattern
10. repeating process
11. material-history -> the series of physical events that defines what any particular object or population is; the topic historical materialism studies
12. set of all objects in material reality / Facticity (MDem)
13. countable graph of people / countable set of connected people / countable community
14. countable body of claims / countable philosophy -> particular list of axioms or beliefs which is to be shared by some particular group of individuals; intended to be used to define the term "Social-Philosophical System"
15. countable philosophical framework / philosophy not considered an ideology
16. countable ideology -> the major difference between a countable philosophical framework and a countable ideology is that a countable ideology can be realized into a new Social-Philosophical-Material System distinguishable from other kinds of societies in a countable way; some kind of "countable Culture" or countable political system with its own individual identity and name (USSR, Spain) as well as perhaps its own repeatable but fully distinguishable category (Marxism, Liberalism) is produced
17. revolutionary event / event which creates new regime with new population structure
18. countable religion or spirituality
19. historical account -> subset of: non-fictional work
20. work -> subset of: countable object
21. non-fictional work -> subset of: work
22. fictional work -> subset of: work
23. mythical or legendary work -> subset of: work
24. religious text -> subset of: mythical or legendary work
25. sign / signifier-signified pair
26. signifier
27. signified
28. signifier equation / sign containing signs
29. ontology / graph of associations / graph made of signifier equations
30. ontological model / model of concept or process / オントロジー
31. [S0] falsifiable model
32. [S0] unfalsifiable model
33. [S0] conspiracy theory / model unsubstantiated by all current knowledge / model proposing hidden individual or group agents with bad motivations
34. [S0] religious cosmology
35. [S0] philosophical metaphysics model
36. [S0] fictional factical system / fictional world or setting rules construct / fictional physics model / video game physics equation
37. [S0] non-fictional physics model
38. [S0] falsified or unsubstantiated physics model
39. [S0] current physics model
40. [S0] ideological nested-graph model / metaphysical society model (Existentialism) / Particle Theory (MDem) / Bauplan (MDem) / Philosophical System (MDem)
41. [S] nihilism
42. early existentialism / existentialism / existence-philosophy / Existenzphilosophie / existentialist tradition
43. [S] absurdism
44. [S0] rationalization for the continued connection of a graph of people / rationalization with a partisan character / rationalization based on existence of in-group separate from out-group
45. [S0] logical proof / proof in mathematics / formal logic argument
46. [S0] philosophical argument or thought experiment
47. [S0] religious apologetic -> subset of: philosophical argument or thought experiment
48. [S0] anecdotal argument / argument from Lived Experience
49. [S0] observation / original research statement with associated nickel Item or link
50. [S0] philosophy or science term
51. [S0] literary motif
52. historical time period
53. historical civilization / unique feudal order / unique dynasty / unique empire / unique republican period
54. unique named relationship / Group Subject (MDem) / relationship / connection / pairing
55. graph theory
56. game theory
57. [S0] social sciences
58. population science
59. mathematics
60. [S0] field of science
61. [S0] life sciences / ecology / biology
62. natural sciences
63. physics
64. astrophysics / physical cosmology
65. quantum physics / quantum mechanics research
66. general relativity
67. special relativity -> subset of: general relativity
68. string theory -> unsubstantiated but awfully neat at the time
69. quantum field theory -> substantiated
70. analytic philosophy
71. [S0] field of study diagramming signs and signifiers / semiotics (generic) / structuralist linguistics (generic) / meta-ontology (generic)
72. phenomenology / Husserl's phenomenology (Existentialism)
73. Existentialist-Structuralist tradition -> note, early-existentialism is already Q42
74. structuralism
75. poststructuralism
76. psychoanalysis / Freudian psychoanalysis (generic) / Lacanian psychoanalysis (generic)
77. schizoanalysis
78. alterity theories / postcolonial theories (theories about how colonialism is a prejudice about a group of people in someone's mind)
79. post-Marxism
80. continental philosophy
81. Materialism
82. [S] mechanical Materialism / mechanical philosophy
83. dialectical materialism / diamat
84. historical materialism / histmat
85. [S] Marxism believing itself to be uncountable / generic Marxism
86. existential materialism / exmat
87. Idealism
88. [S0] named nationalism / named fascism / named Identitarianism / nationalism distinguished into cultural category / uniquely Spanish nationalism / uniquely Japanese nationalism / uniquely United-States nationalism
89. [S0] spacetime-unique ideology / named ideology -> an "S2" style ideology with a definite Particle Theory / Bauplan, or at least a specific series of axioms; an instance of an ideology as opposed to a pure set category having no particular beliefs; in religion, a denominational religion as opposed to an umbrella religious category
90. [S0] named Marxism / Marxism differentiated for country conditions / Marxist sect -> save the concept of named Trotskyisms for the 4000s range
91. [S0] named republicanism which is not Marxism / named Liberalism -> Alexander Hamilton & Thomas Jefferson are examples
92. meta-Marxism
93. [S0] argument for general-sense historical materialism -> argument for the presence of semi-predictable cause and effect in history, for time itself as a physical process made of repeated physical patterns, and for basic kinds of predictable patterns within populations and societies. basic kinds of arguments which do not bring up class subpopulations but can serve as a foundation for these kinds of analyses
94. claim X is a case of Y / claim something is a case of something else
95. claim X is an instance of Y ideology / claim something is an instance of an ideology / claim something is a case of an ideology
96. reactions journal / reactions file / reactions blog / media thoughts journal -> a file or physical page, or series of microblog posts, etc. where you write down your impressions of something either in terms of emotion or some level of analysis of how or why the thing you're looking at is the way it is. apparently this is a big novel concept to some people that they have to learn at school? for me I learned it from people posting reactions to things on Twitter. and then I just started progressively finding deeper insights on things the more of them I did until I eventually turned into a low-tier Marxist theorist. now I've put up this wiki and begun to encourage people to put these things into thesis portals. don't let the grandiose name turn you away, you can make one for all your reactions to cartoons, or anything. a "thesis" on some serious philosophical theory is just what the very top fraction of thesis portals turn into.
97. data Entity / Wikibase Entity
98. meta-philosophy (field)
99. meta-ontology meta-ontology
100. source -> work functioning as ontology example or ontology description for larger work or later work relative to earlier work; ontology graph taking the form of work
101. printed source / text archived online
102. audiovisual source
103. interactive source
104. non-interactive recording of interactive source
105. commentary on interactive source
106. false interactive source -> Petscop, 3D workers' island, Homestuck
107. book / book which exists in print form -> book - conveyed through construction having parts - volume
108. book compilation
108. book in book compilation
109. multi-volume book / multi-volume reference text
110. course textbook / college textbook / grade school textbook
112. book chapter / article compiled in book
113. foreword, preface, or introduction
114. article / short story
115. article serialized in magazine or newspaper
116. article serialized in theoretical journal
117. article serialized on blog or substack
118. article serialized in online archive
119. article on miscellaneous personal homepage
120. article serialized in unknown printed source
121. article or chapter in book compilation
122. article, poem, or story compiled in anthology
123. transcribed speech
124. transcribed interview
125. court transcript
126. bop entry
127. bop scrap
128. bop revision entry
129. unfinished book chapter serialized as bop scrap
130. book chapter serialized as bop scrap
131. nameless publisher / independently published
132. general publishing entity
133. publishing organization / propaganda group
134. academic or theoretical journal
135. online book or article archive / not magazine or journal
136. master's thesis
137. non-serialized comic / graphic novel
138. serialized comic
139. multimedia serialized comic
140. animated series / anime / cartoon
141. song with lyrics
142. poem
143. computer or console game
144. short story
145. novel
146. novel in multi-volume series
147. novel in multi-volume series adapted into comic / Scholastic graphic novel
148. online video
149. YouTube video
150. PeerTube video
151. thing part of finite numbered series of things / thing part of collectors' index -> collectors' indices have serialized parts, similar to episodes or chapters; technically, a wikibase Item is an instance of this
152. citation in local Item / work described in Item -> source - conveyed through model having parts - local Item
153. citation in qualifiers / work described in qualifiers -> source - conveyed through model having parts - set of qualifiers
154. citation in external Item / citation in external wikibase / work described at external data item / work described in wikidata Item
155. citation in external wiki / work described or anchored in external wiki article
156. citation buried in other work / work unknown or unconfirmed but referenced in work -> source - conveyed through model having parts - citation
157. video described in qualifiers -> online video - conveyed through model having parts - work described in qualifiers
158. ??
159. numbered series of things / finite numbered collectors' index of things / spatial map of things where all the things have numbers -> equally applies to an index of TV show episodes, a list of wikidata Items, a list of Pokémon, and the periodic table of elements.
160. serialization unit or unit of work construction / unit of series construction
161. serialized part -> numbered part which is syndicated or expected to release periodically
162. non-serialized part -> discrete part which may be released in an all-at-once or timeless manner
163. volume -> physical printed book, or book-sized division
164. chapter (serialized part)
165. episode -> serialized part
166. ??
167. ??
168. ??
169. ??
170. text / written work
171. chapter (non-serialized part)
172. part (book division)
173. ??
174. ??
175. ??
176. ??
177. ??
178. wiki page -> non-serialized part; text not in the form of volume
179. MediaWiki category -> non-serialized part which clusters wiki pages
180. analyzing a text for motifs -> there are different connotations to this. Freudians do this because they think motifs reveal the rules of psychohistory. schizoanalysts do this because they think motifs reveal the rules of finding Freedom. Marxists do this because they think many motifs come from the rules of populations and material-history.
185. ??
190. software package
191. UNIX-style package / UNIX-style program
192. Free Software package
193. nonfree software package
194. Debian package
195. Arch package
196. Linux package / Linux program
197. Lisp module / asdf system / .asd system
198. emacs package
199. MediaWiki extension
200. ??
201. reading list / unique reading list / unique list of thematically-related works -> "unique reading list" sounds beyond weird as natural language, but it sounds perfectly logical to me after thinking in the language of linked concepts
202. ??
203. ??
204. ??
205. ??
206. ??
207. ??
208. ??
209. ??
210. ??
211. ??
212. [S0] alchemy / hermeticism / Historical study of chemical qualities and quality-based cosmology -> "Alchemy, the great secret"
213. [S0] alchemical symbol / alchemical motif
214. [S0] European alchemy / alchemical concepts in Christianity
215. [S0] Buddhist alchemy / alchemical concepts in Buddhism
216. consistent repetition or replicability -> component of predictability, used to define "repeating process" and events that are easy to empirically verify
217. Marxist text
218. defined reality -> a specific collection of material objects united by physics, which may be a whole reality or part of a reality. similar definition to a "system", but intertwined with the concepts of relativity theories
219. no real-world defined reality
220. hypothetical object
221. hypothetical interaction / hypothetical process
222. hypothetical series of events
223. ??
224. ??
225. "nickel" Item - video or page used 3-5 times in stacks of examples which has thus passed minimum notability. credit author with "author name string" or "external data item"; if already recorded on Signifier Item which is linked instead of its sources, no need for new item

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226. fictional reality / fictional universe / fictional cosmos
227. fictional object / non-unique fictional object
228. unique fictional object -> do not make Items for every single kind of fictional object, just also tag it as the real thing
229. fictional process / non-unique fictional process / fictional physics process
230. unique fictional event / unique fictional process
231. fictional historical event / canonical event / confirmed theory
232. unconfirmed fictional process / unconfirmed fan theory
233. unconfirmed fictional event / unconfirmed fan theory
234. ??
235. ??
236. ??
237. fictional population
238. ??
239. ??
240. earth as relative to fictional world -> wasn't totally sure whether this should be an S Item or a Z Item. mostly, it is quite literally just the real world with all its real-world characteristics, only looked at from the angle of a fictional universe. it's a very literal thing. it's technically used as a motif because everything in a work is a signifier, but... everything in a work is referenced through a signifier. I think this is a Z Item.
241. audience as relative to fictional world
250. ??
260. ??
270. ??
280. statement with no possible backing claims
285. ??
288. misinformation or disinformation
290. ??
291. 'pataphysics
292. relativistic gap -> gap between physical objects made of something bigger than quarks. when there are no fundamental interactions such as photons crossing the gap between objects, there is no serious causality going on between objects. great separation between objects in terms of how easy it is for them to interact is relativistic separation: two planets several light-years apart have a difficulty in interacting with each other measured by the fact interactions through physical signals take years. in this, there is a certain inherent connection between relativity and quantum physics. relativity talks about gaps that photons travel across. quantum mechanics talks about gaps photons travel across. this means something for gravity, but nobody knows what that statement actually will be.
298. transfer of packet between objects / transfer of free-floating packet from one free-floating object to another
299. physical interaction -> critical concept for relativity, and Heidegger's book, because it is arguably the sheer definition of physics existing
300. particle physics
301. fundamental particle / fundamental force quantum / fundamental force packet
302. fundamental particle interaction / Feynman diagram reaction
303. hadron / composite subatomic particle -> nucleons, mesons
304. interaction that assembles composite particles / force that holds composite particle together -> strong interaction, weak interaction, electromagnetism; may be totally synonymous with "fundamental force" except that we don't know what interactions gravity is composed of
305. [S0] fundamental force -> strong interaction, weak, electromagnetism, gravity
306. quantum (amount) / quanta
307. ??
308. [S] quantized gravity (hypothetical theory) / quantum gravity model / theory of quantum gravity
309. [S0] paraparticle -> [60]
310. [S0] boson physics
311. boson
312. boson field
313. double-slit experiment
314. gauge boson
315. scalar boson
316. higgs boson
317. ??
318. ??
319. [S0] graviton (hypothetical particle)
320. [S0] fermion physics
321. fermion
322. fermion field
323. exclusion principle
324. quark -> color charge
325. lepton -> no color charge
326. ??
327. ??
328. ??
329. ??
330. [S0] dark matter problem
331. [S2] supersymmetry / SuSy -> unsubstantiated; doesn't have a lot of evidence as of yet
332. [S] neutralino -> unsubstantiated; a supersymmetry solution
333. [S2] weakly-interacting massive particle (WIMP) / WIMP (hypothetical particle) -> looks unsubstantiated, but not totally falsified
334. [S] axion (hypothetical particle) -> currently being researched
335. [S2] Matter-antimatter annihilation converts dark matter to matter
336. [S2] Dark matter particles interact with visible matter through Higgs bosons / Higgs portal hypothesis
337. [S2] technicolor Higgs model
338. [S2] Gravity interactions are just one big coincidence / postquantum gravity -> [61]
339. [S] dark matter / unknown solution to dark matter problem -> [62]
340. [S0] quantum field
341. photon field
342. gluon field / strong field / quantum chromodynamics field
343. W & Z boson field / weak field / flavor swap field / stellar fusion field
344. Higgs field -> scalar field not transformed by relativity
345. ??
346. ??
347. ??
348. ??
349. [S] theta field / axion field
350. physical field
351. scalar field
352. vector field
353. spinor field
354. tensor field
355. classical field
356. electric field -> vector field
357. magnetic field -> vector field
358. ??
359. gravitational field (classical physics) / gravity field (classical physics)
359. radian (unit)
360. degree (unit)
361. [S2] No individual object moves faster than a photon / No object moves faster than gauge bosons / Nothing moves faster than the speed of light in a vacuum
362. [S2] ??
370. ??
380. ??
390. ??
400. ??
401. ??
402. ??
403. ??
404. ??
405. ??
406. ??
407. ??
408. [S2] Spacetime can be broken down into a probabilistic process / To find quantum gravity, create a probabilistic version of general relativity [63] -> a tall claim, but one I think is plausible. quantum mechanics is inherently similar to relativity thanks to things like wave functions and fundamental interactions. this all begins at a contradiction of whether and when we can assume that things happen or measure each other independent of our observations (hidden variable theories)
409. [S2] Quantum mechanics is secretly a science of ordinary stochastic processes / Quantum systems can be modeled as non-Markovian stochastic processes -> Jacob Barandes; I don't understand the mathematics but it already makes so much sense. technically a hidden-variable theory, but claimed to be much simpler and bring in a smaller area of non-classical behavior [64] [65]
410. [S] time travel
411. [S] world line / correlation shown on Penrose diagram
412. predetermined future -> this concept is so general it could apply to real-life historical theology debates, but I'm coding it as a fictional trope for science fiction reasons.
413. [S] time paradox
414. original timeline
415. desirable future
416. undesirable future
417. future as mathematical superposition
418. ??
419. [S] The Hat Man
420. [S] Was this made on drugs?? / How could anybody have made this sober / I want what they were smoking
421. [S] Actual drug trip artwork / Ambien post
422. ??
423. ??
424. ??
425. ??
426. ??
427. ??
428. ??
429. ??
430. fringe science / pseudoscience
431. [S] fringe history / pseudohistory -> I don't even know what swatch to use for this.
439. [S] galactic bible -> the motif of a pseudohistory detailing large events between multiple civilizations, where it may be that not a single one of the civilizations or events is verifiable. Atlanteans vs snake people, Mormon bible almost equally fall under this motif.
440. ??
441. player score point
442. team score point
443. ??
444. ??
445. ??
446. ??
447. ??
448. ??
449. game rules manual / card game rules sheet / board game rules sheet -> to be used for reference statements, or entries preserving official rules sheet links
450. board game piece / board game card / board game token / card game token / unspecified game card / unspecified game piece
451. playing card / unspecified game card
452. playing card deck -> has three uses. explaining card game mechanics; references; explaining Deltarune / Homestuck
453. trump deck / poker deck
454. pinochle deck
455. tarot deck
456. mahjong set / mahjong deck
457. creature deck / medieval kingdom deck / Arcmage-style deck / Magic-style deck
458. named trading-card-game deck / named deck
459. trading-card-game set
460. chess piece
461. pawn (chess piece)
462. knight (chess piece)
463. bishop (chess piece)
464. rook (chess piece)
465. queen (chess piece)
466. king (chess piece)
467. promoted pawn (chess piece)
468. checker (board game piece)
469. 8 by 8 checkerboard / checker board / chess board -> they are not strictly the same, as apparently one is smaller, but they sure are awfully similar
470. draw deck -> board field, either central or player-specific
471. card suit -> the concept of something that goes in a card suit
472. object-based card suit / playing card suit / season-based card suit / plant or animal card suit
473. elemental card suit / card color
474. numbered card
475. face card
476. resource card / Resident card (Aurora) / mana card / land card / energy card
477. character card which may act as figurehead / character card / creature card / monster card / Theorist card (Aurora)
478. event card / Action card (Aurora) / instant event card
479. continuing event card / Condition card (Aurora) / enchantment card
480. card area / board field -> in general
481. main draw deck / deck / central draw deck / market deck (Tea Dragon Society) -> board field
482. player draw deck / deck / library / character deck -> board field
483. hand / player hand / hand cards / hold (Tea Dragon Society) -> board field
484. character area / creature area / Army (Arcmage) / Member Zone (Aurora) -> implied to be player-specific but not stated to be
485. condition area / permanents area / Condition Zone (Aurora) / terrain area / supporter area -> could be plural
486. figurehead area / commander area / Guide Space (Aurora) / main character area
487. removed from the game / exile zone -> board field
488. prize card area -> central or player, either can exist
489. discard pile / graveyard / GY / Devastation Zone (Aurora) -> implied to be player-specific
490. in-play card area -> superset of: character area, etc
491. stack of connected cards -> solitaire, Member Zone masses/groups (Aurora)
492. modifiable card
493. modifier card / equipment card / enchantment card / power-up card / card eaten by character card -> refers to visually representing cards more than to effects
494. face-up card
495. face-down card
496. generated card / token card
497. modifying token / modifying counter / damage counter / power-up counter / status effect counter
498. free-floating token / board game token -> miscellaneous token placed on some space on table for status purposes
499. transient card / effect card which does not enter play
500. card field / card stat / card metric / card attribute -> superset of: object suit, suit color, number
501. card category / card kind -> Condition, Action, etc. should usually be represented through "instance of" property, this is just to define what a category technically is
502. card suit / card element / card color
503. card name / card title
504. card cost
505. card worth / point value / victory points
506. card power / offensive power
507. card endurance / defensive power / stamina / hit points if same as defensive strength
508. card resource value / energy value / mana value / growth value (Tea Dragon Society)
509. card rules / card basic effects
510. card flavor text -> the concept of flavor text. put especially memorable flavor text in "relevant quote"
511. card with in-play effect / effect permanent / enchantment creature -> could also be a "modifier card", but in some games may take effect in hand / graveyard / etc. a card which has an effect when in something a particular game considers an in-play area
512. card with draw effect
513. card with discard effect
514. card with in-hand effect -> Tea Dragon Society is the only game I can think of that does this, off the top of my head
515. card with in-discard-pile effect / card with in-graveyard effect
516. card with in-draw-deck effect -> never heard of this one but maybe it exists, who knows
517. card with in-deck effect / card with different rules in particular decks / card affected by figurehead card / card affected by main-character card / card affected by commander card / inherently tutorable card / fusion mechanic card / synchro card / pendulum card / card that complements other cards inherently
518. single-use game piece / single-use card / card which is discarded after effect
519. card with unique rules -> superset of: card with draw effect, etc.; card which is not neatly described by set theory statements
520. twenty-sided die
521. face-up card area / card area with cards face-up
522. face-down card area / card area with cards face-down
523. faced-away card area / card area with cards face-up toward one player / face-up card area specific to one player / hidden face-up card area
524. card area with cards laid out horizontally / card area with cards separated
525. card area with cards laid out vertically -> superset of/instance of/consists of?: bound stack of cards
526. bound stack of cards / stack of cards which is deck-shaped -> as opposed to informal card stacks in solitaire, equipment stacks, etc.
527. ??
528. ??
529. resource card area -> doesn't necessarily exist in game rules but likely to exist on svg images
530. ??
531. spring (card suit) -> technically exists in mahjongg as well as Tea Dragon Society
532. summer (card suit)
533. autumn (card suit)
534. winter (card suit)
535. ??
536. ??
537. ??
538. ??
539. ??
540. False / FALSE / F -> formal logic or boolean value
541. True / TRUE / T -> formal logic or boolean value
542. communication rating level / work rating code
543. U / Unknown -> highly implies "probably not false" but doesn't state it
544. NG / Not Good
545. G / Good
546. ??
547. ??
548. N/A / Not Applicable
549. E / Excepted
550. zero or more
551. one or more
552. exactly 52 / deck of 52 -> subset of: order of magnitude
560. ??
570. ??
580. ??
590. ??
599. many
600. ??
601. [S] fictional incident, tragedy, or crime / un-true crime
602. ??
603. ??
604. ??
605. ??
606. ??
607. ??
608. absence -> the lack of something that would otherwise be there, usually physically, sometimes within a logical framework
609. inanimate object / countable inanimate object
610. living thing / countable lifeform -> any of a number of kinds of living things, real or fictional, which is not an inanimate object but is countable
611. ??
612. [S] dystopian alien nation
613. [S] Beast (AllDir simulation) / Beast (mathematics) / Beast field atop natural resource field -> vector representation of an individual animal; see scrap MDem 4.4/"starclan"
614. [S] (AllDir structure?)
615. [S] (AllDir structure?)
616. [S] (AllDir structure?)
617. placeholder -> the concept of placeholders
618. [S] proposed Item
619. [S] (AllDir structure?)
620. ??
630. ??
640. ??
650. ??
660. ??
670. ??
680. ??
690. ??
700. ??
710. ??
720. ??
730. ??
740. ??
750. ??
760. ??
770. [S] people-gambling -> the usually non-fictional motif of sorting through a lot of people to hit the jackpot and find the right people. this motif is inherent in most "job interview advice", as well as some "relationship advice", "product marketing advice", and rants against "social media". however, it also comes up in other unexpected places, like looking through a lot of books on a particular topic to find a book which is considered good or useful for some purpose. most people consider people-gambling perfectly normal. (as much as that totally baffles me.) this is often missed in critiques of "social media" as uniquely bad — if everything in life involves gambling on groups of people like some kind of poker deck, why wouldn't it be obvious for videos or microblog posts to work that way? people-gambling + ?? = Carl Sagan's professors. people-gambling + kaiju = Pokémon. people-gambling + Difference makes you useful = Wackytown fallacy.
775. ??
776. [S] social event horizon / Vegeta effect / Entei effect -> the non-fictional motif of people having a horizon around themselves which other people cannot pierce through to control, with only a few exceptions for such things as people forming a social structure that makes a decision of how to use all its people. this motif doesn't directly include those exceptions. this motif combines with other propositions to form particular historical or contemporary conceptions of "free will", but it doesn't really have to be used that way if you instead wish to study people through existential materialism.
777. [S] Free Will -> a motif I have never liked because of the fact nobody can actually define it. whenever you try to discuss Free Will the discussion becomes confusing, because what process are we even debating the existence of? worse yet, people who think they can disprove it typically try to counter it with concepts that are difficult to substantiate or falsify. even Sabine Hossenfelder, who is convinced she knows exactly what hypotheses are so up-in-the-air they aren't science, tossed out an unfalsifiable hypothesis to counter Free Will. this entry.... will be a messy one. there will be about 10+ different models associated with what is supposedly the same thing.
778. [S] freedom (top-level category) -> one of the only terms worse than free will in terms of how many definitions it has. genuinely don't use this except to list the category on category pages
780. ??
790. [S0] formal logic operator / logical operator / logic gate
791. [S] NOT (logical operator) / NOT (logic gate)
792. [S] IMPLY (logical operator) / material conditional / → / P → Q -> silly question: do these arrows go the text direction in RTL and vertical scripts? I'd think they would but I have no idea
793. [S] converse (logical operator) / ← / P ← Q -> not always equal to IMPLY operation
794. [S] NAND (logical operator) / NAND (logic gate) -> absolutely everything except an overlap
795. [S] XNOR (logical operator) / XNOR (logic gate) -> there was some reason I needed this in the past. I think it was for tearing apart Rothenberg's set theory chapter.
796. [S] OR (logical operator) / OR (logic gate)
797. [S] AND (logical operator) / AND (logic gate)
798. [S] XOR (logical operator) / XOR (logic gate)
799. [S] NOR (logical operator) / NOR (logic gate)
800. set theory
801. set (set theory) -> collection of elements modeled by mathematical structures; mathematical structure
802. empty set (set theory) / ∅ / {} / void set / size-zero set -> my nemesis ever since Rothenberg bizarrely abused it to explain The Subject
803. non-empty set (set theory)
804. multiset (set theory) -> set that behaves like a programming language array, with non-unique members allowed
805. subset -> set contained in another set; empty set is a subset of most non-empty sets
806. union (set operation) / OR (set operation) -> combination of two sets; empty set causes no change
807. intersection (set operation) / AND (set operation) -> overlap of two sets only; use the empty set, get the empty set
808. symmetric difference (set operation) / ∆ / A ∆ B / XOR (set operation)
809. absolute complement (set operation) / NOR (set operation)
810. set theory axiom
811. set property / set characteristic / set indicator function result
812. [S2] Sets are equal if they contain the same members / axiom of extensionality (ZFC set theory)
813. [S2] No set can be a member of itself -> true in ZFC set theory, but not all set theories
814. [S2] Defining sets based on properties that cannot be true creates a set that cannot exist / There is no set of all sets that do not contain themselves / Russel's paradox / Sets must be defined following the rules of sets in order to be sets (ZFC set theory)
815. [S2] A set definition will never outrun the biggest possible set / Sets cannot be defined based on the biggest possible sets / Cantor's paradox -> this one is easy to escape if you want to number countable infinities, because mathematicians simply use other structures than sets
816. bisimulation / bisimilarity -> when two mathematical ontologies have equivalent behavior; when two mathematical objects are functionally indistinguishable regardless of whether they are the same spacetime-unique object; suitable mathematical equality test for Particle Theories / Bauplans
817. hyperset -> a set which definitionally contains itself in a bisimilarity relation
818. hyperset theory
819. ZFC set theory / Zermelo-Fraenkel Choice-axiom set theory (ZFC) -> set theory where sets are "computational" and pointers into the set cause a kind of infinite loop bug in the logic
820. non-well-formed set theory
821. anti-foundation axiom (set theory)
822. [S2] Sets are actually just directed graphs containing the same arrows (AFA) / Aczel's anti-foundation axiom (AFA)
823. [S2] Sets are actually just tree graphs that cannot be rearranged (SAFA) / Sets are trees connecting Quine atoms with no interesting automorphisms (SAFA) / Scott's anti-foundation axiom (SAFA)
824. [S2] Sets are actually just directed graphs with no exact symmetries / Finsler's anti-foundation axiom (FAFA) -> this one sounds pretty similar to the popular AFA if you don't look closely, but it's based on rotating the graph around and renumbering it
825. [S2] Sets are nothing more than baskets of tiny sets / Sets are a proper class based on collections of Quine atoms / Boffa's anti-foundation axiom (BAFA) -> some mathematicians really don't like this one but I don't know enough to say why it would be objectively bad. I'm not even sure I've found a good/correct definition of BAFA yet
826. atom (set theory) / set element that cannot have set-structured members / urelement
827. set-based atom (set theory) / Quine atom (set theory) / singleton / graph node serving as one-element set / graph node mapped to ur-element in binary relation -> Quine atom is one of the most arcane terms I've ever seen and I refuse to use it just yet
828. univocality -> mapping from one unique name or object to another unique name or object. signifier equations sometimes do this, in cases such as technical jargon
829. biunivocality -> a really fancy word for counting. no, I'm serious. a biunivocal mapping exists when one set of unique names maps onto a set of unique elements, as if counting things with natural numbers. Deleuze and Guattari once abused this concept to try to forbid counting and grouping individuals and try to turn them into a non-local beam of photon-people
830. ??
871. ??
872. two indistinguishable iron spheres called Castor and Pollux -> I love when mathematicians actually think of entertaining thought experiments
873. proper class (set theory) / class (set theory) -> the repeated pattern of having a given characteristic or returning a given indicator function result, which is not a set. similar to "class" or "interface" in object oriented programming
874. graph-to-set mapping / exact picture of set -> a concept that comes up quite a bit in defining non-well-founded set theories
875. ??
876. ??
877. ??
878. ??
879. ??
840. ??
850. ??
860. ??
870. graph node
871. disjoint union -> logical combination of internally unconnected graphs/sets. seems like I might have to use it to describe populations some day
872. hypergraph -> a mathematical graph that could theoretically store a 3D model composed of a bunch of triangles, or the collection of all subpopulations in a population including overlapping subpopulations
873. ??
874. ??
875. ??
876. ??
877. ??
878. ??
879. ??
880. graph (graph theory) -> a collection of nodes and node pairs, typically visualized as a path
881. undirected graph (graph theory)
882. directed graph (graph theory) / 𝒢 (variable)
883. cyclic graph (graph theory)
884. acyclic graph (graph theory)
885. tree (graph theory) / tree graph -> acyclic graph, one path between any two nodes, every vertex a particular point in space on a map essentially
886. rooted graph (graph theory) / pointed graph / arborescence / anti-arborescence -> an arborescent graph points away from the root. also: according to Deleuze and Guattari it's basically the devil. you didn't know there was a Good and Evil to graph theory did you, but now you know
887. star graph (graph theory) -> graph with everything connected to a central node. how I often visualize what non-well-founded sets are supposed to be, you just put the empty set in the center
888. ??
889. ??
890. ??
891. ??
892. [S0] metamathematics -> this is it. Marxism : meta-Marxism :: ontology : meta-ontology :: mathematics : metamathematics
893. ??
894. ??
895. ??
896. ??
897. ??
898. ??
899. [S] casual steganography for fun -> how Spore creatures are stored in an image [66]

901 - 1999

Historical events, texts, etc.

901. [S] MAI reading list / Anti-Imperialist Movement Marxist-Leninist reading list
905. ??
910. ??
915. ??
920. ??
925. rift, split, separation, schism, expulsion, or fatal controversy / event of serious division between two sets of people / event of serious division between notable individual and group -> thanks Trotsky for showing me that expulsions and schisms are really just the same thing
930. ??
935. ??
940. jamming proposition or question / jamming antithesis
941. jamming proposition -> seems to be a major component of 'pataphysics, but also of meta-Marxism
942. jamming question -> it bothers me that most people don't think a question is a proposition. it makes the task of non-binary logic unnecessarily difficult.
943. ??
944. ??
945. ??
946. ??
947. ??
948. ??
949. ??
950. tiered levels of grouping / tiered grammatical plurality -> the concept of multiple levels of plural objects (seas of free-floating entities) as they are represented in language or propositional logic. I would say the majority of people are not aware of this concept and constantly gloss over it in both writing and comprehending writing. it is dreadfully common to simply toss out the weasel word "we" with no particular meaning in reference to some really vague group of more than one person and assume it makes total sense.
951. one-member concept / singular term [67]
952. group concept / collective term
953. subpopulational concept / particular concept / particular term
954. populational concept / universal concept / general concept / universal term / general term
955. global concept / global term -> a concept which applies to the largest possible scales of populations or generalizations, such as worldwide
956. concept about many separate individuals in parallel / applying to many separate individuals in parallel
957. concept about many separate groups in parallel / applying to many separate groups in parallel
958. concept about separate subpopulations in parallel / concept about several separate subpopulations in parallel
959. concept about separate nations in parallel / concept about several separate populations in parallel
960. method of defining a set
961. local characteristics or members / intensional characteristics / localized spatially-unique set members or characteristics of said members
962. entailed characteristics or members / extensional characteristics / extensionality across characteristics or subpopulations
963. ??
965. ??
970. ??
975. ??
980. language register / language proficiency level
981. local vernacular term -> applies to contexts such as fandoms and that phenomenon where gender labels were exploding because nobody knew the difference between common terms, vernacular terms, and university-level terms
982. widespread vernacular term -> applies to contexts such as dialects of English
983. uncommon term
984. common term
985. technical term taught in grade school / scientific term taught in grade school
986. university-level term / technical term taught in four-year degree
987. university-level term widespread in particular ideology / technical term widespread in partisan ideology
988. graduate-level term / technical term taught in specialist degree -> one of the only one of these Items to not use "88" to mean anything whatsoever.
989. technical term within local research group / field-specific academic jargon term
990. ??
991. [S] boxed-in theory -> the motif of a theory which has absolutely no idea what meta-ontology is and would never think of analyzing itself as an object
992. [S] meta-theory -> I at first put "MDem reading list" here, but then I found out about metamathematics, and running across more meta-theories makes me so excited
993. [S] MDem reading list -> just so I am not tempted to create another one anywhere else. not the definitive or ultimate one, but one I can compare and contrast with my MDem bibliography entry as a minimal version
994. ??
995. ??
1000. [S] plateau (philosophy) / plateau (schizoanalysis) / thing claimed to have no beginning or end / spatially-unique object which does not remain unique
1001. formatting device -> any kind of device which styles, tags, or structures text. Unicode encoding might count as a formatting device
1002. formatting rule -> a specific kind of formatting device which transforms written text into logical structure and possibly renders into some other kind of transcribed logical structure such as TeX or HTML
1003. basic bop formatting - ad-hoc markup language
1004. Markdown - markup language
1005. HTML - markup language
1006. prototype -> an early version of anything made for testing. not related to markup languages.
1007. Hue list classname - colors used in Hue lists, including any color-codings you can see on this one. not to be taken very seriously, often quickly chosen to distinguish nearby blocks of items from each other. instance of: CSS classname
1008. CSS classname -> instance of: formatting device
1009. Item usable as Hue list classname
1010. unique language
1011. English (en)
1012. French (fr)
1013. German (de)
1014. Spanish (es)
1015. ??
1016. ??
1017. Russian (ru)
1018. Korean (ko)
1019. Japanese (ja)
1020. Chinese metalanguage (zho)
1021. Mandarin Chinese (cmn)
1022. Cantonese (yue)
1023. ??
1024. ??
1025. North Korean dialect
1026. South Korean dialect
1027. Chinese character (hani)
1028. Traditional Chinese (hant)
1029. Simplified Chinese (hans)
1020. uncommon, constructed, or system-internal language / language possibly coded as mis
1021. simple English (en-simple) / en-x-pona / en-basiceng [68] -> I want this to be specifically upgoer-five style with a very small list of words, such that it's only a step or two up from toki pona, yet not so simple it's hard to read. the idea is almost to write the en-simple label and use it as guidance for the tok one. Wikipedia's 8000-word list should be useful
1022. toki pona (tok) -> implied to be either sitelen pona or sitelen Lasina
1023. toki pona, sitelen Lasina (tok-Latn)
1024. toki pona, sitelen pilin / sitelen emoji (tok-pilin)
1025. toki pona, sitelen jelo (tok-jelo)
1026. ??
1027. taxonomic names dictionary (la-sci) - [69] [70]
1028. work citations dictionary (qww)
1029. Wikimedia message ID (qqx) - [71]
1030. (reserved for languages)
1040. (reserved for languages)
1050. ??
1055. ??
1060. ??
1070. fantasy work
1071. ??
1075. ??
1079. ??
1080. speculative fiction
1081. ??
1082. utopian fiction
1083. dystopian literature / dystopian fiction
1084. anticommunist fable / anticommunist parable / "dystopian fiction" created to attack a progressive theory
1085. socialist realism
1086. meta-transitional realism / meta-transitional fantasy -> like socialist realism or science fiction, but for meta-Marxism
1087. afterlife fiction / Bangsian fiction
1088. horror work
1089. anti-imperialist fable / anti-colonial fable -> a rising genre of idealistic short stories which is specifically about either a kingdom Freely Deciding not to create global empire or some fictional population fighting against global empire's previous attempt to extinguish it. this concept does not encompass every story with national independence or anti-empire themes. the anti-imperialist fable is distinguished by a bizarrely strong focus on the notion of intersubjectivity and the whole narrative being driven by particular things being morally wrong and/or the universe naturally pushing back against what the narrative considers immoral. [72] I am becoming slowly convinced that the use or implication of this story genre this is a major reason Pokémon appeals to people.
1090. hero's journey narrative
1091. superhero story / superhero narrative
1092. fictional history
1093. evil empire narrative -> distinguishable from hero's journey narrative because it explicitly involves populations. may simultaneously be an anti-imperialist fable, or might not.
1100. ??
1110. quantum water -> an imaginary metaphor in which quantum fields are literally water that separates into different puddles, and the point is to show how different water would have to be in order to be like a quantum field
1111. tennis ball -> keeps being used as a loose comparison for quarks in MDem scraps, which repeatedly explore how different a tennis ball would have to be to be like a quark.
1112. cue ball
1113. pool ball
1117. ??
1118. eight ball
1120. ??
1130. ??
1135. order of magnitude / scale of particular numerical base / power of ten / power of two / multiple of one
1136. multiple of number -> subset of: order of magnitude
1137. precise order of magnitude / repeatable number of things / stoichiometric number / specific average number of things -> counterpart to Property "replicated at order of magnitude"; subset of: order of multiple of number
1138. [S] 1/137 problem (physics) / 137 problem (physics) -> mysterious constant which keeps showing up in a lot of physics equations. does it have a solution in some kind of physical-mathematical object, somewhat like the hypothetical theta field of axions that was to replace a theta constant? currently nobody knows.
1140. ??
1150. ??
1180. [M3] How do you produce the ingredients of a black hole? / What kind of physical stuff would matter change into if it got into the interior of a black hole? / What kind of black hole stuff is matter converted to when it collides with a black hole? / black hole information paradox
1181. [S2] The physical stuff inside a black hole is unstructured energy / Black holes are gravastars; the stuff inside the gravastar is a maximally warped zero point energy -> I'm tempted to say the phrase "like one really giant quark" but I'm not sure that's scientifically accurate, since after all black holes aren't constantly disappearing or re-dividing. so I won't.
1182. ??
1183. ??
1184. ??
1185. ??
1186. ??
1187. black hole
1200. ??
1250. ??
1277. [S] Good Place / good afterlife
1280. [S] Bad Place / bad afterlife
1290. ??
1300. ??
1310. organization -> I feel as if this needs to be described more specifically to make it clear it's a material object and more than just a term
1311. action against society by countable group of people / incorrect action by countable group of people -> used in defining what protests are about
1312. street protest
1320. ??
1330. ??
1331. [S2] Populations must be studied relative to their own traditions / cultural relativism proposition
1332. ??
1333. ??
1334. ??
1335. ??
1336. ??
1337. subculture -> refers to any subculture, although QID references internet subcultures.
1340. ??
1350. structural racism -> material phenomenon as described by real-world evidence, and not whatever papers and books say, should that somehow be a problem
1351. redlining
1352. ??
1353. ??
1354. ??
1355. ??
1356. ??
1357. ??
1358. [S] existence as empire / socioempire / gentrification results from small-scale empire / chunk competition across the spatial slot hierarchy (near-synonym)
1359. [S] critical race theory / CRT
1400. [S] scientific progressivism -> half-hypothetical, half-already-real concept that progressivism, as defined by Existentialists and Liberals, can be broken down into falsifiable hypotheses in the same sense as Marxist hypotheses of how nation-sized revolutionary movements succeed
1405. ??
1410. ??
1419. [S] drug prohibition / war on drugs / war on drug gangs -> there is a deep discussion to be had about how much a war on drugs isn't actually about drugs and is actually a nationalist local-war campaign on the entire existence of criminals
1420. [S] drug legalization
1430. ??
1440. ??
1450. ??
1460. ??
1470. ??
1480. ??
1481. ??
1482. ??
1483. ??
1484. ??
1485. ??
1486. [S] historical fascisms / nationalist regimes recognized as fascisms by historians -> a somewhat deceptive term explicitly excluding the British imperialist framework but including falangism
1487. Axis powers of World War II -> Nazism, Italian fascism, and Japanese global empire
1488. Nazi germany / Nazism
1489. Fascist Italy / Italian fascism
1490. Falangist Spain / falangism / Francoism
1491. Imperial Japan / Japanese global empire
1492. British Empire / British imperialist framework (hypothetical)
1493. United States global empire / United States imperialist framework (hypothetical)
1494. [S] Identitarian fascism / third-positionism / fascisms rooted in definitions of what culture is -> clearly includes Duginism; appears to include Francoism and United States Toryism, if you strictly define it as "fascisms which are not obsessed with genetics"
1495. [S] new Russian empire / post-Soviet imperialist Russia -> under research; Russia as defined by Napoleonist Bauplan or new regime that took over after destruction of Soviet Union
1496. [S] Duginism
1497. European New Right
1498. [S] claimed characteristic of fascism / claimed warning sign of fascism
1499. [S] list of characteristics claiming to define fascism / definition of fascism -> there are a ridiculous number of these. it may be worth encoding all the list-entries and connecting list-entries to the list, especially items they share
1500. ??
1501. Tea Party axis -> United States Tory movement that emerged in the early 2000s, about 2007 according to some. before the early 2000s United States "conservative" parties had some claim to being right-Liberal parties, but then they went through a hard turn into solely being about taking the United States "back" from immigrants and people of the wrong religion. I use the term Toryism in reference to the concept of a faction that rejects the creation of a parliament because having democracy would give Catholics too much of British society. it's funny. even though the original Tories and Britain's modern Tory party are separate groups of people, they aren't ultimately that different in their values. and it only gets worse when you note the repeated event of some people in the United States choosing a party specifically in the hope it wasn't Catholic. did Toryism ever really have a beginning and an end?
1510. Umberto Eco's list for fascism
1511. [S] cult of tradition -> claimed characteristic of fascism.
1512. [S] rejection of modern culture / descent into depravity
1513. [S] cult of action for action's sake
1514. [S] disagreement is treason -> note that this has to be in a nationalist tone
1515. [S] fear of difference
1516. [S] appeal against low ranks / appeal to a frustrated middle class
1517. [S] obsession with conspiracies / obsession with the plot
1518. [S] enemies are too strong and too weak
1519. [S] pacifism is trafficking with the enemy
1520. [S] in-group superior to the weak / contempt for the weak
1521. [S] die a hero or become the weaklings
1522. [S] machismo
1523. [S] selective populism
1524. [S] buzzwords / newspeak
1525. ??
1530. ??
1531. ??
1532. The Prince (Machiavelli 1532)
1540. ??
1550. ??
1560. ??
1570. ??
1580. ??
1590. The Taming of the Shrew (c. 1590) -> Shakespeare play. comedy. notable for "abstract amoral world containing blatant misogyny" structure. trying to explain Dragon Ball made me remember it because I swear this is at least two characters' character arcs
1600. ??
1601. ??
1602. ??
1603. ??
1604. Guy Fawkes
1605. Gunpowder plot of 1605
1606. ??
1607. ??
1608. ??
1609. ??
1610. ??
1611. ??
1612. ??
1613. ??
1614. ??
1615. ??
1616. ??
1617. [S] revisionist history (field) -> to be used for actual instances of updating the facts and making them more accurate
1618. [S] progressive anthropology -> subset of: revisionist history (field); in my mind, refers largely to studies of ancient people-groups as done in Magic: a history
1619. [S] inclusive history -> subset of: revisionist history (field)
1620. [S] 1619 Project (2019) -> attempted education project by inclusive-historians
1621. Kimberlé Crenshaw -> one inclusive-historian off in a corner of the United States surrounded by a bizarre amount of controversy and discourse. I swear the whole PragerU video about "people segregating themselves at Black graduation" grew out of her drifting over to a different university when the group of people at the other university didn't want her there
1630. ??
1640. ??
1650. ??
1660. ??
1670. ??
1680. ??
1690. ??
1700. ??
1710. ??
1720. ??
1729. A modest proposal (Swift 1729)
1730. ??
1740. ??
1741. The German Ideology part 1A: Idealism and Materialism
1742. The German Ideology part 1B: The Illusion of the Epoch
1743. The German Ideology part 1C: The Real Basis of Ideology
1744. The German Ideology part 1D: Proletarians and Communism
1745. ??
1746. ??
1747. ??
1748. ??
1749. ??
1750. United States constitutional amendment
1751. Amendment 1
1752. Amendment 2
1753. Amendment 3
1754. Amendment 4
1755. Amendment 5
1756. Amendment 6
1757. Amendment 7
1758. Amendment 8
1759. Amendment 9
1760. Amendment 10
1761. Amendment 11
1762. Amendment 12
1763. [S2] United States people will not own slaves (Amendment 13)
1764. Amendment 14
1765. Amendment 15
1766. Amendment 16
1767. Amendment 17
1768. Amendment 19
1769. Amendment 22
1770. Amendment 23
1771. Amendment 24
1772. Amendment 25
1773. Amendment 26
1774. Amendment 27
1775. [S] taxation without representation
1776. United States constitution
1777. United States independence movement (1776) / American revolution
1778. Amendment 18
1779. Amendment 21
1780. ??
1781. ??
1782. ??
1783. ??
1784. ??
1785. ??
1786. ??
1787. ??
1789. French Revolution (1789-1790)
1790. [S] democracy (center-/right-Liberalism) / democracy as defined in center-/right-Liberal republicanism
1791. [S] metric system / International System of Units (SI) / Système international d'unités (SI)
1792. French Revolutionary Wars -> right after the French Revolution, the republic brutally occupied a handful of other countries to force them into Liberalism (or at least early republicanism). this part of history is always forgotten especially when talking about World War II and the Cold War
1793. Thomas Paine treason trial (1792) -> there's something to be said about this in relation to the Moscow Trials. I'm not sure what.
1794. French First Republic -> very notable given there was a second one
1795. ??
1796. ??
1797. ??
1798. sister republics (c. 1800) / French-revolutionary client states / Napoleonic client states -> republics which relied on French occupation to remain republics, or were fitted with monarchies loyal to Napoleon
1799. Napoleonic empire -> French civilization under Napoleon's dictatorship
1800. [S] Napoleonism (meta-Marxism) -> may give this a different name later. a civilizational structure consisting of one republic — in some cases a democratic republic — and several client states under military occupation and/or client regimes controlled by the central republic. the puppet regimes may be republican or monarchist but they must be loyal to the regime of the central republic. arguably, the French Revolution birthed the Bauplan of Napoleonism and it's still alive and well, the United States still doing it
1801. ??
1802. ??
1803. Napoleonic Wars (1803-1815) -> second try at brutally enforcing early-republicanism over all of Europe. the Napoleonic empire walled away many countries' economies and made them so upset the other countries ultimately kicked out Napoleon and restored the French monarchy
1804. Hundred Days -> Napoleon comes back from exile to rule Europe again; every European country goes to great effort to stop him
1805. Bourbon Restoration -> restored French monarchy which remained until 1830
1806. Sixth Coalition -> Great Britain, Austria, Prussia, Sweden, and Russia, united to defeat Napoleon at the Battle of Leipzig
1807. Seventh Coalition -> Sixth Coalition plus Switzerland and the Bourbon Restoration; each alliance contained many smaller territories too
1808. ??
1809. ??
1810. ??
1811. ??
1812. ??
1813. ??
1814. ??
1815. ??
1816. ??
1817. ??
1818. ??
1819. ??
1820. ??
1830. Indian Removal Act of 1830
1831. Trail of Tears (1830-1850)
1840. ??
1843. [M] What is the relationship of Jewish people to German citizens? / Jewish national question / Jewish question (not Nazism)
1844. On The Jewish Question (Marx 1844)
1845. The German Ideology (Marx 1846/1932)
1846. ??
1847. Communist manifesto / Manifesto of the Communist Party (1848)
1848. [S] United States westward expansion
1849. [S] "Go west, young man"
1850. ??
1855. ??
1860. Confederate States of America (1861-1865) / Confederacy / The South
1861. United States Civil War (1861-1865)
1862. Jefferson Davis (Confederate president 1861–1865)
1863. Emancipation Proclamation of 1863
1864. Reconstruction (1863-1877)
1865. ??
1866. ??
1867. Capital volume I (Marx 1863/1867)
1868. Capital volume II (Marx 1863/1893)
1869. Capital volume III (Marx 1863/1894)
1870. Capital volume IV (Marx 1863/1963)
1871. Theories of surplus value -> sometimes separated from Capital vol IV, sometimes grouped into it
1872. (further divisions of volume IV?)
1873. (further divisions of volume IV?)
1874. International System of Units (SI)
1880. ??
1882. The Lady, or the Tiger? -> nice example of ambiguity in literature and the concept that ambiguity can be perilous. if you say it doesn't matter what the door is assigned to, there is a 50% chance the tiger will maul you. if you say it doesn't matter what person A believes or decides is behind the door, then person A knows whether the tiger will maul you and you have no idea. similar concept to: quantum Freddy, quantum leopards; see also: Vegeta effect
1885. ??
1890. ??
1895. Caesar Antichrist (Jarry 1895)
1896. Exploits and Opinions of Dr. Faustroll, Pataphysician (Jarry c.1911)
1900. ??
1905. ??
1906. ??
1907. ??
1908. ??
1909. Materialism and Empirio-criticism (Lenin 1909) [73] [74] -> a text that had textbook status in the Soviet Union. worth annotating entry with important motifs / propositions / Lexemes.
1910. ??
1911. Course in General Linguistics (Saussure 1911/1959) -> approximate benchmark for finding the birth of "general-sense" structuralist philosophy (signifier-based ontologies pretending not to be ontologies) within the literal descriptivist study of linguistic structuralism. despite all the bad things one could say about the "Existentialist-Structuralist tradition" that would emerge later, structuralism was not a bad thing in and of itself; it began in the practical study of the elements of language, which is still useful in very similar forms to people of all ideologies to this day.
1912. ??
1913. ??
1914. ??
1915. ??
1916. ??
1917. Russian Revolution
1918. German revolution of 1918
1919. ??
1920. The State and Revolution (Lenin 1918/1920)
1921. Terrorism and Communism (Trotsky 1920)
1922. The trade unions, the present situation, and Trotsky's mistakes (Lenin 1920) -> this is one of my favorite history texts because it just, is so illustrative of all the incorrect things Trotsky did at many different times all wrapped up in one prototypical incident. every time I learn about some other Trotsky incident my mind comes back to this one. did you know about the incident where he couldn't properly slam a metal door? unrelated but very funny. he was always convinced he knew everything but always making dumb mistakes that showed he didn't even know what Lenin or the workers' movements were actually doing. it's two sided. it's funny Trotsky was so arrogant but sad that he was so bad at contributing to the things he thought he believed in. it makes you ask, is there some point at which having standards becomes being mean to people and saying they aren't good enough to be part of a workers' state, that they simply weren't born to be the kind of people you want? workers' states are supposed to be about uniting everybody and getting everyone to stop fighting, so what is our obsession with leaving people behind?
1923. ??
1924. ??
1925. ??
1926. ??
1927. Being and Time (Heidegger 1927)
1928. Terrorism and Communism chapter 8 [TC8]
1929. ??
1930. ??
1931. ??
1932. ??
1933. ministry rearrangements in the USSR -> makes timelines of ministries comically unreadable, but makes a lot of sense when viewed as graph theory
1934. [S] forced population rearrangements in the USSR -> complicated. some of this was moving isolated farmers into collective farms & social structures; some overlapped with deportations
1935. deportations of nationalities in the USSR -> mainly I think of the Chechen & Ingush incident
1936. The Revolution Betrayed (Trotsky 1936)
1937. Moscow trials
1938. My visit described for my friends (Feuchtwanger 1937)
1939. testimony of Bukharin
1940. death of Trotsky
1941. World War II
1948. founding of North Korea
1949. founding of People's Republic of China
1950. founding of East Germany (1949)
1952. Lavender Scare / remove the lavender lads from the State Department (1952) -> one of the clearer examples which can be used to argue for hegemony politics; hegemony politics + homophobia = Lavender Scare
1959. Common Lisp
1962. Joint World Congress to reunify the Fourth International (1962)
1965. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865)
1966. Through the Looking-Glass (1871)
1970. Settlers / Settlers: The Mythology of the White Proletariat / Read Settlers (slogan) [75] -> Maoist text totally appropriated by anticommunists and stripped of all Marxist content thanks to the existence of Existentialism. until the advent of "read settlers" it wasn't widely apparent that there was a highly established philosophical tradition resistant to change which was opposing Communism. now we know that there is a specific ideology which believes that everything in the world is made of prejudice or non-prejudice as a fundamental building block, way below the existence of the proletariat, way below the fact humans have to eat and have to occupy space, the philosophical tradition where life is primarily composed of morality and culture before you're even a human being or populations even exist. do not trust anyone talking about "hidden biases" or trying to turn "colonialism" into something that's in our minds. do not assume they care about finding out how anything actually works instead of trying to make everything ever about prejudice including things you would never think of, only to find that real people have no empathy and no interest in choosing not to be prejudiced. you think I'm being cynical or hyperbolic, but I'm being highly literal. intersubjectivity is literally an ability many people don't have, and presupposing they have it is sinking all progressivism.
1972. Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism And Schizophrenia
1973. A Thousand Plateaus (Anti-Oedipus vol. 2)
1978. German reunification (1989)
1979. Losing Earth: A Recent History (Rich 2019) -> a recap of climate change investigations and debates. narrative-style and memoir-like, very readable
1980. The Excessive Subject: A new theory of social change (2010)
1981. The End of History and the Last Man (Fukuyama 1992)
1982. Childhood's End (Clarke 1953)
1983. Animal Farm (Orwell 1945)
1984. 1984 (Orwell 1949)
1985. Anthem
1986. [S] The Giver quartet
1987. The Giver (Lowry 1993)
1988. Gathering Blue (Lowry 2000)
1989. Messenger (Lowry 2004)
1990. Son (Lowry 2012)
1991. dissolution of the Soviet Union -> as series of real concrete events
1992. Molecular Marxism / Marxist Molecular Democracy (MDem)
1993. GNU/Linux operating system
1994. [S] mathematical simulation / programmatic simulation / simulation program -> this is an S0 because it is a data structure style thing, while only specific simulations would be Z
1995. [S] virtual pet / virtual pet keychain / virtual pet game
1996. Tapers
1997. Petscop
1998. 3D workers' island
1999. ??

2000

2000. Item with primarily literal associations / Item with literal meaning -> Z items, and S items used as part of fictional facticities
2001. Framework believes model to be incoherent or wrong
2002. Probably no serious symbolism
2003. The Subject (exmat)
2004. social graph connection (non-unique)
2005. connection weight (society models)
2006. graph struggle -> the state of two or more Social Systems (SGS) competing to secure a finite physical or conceptual territory in order to have exclusive ground to realize their desired material arrangement of things or people (Material System or SPMS)
2007. material graph struggle / chunk competition (MDem) -> individuals or Social Systems (SGS) competing to secure a specifically physical territory
2008. mutually-exclusive filament-based construction / Filamentism (MDem) -> stochastic construction of a larger society through many small localized graph struggles
2009. violent material graph struggle / violent chunk competition (MDem) -> graph struggle at the expense of human life.
2010. expulsion from social graph / social rejection (mathematical) / cancellation (Toryism)
2011. class territory
2012. class territory owner
2013. class territory resident
2014. The Communist Necessity (Moufawad-Paul 2014/2020)
2015. feudal order
2016. duke
2017. marquess
2018. earl
2019. count
2020. baron
2021. manor lord
2022. Existential Physics
2023. duchy
2024. march (feudal territory)
2025. earldom
2026. county (feudal territory)
2027. petty nobility
2028. feudal manor
2029. principality / princedom
2030. kingdom
2031. emirate
2032. caliphate
2033. shogunate / bakufu
2034. empire
2035. global empire
2036. imperial colony
2037. site of proxy war / buffer state
2038. republic
2039. supranational federation
2040. business territory
2041. state business
2042. state business ministry
2043. party-nation
2044. workers' state / countable instance of Marxism
2045. countable Marxist movement / countable instance of Marxism
2046. Communist International
2047. plural Communist Internationals
2044. rival proletarian revolution
2045. class subpopulation
2046. nationality subpopulation
2047. demographic subpopulation
2048. ethnic subpopulation / Black community (Existentialism) / Latino community (Existentialism)
2049. religious subpopulation
2050. historical heritage subpopulation / cultural Christian subpopulation / secular-Jewish subpopulation
2051. LGBT+ subpopulation / LGBT+ community (Existentialism)
2052. disability subpopulation
2053. neurodivergent subpopulation / autistic subpopulation
2054. city or town subpopulation
2055. industry subpopulation / Artist subpopulation / musician subpopulation / grocery clerk subpopulation
2056. capitalist ally subpopulation
2057. proletarian ally subpopulation
2058. capable subpopulation / capable layer
2059. [S] class (spatial rank) / middle class / rich and poor -> spatial slot hierarchy; money is capital
2060. [S] class (repeated relationship) / Individuals are comparable because they belong to a class
2061. [S] class (subpopulation) / Classes become powerful through capable subpopulations
2062. [S] unskilled worker
2063. [S] skilled worker
2064. [S] Artisan type
2065. [S] Artisan layer
2066. [S] Careerist / social mobility (center-Liberalism)
2067. [S] Careerist layer / Careerist class
2068. [S] Refuse class / refusariat (outdated term)
2069. [S] labor aristocracy (Maoism)
2070. Liberal representatives / Liberal legislators
2071. Liberal government employees
2072. charity employees
2073. [S] Bureaucrats constitute a class / professional-managerial class / The Bureaucracy
2074. ruling population
2075. leaping State
2076. [S] shepherd ruling population / shepherd sheet
2077. [S] herd-of-cats effect
2078. [S] birdcage model / economy separable from republic
2079. [S] not a matter of black and white cats
2084. [S] worker / group of people said to qualify as "workers"
2085. proletariat / class of workers / working class / group of people who practically functions as capable subpopulation
2086. [S2] Proletariat includes unemployed
2087. [S2] Proletariat consists of unskilled workers
2088. [S2] Proletariat includes skilled and unskilled workers but not unemployed
2089. [S2] Proletariat excludes First-World workers
2090. [S2] Proletariat excludes Second-World workers -> Trotskyism
2091. [S2] Proletariat is singular and multiple countries can unite at once -> Trotskyism, some anarchisms
2092. [S2] Proletariats belong to localized subpopulations functioning as nations / Proletariats include Black-proletariat in prison / Proletariats may include center-Liberal proletariat and right-Liberal proletariat -> North-American Maoism, MDem
2093. [S2] Proletariats are plural and belong to specific national populations -> Juche-socialism, Maoism
2094. [S2] First-World workers will form capable subpopulation -> Trotskyism, Marcuseanism
2095. [S2] Second-World workers will form capable subpopulation / Second-World countries will become capable subpopulation -> Stalin Thought, MDem
2096. [S2] Third-World workers will form capable subpopulation
2097. [S2] Any educated people can form capable subpopulation / Proletariat is immaterial to forming capable subpopulation -> Marcuseanism
2098. [S2] Third-World countries will become capable subpopulation / First World defined strictly by neocolonialism / First World defined strictly by global structural racism
2099. [S] multiple capitalisms in one country / multicapitalism (MDem) -> the concept that it is possible for a given country to consist of two or more totally separate populations of capitalists, which only appear to be one population because the borders are fuzzily defined and corporations leak from one side to the other. multicapitalism is suggested as the mechanism for how center-Liberals and Tories can become so divided to the death against each other when all the bourgeoisie should "theoretically" be on the same side. if multicapitalism is real, China would not have multicapitalism but the United States would. one of the few concrete things the CPC would have accomplished in terms of building Bolshevism or transition out of capitalism is not allowing multicapitalism to develop.
2100. countable area of capitalism -> capitalism as a countable object. in real life, it may be hard to pin down where the boundaries of these are, but that just means it's especially inappropriate to characterize capitalism as a "population". in some senses it can only really be an empire-border.
2101. [S2] Political economy only remains a science so long as nobody breaks out of capitalism / Bourgeois economists necessarily have a career of maintaining the rest of capitalism -> rock-solid statement by Marx from unfinished Capital vol IV, as well as probably other texts
2102. [S2] Different societies contain the same repeated patterns / societies contain repeated patterns in the manner of quantum fields
2103. [S2] Societies have developmental processes from one set of repeated patterns to another
2111. [S2] Material causes of capitalism are reflected in ideological patterns of Existentialism / Capitalism can be characterized by diagramming Existentialism and working backwards to the material causes of the ideology
2112. ??
2113. [S] socialism in one country
2114. [S] socialist transition
2115. [S] era of socialism / lower-phase communism -> workers' state
2116. [S] era of communism / upper-phase communism
2117. [S] further transitions (Marx)
2118. [S] creatorism (MDem)
2119. [S] Particle Theory / Bauplan -> ideological nested-graph model
2120. [S] Social-Graph System (SGS)
2121. [S] Social-Behavioral System (SBS)
2122. [S] Social-Philosophical System (SPS) / Particle Theory (MDem)
2123. [S] Social-Philosophical-Material System (SPMS) / Bauplan (MDem)
2124. [S] realization / construction of society form
2125. [S] "the hand bone is connected to the arm bone" / "Dem Bones"
2126. [S] receiving node
2127. [S] granting node
2128. [S2] Economic processes comprehensible through graph models / Economic processes will one day be comprehended through graph theory / Historical processes comprehensible through graph models
2129. economic graph model
2200. [S] retail shelves as global empire / retail empire (MDem) -> the motif of retailers always being a kind of star graph connecting to manufacturers that then connect to workers, often in Third World countries; each retailer is a microcosm of the relationship between the United States and other countries itself. "retail empire" is not in the tiny-civilization sense of "imperial republic of Walmart", more in the sense of the global scope of, for instance, the British empire.
2201. [S] republic of Walmart / people's republic of Walmart -> the motif of large businesses behaving like small governments with departments
2202. [S] imperial republic of Walmart -> the motif of emerging businesses behaving like small governments with departments specifically in order to wildly expand over everything like some kind of miniature Dutch empire finding the best part of Africa before anyone else can get it. the act of delivering a workable service at any cost and taking all the losses, until taking as great a territory as possible becomes a way to survive against the threat of other structures taking it. [76] imperial republics of Walmart are not typically broken up because of the way they operate as units against everything else and don't contain clear merger lines. I think the more of these you point out the clearer the nature of capitalism becomes. capitalism is the act of using people as tools to secure frontier empires against other empires, and it always was that way. capitalism is a social-darwinist fight between miniature countable Cultures to determine what kinds of culture are allowed to live and which ones are softly or formally prohibited.
2222. study of interacting objects instead of one at a time / study of two or more interacting objects instead of one object at a time -> I know the word "system" can be used for this, as in "complex adaptive system", etc. but the word system has been so totally exhausted into meaninglessness in social movements I feel like we really need to break things down more to where they are hard to misunderstand. also, this might be a Z Item because it seems like a realistic description of a kind of scientific field. it seems like it might already exist, even if it exists to a more limited extent than it really should.
2223. [S2] Nature is a multiplication table / All physics equations are actually multivariable functions -> here we go. one of the most genuinely solid propositions I've come to in MDem, that unlike everything else I have very little doubt about, and high confidence in. we teach mathematics and Newtonian mechanics entirely wrong. we should be teaching every physics function from wavefunction collapse to chemical reactions to throwing a rock as multivariable functions of objects colliding in the sense of two number lines colliding in a multiplication table style function to produce a three dimensional graph. this is the beginning to how we fix all of physics. this might lead to unifying quantum mechanics, Newtonian mechanics, and gravity. this is it. it sounds absurdly simple, and ridiculous that this could be the answer, but I think this is it.
2300. ??
2310. [S2] Awful people also have human rights / Bad people have the same human rights -> I don't like it when people use this to prop up Existentialist arguments. but taken by itself I totally believe it. rehabilitate criminals. redirect Trotsky. don't be mean to reactionaries in ways that will not be productive.
2400. [S2] Palestine is not complicated -> what it says. there are weird philosophical problems that you can get into with the United States and analogies about Ireland or Trotskyism, but there is no real way to complicate Palestine. Palestine is a matter of not killing the Palestinians. and that's it. but you want to know what's terrible? Rothenberg literally had a chapter about complicating Palestine. this is why I say so many bad things about Existentialism. I may love to talk about hypothetical civilizations, but not in order to pretend that's how you solve Palestine.
2401. [S] needlessly complicating Palestine -> see: Palestine is not complicated
2402. ??
2409. [S2] In a world where all Palestinians were racist, it still wouldn't make sense to kill them -> you hear a lot of stupid arguments that Israel = Jews (how can it, when people now live in so many countries?), but you don't often see people address this. empire is not about whether people are nice people. bad people also have human rights.
2410. [S2] A monarchy spanning two continents is global empire -> not easy to dispute. an empire which is global in scope is global empire.
2411. [S2] A monarchy extending over a sovereign nationality is global empire / A monarchy spanning two nationalities is global empire -> murkier but often true. the Russian Empire extending over Ukrainians ultimately revealed itself to be global empire when it happened again. Spain or France conquering Haiti is global empire because even before we get to all the suffering it's an intercontinental distance. tangent: can we acknowledge how stupid arguing over Columbus is? regardless of what Columbus did or didn't do himself he marked the beginning of global empire in Haiti. look at Ireland and it becomes more than obvious that a few people appear before a lot of people appear. arguments about Columbus exist because people hate historical materialism.
2418. ??
2419. [S2] A country killing populations that stand in its way is empire
2420. [S2] The United States killing Native Americans in frontier wars was empire -> kind of obvious. "Manifest Destiny" describes the shape of an empire speaking in the old medieval sense, so it's kind of an admission of guilt. we get a very important truth from this: killing groups of people that stand in your way is empire.
2421. [S2] England occupying Ireland was global empire -> straightforward. the definition that filling Ireland with English people so they can all link together and realize the British Empire is global empire or "colonialism" materially. the British Empire is global empire, and the British Empire is the intended result of the process.
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2425. ??
2430. ??
2440. ??
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2450. ??
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2470. ??
2476. ??
2480. ??
2487. [S] "modest" proposal -> a terrible idea framed as a great idea, either for comedy or to make some kind of point. used several times in MDem scraps to create B-Side chapters or scraps. original essay "A modest proposal" from 1729
2488. [F2] Returning land doesn't work / Returning farms to Black South Africans Will Never Work -> reactionary tries to claim that there is an equation for what race of people should own farms ... going for the angle that this will make the world worse because being Black is as destructive as being Stalin. (which, if true, would mean that Black South Africans are rebuilding their country and making it stable.) honestly goes to show that when people said Communism "will never work" it isn't unreasonable to think they did mean to imply that Russians or Chinese people controlling industry in their own region instead of people from other countries — I hate the word greed, but — greedily slurping up everything anyone has created will never work. ... (complete prototype notes after watching through claim again)
2489. [S2] The concept of "scarcity" is prejudiced / Scarcity is prejudiced (searchable) / Liberal-republican economics is legalized racism / Liberal-republican economics is the study of how to legally eliminate Black people from the United States / Liberal-republican economics is the study of how to legally wipe China off the face of the earth -> the claim that racism, anti-immigration, and other prejudices begin precisely at the concept that human populations can be studied and constructed through "the allocation of scarce resources", because it is ridiculously easy to vulgarize that into kicking some particular group of people off a plot of land and handing it to someone else being "more productive" or "more efficient".
2490. ??
2491. [S2] Everyone can change their racist uncle / If Free Will could end colonialism, everyone could change their racist uncle -> one of the single greatest ignored contradictions in United States discourse. if individuals have Free Will, then it's safe for everyone to directly debate reactionaries. if individuals don't have Free Will, and all of people's actions are retermined through either interactions between parts of their body or the relaterministic development of Social-Philosophical Systems, then it's fundamentally important to rearrange people at minute social levels to get them to think any differently. even a progressive party taking over a country at large scales will do nothing to change how people think if you don't rearrange the people themselves.
2492. [S2] People argue about Columbus because they hate historical materialism / Arguments about Columbus exist because people hate historical materialism -> really, really important. Marxists believe that people fail to see global empire because they don't understand the material patterns of history or societal development. Existentialists believe that people fail to see global empire because they are ""prejudiced"". they start invoking this weird little Artisanal ideal of a tiny ring of friends from different countries listening and learning, like that can fix global empire. then the more you look into it, the more you see it's actually just an appeal to Free Will and the notion that a rational actor will Freely Decide not to be Evil. but then you get to the problem of, how do you get somebody to accept any particular definition of Evil as real? you have no guarantee that any particular human being won't Freely Decide that being whatever you think is Evil is better. so Existentialists believe that Free Will leads to a bunch of people spontaneously Freely Deciding to change history, but in reality, what you get is a bunch of people arguing that Columbus arriving in Hispaniola means nothing for the future arrival of Spanish empire because individual human actions are arbitrary and can't be used to predict history. even after those events have happened, when it's hundreds of years later and we have the results, they say this. this is what Existentialism leads to. denial of global empire. identifying the causes of global empire requires rejecting Existentialism.
2493. ??
2498. ??
2499. [S2] The US South is a nationality held in colonialism -> first of all: I make absolutely no assertion this claim is true, I only think it should be investigated. what is the definition of a colony? a colony is a population of people forcibly held under the government of an empire for the benefit of that empire. in the prototypical examples, people may be turned into slaves or slaughtered to take whatever "assets" their area "had". colonies in general can be very screwed up. but not all of them are the same. in some cases, England can descend on Ireland and start granting the whole thing to new or existing Protestants, and it takes a while for it to affect the whole country. there's nothing okay about that; it does amount to a medieval cold war where they're trying to eliminate the Irish because the Irish stand in their way. but think about it a bit. after the US Civil War, a lot of the development of the United States has revolved around chunks of socially-linked people trying to control parts of the US so they can further realize their vision of the US over the whole US. most notably racist reactionaries trying to drive people out of areas to have more control, but in modern times, also White center-Liberals trying to occupy as many slots as possible and do the same thing to reactionaries. that realization process of doing hegemony politics to supposedly defeat racism is a lot like the colonial process of realizing the British Empire over Ireland. mathematically speaking. and if you think this sounds really stupid? maybe it is. but I think in general like 90% of the people studying "colonialism" are trying to define an incoherent thing and have no idea how to distinguish it from things that aren't it. empires are real. messed-up wars to snatch people's lands are real. but how do you even tell whether groups of people should be somewhere or shouldn't? there's no Liberal economics for whether an island should be inhabited by one group of people or another group of people; there's no equation that says this island does best when Irish people or English people have it, barring some futuristic Marxist equation about empire bringing inevitable suffering or about the notion of self-contained areas and degrowth. the hard reality is that primitive accumulation is always happening and never stops happening. the sheer biological growth of populations prompts them to senselessly expand into each other and over the areas they each believed they owned and nobody really knows how to properly make sense of that. when do you deserve to live anywhere regardless of who you are, and when are you deliberately refusing to understand the existing population or trying to destroy it? the Protestants leveling Ireland to then realize the British Empire seems like a fairly clear case of going too far. but where does it actually begin? when do people belong to populations and people-groups regardless of how much they think they're individuals? when are people actually individuals who should be considered minority demographics? could Trotskyists be unfair "colonizers" of the Soviet Union just because there's a good argument both that they are taking stuff away from its otherwise united population to build their own rival civilization and they utterly refuse to understand Soviet culture? how do you know what Culture is supposed to own a region? with that in mind, could it be that people's approach to handling United States reactionaries is genuinely incorrect if they never really wanted to be part of the United States at all and yet everyone is trying to bleed their population for social programs and order their people to behave particular ways and say they shouldn't have representatives in the government they were traumatically forced to be a part of? these days Liberal democracy feels more like a weird new form of colonialism people are attempting to use "for good rather than for evil".
2500. ??
2505. [S2] Graph struggle can be used to establish standards -> Plantagenet kings; Ukraine war; Gramscianism. model combines or unifies models: social graph - medium or vessel for - code of behavior ; graph struggle - instance of - method for distinguishing Good from Evil ; graph struggle - has logical result - social change
2506. [S2] Machiavellianism is the assertion that graph struggle can be used to establish standards -> model combines or unifies models - Machiavellianism - has instance - Q2505
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2532. ??
2540. ??
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2599. How to know a crow: The biography of a brainy bird -> non-fiction semi picture book. one of those things I entered in here mostly because I liked the pictures — much like with comics or TV shows. but this is also a simple example of a "nature documentary" and how to pick Signifiers or real-world concepts out of one.
2600. animal home territory (ecology) -> relevant to describing real-world crow behavior, Warriors series, chunk phenomenon.
2601. individual animal
2679. [S2] If mathematics is purely arbitrary, Krillin can punch Chiaotzu for any answer
2680. [S2] Mathematics is an arbitrary painting from deterministic brushstrokes / Mathematics is an arbitrary house of deterministic cards -> equations work only one way but our choice of equations to use as models is arbitrary.
2681. [M] Does two flames plus two ice cubes equal four ice cubes? -> jamming question to trip up philosophers who say that "two plus two must necessarily equal four" rather than realizing that mathematics is true according to definitions of regular rules. mathematics is one big field of multivariable equations, such as "z = x + y", which always work the way they have been defined to work, but cease to work that way as soon as we use a different definition, which is rather frequent. if we assume one flame melts exactly one ice cube, the flames and ice cubes problem can be phrased with negative numbers, and we have changed the definition of adding objects into subtracting objects just by saying that the same integer that can contain 2 can contain -2.
2682. ??
2683. ??
2684. ??
2685. ??
2686. ??
2687. ??
2688. ??
2770. [S2] Taxes are basically the same as buying a product -> very common, but seems dangerous. if taxes are just buying a product, and we recall that buying a product is the act of dishing out a fraction of a social slot, then taxes are basically the same as handing out social slots. the withdrawal of taxes is the withdrawal of social slots. partisan arguments over taxes are arguments about the creation of social slots. most importantly, replacing taxes with private funding changes almost nothing; the only thing that changes is exactly one sponsor with one specific partisan viewpoint and set of requirements is connected to the "product" at a time.
2771. [S/S2] ??
2772. [S/S2] ??
2773. [S/S2] ??
2774. [S/S2] ??
2775. [S/S2] ??
2776. [S2] Goku cannot decide what Vegeta does / Goku cannot Freely Will what Vegeta does
2777. ??
2778. [S2] Vegeta will inevitably do what Goku wants / Shenlong effect / Goku effect
2779. [S] cat in superposition inside box / Schrödinger's cat
2780. [S] quantum moons / objects have no color / Reality isn't real / funny metaphors for causality gaps / funny metaphors for stark-divisions jumped by fundamental particle interactions
2781. [S] quantum dice / quantum coins / funny metaphors for wave functions
2782. [S] quantum shoes / funny metaphors for entanglement
2783. [S] box filled with overlapping lions / quantum Social-Philosophical Systems
2784. [S] Starlight Glimmer paradox / Trunks paradox
2785. [S] quantum lions (ally) / quantum Goku -> mathematical model in which potential allies that could extend a node into a graph appear in a probabilistic wave function of whether they will actually turn out to be allies; finding out someone is an ally requires quantum measurement
2786. [S] quantum leopards / quantum Vegeta / quantum William Afton -> mathematical model in which hazardous enemies of a given graph node attempting to form into a graph appear in a certain probabilistic wave function of whether somebody will turn out to be a hazard or insistently unaligned versus an ally; finding out someone is a hazard requires quantum measurement, and this can sometimes be devastating because it gives said non-ally information and power that could aid the non-ally's graph in expanding and oppressing outsiders of that graph
2787. [S] quantum Freddy -> similar to quantum William Afton, but with an absurd extra layer of precision; modeling hazards as unpredictably showing up at some particular point in 2D space according to the collapse of a probabilistic wave function
2788. [S] Communist Bardock
2789. [S] quantum Yamcha -> I don't have a good definition for this one but I thought it was funny. my working definition is, a node that when you collapse the wavefunction turns out to be useless for building graphs but is not hazardous
2791. ??
2792. [S] Lattice model
2793. [S] horizontal attack / Hatfield attack (MDem) / crime defined outside legal codes / local warfare / crime-war / war crime / stochastic terrorism / William Afton is real / hacking pedophiles to pieces with an axe (incident in Celebration, Florida)
2794. [S] nonviolent horizontal attack / SLAPP suit / copyright takedown
2795. [S2] Moral code of empire is more important than existence of empire / Imperialism is just the planetary police / justice through war -> logical result of: leaping State
2796. "Should America be the world's policeman?" (PragerU)
2797. Subject-internal perception / Lived Experience (exmat)
2798. Subject-internal interpretation
2799. Subject-external interpretation
2800. [S] map and territory fallacy
2801. [S] last unicorn fallacy
2802. ??
2900. [S0] Molecular-Marxist hypothesis / MDem hypothesis -> category of all MDem axioms/hypotheses. for the 2900s range, focus more on MDem as a hypothetical SPMS inside which these statements are best tested versus anywhere else instead of general meta-Marxist statements that could theoretically be tested by any movement imaginable
2901. [S2] Inventions are purposeless without a permanent caretaker or institution / Inventions cannot be valued by any society as a whole
2902. [S2] Capitalism is the division of a country into 300 million nations per 300 million individuals / Capitalism is the division of countries into one countable Culture per one individual -> this sounds really weird at first, but it is the only good way to explain why Existentialism exists and why it so tightly ties diversity and tolerance to the existence of Artisan types or bourgeoisie. watch Elemental (Pixar 2023) and you will really see this as the unintended message - society really needs every Culture specifically because it needs more types of businesses, but also, every Culture is a product for consumption to serve specific purposes needed by others, and every Culture must go through intense "selection" to never ever be similar to others and be exactly what some arbitrary set of un-sorted people needs in order to be successfully fit into society and tolerated. worse than that, some people in the class of Artisan-types/Directors/Careerists/"entrepreneurs" are allowed to think and create countable Cultures, and some people in the layers of customers and employees are strictly not allowed to think, only allowed to join a Culture or leave a Culture
2903. [S2] (mdem hypothesis)
2904. [S2] (mdem hypothesis)
2905. [S2] (mdem hypothesis)
2906. [S2] (mdem hypothesis)
2907. [S2] (mdem hypothesis)
2908. [S2] (mdem hypothesis)
2909. [S2] The State is the apparatus of Ideological State "Apparatuses" / "Ideological state apparatuses" wield The State as their apparatus, not the other way around / There is no such thing as ideological state apparatuses -> see entries such as "pillows are not ideologically neutral"
2910. [S2] It's easier to imagine the absence of elephants than the successor to elephants -> jamming proposition used to get people to realize why "it's easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism". it's far harder to imagine anything actually having transitioned into or given rise to something else than it is to imagine that thing just being broken or gone. an end-of-the-world scenario is actually just the absence of civilization in the form of Social-Philosophical Systems, which in a sense has definitely been the case on earth before. all civilizations have not been before they've been, and in some cases they've also not been after they've been. in contrast, civilizations transitioning to new class compositions or fundamentally new structures has been rather rare. can most people without a biology or science education make reasonable guesses about the species that could descend from elephants, down to all the physiology and details that make up a Future Elephant, or is it easier to imagine a particular elephant being gone from a photograph, or a photograph of a dead elephant?
2911. [S2] It's easier to imagine the end of the world than a correct course of history -> the heart of why it's "hard to imagine the successor to elephants". the literal version.
2912. [S2] (mdem hypothesis)
2913. [S2] (mdem hypothesis)
2914. [S2] (mdem hypothesis)
2915. [S2] (mdem hypothesis)
2916. [S2] (mdem hypothesis)
2917. [S2] (mdem hypothesis)
2918. [S2] (mdem hypothesis)
2919. [S2] (mdem hypothesis)
2920. [S2] Finite packaging facilitates gaining attention -> pokémon. scp reports. vines. video essays. books. perhaps even propositions. I hope chopping all philosophy into atomic propositions is the thing that works to get people actually thinking.
2921. [M] Is topology a threat to Marxism? -> jamming question used to illustrate the difference between non-Marxist theories that are merely outside Marxism and non-Marxist theories which are anticommunist.
2922. [S2] (mdem hypothesis)
2923. [S2] (mdem hypothesis)
2924. [S2] (mdem hypothesis)
2925. [S2] (mdem hypothesis)
2926. [S2] (mdem hypothesis)
2927. [S2] (mdem hypothesis)
2928. [S2] (mdem hypothesis)
2929. [S2] (mdem hypothesis)
2930. [S2] Ethics is almost impossible / Morality is almost impossible / Vegeta effect prevents naïve diffusion of morality / Individuals can never be forced to accept morality or ethics -> bound to be one of the most controversial ones, but the point of it is to test it and see if there is any way it can be clearly untrue
2931. [S2] Every moral statement is a scientific prediction / Every moral statement is a determinist hypothesis -> for instance, if we say "all Floridians should learn about the history of racism and stop being racist", that is a prediction that there is a deterministic process of every single Floridian going through education and then doing a particular more-or-less identifiable pattern of behavior to not be racist. if it is not possible to list out a repeatable procedure that can and will be followed by absolutely everyone, however general the outline, "should" becomes meaningless and the moral statement is unenforceable.
2932. [S2] People accept ethical standards when they wish to maintain relationships / Subjects accept moral standards when they want to maintain relationships / Subjects might reject moral standards when they do not want to maintain relationships
2933. [S2] Morality is a form of culture and identity / Morality is carried on Social-Philosophical Systems / Morality is carried in the bonds of social graphs / Morality is an internal characteristic of free-floating groups rather than individuals
2934. [S2] Moral oughts are indistinguishable from material imperatives -> the hypothesis that "Trotsky must fit himself into Stalin Thought to build the Soviet Union" (a material imperative, to keep the Soviet population from disintegrating and going to other continents) is an equivalent kind of statement to moral imperatives like "Progressives must vote for the Democratic party" or "Floridians must learn a correct history of racism" — they are claimed to be the same because in each case, there are situations where somebody is handed an imperative but in practice that person is horribly suited to materially follow that imperative, and then becomes branded as a terrible person. if this hypothesis is true, then it means some moral imperatives are morally dubious under a more objective, worldwide, and consequences-based formulation of ethics; if the enforcement of morality leads to what logically should be immoral outcomes, the system of morality contains incorrect moral assumptions. to be fair, simply knowing that some moral or material imperatives are incorrect does not tell us what the correct ones are, for instance what one is supposed to do with Trotsky or exactly what should replace Democratic Party campaigning to successfully unify people.
2935. [S2] (mdem hypothesis)
2936. [S2] (mdem hypothesis)
2937. [S2] Culture exists as the relationships between individuals / The real uncountable culture was the friends we made along the way
2938. [S2] (mdem hypothesis)
2939. [S2] Ethics is the same thing as objective morality -> how do I avoid statement definitions turning into word definitions and keep statements independent of what written words they are about
2940. [M3] How can Stalin and Trotsky coexist in the same reality?
2941. [S2] If ideologies can coexist, they should be mutually consistent / If ideologies can exist in harmony, they should be ontologically consistent across each other / Compromise is nothing, ontological consistency is key -> one of the biggest, most central claims of meta-Marxism. this is the claim that if Trotskyists and Stalin followers can exist in the same world, then we should expect mainstream Marxism-Leninism to correctly model the historical emergence of Trotskyism and its persistence after being exposed while Trotskyism correctly models the emergence and persistence of socialisms-in-one-country; this is the claim that if US "Democrats" and "Republicans" (center-Liberals and Tories) can coexist, they should each have completely accurate models of how the other behaves which they can use to predict how to peacefully resolve their differences. obviously this sounds rather laughable for Liberalism. but for Marxism, the notion that mainstream Marxism-Leninism and Trotskyism could update themselves to correctly model each other and all other ideology-populations as potentially independent entities wouldn't sound anywhere near as far-fetched. it's actually quite baffling why after generating so much new history without prior precedents Trotskyism would never have switched to correctly explaining its own material real-world history as an emerging "nation" or constellation of workers' states and realizing that there are steps in between what has actually happened and the purported end state for Trotskyism of a global civilization that they take out of Lenin's 1920 writings.
2942. [S2] Every time human beings assign meaning to an image it generates a group of people potentially in fierce conflict with other groups of people -> part of the mathematical definition of "Social-Philosophical System".
2943. [S2] Leninism does not have a binary truth value -> the claim that a theory of Leninist movements or of workers' states can be incorrect on small things without being incorrect on everything, or in a case like Trotsky, incorrect on most things without being incorrect on everything. Leninism is subject to Gödel's incompleteness theorem just like formal logic, physics equations, computers, books, and minds. this makes the judgement methods people use of trying to apply the categories of "proletarian" and "bourgeois" as if they were flat-out categories of Good and Evil or True and False inappropriate for judging the basic possibility of a given theory or movement realizing or becoming a historically-relevant entity that must be studied even if such a group is unwanted by some particular Marxism. it's possible to get so caught up in the prospect of realizing a proletarian civilization that you stop doing historical materialism and descend into Existentialism, becoming unaware of things that could completely prevent your success.
2944. [S2] Applying any claim to Trotsky eventually yields the correct answers / Applying any philosophy to Trotsky eventually gets you to the correct answers -> one of my very favorite jamming propositions. this one gets me through the hard times. this proposition sounds so stupid at first like it could never be true, and then you try it, and you realize there's something there. I'd give an example, but I have a problem that they're all turning into actually okay propositions that might be worth making into their own Items.
2945. [S2] Trotskyism is the prototypical oppressed group -> the claim that focusing on Trotskyists failing to fit into the Soviet Union gives insight into processes such as racists insisting they're oppressed, or movementist movements of marginalized identities horizontally oppressing each other in a circle
2946. [S2] Trotskyism is the prototypical prejudice -> the claim that specifically focusing on Trotskyists refusing to understand mainstream Marxism-Leninism gives insight into processes such as racism and xenophobia
2947. [S2] (mdem hypothesis)
2948. [S2] (mdem hypothesis)
2949. [S2] No proposition has a binary True or False value / Propositions generally should not have a binary True or False value / The way to fix logic is to replace binary outcomes with sheer tests of consistency -> you don't fully break out of the Gödel trap this way because practically nothing ever could do that anyway. that part is not what matters. ideally the point of logic isn't to derive facts about reality in a vacuum but instead to perform a basic sanity test of whether statements you already have could possibly be correct or are almost definitely wrong. arguably, that is the thing that logic actually excels at even as it is inappropriate for many other things.
2950. [S2] (mdem hypothesis)
2951. [S2] (mdem hypothesis)
2952. [S2] (mdem hypothesis)
2953. [S2] (mdem hypothesis)
2954. [S2] Anarchy is the most authoritarian thing there is -> slogan associated with unfinished MDem chapter "ProblemOfAnarchy"/"rain". the concept is that when there is no government the horizontal actions of individuals merely replace and perform the same regulatory actions government would do, because all populations of people have similar basic needs and they will all use the means available to them at the moment to achieve those needs. relationships and relationship boundaries are forced to play the role of The State, and in certain senses relationships become "authoritarian". can also refer to more general processes of Filamentism where if there are no central decisions the process of a population structuring itself takes the form of every surrounding individual repeatedly dealing out punishment until the target individual miraculously figures out how to do exactly what they need and have the capacity to do it really well. most technically, this slogan is referring not to particular Anarchist Social-Philosophical-Material Systems called "anarchy", but to the structural open-plurality of anektiry — but very few people throughout recent history have bothered to give the concept of anektiry or anhierarchy its own proper name, hence the colloquial use of "anarchy" in these edgy slogan phrases.
2955. [S2] (mdem hypothesis)
2956. [S2] (mdem hypothesis)
2957. [S2] (mdem hypothesis)
2958. [S2] (mdem hypothesis)
2959. [S2] (mdem hypothesis)
2960. [S2] (mdem hypothesis)
2961. [S2] Individual decisions cannot manufacture Freedom
2962. [S2] Empowering the individual is impossible without a science of society -> everyone acts like individual choices can fix everything. everything. but most of the time that's impossible to pull off because making the correct individual choice requires having information about what the choice will result in, that none of us actually have. you can directly throw Gödel's incompleteness theorem at that claim. it's impossible to reason your way to the correct decision when reasoning never perfectly grounds itself in reality. so in effect, it's impossible to use individual decisions to create Freedom. there we go, first decent logical proof against Guattari. as ironic as using propositional logic may be given what I just said. that doesn't matter right now.
2963. [S2] (mdem hypothesis)
2964. [S2] (mdem hypothesis)
2965. [S2] (mdem hypothesis)
2966. [S2] (mdem hypothesis)
2967. [S2] (mdem hypothesis)
2968. [S2] (mdem hypothesis)
2969. [S2] (mdem hypothesis)
2970. [S2] A Subject is an autonomous lifeform that eats and occupies space / A Subject is a conscious lifeform that makes decisions based on its biological needs
2971. [S2] Existing daily is an extreme position, not a moderate one / It's infinitely more ideologically moderate to not exist than to exist / All mortal lifeforms who eat and take up space are extremists -> the claim that because all existence is subject to the chunk phenomenon, nobody can actually "mind their own business" without being considered an extremist by somebody and royally pissing somebody off. everyone potentially conflicts with the existence of other people just by existing, because all goals are descriptions of changes to material reality, but some people won't want those changes, and may even be offended. with a particular morality, this transforms into the Buddhist proposition that when people come into conflict it's just better not to have goals. without that particular framing, this turns into the mathematical model of Filamentism, in which people's ability to align onto particular goals either increasingly builds social graphs or leads to vicious competition over who will be allowed to fill each open connection within the structure.
2972. [S2] (mdem hypothesis)
2973. [S2] (mdem hypothesis)
2974. [S2] Trotskyists must eat and occupy space before spouting Trotskyism / Anarchists must eat and occupy space before building an anarchism / Poststructuralists must eat and occupy space before tearing apart signs -> jamming proposition. funny way to say that thought comes after being, or that chunk competition is fundamental. both of those sound pretty abstract. but it's harder to dispute the remark that first of all people eat and occupy space.
2975. [S2] Liberalism is all political systems / Liberalism is the combination of every possible political faction into one country including Marxism and Anarchisms
2976. [S2] Every ideology perceives the absence of others as Freedom / Every ideology perceives the absence of other ideologies as Freedom -> the major reason I believe that "proposition NO" is unlikely. Trotskyists think the absence of mainstream Marxism-Leninism is Freedom, as do Anarchists. but Tories think the absence of Anarchism is Freedom because there are very specific kinds of things they want — some of them very ugly, like deliberate socioempire / Chunk Enterprise. sometimes this goes all the way into the gutter, with White people just thinking the absence of Black people or Palestinians is Freedom, etc. it depends on how much people let "culture" rule their population and buy into the concept of countable Cultures as fundamental to human existence while nation-states are not.
2977. [S2] (mdem hypothesis)
2978. [S2] (mdem hypothesis)
2979. [S2] (mdem hypothesis)
2980. [S2] (mdem hypothesis)
2981. [S2] (mdem hypothesis)
2982. [S2] (mdem hypothesis)
2983. [S2] (mdem hypothesis)
2984. [S2] (mdem hypothesis)
2985. [S2] (mdem hypothesis)
2986. [S2] (mdem hypothesis)
2987. [S2] (mdem hypothesis)
2988. [S2] (mdem hypothesis)
2989. [S2] (mdem hypothesis)
2990. [S2] Existentialism is why we never automate bosses -> intersubjectivity-theory Existentialists always insist that society changes because people Freely Decide to behave with empathy, but the contradiction in this is that for that to have any chance of being true you have to deliberately design society in tyrannical ways where the destiny of a lot of people is in the hands of one person that you hope is really really nice. if you truly make society depend on a whole lot of separate people at once it tends to behave in deterministic ways rather than the thoughtful rationalist way a single person might think. intersubjectivity Existentialists are likely to also be fine with the notion of schizoanalytic Escape, so they're going to love the notion of creating more capitalists to absorb people who are unsatisfied with current corporations by virtue of the fact the new ones are really really nice and they're supposedly going to spend their donations toward better political ad campaigns. the whole problem and fallacy of Existentialism is that it is all about dividing society into plural populations where the individuals supposedly see each other "as equals". Existentialism is when Twilight Sparkle and her five friends are such good friends that when they see Starlight Glimmer and how she is not linking up with people and being nice to them in exactly the way Twilight has friends, they mark her out as a threat to all their friends.
2991. [S2] If intersubjectivity actually worked, there would never have been a Cold War / If Existentialism actually worked, there would never have been a Cold War -> one of the major themes that Existentialism is constantly pounding through people's heads is that the normal, original state of things is for human beings to automatically and immediately experience empathy toward anything different [... angry redacted] Existentialism never caused anybody to experience mandatory tolerance of the USSR in this sense, or any Marxist party-nation.
2992. [S2] (mdem hypothesis)
2993. [S2] The Soviet diaspora was the second Trail of Tears -> literally nobody today notices the contradiction that all the progressive theories in the United States are about "culture" and "multiculturalism" and "prejudice" and arbitrary groups of people metaphysically tolerating each other in order to be perfect and not commit sin, but at the same time, the dissolution of the Soviet Union resulted in a bunch of people diffusing out of their towns or national populations to become citizens of other countries, showing that materially speaking nobody really has the inherent right to be part of A Culture and the chunk competition of all individuals to claim their most appropriate spots in the world inherently dissolves Cultures and creates intolerance of identities. on the ground, Cultures are not distinguishable from socially-linked populations arranged into material objects, and arguing to literally dissolve the way people are structured into a population is indistinguishable from declaring people have the wrong culture and a particular named Culture should be illegal.
2994. [S2] (mdem hypothesis)
2995. [S2] (mdem hypothesis)
2996. [S2] (mdem hypothesis)
2997. [S2] (mdem hypothesis)
2998. [S2] Teamwork is nothing, ontology is key -> a little hyperbolic and potentially controversial by itself. but look into it deeper and you'll start to see what it means. people believe capitalists build successful business territories because the capitalist is a capable strong individual. they don't, they succeed simply because the answer was correct and people did the correct answer. at other times, more Existentialist people want to believe that just having a bunch of people together believing in each other achieves something. not necessarily. whether we're talking about a business or a movement, all the people in it have to do the correct answer or nothing happens. the correct answer to a problem simply is. it can be found by one person studying reality tirelessly or it can be found by a bunch of people in a party, but it's correct because it's true to the real world, not because a smart person said it or somebody believed in it really hard. Jeff Bezos is not key. Jeff Bezos' workers are not key all by themselves. Stalin, Trotsky, and Guattari are not key. the correct answer, the correct ontological model of how to arrange people, is what's key.
2999. [S2] Power vacuums begin with order vacuums / All class society begins from Filamentism / All class society begins from competition for parts of graphs to be the first to be connected to other parts of graphs

Items / Signifiers 3000 - 5000

3000

3000. [S] S0 Concept / S0 Item / mathematical structure Item / abstract category Item / Item for highly generic motifs -> general category of all S0 Concepts
3001. [S] S Item / S1 Item / Signifier Item / motif / image / theme / signifier / elementary Signifier Item -> general category of all S Items; repeated image which is not necessarily being broken down into particular models of how it explains itself or what it prescribes
3002. [S] S2 Statement / S2 Item / Signifier Item stating claim about first-level Signifiers / Signifier Item for interpreting Signifiers / double Signifier / claim Signifier / statement signifier / fan theory signifier / parallel ontology / local ontology / partial Particle Theory / partial Bauplan
3003. [S] Item for wiki-internal categorizations / internal-category Item
3004. [S] lion of Trotskyism -> L940 Leo as Trotskyist name
3005. [S] lion of courage / lion of strength / predatory beast of strength / predatory beast of fortitude -> brought up in Warriors with LionClan whether they are cats or a myth about lions; can easily be a wolf etc.
3006. [S] lion red in tooth and claw / lion of naturalistic carnivore life-history / Jack London wolf / carnivore supposedly in nature / predator ostensibly portrayed realistically -> predatory or violent animal used very close to literally yet at the same time used to make some kind of symbolic point; part of the definition of Saiyan species. may contain small biology errors, but is invariably presented as if the errors either are true in the fiction or don't matter
3007. [S] lion of empire -> when lions in nature brutally fighting each other over open social slots is glorified and held up as an example of what human beings ought to be
3008. [S] lion of leadership -> Kimba; when the lion is held up as the most capable leader but violence is pushed out of emphasis; variation of "lion of courage"
3009. [S] lion of kindness / lion of Good / lion lying down with the lamb / predatory beast of kindness -> bible story; Zootopia?; when the lion or carnivore is specifically portrayed as discarding its predatory or violent nature to be the opposite
3010. [S] lion of inhumanity / carnivore as monster / dark-forest inhabitant / here there be lions / here there be dragons -> funny story, I found this in the bible several times while looking for "lion of empire"
3011. [S] "F1 Item" -> use for some kind of Item. for now F1 Items do not exist.
3012. [S] F2 Statement / Signifier Item stating claim about first-level Signifiers which appears to be false
3013. [S] "F3 Item" -> use for some kind of Item. for now F3 Items do not exist.
3014. storytelling device
3015. folklore trope
3016. fictional trope
3017. [S] slogan or motif promoting Bolshevism / slogan or motif promoting mainstream Marxism-Leninism, hypothetical Trotskyist workers' state, Third World Marxist party-nation, etc.
3018. [S] slogan or motif promoting non-proletarian Marxism / slogan or motif promoting Gramscianism/Althusserianism, etc.
3019. [S] lion of England -> once the coat of arms of the House of Plantagenet, it became the symbol of the population of England. make no mistake, many so-called national symbols come from the union of a specific aristocratic family and its supporters
3020. [S] Z0 Concept / physical structure Item / natural structure Item / real-world physics model
3021. [S] Z Item / Z1 Item / basic Item / elementary Item / non-fictional model / material thing / widely-attested thing / work to be analyzed / field of works to be analyzed / real-world unique group of people / real-world unique organization / real-world event / real-world civilization
3022. [S] Z2 Statement / Z2 Item / basic Item stating claim about elementary basic Items which appears to be substantiated / physics model / physics theory / physical equation
3030. [S] M0 Meta-level Question
3031. [S] M1 Mid-Positioned Trace / M1 Superpositional Object
3032. [S] M2 Mid-Positioned Relation
3033. [S] M3 Meta-Stating Question
3034. [S] The Real -> Lacanianism
3035. [S] The Symbolic -> Lacanianism
3036. [S] The Imaginary -> Lacanianism
3037. [S] floating signifier
3038. [S] concept spaghetti / spaghetti
3039. [S] poetic signifier equation / the snark was a boojum you see / selagadoola means menchickaboola roo
3040. [S] empty but grammatical sentence / grammatical sentence without real signs / the gostak distims the doshes / colorless green ideas sleep furiously / technically grammatical statement / technically grammatical paragraph / technically grammatical text / technically grammatical presentation / technically grammatical sermon
3041. [S] emergence / ergodicity of free-floating entities
3042. [S] moving like a room of helium atoms
3043. [S] missing the forest for the trees / ignoring ergodicity / ignoring emergence
3044. [S] God is dead
3045. [S] existence philosophy (motif)
3046. [S] nihilism (motif)
3047. [S] Absurd (motif)
3048. [S] theism / theists
3049. [S] nonbelievers / atheists / atheism
3050. [S] Atheism is something different from nonbelief
3051. [S] Agnosticism is something different from nonbelief
3052. [S] Truth specifically excludes physics / Truth (religion) / Māyā (Hinduism)
3053. [S] invisible dragon in garage
3054. [S] "if God exists in one of all possible worlds..."
3055. [S] if Trunks exists in one of all possible worlds... / Trunks is invincible
3056. [S] Bolshevik identity politics / culturally-defined Communist
3057. [S] Socialism (Toryism) / socialicism / Socialism imperializing partisan politics
3058. [S] not coming from specific ideology equals biased
3059. [S] mainstream media (Toryism)
3060. [S] cultural Marxism (Toryism) -> Western Marxism, Marcuse, Gramscianism
3061. [S] complete apathy -> depression symptom, interpretation of aliens - Dragon Ball
3062. [S] Can't turn off my mind reading / thought broadcasting -> schizophrenia symptom, interpretation of mind reading - Wings of Fire
3063. [S] science imperializing philosophy / scientism / scienticist / rationalism (Existentialism)
3064. [S] squashing The Subject
3065. [S] squashing Difference
3066. [S] signifier mad libs
3067. ??
3052. [S] hegemony politics / musical chairs attack (MDem) / stealth activism (center-Liberalism) -> the motif of people trying to "prevent fascism" by filling up business territories or government institutions with linked groups of people who are "not fascists" as fast as possible before "the fascists" get in. one of the chief strategies of Gramscianism. seems to me like it doesn't really make any sense because it is so chiefly defined by creating countable Cultures of people who belong in a particular cultural identity and carrying out competition between countable Cultures to exist instead of each other existing. that seems a lot more like it's the problem than the way the problem is resolved. realistically, you have to get all your progressives to good landlords and good capitalists who will pay the landlords if you want to end the graph struggle, and put good capitalists in all the reactionary businesses before you can drive the reactionary workers out. the capitalists have to lead this for it to be maximally effective and actually bring change. but it also clearly demonstrates that capitalist populations consist of multiple separate populations divided based on something other than who is a capitalist; you don't have a capitalist population and a worker population, you have specifically a Tory population and a center-Liberal population that recruit people into the nation and "allow" them to work. the bigger question to me is what creates these two populations. it isn't religion, because two people can be Protestants and still divide into these two populations. it has something to do with the inherent collapse of Liberal-republicanism.
3053. [S2] Liberalism is designed to collapse into Toryism -> the claim that Liberal-republicanism is unintentionally designed to be incapable of making a good distinction between gridlock and conservatism, and as a result it encourages conservatives to build up a socially-linked countable Culture below the level of Liberal-republican politics that becomes unbreakable and eventually takes over the population. every single progressive policy can be defeated by gridlock but creating a "conservative" or reactionary party is an inherent loophole in that it doesn't have to successfully create anything new to win.
3054. ??
3055. [S2] History books contain battles -> sounds like a tautology out of context, but is apparently a genuinely radical thing to say in the context of why people write fiction.
3056. [F2] Real life doesn't contain battles -> ever read a history book? it certainly used to. depending on your definition, real life also contains battles every time an Archon makes a terrible decision and prompts a protest.
3057. ??
3058. ??
3059. [F2] Art is a substitute for world history textbooks / Only the arts can teach us about experiences, so only the arts can teach us about demographic identities -> incredibly common claim I even found in a Liberal-republican economics text, but seems to fail a whole lot in practice. Undertale and Deltarune caused people to misgender nonbinary people, Warriors caused people to bash Native Americans for "bad worldbuilding". people think Media Representation will teach people empathy, but in practice you have to hand them a textbook on the demographic identity to get them to understand what they're doing wrong. this + Warriors = medicine men don't exist. [77] this + Deltarune = misgendering Kris. this + Pokémon = never heard of France before. this + Kirby = Spongebob is sexless
3060. [S0] assertion that traits fitting a demographic identity are not real
3061. [S] what if men could be in relationships with men?? / slash (motif of homosexuality being a fictional construct)/ I know I wrote a gay fanfic, but there's no way I could be a lesbian (generic) -> the fictional motif of insinuating a lack of understanding that homosexuality is real by claiming that it is an invented fictional concept.
3062. [S] Spongebob is sexless / Spongebob is asexual / I don't know, that's just Kirby -> there is a very complicated distinction between the way people talk about gender when they have no idea what it is at all, and how they talk about it when they actually know what a transgender person is instead of not knowing. saying that Kirby is "sex unknown" or "gender unknown" is more likely to mean "I genuinely haven't thought about it, I don't know anything on the subject and I don't know where to start" than "I think Kirby could actually be neither male nor female". "neither male nor female" is a really hard concept for normal people to understand if they've never heard of it before. it's easy to create a fictional trope accidentally just by combining concepts but that doesn't equate to an understanding that such a thing is real. (just look at the difference between A/B/O and understanding what transgender people are, and you'll understand it almost exactly.) likewise, people can come to understand that animals in nature can have unusual sex configurations, having both gametes or reproducing asexually, but they tend to be bad at internalizing what that means, and to remain at a totally baseline lack of understanding of what gender is.
3063. [S] medicine cat? medicine men don't even exist / Warrior cats is so unbelievable, I mean, medicine men don't even exist -> the motif of somebody failing to even recognize that a fantasy book is based on an older form of society and proceeding to bash real-world people-groups for bad worldbuilding. it's like there are at least two levels of racism. one is where you know Native Americans exist and you don't like them, or you put "interesting" people-groups on some kind of pedestal like more than being people they resemble some kind of reality TV show that you can attach fake rules and interpretations to. one is where you don't even know they exist and act like they're totally made up. this distinction seems to exist for all demographic identities.
3064. ??
3065. ??
3070. [S] protest consciousness -> Marxist texts speak of "trade union consciousness", a phenomenon where because large groups of people can only participate in trade unions, large swaths of people only gain the level of understanding that unions are able to learn; said another way the union itself learns, so arranging people into correct structures is paramount for them to learn anything. in the United States, I'd swear there's such a thing as protest consciousness. people are only able to participate in protests, they're not even able to participate in unions or groups of workers, so they build their entire understanding and concept of what resistance is around protests. this seems to be one of the material causes of so many people believing anarchism. the notion of different subpopulations automatically liking each other and banding together for the sake of freedom mostly only applies to protests themselves, but because people now have protest consciousness, they go around talking like it's a general model of "community" and "The Multitude", like they understand the notion of transitioning a society into a new society when they don't yet understand that.
3071. [S] don't like, don't read
3072. [S2] Parallel diversity of different fandom tags equals Freedom / Tearing any particular thing out of fanbases is dictatorial [78] -> not a proposition I have problems with, although interesting to analyze. it's... oddly specific when you think about it. why is this the claim that people spontaneously show up and make? if all the tags in a fandom are so different they don't even like each other, what exactly is it that binds them together and keeps them from tearing apart into multiple groups in the first place? what is it about the "united states of states of states" that people find so immediately intuitive as if it doesn't need to be explained? there is going to be some Anarchist theory bullshit sitting behind this ready to explain it that I'm going to need repeated to me 100 times.
3073. [S] united states of states of states -> the motif that a country is always just a voluntary link between demographics. that the United States is composed of Black women and White women spontaneously opting to be the same country, or Black women and White women opting to be women that then together with Black men opt to be the United States. etc.
3074. [S] united nonviolence of special oppressions -> the motif that a country is composed of "superior people" and a ton of endless categories of people who fail to function as perfectly as society's most elite people for some highly specific reason, that if you have any trouble getting into society there must be some highly specific reason you are specially oppressed which requires you to find other people who are specially oppressed exactly the same way and for all the highly specific groups to convince each other at length not to hurt each other and oppress each other. I am so tired of this, specifically because of that last thing. it's clear that over time our basic assumptions about capitalism and Liberal-republicanism have simply ceased to be true, and the way the whole thing operates is a bit different from the way people think. it seems less that people inherently want to accept each other because they're different and more like there are many separate subpopulations of people shoving each other around all trying to fit onto an island too small to fit all of them.
3075. There is no meaningful difference between LGBT+, STEM, and HASS -> the claim that STEM and HASS are just clusters of identities based on particular theoretical frameworks — the art history framework, the music theory framework, the set theory framework, the game theory framework, the quantum mechanics framework, etc — and this is indistinguishable from the concept of grouping together gay people based on a theory of gay & lesbian identity with trans people based on a theory of transgender identity. each of these groups of people is socially connected to a philosophical theory of a real-world thing and then the theories are connected together. the question then arises: why are so many people against the notion of an LGBT+ population existing while they don't get immensely upset that HASS or STEM exists and say "STEM is made up! technologists and mathematicians have nothing in common, and I'm not even sure math exists!!". really think about it. people may have conspiracy theories that NASA is greedily taking money for its own sake, yet they don't typically say "NASA is in league with mathematicians to take our tax dollars". why is the case of LGBT+ efforts for government programs viewed so differently? united states of states of states + lesbian = LGBT+. united states of states of states + physics = STEM.
3076. [S2] Capitalism ends through many rounds of "Absolutely Not" / United States capitalism ends when we realize every protest is about "NO" / proposition No (hypothetical transition to anarchism) -> derived anarchist proposition. the claim that in the United States, specific-sense historical materialism revolves solely around protests that say "no" to something, while movements about actually creating anything in particular won't form any enduring connections. protests about gender identity or abortion or specific forms of racism or even pollution aren't actually protests for anything, they're solely protests against somebody prohibiting or destroying something. there are an alarming number of examples for this. A) "Black Lives Matter": no police shootings. B) during COVID, there were more people than there should have been banding together across charcoal and rust factions to simply side with "no requirements". C) blanket resistance against "AI" without thinking about the origins of the problem in disorganization, conflation of products with individual Subjects, and the nonsense that is copyright disputes. "no AI". D) widespread negative sentiment against "social media", "phones", and The Big Guy that "greedily" devised them. these idle critiques are all "no" statements to merely take the thing away. E) "No Kings": it's in the phrase. arguments it could be true: this is the only kind-of convincing claim I've heard for how rival demographics could directly join together because of their identities despite the pressures of Liberalism. it's consistent with the notion that nations begin as population-societies which must begin with links and outer boundaries, by suggesting the boundary directly forms the population. argument it could be false: this could lead to horizontal conflict of two or more factions mutually protesting each other, as already happens on things like abortion clinics. argument 2 for false: this feels like it clashes really badly with the history of Afrikaners I briefly outlined in another entry. feels like an Afrikaner model could be as useful for challenging some of these claims as the Trotsky model
3077. [S] replacing Shadow with Sonic / replacing Tails with Sonic -> silly metaphor from MDem drafts. gets a little complicated to explain quickly. the point of it is that neither two individuals nor two populations are interchangeable due to the fact they are separate objects, depending of course on the context and reasons behind people trying to swap them. sometimes this doesn't apply because the shapes of two things are comparable enough they actually will behave the same way, allowing for historical materialism. sometimes this does apply because people assume that one population is the whole world instead of realizing that societies emerge in plural from different points and appropriately modeling them each behaving and interacting separately game-theory style.
3078. [S] thing which is illegal in Europe but continues in the United States -> there are so many of these, and you learn a lot about what people consider "democracy" to be in different countries every time you hear about them.
3079. [S] thing which is illegal in the United States but continues in Europe -> there are fewer of these, but it tells you a lot more about Europe.
3080. [S] cultural religion member / cultural Christian / secular Jew / cultural Hindu
3081. [S] Protestant or Catholic atheist -> famous story from Northern Ireland which is seemingly being repeated only a little less violently in the United States
3082. [S] cultural Tory -> a term I said in irony once but am terrified could be real. the motif of people being part of a family or town of Tories and being fiercely loyal to "their family" or socially-linked group of people without actually bothering to believe Tory political beliefs for their content. the group itself believes the Tory beliefs, rather than the individuals, and the overall structure of the group compels all the individuals to act as if they believe Toryism. however, the cultural Tories then proceed to practice Tory beliefs whether they really believe them or not.
3083. [F2] Catholicism is a backdoor for Bolshevism -> found this one in Democracy for Realists. had a good laugh at it. who would bother to organize entire Catholic churches just to make sure everyone becomes atheists and learns Marxism? but this is really how people thought back in the 1950s or so. the actual content of Bolshevism isn't what defines Communism to people, it's failing to be loyal to a particular population-society.
3084. [S] Big Brother
3085. [S] not my president / #NotMyPresident (Twitter tag) / Donald Trump is not my president (2017 bumper sticker statement) -> a seemingly-simple slogan that opens up a huge discussion of what is the correct way to study groups of voters using set theory
3086. [F2] Kevins don't belong in Germany / Only someone who doesn't belong in Germany would be named Kevin -> an interesting phenomenon where in the 1990s people in Germany were adopting names from United States movies and some people became convinced these families of people were pretenders who must be giving their kids cool names because they have nothing else to show. [79] the dissolution of East Germany sure looks a lot less "uplifting" when you put this on the timeline as what was happening at about the same time
3087. [S2] Karens don't belong in Seattle / People named Karen don't belong in the United States -> Karen takes longer to explain than Kevin, I feel like. Karen was a popular name at approximately the same time as the baby boom, so it's partially synonymous with "boomers", but not precisely. there was something about putting an exact name and portrait on ill-informed older people that made it easier for people to point to them as a group and point out the bad things they were regularly doing. at the same time it's concerning that this is the way it had to be done. you look at Marxist academics and the non-Gramscians will act confused why all the people in the United States aren't easily united into one population around local proletarian struggles, beginning at "meeting them at whatever consciousness they're at". but if you observe the motions of real people what you really see is weird things like everybody uniting against The Karens. the place that people are "at" is everybody sorting into these highly demographic-based subpopulations like all the White women of a particular age range likely to be named Karen, all the 25-year-old transgender people named Alex, the Black people in city A, the Black people and Latinos in city B. and then the Alexes and Brookses start going on about the Karens and how the Karens are terrible to other subpopulations as a countable Culture. there is this distinct natural division into competing subpopulations and need to locate all the Karens in order to surround them and cut them out where otherwise there would be no way to control them. it makes no sense at first sight and it's exhausting. all I can be sure of is that human beings don't naturally form into nation-states, and it would appear they form into countable Cultures at least slightly smaller than the United States, similar to if you hypothetically cut the Soviet Union in half and made half of it Trotskyist.
3088. [S] greeting nonbinary Representation with misgendering / misgendering Frisk (Undertale) / misgendering Kris (Deltarune) -> I swear this one is in every other YouTube comments section. I think that really says something about how effective Media Representation actually is or isn't. Kris + signifier mad libs = this.
3089. ??
3090. ??
3091. [S2] Bolshevism is over
3092. [S2] Quality-slider speak is a cover for bigotry / center-Liberal appeals to alchemy-like metaphysical quality sliders conceal bigotry / Arceus really did a number on Ultra Space, huh? (center-Liberal parties) -> the more time goes by and the more I look back at each instance of this phenomenon, the more I begin to feel like every word center-Liberals say in the vein of "extreme" and "too much" is an after-the-fact justification while the real reasons are snap judgements against something outside and unknown that they don't want to learn about. center-Liberalism is this particular socially-linked group of people that protects itself by resisting any suggestion that it could be structured differently. and yet, everyone is trying to do this totally impossible thing of integrating racial struggles into that, when it's like, you are trying to fight racism by using bigotry. that is always going to result in problems, either in people failing to accept anti-racism education because they're too steeped in bigotry, or a select group of people who does accept it becoming bigoted against other socially-linked groups of people who do anything to threaten center-Liberalism even in cases where that thing would benefit other demographic identities. this approach to fighting racism will generally manufacture a group of dedicated racists. a kind of, dark solidarity between one group of people who have not been absorbed into the center-Liberal SPS and other groups of people excluded for other prejudices. even the worst filters you can think of are dialectical. there is always an unintended effect next to the intended effects based on the fact two separate objects are actually interacting.
3093. [S2] If somebody in China "believes that everybody", it includes the United States / If somebody in China says an "I believe that everybody" statement, the United States is obligated to do it -> one of the easiest counterpoints against the effectiveness of "I believe that everybody" statements. If the people of China don't get to vote in United States elections, how do you really know that a bunch of people saying "I believe that everybody should" will actually change reactionaries instead of the result being them complaining that a different population of people with different values shouldn't get to tell them what to do?
3094. ??
3095. ??
3096. [S2] "Compartmentalization" is a form of compartmentalization -> I think this thought had come to me when listening to a FNaF theory where Vanessa used the word "compartmentalized" to describe not truly having dealt with something and in one sense only really having categorized it. I said, yeah, now there's an accurate metaphor. so much of the way we use language, and by extension philosophy itself, has turned into this weird exercise of attempting to self-contain things that aren't self-contained and think we understand them just because we've labeled them. we labeled abuse and manipulation! now we understand all forms of them in all contexts. we labeled structural racism! now we clearly know the entire context for why it happens and how to prevent it. but it doesn't actually work that way.
3097. [S2] There is no such thing as Idealism -> the claim that nobody actually desires to believe in Idealism, and people only believe in Idealisms because they happen to also be FreeWillIsms; all Idealisms are actually variations of Existentialism. I think this is slightly incorrect because people really have this thing for inventing metaphysical sliders that go from one end to the other and trying to abstract away that the "balance" in the middle always has a way of coming to be instead of being what automatically happens when you avoid the "ends" of the slider. I still don't entirely know why it's so appealing to do that.
3098. [M3] What does slider-speak actually achieve? -> this is a good example of an M3 question because it undoubtedly has multiple answers.
3099. "I believe that everybody" statement -> a more specific category of statements than it might sound; this generally doesn't include "to-you" statements like "I believe everybody should have housing". this is about moralistic statements like "I believe that everybody should vote for Joe Biden" (are there even any ballot boxes left?) or "I believe that everybody should donate to charity" (a clear case of acting like everyone is the bourgeoisie to appeal to their sense of Filament in-group and trick them to into doing things). "I believe that everybody" statements are a problem because they often describe impossibilities that people can't actually be made to do, whether this is for bad reasons where people are becoming uncontrollable through a Vegeta effect or because of reasonable physical limitations.
3100. ??
3101. [M3] What is the meaning of chunk competition? / Why are we here competing over gentrifying neighborhoods? / What is our purpose in working at one corporation against another? / What is the cosmic significance of anyone fighting for the right to live in the United States versus move away? / What is the greater meaning of dissolving the Soviet Union and making its people move to Australia versus fighting to keep it standing so people can be Ukranian and Kazakh? / Why are we here trying to build China-specific industry when the world is trying to tear the whole country apart? / What is the greater meaning of trying to push for Trotskyism over socialisms-in-one-country? / What is the greater meaning of trying to push for socialism-in-one-country versus Trotskyism, particularly should Trotskyism-in-one-country be possible? -> humanity's biggest question that nearly nobody thinks about. Stalin's government apparently could not answer this question in a satisfactory way (or promote the formation of groups who did), leading to the slow dissolution of the republic into its individuals.
3104. ??
3105. [S] Communists as some arbitrary non-Communist ideology / Communists as some arbitrary ideology that is not Bolshevism -> quite common if you would like to present Communists as stupid idiot garbage trash
3105. [S] Communists as subset of Utopian Socialism
3105. [S] Communists as hippies
3105. [S] Communists as anarchists [80]
3105. [S] Communists as religious prophets [81]
3105. [S] Communists as concealing nationalism / socialicizing the population / nationalizing the people / socializing the people -> 1984, resembles: Duginism; retrieve that dumb video "socializing (nationalizing) the people" came from
3110. ??
3120. ??
3130. ??
3140. ??
3150. ??
3160. ??
3170. ??
3175. ??
3180. [S] stupid idiot garbage trash / casting ideology or movement as stupid idiot garbage trash -> you've almost certainly seen it. when someone implies that a particular ideology is so incredibly stupid it ought never have butted its head into society or into the discussion. sometimes hidden behind the word "extreme" when the true connotative meaning of extreme is "idiotic"
3181. [S] progressives as stupid idiot garbage trash / gender studies professors as stupid idiot garbage trash -> Toryism; see Dinesh D'Souza's awful book
3182. [S] non-Liberals as stupid idiot garbage trash
3183. [S] Communists as stupid idiot garbage trash / Communist allies as — -> see: Starlight Glimmer, "dumbacabra" (Aster/Aubepine)
3184. [S] Trotskyists as stupid idiot garbage trash -> not very common, but if you see it anywhere, it will come from Stalin followers. from anyone else, almost always takes the form of "Communists —"
3185. [S] party-nations as stupid idiot garbage trash / Communist parties as — / Communist theorists as — -> distinct from the concept of targeting mere individual Communist allies or "believers", this is the concept that Communist parties trying to take control of society have no place in society or have forfeited their place in society because the definition of a particular nation-state somehow explicitly excludes Communist parties. the concept that Communist parties violate what it means to be Russian, Chinese, or United-States, and are not administering this core populational process of life or individuation properly. I think of the quote in Heidegger's letter that supposedly 'internationalism cannot make a better nationalism', vaguely implying that somehow there is something fundamental about nationalism that Communists do not understand because they do not seek to characterize nationalism "for its own sake" without the possibility of Bolshevism. if so, what even is it? I certainly do not understand that.
3186. [S] imperialists as stupid idiot garbage trash -> see: Dragon Ball. concept that imperialism is specifically such a stupid thing to do it will destroy a civilization, stipulating that imperialists are simply the enemy because they have bad inferior trashy culture, yet assuming it is not necessary to ask where it comes from. may be presented with the concept of Free Will wedged somewhere in the middle. one of the most bizarrely nazi ways to oppose nazis, and yet depressingly common
3187. [S] employees as stupid idiot garbage trash -> only common in the most insufferable right-Liberal works; prepare for said works to consistently confuse Director types versus Serializer types / Careerists versus capitalists, and try to give pure owners all the credit for inventing things
3188. [S] ethnic group as stupid idiot garbage trash / city population as stupid idiot garbage trash / neighborhood as stupid idiot garbage trash / legal or illegal immigrants as — -> I am convinced there is not a big difference between Tories going on racist rants about how people in Detroit or wherever have inferior culture and that's why they're poor ("1350" conspiracy theory), and center-Liberal/Existentialist anticommunism
3189. [S] homeless people as stupid idiot garbage trash
3190. [S] elite experts as stupid idiot garbage trash / university professors as stupid idiot garbage trash -> one of the most contradictory concepts you hear out of Toryism: acting as if the literal most educated and most qualified people in fields are unnecessary to society just because Bob from South Dakota doesn't understand what they're saying. and the more people believe in capitalism the stupider the statement gets — right-Liberals go around acting like taxes are so bad and it's best to choppify society into the most autonomous chunks it can be, but then when they get their wish and that results in Careerism and households expending their own money to train elite experts who get into government bodies and start ordering people around, there's still presumed to be some argument that they don't inherently have the right to do that. all elite experts are just expressions of capital the same as a business territory is.
3191. [S] art students as stupid idiot garbage trash
3192. [S] specific scientific field as stupid idiot garbage trash / string theorists as stupid idiot garbage trash
3193. [S] what passes for macroeconomics in Croatia / Third World professors as stupid idiot garbage trash -> "macroeconomics in Croatia" is an anecdote I heard from relatives, in which a professor from Croatia with a degree was upset he had to get another entire degree to be considered worthy of performing economics in the United States. because he "only" knew what passes for macroeconomics in Croatia! Croatian economics, not real economics. this is what happens when you believe that Third World countries are badly developed "because of" Bolshevism: once they dismantle Bolshevism, then it becomes that the countries are inferior because they have "Croatian" economics or "Chinese" economics.
3194. [S] ??
3195. [S] ??
3196. [S] ??
3197. [S] ??
3198. [S] ??
3199. [S] particular name as stupid idiot garbage trash / people with specific name as stupid idiot garbage trash -> superset of: Karen, Kevin, etc. this concept was discussed in Freakonomics, and unfortunately it seems a bunch of people deployed the "pointing out racism is being racist" fallacy to mistakenly denounce the book.
3200. ??
3201. [S] random event generator -> "Fetch" / FNaF brought this up?
3202. ??
3097. [S] Subject-style being / virtual-pet-style being
3098. [S] excessive subject
3099. [S] excessive raincloud
3100. ??
3149. [S] that (minus a buck fifty) / the zero dollars that doesn't get the coffee
3150. [S] the buck fifty that gets the coffee / a buck fifty / a dollar fifty / the dollar and fifty cents that actually gets the coffee -> I use this metaphor way too much in too many contexts. one time I referred to the concept of a Yamcha + Vegeta fusion as Vegeta being "the $1.50", as if even though only one thing is useful you actually do need both things. one time I may have referred to Rosa Luxemburg's theory of movements or Trotsky's projection of international permanent revolution as the movement being "the $1.50". sometimes I use the metaphor as if "that" is useful and necessary, and sometimes I use it like "that" is not useful.
3155. ??
3160. [S] ???
3161. [S] phoenix
3162. [S] Parandrus / Tarandrus / bestiary reindeer
3163. [S] panthera (mythical beast)
3164. [S] griffin / gryphon
3165. [S] winged horse / pegasus
3166. [S] European dragon / "draco" dragon
3167. [S] unicorn / monoceros (unicorn)
3168. [S] chimera
3169. [S] hydra
3170. [S] filtration / filtering -> produces movement with Bauplan
3171. [S] filtration sifts out party-nation / unions and party are different / complicated system of pulleys (Lenin) -> retrieve Lenin text
3172. [S] filtration and party-nation are same thing -> The Communist Necessity
3173. [S] filtration requires Subjectivity -> Marcuse
3174. [S] filtration through morality-shaming -> Gramscianism, Existentialism, center-Liberalism
3175. [S] filtration through national essentialism -> Toryism
3176. ??
3177. [S] fictional race
3178. [S] humanoid being / humanoid race
3179. [S] beast humanoid / furry
3180. [S] intelligent beast / civilized beast
3181. [S] intelligent monster / intelligent kaiju / civilized monster
3182. [S] intelligent construct
3183. [S] fictional being for which physics is suspended
3184. [S] toon-style being / rubberhose cartoon style being / Acme cartoon style being
3185. [S] toon animal -> intelligent beast - in the capacity of - toon-style being
3186. [S] mythical being / paranormal being / supernatural being / magical being
3187. [S] tokusatsu-style being / 1960s live-action style being
3188. [S] LCD-keychain-style being -> see: Digimon, Tamagotchi
3200. [S] purely-hypothetical historical period / purely-hypothetical civilization or structure that population has
3201. [S] horses in cubicles -> can we just take a moment to appreciate the horses in boring offices and shouting at each other in traffic in James Baxter's story, versus the way civilizations of horses are depicted in My Little Pony, with these tiny businesses and walkable everything. even Manehattan is idealized to where nobody actually hates living there. there's a particular disconnect between the theory of society in MLP and anything that's realistic or superficially realistic yet very nonsensical as in Adventure Time. horses driving cars is really silly, and yet, this complete walkability you see in MLP is nothing like what living beings experience in real life versus these surprisingly relatable nonsense images of horses in cubicles. (Adventure Time season 8, episode 18)
3210. [S] animal intended as realistic animal / semi-realistic beast / intelligent animal in nature / intelligent Eukaryote in nature / intelligent organism in nature -> includes Warrior cats. does not include Wings of Fire because of the existence of certain uniquely human behaviors in the books, like small capitalism.
3211. [S] unrealistic animal / imaginary organism in nature / unrealistic organism in nature / flatlanders in nature / kaiju in nature / unicorns in nature
3220. animal rank (ecology)
3221. [S] animal spatial rank (speculative fiction) -> see: Saiyans, Icewing leaderboard
3222. [S] animal tribal population / animal tribe -> Warriors
3223. [S] animals in warring states period / animal feudalism -> Guardians of Ga'Hoole
3224. [S] animals in feudal order or monarchy / animal feudalism -> a couple SCP entries
3225. [S] animal empire
3226. [S] animal republic
3227. [S] animal city or town
3230. ??
3231. [S] seasons as impending doom / winter is coming -> see: Animal Farm
3232. [S] seasons as warring states / seasons as kingdoms
3233. ??
3234. [S] planetary nation / planetary population
3235. [S] planetary civilization / planetary civilizational formation / planetary tribe
3236. [S] planetary kingdom
3237. [S] planetary empire
3238. [S] planetary imperial colony / planetary Third-World civilization / planetary exploited tribal population
3239. [S] planetary army
3240. [S] planetary police
3241. [S] galaxy or universe police
3242. [S] cosmic police
3243. [S] galactic Communist International
3244. [S] Communist International of universes or timelines
3245. ??
3246. [S] chunk competition / all-directional contradiction between individuals / chunk competition across the spatial slot hierarchy
3247. [S] spatial slot hierarchy
3248. [S] Filament / tiny local subpopulation / nameless tiny subpopulation
3249. [S] Filamentism
3250. [S] networkism
3251. [S] Blobonomics
3252. [S] Meshonomics
3253. [S] Market Society
3254. [S] behavior-control device / behavior-control machine -> business territory, Blobonomics
3255. [S] Blobonomist / society predictor
3256. [S] Everybodyism / nameless prejudice against all other individuals
3257. [S] Populationism / nameless prejudice against all other populations
3258. [S] town ain't big enough for the two of us
3259. [S] town more than big enough for the two of us
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3270. [F2] Anarchism is acting as if you are already free / Freedom is using individual will to realize Anarchism -> well, here it is. a claim said by anarchists which says the thing I call Existentialism is one specific form of Anarchism. (found in the context of an interview with David Graeber, who was claimed to be an anarchist at some point in time.) I think this claim is inherently contradictory such that it could not possibly be true. if anarchism is acting as if you are free, some people are already anti-vaccine, anti-immigrant, anti-Islam/anti-atheist Tories before they do that, and then they can do "anarchism" on top of being a Tory. so Anarchism would then be a system where half of the population transitions to fascists with a fascist state and half of the population is Anarchists and the fascists kill the Anarchists (potentially). I think most anarchists would not say fascism is part of any anarchism, so this is not a definition which can actually mark off where anarchism starts and ends. on the other hand, the claim that anarchism generates Liberalism is more plausible, because nothing rules out Liberalism being what anarchism looks like in reality, and it doesn't rule out the possibility that anarchism generates Liberalism and Liberalism then generates fascism.
3271. [S2] Freedom is the discovery of escape routes / Freedom is the rearrangement of social connections -> schizoanalysis
3272. [S2] Freedom is the ability to make decisions
3273. [S2] Freedom is the absence of unnecessary populational divisions -> Lenin, Trotsky
3274. [S2] Freedom is the absence of manipulation and abuse by territory owners -> Lenin, some anarchisms
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3276. [S2] Freedom is individuals having no accountability to others
3277. [S2] Freedom is business territories existing without government
3278. [S2] Freedom is the discovery of new possibilities / Freedom is the creation of new combinations -> MDem
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3280. [S] many tiny fragmented things equals Democracy / decentralization (chopping things up into tiny pieces to supposedly create Freedom)
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3297. [F2] Pokémon is metatransitional literature / Pokémon is solarpunk / Pokémon is equivalent to metatransitional literature because it shows the values we need to have in order to build an Anarchism
3298. [S2] Snufkin is an anarchist -> apparently anarchists do not seriously believe this is true. [82]
3299. [S] assertion something is an anarchism -> seems a little random, but is oddly useful for defining silly fan theories like "Snufkin is an anarchist".
3300. anarchism (top-level category) -> it took me toward the end of making this list to add anarchism or its color swatch. this is partly because I don't know much about any particular named Anarchism, and partly because I have my doubts a lot of concepts in anarchisms are actually unique to them rather than being borrowed from Liberalism or Existentialism. I am not against the sheer concept of anarchisms; particularly when they have specific civilizational shapes they form if they form successfully, they fit into meta-Marxist analysis as well as anything else does. there are just a few things I have problems with like the vagueness of anarchist philosophy and the failure to distinguish between utopian imagery and realistic models of constructing post-capitalist societies. "scientific" anarchisms with the specificity of a named Marxism are at least as legitimate to describe here as Trotskyism.
3301. [S2] Existentialism is anarchism plus the bourgeoisie -> this one seems more accurate than Q33,02. real anarchists have particular things they say, but you see a lot of those things seemingly co-opted into weird Existentialist "spaghetti" philosophies. I think one of the few anarchist sayings that can't be co-opted is that anarchism intends to remove the owners. but adding them back in seems to be exactly the missing link between anarchism and the arcane "spaghetti" philosophies like Lacanianism.
3302. [S2] Anarchism is Existentialism with a coat of black paint / anarchism is near-synonymous with Existentialism -> the claim that Anarchism's actual model of society is the same cluster of Existentialist models Liberalism uses, and then each of them builds other larger-scale village/town/region propositions on top of that. I don't really know if this is true. it would take a bit of investigation to build a decent logical proof either way. this concept comes out of the works of Horst Stowasser, [83] who claims that anarchism is "not an ideology" (impossible, but go on) but a cluster of things based on "freedom", "hostility to domination", "solidarity", "mutual aid", "autonomy of the individual", "networks of small units", "self determination", and "rebellion against foreign determination". 5/8 of those are Existentialist values, and half of them can be co-opted into Liberalism.
3310. [S] buried Existentialism -> generic motif for discovering some period of Existentialism inside fiction. as this might be found in nearly any piece of fiction, there should be some very clear piece of evidence given for the themes being very specific and potentially unfamiliar ideas particular to Existentialist philosophy, thus making the reader ask "what is this and what is it doing in here?". the mere presence of something like character growth or identity doesn't inherently count as Existentialism. a more specific proposition such as "a Subject can decide on their own identity without the constant and inevitable input of others" (then where does their development come from?) or "nobody can ever predict other individuals" (even when we all have mirror neurons?) might very well count.
3320. [S] freezing society's violent conflicts in place to promote peace -> important theme in State and Revolution: Liberal governments have a particular way of attempting to use this, workers' states have a different way.
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3322. XKCD 3322 "Winter"
3323. [S] flappy planes and stick towers -> xkcd 1322: Winter. the motif of using unheard-of phrases for common things
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3328. [S2] Spanish people can be anything / anti-essentialist proposition
3329. [F2] Human beings cannot form into A Culture -> a false belief I had during early MDem drafts. I had a problem with the way sociology, progressive anthropology, and most notably fantasy books characterized civilizations as "cultures" when they were always made of populations of material people. it seemed to me that if you defined groups of people (or fantasy beings, etc) as coming into existence through "culture", then it inherently promoted defining people by stereotypes and didn't explain the underlying processes that produced the people who didn't fit them. over time, I thought about this more, and came to see that what I actually had a problem with wasn't the concept that people could separate into new groups by culture — 1930s Trotskyites, modern anarchists, and particular clusters of Toryism in places like the United States clearly try to do that — but the actual problem I had was that people like fantasy writers assume a whole empire or kingdom-sized area is made of one Culture rather than every ethnic group, nationality, or fantasy race being made of multiple Cultures. my stance after that was that countable Cultures are real but they actually exist because populations are made up of subpopulations, not because people are unified.
3330. [S] otaku / weeaboo (person who regenerates the subcultures of Japan elsewhere) -> this is a signifier because it typically comes up in a very "culturally-embedded" context of groups of isolated individuals with particular personal histories interacting with other groups of people with different personal histories while neither of them is trying to analyze the workings of societies or truly understand how anything has actually happened and they're all coming at things from these insular views having no idea how anything works and directly reacting with horror and confusion to each other's specificity and nonconformity and ignorance. it's like, one of the most "cultural" concepts there is in the negative sense of it having almost nothing to do with reality. honestly, "brony" exists through a pretty similar process.
3331. [S] anime, which is always bad / anime, which is bad / anime >:/ / tokusatsu films, which are always dumb / Japanese Young Adult media, which are bad / Japanese shows, which are always dumb -> this almost never goes as far as the "stupid idiot garbage trash" Items are meant to suggest. those are meant to suggest something that is fundamentally not tolerated and pushed away every time, while "anime, which is bad" is meant to apply to things that are about halfway tolerated and halfway rejected.
3332. [S] anime, the trash I love anyway -> this + Q1337 subculture = otaku
3333. [S] Soviet Union otaku / tankie (pejorative by anticommunists toward person obsessed with Communist imagery) / Stalinist (rare pejorative by Mensheviks, right-Liberals, and Trotskyists toward person who does not adopt complete culturally-embedded intolerance of Stalin's government) / fellow traveler (person who is a Communist ally but is not physically able to contribute much to the cause) -> the concept that otaku are created by the push of Existentialist-style Social-Philosophical Systems to defend exactly their socially-linked blob of people from other blobs of people and push people who do not neatly link into the exact set of individuals that make up that blob out to the margins of still being forced to exist within a particular population-associated countable Culture. thus otaku can be a phenomenon that exists in Japan, otaku can be a phenomenon that exists when people don't conform to the individuals of the United States, and otaku can even be a phenomenon of people learning too much about the wrong ideology or history that initially had nothing to do with Japan.
3334. [S] brony / pegasister -> may mean varying things to people who create the label voluntarily, but in surrounding society, typically connotes a very specific kind of person who has no real connection to society except through cozy and inviting cartoons about friendship
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3338. [S] it's not Japanese, it's just a video game / Pokémon, which is not Japanese -> I don't think this motif is "offensive" or anything, I just think it's strange and has never made sense to me
3339. [S2] Japanese media must be understood from within Japan / Japanese media must be understood relative to how the people of Japan see them -> one of the only progressive-anthropology lessons that crusty isolated White people sometimes miraculously understand. [84] if Japanese media seem totally inexplicable, some half the time or more they actually do make perfect sense in Japan. (when it isn't the case Japanese writers just want to be silly and spontaneous, which also does happen.) Dragon Ball is constantly mocked, even though everyone has inexplicably watched it. but Dragon Ball has a rich history behind it of Buddhism in Japan, rejecting Buddhism, Journey to the West, and trying to juxtapose the mythical, fantastical feel of that story with "what is modern", in an act of turning the story's own themes of fantasy or adventure versus daily life around on itself, not to mention the vague nods in "Bardock" to casting off Imperial Japan — a historical event that happened to Japan but has never really happened to the United States. not only is Dragon Ball better in its thematic cohesion and story structure than a lot of other Japanese action shows that vaguely copied it or coincided with it, but if you compare Dragon Ball to something like Avatar: The Last Airbender there is no comparison. Avatar's worldbuilding feels vaguely "fake", like United States people tried their hardest to act like they knew what Asian countries were but in the end they just didn't. Dragon Ball actually feels like something someone from Japan would write for people in Japan, as much as it provides rather shallow portrayals of any other country or countable Culture of people. the crux of this seems to come down to "China is a medieval kingdom". people in Japan know that Japan has had more history since feudal times and what it's like to live in a Japanese city, while people in the United States seem determined not to know that. the concept of Asian immigrants writing fiction is a different discussion entirely. but when it comes to White people it really seems like a lot of what appears to be acts of embracing diversity in embracing Asian fantasy settings is actually an act of escaping learning about real China or real Japan or the real Koreas as they exist today. the probable surface reason: that would be modernity, and modernity is bad! the unintended implication: I don't know I have a lack of knowledge about other populations which in itself is effectively racist and in escaping from reality before I know about reality I am unknowingly evading education and perpetuating xenophobia. see also: why is there no fantasy Leninism?
3340. [S2] If two works are similar, one is the other's bootleg
3341. [S2] Digimon is a bootleg of Pokémon -> not true on several levels, at least on the surface. but the more you look into it, the more complicated it gets. can something be "a copy" just because people believe it to be undeserving of a greater rank? if so, this becomes much harder to evaluate. is Steven Universe the real Dragon Ball? if so, it's harder to say Pokémon isn't the real Digimon or vice versa.
3342. [S2] Pokémon is a bootleg of Digimon -> you practically never see this, but it would probably be fun to argue. Pokémon evolutions?? how do those make any sense. Tamagotchi and Digimon put real thought into this stuff, but you're telling me a garbage bag becomes a bigger garbage bag just because?
3343. [S2] Pokémon is a bootleg of Ultraman -> one of the statements that's truer that Pokémon being copied into Digimon. the show follows the same basic kaiju-of-the-week structure. Pokémon trainers are analogous to Ultraseven, using monster capsules. Ultra Series has the Plasma Spark and the Spacium ray, Necrozma is the sun-powers monster. every show has a new gimmick device. there's a pretty good argument that Pokémon is a copy of Ultra Series if you literally mean a bunch of things about it being copied. the only problem is that isn't what people actually mean.
3344. [S2] Telefang is a bootleg of Pokémon -> false impression people got from Waixing making a bootleg of Telefang. somewhat ironic that people thought Telefang was a bootleg of Pokémon because Waixing turned Pokémon into a bootleg of Telefang.
3345. [S2] Pokémon fan games are bootlegs / Pokémon fangames are identical with bootlegs -> what corporations tend to believe, or imply that they believe.
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3351. [S2] China having products is stealing / Third World countries making the same product as First World countries is stealing / Third World countries independently replicating products existing in the First World using resources in their own country is stealing -> this claim only gets worse and worse as a claim the more you spell it out.
3352. [S] Communism, the trash I love anyway
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3357. XKCD 1357 "Free Speech" [85] [86]
3358. [S2] Rejection means you're an absolute ogre and people are showing you the door / Rejection means you're a monster and people are showing you the door / If you've been expelled, it's just that you're an asshole and people are showing you the door -> the censorings made it really easy to show what I think of this. I think by assuming that everything that upsets people is made of prejudices, at a certain point we're just creating all-directional, mutual prejudice between non-reactionaries. why is it it's so much easier to communicate that complicated concept with the simple ironic statement "Rejection means you're a monster"
3359. [S2] Fantasy books are designed for Tories -> the claim that the purpose of fantasy books is to go back to a time before progressive issues or democracy ever mattered so that none of that needs to be discussed. there are many examples which would seem on the surface to back this up, from Harry Potter to the phenomenon of console RPGs or a "white bread" show like MLP:FiM enabling the problem of people being trapped in little pockets of bigoted Tory culture and never having to learn what racism is or in some cases what a woman is. this + Russian revolution = Fantasy would be more accurate with Leninisms.
3360. [F2] China is still a medieval empire -> really, bizarrely common fictional trope if you live anywhere but China. sometimes this will be blended into a setting full of feudal orders such that it isn't noticeable, as with Neopets, or Dragon Masters. other times it will be more blatant, with fictional stories about China always being medieval but fictional stories about the United States often being futuristic. you can see it subtly inside My Little Pony gen 4: Ponies live in Manehattan and Canterlot, but Kirin live off in some remote village, they don't have a Kirin city. here's the question to ask yourself: if fiction is full of Japanese high school students and Neopets has a futuristic space station, why is China always a feudal order?
3361. [M3] What causes populations of people to be kingdoms? -> the answer isn't an obvious one. you might think you know what it is, but look at actual history and you might find the real answer is very different. Hawaii: formed into a kingdom to defend against external empires. China: formed together to stop having repeated wars. Korea: had a "three kingdoms" period, just like China. formed together to stop having wars. meanwhile fantasy works like Adventure Time will just go and say that kingdoms exist because somebody wants to rule people. to be fair, it doesn't quite say that about all its kingdoms, it just presents that as a possible reason.
3362. [S2] Fantasy kingdoms are Third World countries / Fantasy settings are comparable to Third World countries -> every time a story has a fantasy kingdom with modern technology. many center-Liberal types find it confusing and ask "what time period it's in", without thinking about why countries have time periods. but I think the only reasonable comparison is to say that a kingdom with modern technology is actually a fictional projection of a Third-World country. "time" doesn't pass the same way in the Third World. it can be 1930 and there can be cameras but still be kings and peasants.
3363. [S2] Fantasy would be more historically accurate with Leninisms / Fantasy would be more historically accurate with Communist movements -> this is one of those things that will seem like a joke and that you'll either love or you'll hate. there's a funny thing about kingdoms: a much greater number of them than you would expect had workers' movements. Aghanistan had a workers' movement. Cuba, Vietnam, Korea, and the Russian Empire had workers' movements. something happened in Zimbabwe that I currently do not understand. Italy and Japan had workers' movements. Germany had two workers' movements. Germany was still a kingdom in 1933, and then a little later it spawned East Germany. fantasy books seem to assume that kingdom-shaped countries turn into Liberalism, but in real life it's almost more like the accurate fact is that kingdoms turn into workers' movements or workers' states and gigantic nightmare empires turn into Liberalism; Napoleon = United States. if you ask me? Equestria would turn into a workers' state if it was real. to save itself from some kind of attack by the dragon kingdom or something.
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3370. [S] open world, but at what cost? -> I think it would be funny to have a game that lacked a railroaded adventure a la Pokémon or Dragon Quest, but where you quickly learned that the consequences of that were having to reckon with a semi-realistic progression of history where characters compete to take the world away from each other and basically there are empires and imperialized people and your character could be either
3371. [S2] Pokémon is not metatransitional literature -> an important distinction when you see some people try to label Pokémon "solarpunk". this is, in my opinion, inappropriate for the kind of socioimperialist structure that churns out oceans and oceans of merchandise and more and more consoles while producing fans that ignore other series and fictional ideas to come back to what is familiar or where their friends are, and exterminating fan creations to be sure fans don't step out of their lane of not being allowed to think. Pokémon is fairly dystopian the moment you stop watching the show and step back to the real world. in light of this, we have to realize utopian narratives serve to illustrate and legitimize our prejudices about what is and isn't true — Pokémon is not a believable future, but the mistaken belief that chunk competition is not happening and everyone can instantly Freely Choose to live in harmony right now. that was a bit angry. anyway, it's worth repeating that utopian literature is not metatransitional literature, because it does not describe a method of transition.
3372. [S2] Group Subjects willing things is literally the way we deceive ourselves -> a claim against utopian literature and "I believe that everybody" statements, especially through the on-the-ground structure of Existentialism.
3380. [S] "crime" defined without legal codes -> the motif of people thinking there are intuitive definitions of a violation of the law before any laws exist. this is bafflingly common. 1984 makes a big deal of "there weren't any laws but the government defined crimes", while.... that's kind of just how every Liberal-republican society operates too? laws would seem to be more like an effect of people's intuitive perceptions of what is bad than the actual way most people define what a "crime" or "atrocity" is. it's complicated whether this is even a bad thing. is it actually a good thing that people have criteria of what is bad that they can argue in Liberal-republican parliament to create laws? at first glance you'd definitely think it is. but when you think about it more you then realize that things like religion are dictating what people believe to be "inherently a crime". local culture predetermines what will be considered a crime before laws or democracy formalize it. and that's very bad when local culture predetermines that the laws will be that homosexuality is illegal or rape is only to be taken seriously to pre-emptively accuse Black people of it to remove them from society.
3381. [S2] Anarchism will never be able to solve Hatfield attacks -> unsure if this is true or false, but has definitely been on my mind while writing the book. would like to see a counterpoint of how Anarchisms can possibly solve Hatfield attacks from other "small and local" populations that don't like them. you know there are going to be some of them. a great chunk of reactionaries in the United States sound basically like anarchists in about 70% of everything they say until they get to anything about demographic identities and whether they hate them. work makes no sense? check. big business is ruining everything and it's better if everything is small circles of friends? check. cities are unnatural and modern culture is oppressive so I want to go form a Culture that's more natural to me? check. Stalin and Trotsky are tyrants? check. you can't make me use particular language or design or user interfaces or platforms? check. you can't make me acknowledge transgender people as real? you can't make me watch Black people on TV? wait. so yeah. it's like, US Tories are like anarchists that just want a bit more freedom, specifically total Freedom from race mixing. they abuse every concept you hear from anarchists to be especially bigoted. this is why when anarchists go into weird opinions about "what the web should be"... it feels off to me. it feels a bit like my relatives not wanting to see Spanish. when is a way of presenting something a form of communication and expression and when is it an imposition on how other people wish to communicate? is a "webmagazine" with visual styling unacceptable? is a console RPG non-accessible? are there times a printed book is non-accessible? accessibility is the best argument against "the web" to me because it's objective whether people can see or hear something period. but anarchists love regular books when they can be non-accessible, and say things against videos when videos are highly accessible in multiple senses. to some people a podcast is more understandable than a TTS reading of a webpage. I think about the concept of what forms of media are understandable and what makes each one understandable a whole lot.
3385. [S] reparations -> a general concept of transitional justice which seeks some kind of compensation toward a whole group of people to try to end a conflict against a demographic. I feel like there's something to be said about how compensation at the tiniest scales and compensation at larger scales are related concepts, though I don't entirely know what conclusion to make.
3386. [S] blood feud -> the motif of an ongoing small-scale war between households or very small chunks of a population. common in feudal orders or when a population is very underdeveloped. the Hatfields and the McCoys occurred after the time of "medieval" periods per se, but sure did happen. this motif also showed up in FNaF of all places, in reference to old Japan and what I think are Kurosawa movies but I'm not sure, also the violence between Henry and William's families. in one sense this seems like some kind of hallmark of an ill-developed country but it also can happen in any time period.
3387. [S] blood money / wergild / botgild / reparations (payment for individual crime; medieval Europe) -> according to historians, one of the major reasons for getting everyone to use money in 1500s Europe (although we may never know the single biggest reason) was to abolish blood feuds by making everyone demand a fine instead. [87] having everyone use money has several advantages: regulating banks and the people with the most money if possible; taxes; this. in this article it also details how European church taxes basically created counties and county sherrifs, when otherwise mobilizing people's money to do something for a local group of people would not have been as easy. and these programs don't have to be violent, because today county-scale church taxes run schools. this is really worth bringing up toward anarchists. the world is full of a lot of people who as soon as they feel something has been taken from them will just go kill someone. (counting the Trotskyite conspiracy as a different variation on the theme that occurs at larger scales, you've got a few more.) Liberal-republicanism has been ineffective at stopping this just by making violence illegal and sending cops, or having people send representatives to parliament for that matter. however. if the whole United States were to just abolish the United States and live in villages tomorrow. how would anarchists get all the crazy Tories living in the rust-red states to agree that something other than killing people in another village was fair compensation?
3388. [S] Hatfield attack / horizontal attack / Hegelian conflict, violent
3389. [S2] Anarchism can oppress people / When it is constructed in the real world, there exists a form of anarchist society which can oppress people -> anarchists think this couldn't be true because they've cleverly defined anarchism to be everything which is not oppressive, but if you ask every Tory, the history of Communism already shows that any system which is built in reality can oppress people including anarchism. a whole lot of Tories are already convinced anarchists are bent on oppressing them. what is the reason this happens? why would there be so many people claiming this non-extraordinary, mundane claim if it was totally impossible?
3390. [S2] Anarchism is not something to transition to, but something to overthrow / Anarchism is not something transitioned into, but something to be overthrown -> follows from: anarchism can oppress people, Liberalism is a realized Anarchism. this idea has been all over MDem drafts at varying levels of intensity, but arguably has already appeared in many mainstream Marxist-Leninist writings under terms such as "bourgeois ideology". I do not know whether this statement is true or false, and I wouldn't solidly claim either. I have written a lot of things assuming it's false just to promote groups of people tolerating each other in a world where every individual is in competition and it's so easy for everything to fall apart and turning into the ~10 separate Lefts there have always been fighting each other.
3391. [S2] Non-greedy people are a class -> after listening to too many things containing either sincere or appropriated anarchist signifiers, I am convinced some people think this. "Greed"/"non-competitive balance" is the single most common wrong idea I have seen in every center-Liberal or anarchist or anticommunist argument; it's everywhere. it seems to be fundamental to the way most anarchists define the hypothetical capable subpopulation of people that can end capitalism. they start with the whole population and then they just start defining relatively arbitrary criteria including actual wealth or having prejudices for crossing out "the greedy ones". the big problem is that when we're at the "hierarchy"/prejudice criterion it can really come down to having the wrong definitions of words or not having the models people command you to. it becomes very paradoxical because it's based on what people believe or feel rather than on what's verifiable, and that can easily just lead to two or three groups of people shouting at each other, ordering each other around but insisting they won't listen to each other because they've effectively created circular hierarchies onto each other and they want freedom.
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3394. [S] game show challenge / challenge on a game show which is not serialized across multiple episodes / challenge on a game show which is usually not sports
3395. [S] reality show challenge / game show challenge of an action or serialized-story-arc variety / game show challenge involving significant non-cooperation or drama -> funny enough, came up in the MDem revision about afterlives, because it's always funny to imagine the afterlife being a game show. or a reality show. it's kind of hard to distinguish between reality shows and game shows when talking about challenges that only take place in a single episode. my best guess is that reality show challenges are more intense
3396. [S] voted off the island -> very interesting because it gives you a different perspective on the concept of "voting"
3397. Survivor
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3444. [S] fighting fire with fire / using poison to cure poison / stopping a questionable process with the same process -> this item should be considered a fictional trope, but I can't help think of Trotsky trying to defeat a flawed Marxism with a "Marxist revolution"
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3490. [F2] Capitalism is bad because everyone is greedy / Capitalism is bad because it makes owners imperialistically greedy and customers materialistically greedy -> the claim that the only problem with capitalism is that every individual on earth doesn't strive to live "in balance" without "going over the line" into other individuals. this might sound all right if you have never heard of the concept of Social-Philosophical-Material Systems, and come to realize that competition between individuals occurs at the level of socially-linked groups of people merely existing, not at the level of people stating out loud at debates or in advertisements or news headlines what they're going to do next. if you have heard of it? you realize this proposition is nonsense because not only can nobody will what anyone else does, but definitely nobody can Freely Will how anyone else physically exists and develops as an organism. Existentialism claims to give everyone Freedom but in reality causes everyone to assign everyone else a designated purpose and required way to exist that will almost inevitably conflict with everyone else's purposes for themselves and others.
3491. [M3] Is it greedy to go to art school? / Is it greed when people choose the wrong career? -> if the answer is yes, and some individuals are obligated to spontaneously predict when it is wrong for them to go to art school or study epidemiology or designing circuits and say "well I guess I won't go to college" just to take money away from Disney and iPhone and Big Pharma, or because they instantly know there will be too much of those industries 4-8 years later, then you can call capitalism greedy.
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3493. [S] "This is why Arceus created ... 3 states of matter" / real world made by Creator of fictional universe -> House MD, season 8 episode 8. This probably subsets another signifier something like "hypothetically speaking of god of fictional universe as having created the world". or maybe is it. I'm not sure.
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3499. [F2] All events that occur while a particular person exists occur within that person / All events that occur while a particular person exists are part of "life" -> a very subtle fallacy that most people alive today miss. if an event occurs "in your life" which is "out of your control", is it even meaningfully part of "life"? does this category of "life" actually even help in making sense of daily events?
3500. [S2] Buddhism is actually an early attempt at historical materialism -> it sounds silly until you actually look into it. and then you realize... oh. one of the major reasons for Buddhism continuing after it declined in India is that people in a warring states period really needed an ideology about uniting fractured groups of people together into a functional group of people again. to state that there are any general rules you can follow to do that with any success which are not strictly situational is to argue for general-sense historical materialism.
3501. [S2] It's easier to argue against Buddhism than Christianity -> subjective of course, but interesting. to argue against Buddhism you only need to talk about the supernatural claims or material results of religion. to argue against Christianity you actually have to contend with the dynamic of religion being used to justify small or isolated groups of people. people believe in Christianity or sometimes in Islam because they want their local group of people to survive against another group of people while humans are in constant competition over everything. so naturally they don't give up Christianity as easily. worse yet they become attached to Protestantism or Catholicism against the other because a unified Christianity wouldn't defend their local chunk of socially-linked people against others within the actual competition that's going on within their country or region. the claim of Christianity, that there's a single god, becomes laughable the more time goes on and you look at how Christianity is actually used to defend small, local, specific groups of people who each believe they were chosen as more legitimate by God rather than to in any way serve the whole world. I'll keep saying it, Christianity is strangely similar to Trotskyism. in Trotskyism you just replace God with Lenin. what really bugs me though is that in center- and right-Liberalism you replace God and Lenin with sheer intuition on which individuals are Individually Societying In Parallel Correctly and the "stupid idiot garbage trash" divide. nothing about that makes sense. I swear Trotskyism makes more sense.
3502. [M3] In a world of karma and attachment, why are there monotheists? -> this was demonstrated really well in one episode of Dragon Ball with just, the whole universe having a roughly Buddhist cosmology and then some people who are desperately praying to "God". it raises some deep questions. if Buddhism were true and practically speaking anybody who believes in monotheism probably has some sort of unhealthy attachment that makes them fight other groups of people, then why do monotheists physically exist? you really end up having to invent general-sense historical materialism to explain the answer. you have to explain how groups of Christians developed as populations of people and how that history caused them to end up with religion. and by then, why wouldn't the same be true of Buddhism?
3503. [S2] Buddhism would be the same if there was no reincarnation / Would Buddhism be any different if there was no reincarnation? (semi-rhetorical question) -> I'm fairly convinced it would behave the same way but it would just turn into an honest account of the fact people are born into different positions in the world, it's bad to be in a low one, people sometimes struggle their way out of low positions, and it's better for people to try to form stable structures where they coexist than to have warring states periods.
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3510. [S] the perfect law that gives freedom / people who don't create peace aren't Christians (motif) -> James 1:25. this is the kind of thing that makes me think that in its crudest forms Existentialism has been around for hundreds and hundreds of years before being renewed into Existentialism-Structuralism proper in the 1900s. the core of Existentialism is that it promises a way of creating empire without kings or nobility, simply by linking people together into one big group of friends that is ready to fight anyone outside it at the drop of a hat. I think this may be the crux of why Christianity adapted so well to Liberal-republicanism and became such a tool for bashing Bolshevism as well as genuinely oppressive republics. the values of Christianity happened to coincide with the physical structure of several Liberal republics banded together into an axis of First-World powers.
3511. [S2] Christianity would be the same if there was no afterlife -> mirror to Q35,03. the claim that most of Christianity could still continue on exactly as it was claiming to have benefits even if there was no god or afterlife.
3512. [S2] Anarchism is just secular Christianity -> this is a funny statement but it's not really much of an insult at anarchists as much as a dry statement that as secular theories of society Christianity and anarchism run on the same principles. depending on the specific sect or variation, both of them are a bunch of statements that "people should" behave a certain way and join together with each other and that will fix everything. and both of them run into the problem that people always belong to countable populations instead of ever being a single uncountable humanity that behaves as a single rational "we" rather than separate material groups of people with separate conflicting values fighting over material space and stuff.
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3589. [S] corvid as example of simpler life / corvid as anarchist motif -> don't take the color swatch too seriously. I half just thought having the ideology swatch the same basic color as a crow or raven was fun.
3590. [S] "Taming of the Shrew" arc -> character arc in which an Evil or fierce character is socialized into society through questionable methods, calling to mind the incorrect description of falconry in "The Taming of the Shrew". although the Shakespeare play in question was about the concept of men not understanding women, the character can be of any gender.
3591. [S] revenge of the shrews -> abstract concept, or trope, of characters with "Taming of the Shrew" arcs turning around and not having any of it. in my mind this trope is largely for fantasy animal types of characters, aliens, neurodivergent characters, whose nature isn't understood correctly, kind of like the original notes for Zootopia. but it might apply to more "realistic" scenarios too. did I just imply autistic people only exist in fantasy books? well, every day I don't feel real so it does check out.
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3630. [S] criterion which expels something from a group / judgement criterion which causes people to expel someone or something from a social group (prejudice) -> one of the only definitions of prejudice I can think of which is meta-ontologically sound, as in, the definition itself doesn't change depending on what ideological faction people are on. the downside is that under this definition some prejudices are almost objectively good. everyone wants to have a prejudice against fascists per-se. most people want to have a prejudice against Communists per-se, but not against business territory owners. if you're a Marxist this definition will actually be somewhat appealing because it allows probing exactly why people side with the bourgeoisie. assume that prejudices can't be changed with "Subjectivity" or "culture" the way Marcuse says and then figure out where they're really coming from. from what I know, the answer is long and complicated but it begins at "the smallest unit of humanity is voluntary subpopulations (Filaments), not individuals".
3631. [S] criterion which declares one thing more important than another thing / hierarchy (anarchism) -> this is the anarchist-approved definition of prejudice?? this is. terrible. I mean, excuse me for Perpetuating Hierarchy, but this definition is not possible to identify in the material world. every movement will inherently think it's more important than other things simply due to the calculation everyone has to make of what to put effort into, which unfortunately kind of explains how everyone ended up in movementist hell where at various times all the movements just fight each other. it's also not hard to see how exactly ideas that appear to have come from anarchism keep getting vulgarized right back into center-Liberalism or right-Liberalism: people can just equivocate the concept of one thing being more important than another thing to say every viewpoint is important even if it's terrible, capitalists are important too, empires are important too, Europe is important too, White supremacists are important too, the works. it's fatal to a movement to not recognize that "hierarchies" are actual spatial structures where the prejudiced people are actually penning together other groups of people and conflating themselves with that fenced-in social graph. you never even get rid of the Archon if you don't recognize the microcolony as a structure and boot the Archon out of that. the Archon will just keep claiming to be nice and "not subscribed to a hyper-competitive mindset", "not subscribed to the colonizer attitude", "totally as important as you, why are you so prejudiced against me", "why don't we all do it together as all classes at once". and so far anarchists don't seem to have much of a defense against that. they just kind of let all the owners corrupt anarchism into Existentialism and let everything keep getting worse.
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3635. [S] criterion which declares people of lesser worth / criterion which declares people "not equals" -> this motif is meant to be the center-Liberal definition of prejudice. which, to be honest, the mechanics of this definition have never made any sense to me. how do you keep people from inevitably judging each other if you believe that making everyone the same class is a fool's errand? you must believe some people are better than others if you don't believe people can all coexist without any individual being the official occupant of a societal activity that gets to subjectively define who else links to that activity. and if so, in what way are people meaningfully "equals"? look at affirmative action: it achieves the wrong thing. it assumes that "hatred" is what's keeping people out of top positions rather than it actually being really hard for anyone to achieve that level of skill over anyone else especially if a particular population of people for some reason begins with limited means. if you don't fix what's going on at the bottom scales of things (redlining, etc) the processes at the bottom will never hurl enough people upward that "removing hatred" and "offering training" to be the best actually matters.
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3664. [S2] Culture is nothing more than the set of signs many individuals spontaneously make up -> this is ultimately why people think there's a "Spanishness Office". Existentialism. they think that if they tell one person, who is perfectly equivalent to the whole population, to change their way of thinking that everybody will spontaneously change, unanimously flipping over the policies of the Spanishness Office. but there are several wrong assumptions in there. one, knowledge doesn't travel faster than light to everybody at once. two, individuals have different content, and whenever they hear the same message, this sorts them into different factions and different opposing courses of action. imagine any two individuals, Stalin and Trotsky, Goku and Vegeta. you tell them the exact same statement, and they take it to mean totally different things, and any allies they have take it to mean the same thing. "Freeza is descending on Planet Vegeta". (if you live on earth, is it a good thing for Saiyans to cease to exist?) "The Soviet Union will fall apart if people don't properly participate". (Trotsky, Zinoviev: that's fantastic!) "Inclusive history education will give marginalized people more power." (Floridians: then let's destroy it, we can't have that.) you have to plan any attempt to "inform everyone" around this inherent separation into ideological subpopulations.
3665. [S2] No one should make their own meaning unless others consider it wonderful / People shouldn't spontaneously make up culture and signs unless it's wonderful -> Q3667 + Q?? everyone creates their own meaning = this. anarculture proposition / democulture proposition. I think this one is anarculture but it turns into democulture practically speaking with another proposition
3666. [S2] Individual choices immediately shape the health of society / Individual choices immediately contribute to the health of society -> the nexus point where we see Existentialism being born inside the context of ancient religions; what is in my opinion the core of defining "sin", as well as the Buddhist concept of "unhelpful mental factors" that impede meditation and also society.
3667. [S2] Nothing should be done unless everybody considers it wonderful / "they had such good reasons for doing what they did that the ends justify the means" -> I am so sick of this phrase and its use in analyzing both fiction and reality. there are so many wrong assumptions in it that are difficult to dig up at first, but whenever anyone uses this concept it always totally distorts their view of how reality really works. you get so many crazy propositions out of this like that it's absolutely not allowed to investigate how reality works without obeying metaphysics, etc.
3668. [S2] Manipulative and abusive people seek to destroy Freedom -> one of the central axioms of the Existentialist-Structuralist tradition that leads to all the strange statements about sorting the world into nice people and mean people, Free Will being able to fix everything, etc.
3669. [S2] Manipulative people manufacture emergencies in order to create desperate behaviors / "manipulative people shift context to normalize extreme behavior" [88] -> Tories are doing my work for me. here again we see a focus on individual agents and malicious intentions: a "manipulative individual" is identified and treated as the key to preventing bad outcomes. but this person is using it to argue that any sufficiently large-scale social policy is a conspiracy by corrupt people inside the government, and in turn to argue that COVID measures and environmental regulations are conspiracies, and worst of all, that any mention of an "emergency" anywhere on earth is a ploy of manipulation to sway otherwise bias-free rationalists. Existentialism starts with the seemingly innocuous stuff like claiming every form of abuse is the denial of Freedom, or that intersubjectivity is the culmination of Freedom, and ends with this. cultural islands that claim any attempt to regulate them through democulture or federal government at all is a breach of Enlightenment values. the only bright side to this? it gives insight into why Trotsky is so "popular". this sounds just like the framings Trotskyite conspirators used. but you can see that the internal reasoning is different: it's solely about choppifying society because being part of a bigger society isn't fun.
3670. [F2] COVID measures were devised in order to create Bolshevism -> laughable claim when you take it very literally. of course, what the claim says is not what it typically means when people say it.
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3676. [S2] Freedom requires rejecting COVID measures
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3679. [F2] Nobody is actually transgender
3680. [F2] If nobody ever built towns, everyone could live in harmony / If nobody ever built social structures, everyone could live in harmony / If nobody ever built social structures, people of every ideology could live in harmony -> the founding axiom of Proudhonism and Distributism, seemingly. note that it's literally untrue when Hatfield attacks can always happen out of the blue.
3681. [F2] If nobody went to work and made money, there'd be no need for labor movements
3682. [F2] If nobody ever voted, nobody would get angry about voting
3683. [F2] If nobody ever left their houses, nobody would have to wear masks / If nobody ever left their houses, it wouldn't be necessary to force anyone to wear masks
3684. [F2] If nobody ever got vaccines, we could have perfectly rational discussions about them / If nobody ever got vaccines, there'd be no need to debate them -> jamming proposition to catch especially stupid thought-diversity rationalists. I, personally, am sitting here never getting vaccines just because since the beginning of COVID everybody was treating vaccines as a conspiracy theory and you couldn't discuss them, so I ended up never leaving my house in order to be safe during COVID, and never being able to ask anybody to take me to get vaccinated when I can't drive on my own. I could walk 8 km for the whole trip there and back, or tell a lie, but both of those take enough effort I usually don't have the energy. the ideal method is for me to ride a bus by myself, but this place doesn't believe in public buses, so I get no vaccines. this isn't even due to health insurance coverage; Medicaid covers them. it's due to the fact societies are built out of factions and if you don't fit into them you have no society. if I gripe to someone about a lack of buses they'll ask me why I need vaccines, as well as why I need buses. the only way I can allow Tories to exist and stand by and "criticize" them is to sit in my house all month and never vote and not get vaccinated. if you think society is not fundamentally made of factions and you can just stand by "criticizing" them you're stupid. and I'm going to fill this wiki with propositions until you can't function as a capitalist or a Liberal representative any more because everybody sees through all this bullshit.
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3686. [S] I'm just putting information out there / putting information out there to make sure you have a choice / putting information out there so you can do your own research -> an excuse used to publish anti-vaccine material legally. [89] seems connected back to core Existentialist propositions. in its own weird way it's like a nonfiction parallel to "don't like, don't read".
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3688. [S2] Prejudice is a form of freedom -> follows from: solidarity is strictly optional. this is really awful to realize; it's not something you want anyone embodying and making use of. but, it neatly explains exactly why people continue to have prejudices. people have prejudices because when you give them enough freedom they will simply decide what demographics they do and don't want to interact with, turning freedom into this runaway train you can't stand in front of without it declaring your death under the train is less important than it having ownership over the railroad it's already barreling down.
3689. vaccine hesitancy / vaccine distrust / vaccine refusal / vaccine denial (center-Liberalism) -> I was unsure what swatch to give this because brown seemed too negative. I went with "anarchism" because as much as some Black towns have genuine reasons to be afraid of doctors, anarchism is an ideology promising social transition; even a few anarchists against vaccines is a few too many.
3690. [F2] Anything is true if your population is small enough / Sunny's dream world fallacy -> "Sunny" in reference to OMORI, and how it becomes "true" that he has no problems if he isolates himself in his dreams.
3691. [F2] All facts are culture, thus one Culture is superior to another / Because culture is the only thing that's true, one Culture is superior to another -> this is the crux (no pun intended) of Christianity reaching its fascist form and why religion causes problems. it's true that in theory, you can combat hateful religion without ever talking about religion or telling people they can't believe it. but if you want to do that, you have to realize that religion boils down to the assertion that whatever ladder of cultural signifiers people stack up into an ontological model of how the world works is the truth. monotheistic religions archetypically assert that their group of people is behaving the correct way to be chosen by God; what this means in practice is that they have the correct culture to keep persisting as a civilization and telling everyone else what is moral while somebody else has evil, incorrect culture. progressive anthropologists and various people often unknowingly duplicate this same assertion that culture is "somebody's truth" in trying to define what tolerance is and how it is that people tolerate identities, but this is a nasty fallacy that nobody should be using. people in each town believe that culture is the truth because we can never experience reality except through culture, but whenever they do this they always believe the culture of one town is the truth for the whole world, not just for that town as sociology wants them to. this leads to the bigoted behavior of acting like one town's culture is the truth but another town's culture is lies. it's easier to get everyone to tolerate each other by simply asserting that culture is never the truth and Lived Experiences are not the truth, while creating a working model of how the universe works including a meta-Marxist analysis of how each society or subpopulation internally functions of its own power and under its own values is a different matter. maybe our model of reality is never reality, but culture, being the shared ontology of a specific socially-linked population of people, is definitionally insular and definitionally ignorant.
3692. [S2] Any "inevitable" social structure inevitably holds up a gun / a phenomenon which is real and tangible is capable of holding up a gun -> a little opaque out of its original context but very clear in context. societies are composed from elements which are material, and which must live and exist materially as any Animal does. any proposed element which makes up a society in a consistent way across time or throughout various different events would have to be material. if The Subject is an unavoidable element of society, then we should expect The Subject has the ability to fight for its life and try to kill us whenever we try to impose something on it it doesn't like. if political parties are an inherent or permanent fixture of societies, then we should expect that whenever we make reactionary political parties accept pronouns or whatever makes them really mad reactionary political parties will fight to the death and try to kill us. whether these two hypothetical cases have actually happened yet is debatable; one could argue that these cases have happened or that they haven't truly happened, depending on whether one feels that "unavoidable" or "fight to the death" is the more important part of the conjecture. either way, if we assume "unavoidable" is the part in question versus reality, then it would be the case that we should want it to be true that the unavoidable elements of society are fairly large, and not want unavoidable elements to turn out to be as small as we can imagine. thankfully, it's arguable that the smallest unavoidable element of society is the Social-Philosophical System, which is of variable size but in some cases can be as large as a society itself. Catholic, Muslim, Latino, native-Hawaiian, Trotskyist, mainstream Marxist-Leninist, Kropotkinist, North Korean, and certain unclear sections of majority-China might be examples of unavoidable social units, but "The Individual" might not, and likewise, "The United States" might not, being too big to meaningfully form its own "organism". which, if true, is very good in terms of the (il)legitimacy of global empire. there is no easy answer in terms of exactly how local units are supposed to be combined to create peace. but, we do know that the more we understand and substantiate Social-Philosophical-Systems the implications would be that coexistence becomes increasingly obvious while empire makes less and less sense.
3693. [S2] Vaccine distrust is a deeply human response -> every human being is near-deterministically obligated to strive against things that will harm their own survival or their children's survival if they want children. the intuitive human defense to threats is to group together with people who are trusted to protect a person's survival. if somebody just suffered the death of a child and you tell them "life is unpredictable, there's nothing you can do about it" [90] then you are generating anti-vaccine social groups through your actions, because human beings require enough predictability to be able to survive and reproduce without their babies dying. they won't lie down and accept a world where they can't build a group of people to help them survive better. I feel like the appropriate response is actually to connect all of these people to research on their specific baby disease or something so they can have a "community" which isn't just opposing vaccines
3694. [S] no one in these comments supports gay marriage! / awful CNN comments section -> looking at a CNN comments section, there was a certain contradiction to it. it seems like only a certain swath of older Tories actually watches "the news" any more. so they all come to the CNN comments section and post about how "I've never seen anyone support gay marriage", because the only commenters they've seen are the commenters boring enough to watch solely The News and hardly anything else. the easiest way to fix a comment section like this is to report half of them for the blatant TOS violations in their posts, given that "hateful content" is already not allowed. but there's something not satisfying about that. the problem here is that comments sections are designed expecting a bunch of progressive people to flood into the comments section and post comments, as if everyone has identical interests and there are never self-selection effects. two countable Cultures are graph-struggling over the comments section in an unavoidable competition and in order to stop "echo chambers" you have to ramp up the competition by progressives over every comments section to change who wins. but progressives are never going to watch every single video, even collectively. there's no way to just "push them upward" in the struggle over every video and win the comments just so Tories won't see a comment section full of Tories. people don't want to watch the videos toxic Tories watch. but you don't really want to ban news stories with negative outcomes just because Tories will flock around them. you always see some sort of shepherd sheet structure forming purely because there is networkism and the ability of people to freely associate around one social-graph owner instead of another potentially generates negative, anti-social behavior. if there isn't a Communist party then there will be a central body of YouTube experts determining what are the terms and conditions to not have horrible anti-social Cultures forming inside YouTube. people think you can escape the prospect of having a government that regulates the formation of Cultures but you really can't. escape an overarching Culture-federation in your republic and you'll just get a smaller one inside the chunks of society large numbers of people actually use.
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3710. [S] the freedom to not encounter Black people / freedom to not encounter ethnic subpopulation -> the motif of people insisting that a few Black people cast in a movie or TV show is due to "a political agenda" — which is, of course, some mysterious secret agenda beyond people wanting to see more demographics represented on TV shows. I never had any idea what my parents were even grumbling about until I got to the age of 27 and I finally learned about the existence of Gramscianism and went "....oh". everybody had been lying to me, some lying that Media Representation was an evil conspiracy and others lying that there was no such thing as Gramscianism. the terrible thing is that when you finally find out what it is, the United States has utterly vulgarized Gramscianism to where it's like, everybody take over all the job slots before the White people notice you've done it so the center-Liberals will get votes and there will never be Gramscianism, but if they notice too fast you're trying to get a few Liberal-party votes for anti-racism they'll all get furious you're even doing that. that's this motif.
3711. [S] the freedom to not encounter LGBT+ people
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3771. [S] job doomscrolling -> I have never seen this term but I don't know why, as it's perfectly intuitive to me as a concept that follows from saying people-gambling on social platforms is bad. if so, is there a point where you can be "doomscrolling" jobs looking for good ones but really just being addicted to the concept they'll magically get better and you'll find the only good one?
3776. [F2] Solidarity is strictly optional / Any individual being part of any particular faction or subpopulation or town or business or party or ideology or country is strictly optional and voluntary -> the heart of how Existentialism in particular generates capitalism and anticommunism, how Deleuze and Guattari are essentially just screwing us over by exalting what oppresses us all. everyone's conception of progress is fundamentally this weird kind of "Freedomism" where it's thought that the exact opposite of any particular social oppression is Freedom. this is dangerous because it takes the notion of "solidarity" that emerged during the French Revolution and breaks the whole thing in two. if you think Freedom is the secret to everything (or even that Lived Experience is) then nobody will ever be required to form an enduring group which experiences solidarity, full stop. people will just look at their own needs and whenever their biological organism experiences suffering they'll get up and leave — exactly the way people left East Germany just because being in group of people doesn't make survive good. center-Liberals try to rapidly toss water out of the sinking ship by asserting that people have to be bound together by morality, and surely if nobody has to be connected they'll all connect together just because not standing with marginalized people against racists is morally wrong, but that doesn't really work. morality can never overcome ability and disability. if people are "free" to do whatever they will always desert you the moment the ability of their biological organism to perform the actual actions that help you drops off. this is how the notion of progressive struggles gets vulgarized into "the few people who are able to leave donations donating money". that is baseline existence before progress happens. donations are the symptom of everyone having separate parallel existences and not actually being able to help each other with anything because they are each individually struggling to stay alive. donations punish disability and reward the people who miraculously have the physical ability to do what is required of them whether or not anyone has made the requirements clear or left everybody to flail.
3777. [S2] Democracy is government of the person by the people / Democracy is government of the person, by the people and for the people / democulture proposition
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3780. [S] rhizome mathematics -> terribly mathematical descriptions offered by D&G themselves; "neither one nor multiple" yet still growing sideways in some kind of graph-theory terms
3781. [S] arborescent society / arborescence (schizoanalysis) -> I have no idea what this even means. we're going to find out
3782. [S] rhizome sign regime / rules by which rhizome contains uncountable(?) Philosophical System -> sounds impossible in real life but definitely very interesting
3783. [S] rhizome (schizoanalysis)
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3840. [S2] Applin is a scam -> several ideas to unpack
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3842. It's a Wonderful Life
3843. A Christmas Carol
3844. superstructural world or cosmos -> superset of: superstructural fantasy world, superstructural boring world.
3845. superstructural fantasy world / Superstructure, meet base / what happens out there affects us in here (check wording? FNaF World)
3846. superstructural boring world -> rather special case. Deltarune, Fionna & Cake
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3849. [F2] Perceptions are names for perceptual constellations / Inside the mind sensory information is indistinguishable from signifiers
3850. [S] crossing from mental images into physical world -> appears in: Materialism and empirio-criticism, Deltarune.
3851. [S2] Regarding the whole world as qualia fails to explain where the world comes from -> there are definitely reasons people try to build models like this, and I think those reasons are somewhat orthogonal to this complaint. I think the justification will often be something like trying to explain human error from lack of knowledge, or individuals' prejudices. the dumb thing about that though is Idealist models are never prepared to comprehend the existence of multiple minds having different kinds of errors, or how that actually affects behavior or interactions. it's always, I could be wrong but I'm still the only person that exists. you could do better with Gödel's incompleteness theorem. that actually presents a way of taking logic or thought and stepping out of it to treat it as a self-contained thing to evaluate how well it can evaluate itself. Idealism is like meta-ontology but bad.
3852. [S2] People's minds are not a single mind-plane / We don't live in Deltarune / Idealism is unworkable because Stalin doesn't perceive reality through Trotsky
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3882. [S] dreadfully unclear word (meta-Marxism) / ambiguous word or phrase / term useless for communication / term with different interpretations in every philosophy, ideology, and belief system -> earlier today this started as a half-joke labeled "words RD hates", but the rules are that you're supposed to be able to cite some kind of work or in-draft manual, so I settled for this being some heading in a hypothetical meta-Marxist manual about word usage. ironically enough, this Item itself is highly useful for defining our policy on Lexemes. Lexeme - instance of - dreadfully unclear word
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3888. [S] molecular fascism
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3891. [S] atomized theory / atomic theory / theory defined by individuals
3892. [S] molecularized theory / molecular theory / theory defined by Particle Theory / theory defined by graphs or constellations / theory defined by connections but ostensibly discarding individuals
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3895. [S2] Caesar Antichrist sees all possible worlds while men glimpse just one
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3905. [F2] Lesbian writers would never want to write about lesbians / Show writers including lesbian relationships is always fanservice / Show writers writing about lesbians are never lesbians -> encountered this in a video recently. video essayist seemed to believe writers would only ever write about lesbian relationships if some great Rhizome of people came down on them and forced them to. which is a really funny belief when their two examples, Adventure Time and Steven Universe, included actual LGBT+ people at least somewhere on the cast. you can't exert democulture on a lesbian to force plots about lesbians when the ideas are already there. that said, there is a deeper issue to look at. what do we term graph struggle between microcolonies? if people are mad that one microcolony for LGBT+ characters is enclosing people instead of another microcolony, is ignoring this some kind of lesser parallel to condoning inter-imperialist conflict? lesbians or progressive people taking over what amount to empires is only so much of a victory if the real complaint is people are tired of being herded into empires and told what to think, even if the things they're told to think are good things.
3911. Twentieth Century Continental Philosophy (May 1997) -> not-especially-remarkable compilation book outlining many of the periods of philosophy which appear to form a single tradition known here as the Existentialist-Structuralist tradition. I do not believe either "analytic" or "continental" to be synonymous with this tradition; it seems to straddle both categories at times.
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3913. [S] molecular nationalism / molecular Toryism -> believed to refer to: right-Existentialism
3914. [S] molecular imperialism -> believed to refer to: capitalism
3915. [S] molecularized democratic regime / molecular democracy (generic)
3916. [S] molecular Liberalism -> believed to refer to: Existentialism
3917. [S] molecular Socialism
3918. [S] molecular Anarchism
3919. [S] ??
3920. [S] molecularized Multitude theory -> I'm slowly becoming more certain that Rhizome is this
3921. [S] molecularized Existentialism -> Existentialist periods that believe in graphs or Social-Philosophical Systems
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3973. [S2] Reactionaries are just like Voldemort / Center-Liberals are just like Harry Potter fighting the death eaters -> this old trope becomes so bizarre when you realize how much transphobia and destructive nationalism comes from buying a Harry Potter book. comparing Harry Potter to the real world is like death eaters versus death eaters. the really terrible thing about this proposition? you'd have to prove center-Liberals have more principles than the Harry Potter series to prove the analogy is not accurate, and I'm not sure that's actually possible. the most accurate assessment might actually be that transphobes versus nazis is about where actual United States elections are, and the comparison is right for entirely the wrong reasons.
3974. [S2] Transgender people can't own Harry Potter books / Gay people can't own Harry Potter books -> there's a pretty good argument for not buying new ones. that said, some people really do go as far as getting rid of all of them because they know a transgender person, and not knowing the context that would look pretty weird. [91] this begins to look like the same basic form of statement as "Protestants can't be gay". it raises a lot of questions about where this general form of statement is coming from in terms of what basic social dynamics are producing it.
3975. [S] Platform 9¾ / Platform nine and three quarters (9 3/4) -> this came back to mind when I was thinking about schizoanalysis and Rhizome and their worship of everything "in-between", and then how Platform 9¾ becomes the key to letting wizards freely exist in the Harry Potter universe. runs narratively parallel to: secret abnormal Gaster hallway
3976. [S] retroactive LGBT+ character / Dumbledore is gay / Word of Gay (TV Tropes) -> Rowling's idea of representing the anomaly and the exception. very interesting when you think about it that people hate this when an author does it but when fans do the exact same kind of retcon people more or less receive it well. what would the difference be? in either case the same group of "meddling executives" is telling the writer or fan that the original work, that any self-respecting Disney show, can't show people a queer couple, so they're both getting around it with secret retcons.
3977. [S] unofficial LGBT+ retcon / "I don't care if it isn't canon" (LGBT+)
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3979. ??
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3981. ??
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3983. [S] cognitohazard / infohazard -> I think entirely too much about how this is similar to the concept of containing information about a government or society that would cause people to take a narrow view and behave the wrong way. I mean, when this concept is connected to crazy conspiracies about what the government is "really" covering up, of course it is... but SCP entries and modern 2010s horror stories in general have really taken the concept in a new direction by making the anomalies something people genuinely would not want to know and regret learning about.
3984. [S] secret room of forbidden books / decisions made in elder council / figurative priests -> The Giver, Girl from other side
3985. [S2] The Giver quartet is about wrecking Trotskyism -> this sounds random until you look at the books very closely to discover how they have clearly misinterpteted specific Trotskyist texts
3986. [S2] The Giver quartet is about building an Anarchism -> when I capitalize Anarchists, it's a placeholder for civilizational shape words like "Kropotkinism" or "Bookchinism". I don't have a lot of knowledge about specific "Anarchisms" but I do know a few different kinds of named "Anarchisms" clearly exist and it's worth distinguishing which ones to be able to evaluate whether they will be successful. also? if anarchists get mad when you try to broadly categorize different kinds of Anarchisms, it only further identifies that they do have specific beliefs that set them apart as a specific group of people. being an Existentialist and thinking that believing in utopia really hard or believing in the concept of non-ideology really hard will unite people together and build an Anarchism is also an ideology. you aren't free of ideology just because you believe in Existentialism.
3987. [S2] The Giver quartet is about Anarchists wrecking Trotskyism to create an Anarchism -> this is such an interesting concept to talk about because if true, the book is a sectarian quarrel or inescapable conflict between two different civilizational shapes (Bauplans) rather than a universal message for everybody. don't even try to twist that into an anti-Anarchist, pro-center-Liberal argument though. if the inescapable conflict between Social-Philosophical-Material Systems supports Liberalism, then it supports the constant oppression of different groups of people beneath each other such as center-Liberals under Tories because minus colonialism no group of human beings would ever be guaranteed to behave.
3988. ??
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3990. ??
3991. [S2] Philosophers have tried to change the world; our job is to interpret it / Philosophers have only tried to change the world in various ways; our job is to interpret it -> my pet peeve and the absolute heart of most of the E-S tradition
3992. [S] named molecular Marxism
3993. [S] Molecular Stalin Thought
3994. [S] Molecular Trotskyism
3995. [S] Molecular Maoism
3996. [S] Molecular Third-World Marxisms
3997. [S] Molecular Gramscianism
3998. [S] Reverting from the anomalous hyper-future to the past
3999. [S] Beyond the end of history in the hyper-future

4000

Terms (Signifiers) related to Trotskyism, or named Leninisms in general.

4000. [S] Bolshevik-Leninism / Leninism (Trotsky's definition) -> use to mark highly specific definitions of "Leninism" in Trotskyist texts
4001. [S] Stalinism (prejudice)
4002. [S2] He calls it Marxism-Leninism, but it isn't really Leninism / Marxism-Leninism (disputed theory) -> components: the most correct Leninism is Trotskyism, Stalin Thought is a revisionist Leninism
4003. [S] degenerated workers' state
4004. [S] restore the soviets
4005. [S2] State businesses equal capitalism -> Hayashi
4006. [S2] State capitalism inevitably evolves to uncontained capitalism -> Hayashi
4007. [S2] Workers will all take action given crisis
4008. [S2] Workers will all take action given spontaneous tiny breakages / clinamen (Althusser) / The Fracture (meta-Marxism) -> Althusser actually
4009. ??
4010. internationally-scoped collection of connected Trotskyist groups -> important element of - international-conference Trotskyism, international-party Trotskyism, Trotskyism in one identity-federation
4011. ??
4012. ??
4013. ??
4014. ??
4015. [S2] Trotskyist groups are a safe space for Trotskyist identity -> this sounds like a joke until you realize what it actually means, at which point it sounds more reasonable. this is operating on the definition of "safe space" as a Social-Graph System or Social-Philosophical System that people dive into in order to be accepted and not to be questioned on basic facts of their individual identity; under this definition, things such as a Christian church or a Muslim mosque may qualify as a safe space for Christian or Muslim identity, due to the fact that within that space a particular religion is condoned or practiced consistently. thus, this is the claim that Trotskyist groups exist partly to be a loose "congregation" of Trotskyist theorists where Trotskyist theories are condoned and practiced consistently, rather than being rejected from "Stalinist spaces". the Trotskyist theories in question do attempt to do what Marxist theories should do, to unite groups and mobilize workers, yet at the same time, when a group is founded it must explicitly make a choice on whether Trotskyist theories are allowed at all or perhaps preferred, versus whether they are fundamentally rejected from the group. this necessity to either accept or reject people who align with the 1930s Trotskyite conspiracy, or modern Trotskyism, creates a fundamental cultural divide between different Marxist organizations similar to the divide between a Marxist organization in one country versus a Marxist organization in another country, or between a movement for White transgender people inside the United States versus a movement for Black subpopulations inside the United States — Trotskyists are their own countable Culture, as much as Ukrainians are distinct from Russians. the matter of how Trotskyist identity as a countable Culture interacts with "other" demographic identities is not necessarily well understood. there are only two small thoughts I can offer on that: A) look at a British Trotskyist group, and you will probably observe that its members fail to see outside a White, British perspective, for instance often failing to quite understand what is going on for Black subpopulations in the United States and why they frame things the way they do, based on what locally-preferred ideologies (often anarchism or some Fanon-based non-Marxist theory). B) this same problem didn't necessarily exist for Trotsky's circle of people, who at the very least understood Jewish subpopulational struggles, even if they were baffled in their own way by United States racism. so, there are times when Trotskyist identity clashes with racial subpopulation identity, although it does depend on the quality of theorists admitted to a Trotskyist group. this + ?? = Trotskyism is the prototypical oppressed group.
4016. ??
4017. Trotskyist revolution -> very theoretical concept despite a great number of Trotskyists claiming they are described in the collected works of Lenin
4018. ??
4019. ??
4020. [S] named Trotskyism
4021. [S] international-conference Trotskyism -> motif, Particle Theory
4022. [S] international-party Trotskyism -> motif, Particle Theory. Fred Weston believes that certain groups apart from Ted Grant were getting absorbed into reformism; Grant, apparently, is a believer in watching for crises (S2-4007). was trying really hard to name this thing a person's name but couldn't quite land on one
4023. [S] multiple Trotskyisms in one country / multiple local Trotskyist parties -> hypothetical Particle Theory; Trotskyism - taking the shape of - North American Maoism / New Democracy
4024. [S] Trotskyism in one supranational federation / Trotskyism in several union republics -> hypothetical Particle Theory; actually suggested by Trotsky once or twice regarding North America and Europe
4025. [S] Trotskyism in one subpopulational minority / Ethnic Trotskyism -> believed to be different from: Maoism in one subpopulational minority
4026. [S] Trotskyism in one union republic / Trotskyist nationality / Trotskyist local-state -> hypothetical Particle Theory; Trotskyism - taking the shape of - local state
4027. [S] Trotskyism in one country / Trotskyist nation-state -> hypothetical Particle Theory
4028. [S] Fortress Trotskyism -> subset of: Trotskyism in one country; Trotskyism - taking the shape of - Juche-socialism
4029. [S] Trotskyism in one identity subpopulation / hegemony Trotskyism -> hypothetical Particle Theory; Trotskyism - taking the shape of - Gramscianism; superset of: Ethnic Trotskyism
4030. [S] Trotskyism as structure integrated with other theory's structure / Trotskyism as large Particle Element containing smaller elements / Trotskyism as small Particle Element contained by larger elements
4031. [S] Trotskyism-in-Maoism -> subset of: Trotskyism in one union republic
4032. [S] Maoism-in-Trotskyism -> subset of: Trotskyism in one supranational federation
4033. [S] Trotskyism in one identity-federation / international-identity Trotskyism / world hegemony Trotskyism / Trotskyism in Gramscianism in Trotskyism -> hypothetical Particle Theory; International or international-party on top, otherwise-anarchic political-identity subpopulations below
4034. [S] economic peace Trotskyism / Deng Xiaoping Thought in Trotskyism in Wilsonianism -> hypothetical Particle Theory; Trotskyism - taking the shape of - Deng Xiaoping Thought
4035. [S] Trotskyism for export / Deng Xiaoping Thought in Trotskyism in Liberalism / Trotskyism in Deng Xiaoping Thought / economic-imperialist Trotskyism -> hypothetical Particle Theory; Trotskyists hide inside Liberalism and smuggle all their activities through Third World exploitation. honestly, one of those possibilities I ironically came up with just because it was horrifying
4036. [S2] Stalin is basically Monokuma / Trotskyites don't know the difference between Soviet history and Danganronpa -> an analogy I used in a historical fiction summary and now after digging up again cannot get over. the idea is that people think the Soviet Union was just one big trap where because people are in such fierce competition to exist until the country is properly built up, the government then just starts accusing people of things to preemptively get rid of them. almost exactly like Monokuma sets the students up to be in trouble for killing each other, blaming them for each other's graphic deaths over and over when really he started the whole thing
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4038. ??
4039. ??
4040. ??
4041. [S2] Great productive forces mean great carrying capacity -> very popular and common remark in early 1900s Leninism, still pretty controversial to challenge, yet graph theory + chunk competition models bring some worrying suggestions for how trivial it is to make a reality. doesn't mean it's impossible to solve of course, just harder than we thought
4042. [S2] Extra production over the number of people who will buy at full price is waste -> the typical counterpart up to the time of Lenin; why Lenin's and Masnick's line graph is not widely accepted. notable weakness: does not explain how to actually tell if society needs something or not, only how to sell an unnecessary thing for as much as possible
4043. [S2] Socialism-in-one-country is basically Existentialism with countries -> Ted Grant
4044. [S2] Hegemony politics is reformism and Gramscians are a bunch of bureaucrats -> Ted Grant
4045. ??
4046. ??
4047. [S2] Having a movement at all is half the battle / Having a Social-Philosophical-Material-System is half the battle / Having an SPMS is step zero / The key to beginning socialist transition is grouping people into a movement -> the claim that for instance the Paris Commune (perhaps the example I would pick is North Korea) is important primarily because it actually created a movement, Factically existing within the real world; a single physical movement of people doing anything is worth far more than any stack of ideology because it can, in theory, be transformed into a more intelligent system with more accurate theory as time goes on. I have only tiny issues with this concept, such as: if a movement is based on things fundamentally incompatible with any of the suggestions Marx made, to the point you have no idea at all how to transform it into a workers' state, can this really be true? this is a big problem in the United States. we base all our movements in things like racism and transphobia, in the specific sense that progress itself equals people already in power deciding not to be mean to the people they oppress, and progress couldn't possibly equal ethnic minorities or LGBT people being workers and actively building a new society to replace the old one, it has to be solely based on the right of populations and individuals to merely exist and the responsibility of populations to coexist. it's in the name (that I gave all this stuff), "Existentialism" — capitalism is over if Black people are doing capitalism but they're not being horrifically shot to death in inner cities and they now live and exist. capitalism is over if homosexuality isn't illegal and trans people can be in public instead of hanging out with the mafia because they have nowhere to go. you can get gigantic protests out of this and yet it only regenerates capitalism, because it's not doing the duty of trying to unify individuals into a country around a new Particle Theory; it's not actually building a new SPMS even though people falsely believe it is. how do you transform that? you need a really good new theory that can actually analyze the moving parts of every movement and how movements relate to each other — meta-Marxism — so you can actually listen to each movement and compute the most effective way to transform the whole country out of capitalism with that particular class-ignoring ideology, or successfully fit the class-ignoring ideologies together.
4048. [S2] Capitalism only ends when workers' states cover the world -> note how different plural Trotskyisms twist this different ways, some claiming a sea of socialisms-in-one-country is enough, some claiming there are more stringent requirements of having a Fourth International, freeform international party, etc
4049. [S2] Capitalism only ends when workers' states form into a single government -> the generic Trotskyist version.
4050. derived Trotskyist proposition / statement that Trotskyists should logically believe although in practice they might not -> there are so, so many of these if you think about anything Trotskyists say for even a moment.
4051. [S2] Socialism in one country will fail because borders leave people unconnected / Socialism in one country will fail because the point of Bolshevism is to connect people, and borders leave many people unconnected
4052. [S2] Any particular group of individuals pursuing socialist transition benefits from being part of something larger -> molecularized version of the statement that there can't be a socialist transition in one country.
4053. [S2] If Trotskyists turn against a workers' state, they create a population too small to succeed -> logically true if you accept Q4052. if most of the people in the Soviet Union don't want to join Trotsky, the best result for Trotsky is he forms a teeny tiny Trotskyist workers' state, and if there can't be socialism in one country, by Trotskyist logic, that tiny Trotskyist workers' state will fail.
4054. [S2] Trotskyists benefit from standing together with mainstream Marxism-Leninism -> clearly follows from Q4052 and Q4053. if it is more or less impossible for Trotskyists to ever form into a workers' state bigger than South Korea without eventually running into "Stalinist" interference, they will only ever overcome the rest of the world's capitalists by joining together with other named Marxisms and each socialism aiding the others.
4055. ??
4056. ??
4057. ??
4058. ??
4059. ??
4100. Leninism (top-level category)
4101. early Marxism
4102. [S0] Third-World Marxisms
4103. Stalin Thought / mainstream Marxism-Leninism
4104. Trotskyism / Leninism (Trotskyist movement) / revolutionary socialism (Trotskyist movement) -> this is the top level category for all things Trotskyism, not the signifier for what specific Trotskyist subsets say Leninism is
4105. Juche-socialism / leadership socialism
4106. Maoism
4107. Deng Xiaoping Thought / Dengism / socialism with Chinese characteristics (Deng era)
4108. Western Marxism
4109. Gramscianism
4110. Bordigism (named Marxism) / Bordiga and ICP's Marxism -> this is not affiliated with Trotskyism as far as I know right now. it has the swatch because from the little I've heard about it, I half remember somebody accusing it of being sectarian. still learning about it, so the swatch may change later
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4201. [S2] Trotsky thought he believed in Leninism -> the claim that Trotsky thought the theory he held of workers' movements, revolution, and/or constructing workers' states was the same theory Lenin had leading up to 1925. mostly uncontroversial, although some may tell you Trotsky was absolutely nothing but a liar. I think that's an exaggeration, because he spent significant effort telling parties in North America and Europe things that sounded like correct Marxist positions (but had subtle errors hiding behind them in terms of actually applying them). I think the evidence supports that Trotsky was dedicated to Leninism but his "Leninism" managed to be a garbled, totally wrong version of Leninism. many Marxists don't like to admit that that kind of thing is possible, because it would vulgarize Marxism into a mere identity that doesn't guarantee the class composition of the movement. but I think the dark truth of things is that that has always been the case. mathematically, all arrangements of people are identities, even if they're class subpopulations. organizing people always creates identities. the fact East Germany came to exist shows that all workers' states are identities, like any other nationality. so what's wrong with realizing that "theoretical" Marxism and the basic phenomenon of people sorting into movements are always separate until they're not? it explains how there can be multiple rival Marxisms. it might be that several of them are not connected to the people at all, that some of them connect to a really specific subset of actual workers but not all of them, or that none of them are correct, none of them predicting or guiding what people are actually doing at all. it's particularly believable this could happen if every current movement is operating under a different theory of connecting people together that replaces Marxism.
4230. [S2] Stalin built the country wrong / Stalin's government built the country with structures that are bad although we are not specifying what the actual error is -> what The Revolution Betrayed kept sounding like to me in every chapter. I know the real reason it sounds like something was missing is because of the Trotskyite conspirators' lies, while the point of the book is no deeper than Q4236 "I am sick of eating rat bread". even so, I always think about how the first time I tried to read this thing I assumed what was missing was an accompanying description of the inner Particle Theory of Trotskyism. I didn't want to believe that Trotsky could be both wrong and not even smart, so I kept trying to figure out what he believed to be correct, because, hey, even if the structure of Trotskyism didn't make a lot of sense, maybe we could all learn from it. I was so surprised to learn that Trotskyists really don't think like that at all.
4231. [S2] Ministries existing means there is no democracy -> one of the strongest arguments that Trotskyism actually is a distinct form of Leninism with its own idea of a workers' state Stalin could be (supposedly) preventing. still not a very strong argument said Trotskyism is possible, of course. appears in: "Trotsky's mistakes"
4232. ??
4233. ??
4234. ??
4235. [S2] The internal shape of a workers' state leads to buffer state conflicts / There is something about the internal activity of a workers' state which can cause it to participate in international war or not -> statements like this are wild when you think about it, because it's like, Trotsky almost accidentally invented MDem and then didn't. if there was actually something inside the Soviet Union which caused it to have to fight imperialist blocs, that would be implying that restructuring the Soviet Union in a specific way changes its outward behavior, which would be claiming that there are multiple possible Bolshevisms. you see this pop up a number of times in Trotskyism, and it's basically never delivered on at any time.
4236. [S] I'm eating stale rat bread and I can't take it any more / I'm eating the stale rat bread and I can't fucking take it any more [92] -> when somebody attempts to criticize corporations for having made bad "culture" that is bad precisely because it intrudes on a person's individual Lived Experience and not because the structure and function of the corporation has any effect on the larger society such as the health of workers or impact on the internal functioning of socially-linked communities that decide to tie themselves to the product. Žižek is guilty of this: he makes strange claims that Lenin and Stalin couldn't create good "culture", which make no sense until you realize he is trying to make a Marxism that has nothing to do with workers and is all about the Lived Experience of existing in the midst of a bunch of bad products — or when it stoops to being about workers is about bad working conditions being a bad individualized Lived Experience. the Zinovievist accusation of bad "culture" is strange. it's like wrong culture is about the consumer's Lived Experience, but the problems with corporations essentially become about corporations Freely Willing to do the wrong thing when they could have Freely Decided to do better. some chunks of Existentialists seem to conceptualize literally every movement as democulture including the function of unions and so-called ""corporate greed"". they don't even believe in Menshevism and political parties. they think all society is just made of good-idea orthodoxies stomping bad people and forcing them to behave better, squashing bad people's otherwise sacred Lived Experiences and forcing them to exist better when they weren't existing good.
4237. [S] the science bureaucracy
4238. [S] science Trotskyites -> the non-fictional motif that there are people who oppose established structures of science purely for their failures without thinking about their successes. this could be a good thing or a bad thing. some people could have legitimate complaints that universities are stagnating and churning out a lot of papers that do very little. other people are Alexander Unzicker and sound comically similar to The Revolution Betrayed in that their criticisms sound like facts but in context do not even make any sense.
4239. [S] science Tories -> the non-fictional motif that people should be presumed to not actually be knowledgeable about science because they "Are Actually Part Of The Right". this isn't really correct on a factual basis. somebody can be an absolutely horrible person and still understand science and create an informative book or video about science which is educational to people of all ideologies. in such a case, the work becomes valid through death of the author and other people reappropriating the work, exactly as with fictional works. it is also possible that misconceptions about science will lead somebody into Toryism, or that facts or models will become misinterpreted through Toryism into models that don't actually make sense. but this happens for reasons that a lot of center-Liberals don't want to think about: people form ontologies to comprehend the world, they strain everything through ontologies, sometimes the ontologies are inaccurate, sometimes the ontologies are accurate. in recent decades people really hate the notion of ontologies because of the fact ontologies can form stereotypes, so they want to smash all ontologies, but that's a bad plan when all countable Cultures and marginalized religions and things they want to protect bring ontologies, so smashing ontologies is an easy way to let people get away with forced assimilation, the opposite of the goal. there is such a trend to say reality can't be predicted and people can't be predicted to try to encourage people to be open-minded, but it never really works because people need to form ontologies to avoid catastrophes in their lives and physically survive, and if you don't give them objectively accurate ontologies of how to successfully survive and build society they will use stereotypes for the same purpose, taking down notes to avoid "all men" or "all Black people" just to have a better day-to-day experience with less pain in their individual lives. back to science-Tories: science-Tories are the motif that people form countable Cultures of Toryism and then they do science for the "Tory ethnicity", and you have to root them out of science because the Tory people-group is an evil malicious people-group which intends to use all pieces of the Tory machine to eliminate the center-Liberal people-group so all pieces of the Tory machine are bad. even if this is true... do you see how there are undercurrents in this which indicate some nasty biases or fallacies of some kind? not in the sense of "Tories could be good", but more in the sense of "nations must be adversarial to the extent of internal imperialism and there's nothing we could have done to prevent this, we've just gotta divide and fight a civil war one day because that's the only way countries can be".
4240. [S2] Absurdism, nihilism, and existentialism are all the same thing / Existence-philosophy, nihilism, and absurdism are all the same thing -> sounds like it couldn't be possible, but all three of them say individuals make their own meaning. all three of them are versions of the same existentialism. (this has nothing to do with Trotskyism, and is only here because of the number.)
4241. [S2] Optimistic nihilism is about making your own meaning -> sic. heard somebody say this verbatim. five years ago I might have gotten pedantic and said "that's (early-) existentialism!!" but now I think there is no actual difference.
4242. [M3] Is there a point to believing in existentialism? / Is it possible for individuals to assert existentialism is meaningful? / Is believing in early-existentialism meaningless? -> the hyper-existentialist question. does the premise of existentialism apply to existentialism? entropicism would argue that ultimately this is not true, or at the very least, this is not a thing people can say trivially and it's a really difficult question.
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4244. ??
4245. ??
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4247. ??
4248. [S2] Absurdism, nihilism, and existentialism are the biased political compass of philosophy
4249. [S2] Absurdism, nihilism, and existentialism are reversed stages of grief -> thought of this while adding "all the same thing". first comes absurdism, then nihilism, then existentialism, so it's like, acceptance, depression (optional), then anger and denial. first we realize that nothing actually makes coherent sense including morality or justice. then we get upset. then we try to convince ourselves "in each of ours groups separately in parallel" there really is a meaning and we have the answers
4297. ??
4298. Socialism: Stalinist or scientific (Hayashi 1998/2000) / "Stalinism, socialist ..." (typo)
4299. ??
4300. [M] What was wrong with East Germany? / Why was the existence of East Germany a problem? / Why did center-Liberals dislike the existence of East Germany? -> I know "center-Liberals" can almost be neatly replaced with "bourgeoisie" to create a laughable tautology, but come on, we have to at least pretend to sound fair.
4301. [M] Why did Trotskyists not consider East Germany to be progress? -> you have to think about this a bit to realize that it's a good question. Trotsky wants each country in Europe to overthrow capitalists and create a workers' state. East Germany pushed out capitalists and created a workers' state. if other European countries had each become "East Germany", it would have been one possible route to a union of European socialist republics — even one independent from the USSR, potentially, given that the USSR stopped occupying East Germany at a certain point. the process of creating East Germany is more or less in line with the mechanism Trotsky proposed for creating Trotskyism. so why were Trotskyists not on board with East Germany?
4302. [S2] East Germany was too small to be Trotskyism -> relatively likely to be the answer you actually get. East Germany small, Trotskyism big. this has never been a satisfying answer to me because it doesn't explain how any group of countries ever gets big enough to form Trotskyism without inevitably forming into unacceptably small "Stalinisms" first.
4303. [S2] East Germany did not have the correct internal structure to be Trotskyism / East Germany had the wrong internal structure according to Trotskyists -> derived Trotskyist proposition. some Trotskyists talk about "bureaucracy" and how they don't like the way government ministries and central party structures are put together to unite a country. this would lead to the prediction that Trotskyists look at East Germany and do not like East Germany's internal structure. if this statement about Trotskyism is true, then it implies that Trotskyists have a particular internal structure they require a country to have after expropriating the bourgeoisie or they will not believe the country is in socialist transition. it also vaguely implies that everything Trotskyists say about creating a worldwide civilization and going beyond one country is irrelevant fluff because what they really actually believe is that socialist transition depends on the internal structure of individual countries and each workers' state that has existed is bad because it has gone through transition wrong. a Trotskyism that believed this intentionally and was perfectly honest about it could become a molecular Trotskyism.
4304. [S2] If East Germany had been a Fortress Trotskyism, it would have been okay / If East Germany had had the correct internal structure to be Trotskyist, Trotskyists would have found it acceptable / East Germany could have built up to a Fourth International if only it were Trotskyism in one country -> derived Trotskyist proposition. I have literally never heard this. but it's rather confusing why nobody says this. 1) Trotsky believed every country in Europe could become Trotskyist 2) The European countries form workers' resistances separately around local groups of workers, then they link up into a Trotskyism 3) What's wrong with each of the European countries being Trotskyism in one country, when it's the only way you can build a bigger Trotskyism? put another way, if several European countries can be Trotskyist and oppose Stalin's government, why not just one? how does one prevent there being others? I guess you could argue from Stalin's point of view that because Trotskyisms are sectarian two Trotskyisms-in-one-country would fight each other, but I don't think Trotskyists would actually be that mean in criticizing their own parties. I don't think they see it that way.
4590. ??
4591. Russian Social-Democratic Labor Party
4592. Bolshevik party
4593. Third International
4594. Left Opposition
4595. Menshevik party
4596. ??
4597. ??
4598. ??
4599. ??
4600. Trotskyist group, organization, or party
4601. Fourth International (1938) -> became: International Secretariat, International Committee
4602. International Secretariat (1953) / ISFI (attempted International)
4603. International Committee (1953) / ICFI (attempted International)
4604. (reserved for International)
4605. ??
4606. ??
4607. ??
4608. ??
4609. Committee for a Workers' International (defunct) / CWI (attempted International)
4610. local Trotskyist group unaffiliated with larger formation
4611. Denver Communists (??; United States Midwest)
4615. ??
4616. Žižekian
4617. [S] terrorist (Zinovievism) -> wrecker, rival proletarian revolution
4664. ??
4665. [S] contentless revolutionary socialism - Rosa Luxemburg
4666. contentless Trotskyite-conspirator ideology / Zinovievism (meta-Marxism)
4620. [S0] Trotskyist group affiliated with the Fourth International of 1938
4621. Socialist Workers' Party (United States) -> helped split the Fourth International into the ISFI and ICFI, funny enough
4622. ??
4623. ??
4624. ??
4625. ??
4626. ??
4627. ??
4628. ??
4629. ??
4630. International Marxist Tendency (party) -> international-party Trotskyism
4631. Workers' International League (1938) -> [93]
4632. "The Militant" -> [94]
4633. Revolutionary Communist Party -> [95] [96]
4634. In Defence of Marxism (outlet; Britain)
4635. Socialist Appeal (Britain)
4636. Socialist Alternative (United States)
4637. ??
4638. ??
4639. ??
4640. ??
4670. ??
4671. [F2] Trotsky wanted to abolish sex / Trotsky hated the concept of sex -> I found this BS in a YouTube comments section once, and ever since then I have not been able to forget it; it was just too funny. the misinterpretation seems to have stemmed from a work where Trotsky was lightly criticizing people escaping from their problems through one or two genuninely weird pieces of sexual literature that had been put out recently — the key word was escaping, not sex. I have no idea exactly what group of people were getting things so twisted but man, when people want to misinterpret Communists they really go all the way. oh, right, and this was one of those things that led to me realizing that The Giver was a skewed portrayal of Trotsky, because you see the theme of abolishing sex and "controlling emotions" in both places. in the original Trotsky text he was talking about things like depression and anxiety, when they did not even really have psychotherapy in Russia.
4680. ??
4690. Left Voice (federated outlet)
4800. [S0] Maoist group, organization, or party
4831. The Energy Conspiracy (Seman 1981) [97]
4832. [S2] The correct group will make you free / The correct relationship and shared culture will make you free / The truth will make you free / John 8:32 -> if you read this the way it's intended, like, it applies to Marxism if Marxism is true — though it equally applies to Anarchism if Anarchism is truer. it is so telling that Tories would use this in a context totally outside of religion and purely against "Big Government". it shows that some people cling to religion purely because they believe having the correct Social-Philosophical System, the correct group of people and culture, will give them a better life either taking away their worries or crushing their enemies, or both. [98]
4900. [S0] prominent Marxist theorist or organizer / notable Marxist theorist or organizer -> this is the colloquial usage of "very notable", not the Wikipedia usage of "notable"
4910. [S0] prominent mainstream-Marxist-Leninist theorist or organizer / prominent Marxist theorist or organizer associated with Stalin Thought
4911. Vladimir Lenin -> note: there are Properties for "believed to be within ideology" allowing the separation of "believed to be associated with Trotskyism" from "believed to be associated with Stalin Thought" and the two statements to coexist at once
4912. Joseph Stalin
4913. ??
4914. ??
4915. ??
4916. ??
4917. ??
4918. ??
4919. Enver Hoxha -> yes, he has his own subset ideology, but it still falls under this tradition
4920. ??
4930. ??
4940. [S0] prominent Trotskyist theorist or organizer / notable Trotskyist theorist or organizer
4941. Leon Trotsky -> Soviet Union / miscellaneous; Fourth International
4942. Rosa Luxemburg -> Germany
4943. Ted Grant -> United Kingdom (?)
4944. James P. Cannon -> United States; Socialist Workers' Party
4945. ??
4946. ??
4947. ??
4948. ??
4949. Hiroyoshi Hayashi / HAYASHI Hiroyoshi -> Japan; (retrieve organization)
4950. [S0] notable Trotskyite resistance leader or advocate / notable Zinovievist advocate or leader / notable Trotskyite conspiracy member
4951. Grigori Zinoviev -> he became my arbitrary example of Trotskyite conspiracies versus what Trotskyism claims it is, after a few Trotskyites called him a hero just for wrecking the Soviet Union
4952. ??
4953. ??
4954. ??
4955. ??
4956. ??
4957. Nikolai Bukharin -> he quit, but there's not a better place to put him
4958. George Orwell -> by some definitions of Trotskyite, the most famous one ever
4959. Slavoj Žižek -> may sound surprising to call him a "Zinovievist" or Trotskyite, but after much analysis of his rhetorical patterns and motifs he truly belongs here
4960. ??
4965. ??
4970. ??
4975. ??
4980. ??
4981. ??
4982. ??
4983. ??
4984. ??
4985. ??
4986. ??
4987. ??
4988. ??
4989. [S2] Anarchism is over
4990. [S2] Stalin Thought is over -> had some vanishing chance of being true in 1940, not very believable these days
4991. [S2] Trotskyism is over -> why is it that all Trotskyists refuse to believe this while most or all mainstream Marxist-Leninists believe it and about half of all center-Liberals and Existentialists believe it? this should be less controversial than "Bolshevism is over". if Trotskyism isn't materially possible but mainstream Marxism-Leninism is, you'd think that nearly everyone would be unanimous about the first part of that, because advocating for Trotskyism isn't advantageous to either Existentialists or mainstream Marxist-Leninists.
4992. [S2] non-molecular Trotskyism is over -> the most generous interpretation of Trotskyism. probably too generous. but very useful for getting Existentialists to actually think for once
4993. [S2] Leninism is over but "Marxism" is not -> I'm half convinced that every time somebody implies this (and isn't from China, Cuba, or Vietnam) that it's literally just a way to sneak in Existentialism and deceive people into believing all the things smaller than Liberalism and capitalism that ultimately reconstruct capitalism. half the time I laugh at this one and half the time I get angry, because it tends to trap people in this loop of insisting that if you don't believe Marxism can be used to purge people of all incorrect beliefs and create a perfect society full of nice people before getting rid of capitalism you're racist, while due to the actual material definition of capitalism, if they believe it it makes them absolutely, absolutely incapable of stopping people from becoming racist, digging them deeper and deeper into this hole they can never get out of.
4994. [S2] Marxism is over but party-nations are not / Marxism is over but Leninism is not -> the claim that central party-nations are not over but the attempt to regulate the stochastic sorting of people into corporate countable Cultures basically is. somewhat credible when there are about three countries that can vouch for it. many people like to think you can immediately springboard off this to justifying Existentialism but you actually can't. it almost implies the opposite: that primitive Existentialism is most stable when it's regulated from above and not allowed to become a government in and of itself.
4995. ??
4996. ??
4997. [S2] No Marxism is actually over -> MDem's basic working model of Marxisms. if you want to prevent all future Trotskyite conspiracies, you have to talk to Trotskyists as human beings and not immediately scare them off. you have to recognize the existence of different Social-Philosophical Systems around different Marxist models and discuss every model as if it's vaguely possible in order to guide people into forming an agreement for all the different divergent Marxisms and so-called "leftisms" you more commonly find everywhere to live in the same world and not fight each other. this is not a trivial thing given that people unify based on the outcome they believe in rather than whether they are currently oppressed.
4998. [S2] Deng Xiaoping Thought is over -> this one is terrible to discuss because I am convinced that up to now almost everyone in the whole entire world has the wrong interpretation of what the thing actually is. I have heard mainstream Marxist-Leninists casually put the word "overthrow" next to "CPC" / Chinese party-nation without realizing that this is one of the most forbidden things you can say in China and only Trotskyists say it. despite what people think there are very few statements that are big-time illegal to say in China versus just getting deleted off a message board, while that's one of the very few things that actually might be. the Chinese party-nation takes protecting the population very seriously, for better or for worse, and everything it does is in response to possible threats. imagine a reality where most Marxist literature is banned in China but there's still a central party-nation. that's kind of what you invite to happen when you fail to understand that the CPC primarily exists to protect the people from other countries. you must understand that behaving in a non-threatening way toward China is necessarily to get a proper understanding of what it is and how to change it. this of course goes about 100 times as much for Trotskyists, who never even would have thought of this.
4999. [F2] Liberalism is over -> fun. cathartic. as time goes on, bizarrely not true. why not? that's the question of the century.

5000

Welcome to friendship hell
(Perfectly okay works about "community", and dubious Existentialist theories that resemble them)

5000. Item representing analogy or mathematical microcosm / Item comparing structure or process of thing A to thing B -> does not necessarily have to be a correct analogy, but this category does exist to hunt for correct analogies
5001. [S] comparing anything and everything to friendship / unexpectedly comparing things to friendship / comparing things of larger scales than individual relationships to individual relationships -> note that this is not a bad thing in every case; some MDem entries point out real similarities between individuals and populations which lead to real similarities between large and small relationships. that said, it can create jarring contrasts between stories and real life, or Existentialist theories and real life
5002. [S] comparing city-wide phenomena to individual friendships / comparing town-wide phenomena to friendship
5003. [S] comparing region-wide phenomena to individual friendships
5004. [S] comparing nationwide phenomena to individual friendships
5005. [S] comparing global phenomena to individual friendships
5006. [S] comparing whole social graphs to individual friendships / comparing whole communities to friendship / comparing fanbases to friendship / comparing platform membership to friendship
5007. [S] comparing galactic or cosmic phenomena to individual friendships
5008. [S] comparing institutions to individual friendships / comparing workplaces to friendship / comparing government ministries to friendship
5009. [S] comparing local community centers to individual friendships / comparing forums to friendship / comparing churches to friendship
5010. [S] individual described by common pronouns -> important to define basic categories, but may not be necessary to add except within works where below kinds of characters exist ↓
5011. [S] individual described by nonstandard pronouns / character described by pronouns not in common use outside work -> note that "they", "any pronouns", and "it" (background object) are common usages, not nonstandard language
5012. [S] individual described by neopronouns / individual described by "nonsense" pronouns / individual described by "nounself" pronouns
5013. [S] individual described exclusively by pronouns from another language -> Damara Megido. this is a true example of a character with "nonstandard pronouns"
5014. [S] individual described by alternating pronouns / individual described by cycling pronouns -> thanks Mangle
5015. [S] individual described by pronoun of surrounding physical object / ghost using possessing object's pronoun
5016. [S] fictional individual described with insulting pronouns / fictional individual frequently misgendered in-universe / fictional individual frequently called coarse pronouns in Japanese not necessarily related to gender
5017. [S] individual described by pronoun of characters from other planet / fictional human described with alien pronouns -> thanks Piccolo, thanks Crystal Gems.
5018. ??
5019. [S] pronoun not listed as Lexeme (type pronoun in qualifiers) / pronoun listed in external Lexeme (ex.: ey)
5020. ??
5025. ??
5030. ??
5033. [S] individual described by pronoun usages containing ARG clues -> I have never heard of this but I bet it will happen some day wait. this technically already exists. people were left using the pronoun "him" to trace tenuous connections between Gaster and Deltarune. so technically. there is already at least one example out there of pronouns being used as ARG clues, although it's simpler than the silly idea I had in my head of some cryptic letter hiding some kind of cipher key in pronouns.
5035. ??
5040. ??
5045. ??
5050. vote -> a single show of support or non-support
5051. denial ball / black ball / black cube -> ball used as veto in anonymous ball vote. sometimes balls are the same color and put on opposite sides of the anonymous box.
5052. approval ball / white ball -> ball used in hopes of collecting a unanimous vote
5053. ballot
5060. ??
5070. [S2] Humans have free will / Humans have Free Will
5071. [S2] Larks have free will / Larks have Free Will -> the claim that songbirds such as larks and sparrows also have the thing called Free Will that humans are said to have.
5072. [S2] Ravens have free will / Dolphins have free will -> the claim that non-human animals that have been demonstrated to be highly intelligent possess the thing called Free Will.
5073. [F2] The cause-breaking dome has free will / The perfectly round ball sitting on a perfectly round dome that breaks Newtonian causality has free will -> generally accepted not to be true.
5074. [F2] A twenty-sided die has free will -> generally accepted not to be true.
5075. [F2] A pseudorandom number generator has free will -> generally accepted not to be true.
5076. [S2] Twilight Sparkle has free will / Twilight Sparkle has Free Will within the defined fictional universe of My Little Pony, and this is the process by which characters enact friendship lessons -> often accepted to be true but isn't really necessary to accept.
5077. [S2] Free will is the capacity to desire freedom / Free will is the resolve to resist un-freedom -> the only definition of Free Will that makes any sense to me as something that could be real. it's a little bit of a weasel definition to replace something that doesn't make sense with something else that does. it doesn't actually save the claim people can choose not to choose to choose something. instead it's just meant to explain why humans perceive a thing called Free Will and what we might actually be looking at when we see that.
5078. ??
5079. ??
5080. ??
5090. ??
5100. intersubjectivity -> this should be considered a motif to scan texts for. the label can be changed to something more easily recognizable while keeping the internal definition the same thing.
5101. [S2] When The Subject simply is, it compels people to listen
5102. [S2] The unpredictability of Subjects will save the world / whatsisname the unlikeable guy (Excessive Subject, Žižek) will stop the problem by stoking empathy -> I only caught this one after three or more times of listening to a Deltarune analysis. on Noelle's blog there is an incident where Susie is about to bite Kris, but then she stops because Kris said something unexpected. the blog post does not even explain what Kris said, underscoring the motif that Kris is an "excessive Subject" even to The Player. outside Deltarune, this same concept is portrayed much worse in The Excessive Subject. Rothenberg and Žižek clumsily try to explain that basically if a person is just really unpredictable people would eventually be forced to have intersubjectivity and learn empathy. honestly? I really do not think so. the problem isn't that reactionaries don't understand things. the problem is that the processes of society are much more physical and "inanimate" than people want to believe, reactionaries understand those processes all too well, and they choose to perpetuate cruel patterns because it's genuinely materially easier than doing otherwise. like, to get them to change you'd have to force them to expend energy and create things when they don't want to. doing nothing is much easier than doing something. people being unpredictable doesn't make Actually Getting Off Your Butt And Doing Things become easy.
5103. [S] watch my taffy dance ("Come along with me") -> the motif of either of the above two propositions being enacted in fiction
5105. ??
5110. ??
5115. ??
5120. ??
5125. ??
5130. ??
5135. ??
5140. ??
5145. ??
5150. ??
5155. ??
5160. ??
5165. ??
5170. ??
5175. ??
5180. ??
5185. ??
5190. ??
5195. ??
5200. [S] microdistrict / walkable neighborhood / car-free neighborhood
5201. [S] microdistrict (Soviet Union)
5203. [S] mass-produced building
5204. [S2] Trotskyists could have created microdistricts -> I have been looking for so long for one possible policy that Trotskyists would not be too stupid / too tiny of a group of somewhat smart people to figure out. I have finally found one example. in the weird in-between period between the death of Stalin and the overall erosion of the CPSU was exactly when the country created cheap mass-produced buildings. it would seem that the cause of this is more that from 1920-1960 there were constant wars and right after this things were calmer than that the anti-Stalinists truly showed up with all the only good ideas. that said, this stuff certainly happened without Stalin, and microdistricts are one of those things where as soon as someone invents them they're almost harder to screw up than to do correctly. in my mind, this means that if Trotsky had not been lying to people, he could have gotten people together to build some microdistricts in Kazakhstan before everybody migrated out of there, and it would have at least been something. if you put up a number of sensibly-structured towns you don't have to go complaining that the bureaucrats took them over and there's no way you can restore the soviets. whatever a soviet is going to look like in your mind you have a better chance if everything is well-structured rather than strung out. right? why is it that Trotsky believed he could change the whole world and yet he seemed to get hopelessly frustrated with changing a single meeting. why is it that it's easy for me to think of ways Trotskyism could have proved it wasn't one big lie but it was so hard for the actual 1930s Trotskyites that think it's their critically-important duty to keep the country going and save the country from Stalin to think of any of this
5205. [S2] Microdistricts are a Filamentist deception / Walkable cities are practically speaking a creation by linked circles of small businesses who will continue to have all society's agency and education -> the depressing reality that set in after I saw a mini-documentary about capitalist developers "kindly" building walkable neighborhoods in Arizona. [99] they reacted with surprise that people actually wanted to lease business spaces. they had to build a parking lot at the edge of the thing to support businesses actually getting income from outside. realistically, this is going to be pitched as a real place to live but then the people who draw in commerce from other cities to the parking lots are going to be the people who control the rest of the people living in the town. because where is the income that causes your walkable neighborhood to exist? is everyone going to take a bus to a factory or what? quite honestly, this makes me nervous about the whole concept of microdistricts. do you accidentally bake in reversion to bourgeois control by building those? capitalism fundamentally comes from the chunking up of society into separate islands where particular people are responsible for holding the island together (capitalists, investors, Filaments of First-World banks, etc.). I'm now having a crisis wondering if microdistricts actually sunk the Soviet Union because they accidentally created isolated chunks of people.
5206. ??
5207. ??
5208. ??
5209. ??
5210. [M] Are you building a neighborhood for retired people? -> a question everybody trying to fix capitalism through "urban planning" needs to contemplate. for a lot of existing United States housing developments the answer is "yes". they're built for people to retire into but not for anybody to actually be able to go to work.
5215. ??
5220. ??
5225. ??
5230. ??
5235. ??
5240. ??
5245. ??
5250. ??
5255. ??
5260. ??
5265. ??
5270. ??
5275. ??
5280. [S] adventure
5281. [S] kingdom (Adventure Time)
5282. ??
5283. Adventure Time -> great series. has a bunch of themes of character growth and maturity, between coming of age stories and Simon, Jermaine, etc. makes me think about Existentialism. not really a problem with the show in any way. the show actually makes a number of jokes about how it could try to complicate things with philosophy and then is like, I don't know if this actually means much of anything to be honest, I mean maybe it could but dunno. I think that's very respectable. I wish all the Existentialist writers like Sartre and whoever had that much humility.
5284. Candy Kingdom
5285. Ice Kingdom
5286. Fire Kingdom
5287. Evergreen's wishing crown (Adventure Time) -> hypothetically, I may or may not be coding this in order to compare it to fanmade universes.
5288. Princess Bubblegum
5289. Ice King
5290. Flame Princess
5291. apocalyptic event (Adventure Time) -> there are at least two on the core timeline, not just one.
5292. ??
5293. Fionna and Cake
5294. Cake the cat
5295. Fionna the human
5296. Jake the dog
5297. Finn the human
5298. Shermy
5299. Beth
5300. GOLB
5301. Simon Petrikov
5302. Betty
5310. ??
5315. ??
5320. ??
5325. ??
5330. Chronicles of Narnia
5331. wardrobe (Chronicles of Narnia)
5332. Narnia
5333. [S2] Everything moral comes from God / God is the source of everything moral / The nature of God informs everything we observe which is moral, which means the nature of everything we observe which is moral is an example of the nature of God -> religious claims are boring until you start logically combining them with other things that overlap onto the same topics, and then they become way too funny. 1) God is the source of everything moral. 2) Trotskyists believe the 1930s Trotskyite conspiracy was moral. 3) If you're a Trotskyist, God is the source of Trotskyism. 3b) If you're a Stalin follower God is the source of mainstream Marxism-Leninism. 3c) If you're Ronald Reagan, God is the source of the Cold War and will be the source of Donald Trump. 4) Which thing is actually God?
5334. [S] Aslan
5335. [S2] International war is similar to friendships / World War I is similar to friendships -> Wings of Fire
5336. [S2] Monotheism is similar to friendships (fiction) -> more or less seen in real-world religion, but that should be a separate item
5337. [S2] Escaping reality is similar to friendships / Detaching from reality is similar to friendships / Fantastical adventures in another world are similar to friendships / Escapism is similar to friendships -> see also Deltarune; connects friendship to schizoanalytic Escape
5338. [S2] Preventing global empire is similar to friendships / Preventing imperialism is similar to family relationships -> Steven Universe, Wings of Fire. for the longest time I didn't understand this one at all until I realized it was basically a depiction of intersubjectivity theories and the problem was that it was based on theories about real life which were false.
5340. ??
5345. ??
5350. ??
5355. ??
5357. [S2] Progressives deserve the mandate of competence because they "refuse violence" / Progressives are better than reactionaries specifically because they do not practice "violence" -> thanks Giggleland. evil sorcerer who shut down our schools? while the game narrative is said to have been written by a kid in some version of "the real world"? could be a coincidence, but if it isn't, is kind of transparent.
5360. ??
5365. ??
5370. ??
5375. ??
5380. ??
5385. ??
5390. ??
5393. [S2] Alchemy is a metaphor for the individuation process (Jung) -> well that's a claim. I feel like people have been saying this kind of thing about alchemy since alchemy was first invented, and they've tried to fit it to several different ideologies according to what ideology they believe. I've even had some fun with this myself. is alchemy a metaphor for Marxism? the point of alchemy is to look into the deep workings of the universe and apply them in order to create changes in it. you could say, "natural philosophers had only interpreted the world in various ways"... I think there's a much better case for comparing alchemy to Marxism than for comparing it to religion or whatever mystical system of self-discovery educated people believed back then. but by the time you get to that point it's like, are metaphors like this actually useful or are they just not adding any information in any of the cases? different thought: why do psychoanalysts believe in comparing alchemy to individuation if they adamantly don't believe in comparing chemistry and quantum mechanics to a scientific theory of society. those should be contradictory beliefs. but I think the answer always ties back to the conflict between historical materialism and historical "FreeWillIsm".
5398. Freudian psychoanalysis (early 1900s)
5399. Jungian psychoanalysis (mid 1900s) / analytical psychology (Jung's term) -> so apparently Jung spoke of government as "slavery" in that it was capturing individuals and forcing on them a kind of fake identity. this is the kind of guy that is trying not to be racist (?) but unlike Marx doesn't realize that uniting people into a population which is not based on religion is a critical step to not exterminating other religions. this kind of view of individuals and Freedom as being totally autonomous from a national population is why I think early-existentialism and psychoanalysis are part of the same connected thing.
5400. Lacanian psychoanalysis / Lacanianism
5401. Subject who is supposed to know -> broadly correct but misleading. people assume that experts and celebrities have the answers? yes. nobody is actually an expert? no. groups of people actually have to make decisions that affect the group, which means somebody will always be nominated to explain them. tasks actually require experts to draw up plans of action and mobilize people. people really do depend on other people to supply their needs, they don't just go to experts to feel better than if they were alone as this framework implies.
5402. [S2] If it's bad to trust the "Subject who is supposed to know", then "stale rat bread" arguments are bad -> derived Lacanian proposition. Žižek acts like he's as good as Trotsky (as low of a bar as that should be) because he doesn't like capitalists making the wrong decisions. but he also says that people "falsely" trust experts and therapists to have the answers when they don't. do you see the problem with putting those together? I'd think that if you put any value on the "Subject who's supposed to know" concept you wouldn't be able to argue that capitalists can be held responsible right now and you'd have to argue that every individual has an obligation to understand exactly how society works well enough to take it away from capitalists as the only way to ensure that anyone would run corporations responsibly.
5405. ??
5410. ??
5415. ??
5420. ??
5425. ??
5430. ??
5435. ??
5440. [F2] When two people have information, everybody has it / When information is available to a few people, it's available to everyone / When two people know something, everybody knows it / printing press fallacy -> dreadfully common in every single discussion of "culture" and "prejudice". in fact, it's vastly more common to find people who believe this than people who don't. but, it's demonstrably untrue in the physical world. all you have to do is locate somebody who has never head a thing and you've shown that information doesn't spread instantaneously.
5441. [S2] Knowledge cannot teleport / Knowledge cannot travel faster than a photon -> what actually appears to be true, and was depicted in XKCD 1053.
5442. [F2] Random individual Bob Stills is critical to all movements / Random individual Roberta Hill is critically important to movements -> fallacy that occurs based on "information can move faster than light" and "I believe that everybody" statements
5443. [S] Ghost of Individualities Future / Ghost of Possibilities Future -> SCP-8000, It's a Wonderful Life, A Christmas Carol.
5444. ??
5445. [S2] Random individual Bob Stills can puppet four million people / Random individual Bob Stills can change the behavior of four million people
5450. ??
5460. ??
5470. ??
5480. ??
5490. [S] Wow, I've never heard of Schrödinger's cat! -> this became notable the moment I saw it twice. first on Big Bang Theory, then on a discussion of the TV Tropes page for Echo Chamber. I feel like in both cases it has to be the same thing. there is like, a certain section of people. the Berdlys. that become obsessed with intelligence because they don't know anything, and then they portray the "intelligent" characters they worship as knowing really average things they managed not to know.
5491. [S] Wow, I've never heard of France before! / I've never heard of France (motif) -> a really dumb pattern you see in basically every Pokémon facts video. there is a certain genre of "Pokémon fact" which consists of acting astounded that a Pokémon actually references the history of a real-world country, and going into detail about that history or country-based folklore. this would not even be much of a problem by itself except that the more of these videos stack up the more you start to see the hidden pattern that all of them are subtly implying that it's normal not to know anything whatsoever about other countries. Pokémon is the highest-grossing media franchise! okay, cool, so that means the great majority of all people who live in industrial countries have watched it or played it. did you know Emboar is a reference to Romance of the Three Kingdoms? did you know Serperior is a reference to the manga Rose of Versailles? hmm, so a great number of kids and probably also adults haven't heard of historical fiction from other countries. did you know AZ is a reference to Louis XIV? hmm... that honestly seems like something people should already know about if they speak English or French. (I half thought I remembered him as being in a Shakespeare play but I guess I was thinking of Henry V. funny enough he does appear in As you like it?) did you know about Yggdrasil, the mythical tree that since 1995 every thirteen-year-old with access to Wikipedia knows about? did you know about carnival? did you know about kapu and tapu? did you know that Jynx had to be changed because of accidental similarities to blackface? the more these "fun facts" stack up the more you start to ask questions about which things people actually do and don't know and what this says about us. you start to ask if the purpose of Pokémon games is for game developers to go visit other places and learn about the history or traditions of other "cultures" on expensive tours while the rest of us get to stay uniquely isolated and for the propagation of Pokémon games to actually normalize not knowing about the rest of the world until a capitalist does the whole task inside a self-contained corporation and sells it to you as opposed to knowing things. this may sound crazy at first, but I certainly know that when I was a kid I was baffled to hear the fact Jynx had to be censored because not a single person around me knew anything about racism or the lives of people who make any kind of noise about the existence of racism and it took until after I was 25 for huge protests to break out and it to actually become remotely normal for hearing about racism to actually cause anyone to want to learn anything about what causes racism or how to prevent it. Existentialists really want to believe that just seeing diversity and seeing "other cultures" on-screen causes people to have any kind of empathy for other populations or countries, but it really doesn't. it feels more like what's true is that Media Representation works a bit like carbon credits and people buy Media Representation so they can give other demographics a bit of money and then go back to work and go back to their ignorant families and keep being racist. every product is something that you delegate, and you are not doing. if products can sell people "other cultures".... I think you can see where this is going. products easily become a way to self-contain national culture (or self-contain it within a second country well-off enough for tourism) and push it away from home.
5492. [S] Wow, it's so cool Pokémon includes imperial colonies! -> one of the most egregious subsets of "I've never heard of France". I am very much not making this up: I saw a video where somebody remarked on "how cool it was" that a past region was included in a newer one (I think it was Galar in Paldea) because that area had been a territory of another global empire. they said this with a totally straight face like learning that somewhere had been a British territory was truly interesting, and it was wonderful to have British Empire representation in Pokémon games. to the credit of Pokémon company itself, the actual games were careful about the concept of the Spanish empire and tried to avoid the concept of multi-continent empires and instead place down the notion of explorers inside the regional history of Spain. I... would hate to see how fans think an African region should be constructed. are you going to put Galar all over Africa too? even if Pokémon has a rather metaphysical approach to avoiding world wars, and there's a lot to say about that, it's more remarkable fans don't even go that far.
5493. [S2] To be good is to live in harmony with metaphysics -> explanation of Arceus and the creator Pokémon pantheon and how they function as moral devices for arbitrating karma in Pokémon narratives. [100]
5494. [S2] People attack metaphysics because they don't see each other as equals / The opposite of controlling metaphysics is being equals -> this bothers the hell out of me because it's outright used to argue against Communism in naïve terms of "utopia" and "forcing equality", yet in explaining why Existentialism will create a moral world people will say the word "equal" about ten times. the hell is up with that equivocation of the word equal?? it's like there is a secret definition of how being equals actually means existing in total mutual exclusion but doing it really really nicely and politely. it's like the definition of being equal was made up by Artisan types and Careerists who believe the way not to be dominated is to break everything apart to exist in individualized mutual exclusion. [101]
5495. [S2] To seek greater life is to take life -> I've seen variations of this statement like four different places and hated it each time. Journey to the West / Dragon Ball, FNaF, Fullmetal Alchemist, Pokémon. I found it the least objectionable in an analysis of the metaphysical logic of Pokémon, where because it begins from such a mundane setting and can claim to be about chunk competition it at least felt logical [102]
5496. ??
5497. [S2] Alchemy failed because it is an offense to metaphysics / Alchemy failed to become a science because it is an offense to the metaphysical order -> an unexpected but sadly logical interpretation of Fullmetal Alchemist, if you've already heard of the Existentialist-Structuralist tradition [103]
5498. [S2] Science without metaphysics is a tool of domination / Scientifically analyzing The Subject is an offense to metaphysics / Studying identity is an offense to metaphysics / Scientifically studying culture is an offense to metaphysics / Too much science is an offense to metaphysics -> the sci-fi corollary that seems to apply itself to gender, historical materialism, and misplaced research & development efforts such as "AI". in simple forms, it is asserted that science "without a reason" is morally wrong as the natural order can trivially be expressed in terms of "exceed" and "too much". in more elaborate forms, it is implied that trying to understand how identity, individuals, or culture function and develop must be forbidden. to try to understand the development of countries is to crush the living, breathing nationality and squash or gut under the scary boot of Bolshevism some of the living processes that constitute individuals interacting to produce what is truly Russian or truly Chinese, or truly German. to try to understand the sources of gender and what develops to produce gender is to crush the inherent ability of the transgender individual or "the transgender community" to thrash about, to out-produce, to weave itself into the Filamentocracy, and compel respect. this is why I don't like this axiom. a loud shouting of movements without a science of movements is basically reducing people down to literally out-living others and whoever is powerful enough to stay alive in a cruel world getting to stay around to supposedly tell everyone else how to be nice and good when none of that actually determined who lived and died.
5499. [S2] Discoveries come from violating metaphysics -> the 'pataphysics axiom that I like so much better than the way Pokémon appears to see things
5500. [S2] Media Representations are the new carbon credits -> this is a bold one but I think it can be argued at least in some cases. the claim that while many people believe Representation in Media is making people less prejudiced, in reality it's unintentionally leading to a kind of segregation as one of two things happens: A) all the people who don't already know the lessons that are supposed to be learned continue to constantly bury themselves in bad media and avoid Media Representation B) people actually buy Media Representation but check out of making anything better in their own lives because minority demographics have already represented themselves and they have nothing to add to that but a shred of money.
5505. ??
5510. ??
5515. ??
5520. ??
5521. ??
5522. ??
5523. ??
5524. ??
5525. [S] wolf slaying lamb as Original Sin / lion slaying lamb as Original Sin / eating animals as forbidden fruit -> alternate version of book of Genesis that crops up frequently in fiction, sometimes quite literally as in Pitch haven mythos, sometimes much more figuratively in things like Zootopia or Kimba. runs narratively parallel to: Buddhist imagery of the existence of individuals being harmful
5526. ??
5527. ??
5528. ??
5529. [S2] The garden of Eden is basically a Narnia book / The garden of Eden is a superstructural fantasy world -> the claim that the purpose of the garden of Eden myth is to show the difference between the Social-Philosophical Systems of culture people process the world while embedded in (sociophilosophy, socio-culture), versus the problem of being a material object living in material reality. in one sense all human culture is a fairy tale, whether secular or religious. we always tell ourselves assumptions about reality in order to make living in reality less scary. but those assumptions, such as "in the reality that was supposed to exist, all the animals lived in harmony without any growth or change", can amount to a made-up fantasy book that doesn't do anything to affect or change reality itself. technically, Marx briefly touched on this idea in The German Ideology. in that first part that may have been scrapped (?). this turns contentious if you get too far into it because people start asking things like whether Confederate slavery is the reality of what people are doing or whether it's culture. it should be a quick thing to dispel most of those questions: it's culture. it's part of the inner ontology of the Social-Philosophical System of The South, which is made up to reassure people they don't have to fight with The North as long as they mind their own business and buy enough people. it's the notion that whatever set of connected concepts people have come up with, just setting them down and letting them do them will always be fine, that leads to slavery. unfortunately this creates a huge paradox for progressive anthropology because the foundation of the modern study of countable Cultures is that you have to first accept whatever are people's cultural constructs before you do absolutely anything else. but this is not realistically possible because all forms of bigotry are culture in a way that is indistinguishable from "benign" forms of culture. after 200 years Liberal-republicanism grinds to a halt because within its Existentialist origins it is fundamentally about creating Freedom by obligating all countable Cultures to tolerate other countable Cultures, but if you obligate a whole Culture of people to do anything before it internally determines itself, some bigoted Cultures will inevitably feel discriminated against in a very real way and like their freedom has been taken away in a very real way to the point they will become utterly intolerant of democracy and label it tyranny. all republics have a "Trotsky point" where under certain conditions a Culture will try to tear out of them and you'll never be able to get through it intact if you don't truly understand the micro-level structure of society and how Cultures are generated.
5530. ??
5540. ??
5550. ??
5560. ??
5570. ??
5580. ??
5584. "dumbacabra" (Aster/Aubepine)
5585. [S2] Preventing revolution is similar to friendships / Stopping Maoism is similar to friendships
5600. ??
5601. [S] The Owl House -> a lot of people liked this show and I'm just like... hmm no. it looks like it's a good show? but. gosh, why does it prompt so many video essays about Existentialism that even reference early-existentialism by name. I don't think this show was aimed at me.
5650. ??
5684. Starlight Glimmer
5685. [S2] City governments are similar to friendships / Village governments resemble friendships
5686. [S2] Freedom to be yourself is similar to friendships / Authenticity is similar to friendships -> Authenticity (Existentialism)
5699. ??
5700. My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic
5701. My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic episode 1
5921. My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic episode 221
5922. "Tempest Shadow"
5923. ??
5924. ??
5925. ??
5926. [S2] Pi can't beat a Pokémon game
5927. ??
5928. ??
5929. ??
5930. My Little Pony: Make Your Mark
5931. My Little Pony: Make Your Mark episode 1
5957. My Little Pony: Make Your Mark episode 27
5958. My Little Pony: Tell Your Tale
5959. ??
5960. The Tea Dragon Society (all media)
5961. The Tea Dragon Society
5962. The Tea Dragon Festival
5963. The Tea Dragon Tapestry
5964. The Tea Dragon Society Card Game
5965. Autumn Harvest: A Tea Dragon Society Card Game
5966. [S] Town market (The Tea Dragon Society) / town bazaar
5967. Comic quick-start / Mentor rules sheet
5968. Tea Dragon Society Card Game Rulebook / Glossary rules sheet -> are these different for the two games? if so, consider them editions of the same work
5969. [S] True dragon (The Tea Dragon Society)
5970. [S] Tea Dragon (The Tea Dragon Society)
5971. [S] Jasmine tea dragon
5972. [S] Rooibos tea dragon
5973. [S] Chamomile tea dragon
5974. [S] Ginseng tea dragon
5975. [S] Earl Grey tea dragon
5976. [S] Hibiscus tea dragon
5977. [S] Ginger tea dragon
5978. [S] Peppermint tea dragon
5979. [S] Tea Dragon society (group)
5980. Mentors token
5981. Growth token
5982. Victory point token
5983. Tea Dragon card
5984. ??
5985. [S] Entertaining (9 in box) - st / 🌼 / use 1 / cost 0
5986. [S] Feeding (9 in box)
5987. [S] Grooming (9 in box)
5988. [S] Twilight Snow - ❄️ / 🍂 0 / ☕ 9 / 🫖 3+?
5989. [S] Sleeping (9 in box)
5990. Tea Dragon deck / character draw-deck area
5991. [S2] Nice walnuts not getting imminently broken is paradise / Countries are like walnuts: they only taste good when you crack them open -> came up in multiple MDem scraps. the concept is that within Existentialism, national autonomy is never truly taken seriously for any country [...] the sheer population of living people constituting the country is not respected until it's cracked open by force [... full rant left on entry]
5992. ??
5993. [F2] A workers' state will surely fail if it doesn't buy specific inventions from other countries / Avoid the forbidden fruit and you will surely die -> found this one implied in a history of late Soviet corn production. literally untrue, because China got around this one through bootlegs and its own eventual inventions. but this statement is truly interesting because of the dumb assumptions buried deep inside it. this actually goes deeply against Deleuze and Guattari's Existentialist model of freedom. it says there are some people you have no choice but to form relationships with no matter how evil they are, because the individuals or groups of people who are most effective at materially generating civilizations have the right to be your friend. you have to love racists, you have to love transphobes, you have to put up with everybody's bullshit as individuals if they sell a lot of things. business territories aren't valuable because they're pieces of society that exist and have value regardless of who founded them, there are just mandatory individuals. this is one of the most toxic forms of Existentialism because it posits chunk competition as building societies rather than even Filamentism. that's medieval. that's manor lord thinking. that's literally, the duke is more important than the rest of the population if each member of the nobility does their best to exist without caring about anyone else.
5994. [S2] Walnut core inside shell against other shell equals shell plundering shell / Walnut core inside walnut shell against walnut shell equals whole walnut smashing whole walnut / Anti-marginalization efforts from the United States' margins to "help" minorities in China turn into US majority and US minority against absolutely everybody in China / Trotsky and Trotskyites without their own workers' state fight for either the Soviet Union's government or the United States and Mexican governments -> this one takes so many words to say. it's not a difficult concept but it is really difficult for anyone to actually see when they'll call you out on the question-begging test for not describing the whole world in terms of races and Cultures. I find that framing disgusting when it's a fact human individuals and populations compete for mere existence, and I'd rather not discuss social-democratic reforms in terms of slowly allowing some 20% of people not surviving who probably happen to belong to particular races to survive better but not the rest of them just yet. so, you get walnuts. you get really stupid walnut metaphors where the goal is not to let the walnut shells arbitrarily go around cracking all the other walnuts except them. I swear people are not smart enough to grasp the concepts of either "the proletariat" or "plural proletariats in one country". so we tell them about walnuts.
5995. ??
5996. ??
5997. ??
5998. [S] walnut shell (analogy) -> approximately represents a national border, populational border, or party-nation
5999. [S] walnut core (analogy) -> approximately represents either the proletariat or The Multitude, but is intended to exclude capitalists

Items / Signifiers 6000 - 10000

6000 - 8000

Publishing entities, "Journey to the West" related Signifiers.

Entries for miscellaneous fictional works allowed. To be included, a work should have interesting literary motifs seen in multiple other works, include references to some kind of philosophical statement within some real-world philosophy, or include consistent fictional ontologies of imagined physics or processes. Fictional physics or processes also allowed.

6000. fictional character
6001. [S] first-person narrator
6002. [S] second-person narrator -> see: Homestuck, narrator Chara
6003. [S] third-person narrator
6004. [S] narrator
6005. [S] point-of-view character
6006. [S] player character
6007. [S] non-player character (NPC)
6008. [S] hero
6009. [S] villain
6010. [S] antihero
6011. [S] antivillain
6012. [S] Good-aligned character
6013. [S] Neutral-aligned character
6014. [S] Evil-aligned character
6015. [S] Lawful-aligned character
6016. [S] Chaotic-aligned character
6017. [S] True-Neutral-aligned character
6018. [S] character alignment / moral alignment
6019. [S] I contain multitudes / I am all of me
6020. [S] alignment axis
6021. [S] Law-Chaos axis -> in the first edition of Dungeons & Dragons alignment had nothing to do with Good and Evil and this was actually bordering on historical materialism; it was a mechanism for studying how fantasy history progresses. a Lawful/Chaotic distinction is outright originally intended to set up situations like an empire versus unruly peasants, or "built on the ashes of fae bones". a video creator tried to explain this by saying "in World War II, Britain won't ally with the Nazis", specifically meaning in this case that regardless of who is Evil particular nationalities or populations join up to defend some particular order or against a particular structure or ideology. Lawful/Chaotic is a lot like the Cold War: if capitalists are on the side of Law then unions are on the side of Chaos, although if a workers' state is created Bolshevism is the side of Law in its own region and the 1930s Trotskyite conspiracy is the side of Chaos. to be Lawful is simply to be on the side of a particular civilization or in modern terms an assembled Bauplan, while to be on the side of Chaos is to be against some highly specific order. the major "mistake" made with alignment across various fantasy media as time went on is to not realize that civilizations can be plural and to universalize Law as belonging to the whole universe rather than there being several different centers of Law such that in something like the Wings of Fire setting with different coalitions of warring dragons, you would have to be aligned to Lawful-A or Lawful-B, a single universal "Lawful" doesn't actually exist. why people make this "mistake" is complicated, but it seems connected to the choice to treat Law/Chaos as a strict cosmically-metaphysical slider where Chaos tears open all the rules of reality similar to an SCP anomaly. although fantasy can be anything, this seems like a bad choice if you want people to understand fantasy populations simply as periods of history where populations are in conflict and not as inherently Good or Evil. this mere transformation of Chaos into an alchemical quality of the universe inherently spawns implications that certain groups of people are the universe's favorites and certain groups are not, and like, trying to fix that by saying "they need to be balanced, we need both of them" is just both-sidesing medieval politics. if we literally thought that way about medieval England there would have been an ongoing controversy up to today about whether creating Liberalism and getting rid of monarchy was actually a good idea. as well, we'd be both-sidesing global empire and whether it's okay to keep people marginalized into tiny areas of l—... oh wait, we already do that every day. tabletop RPGs reveal a whole lot about Europeans, don't they?
6022. [S] Good-Evil axis
6030. ??
6031. [S] Kirby Does His Taxes / Mario Stands Still -> I forgot about this until somebody brought up "Mario Stands Still" to explain Deltarune. Kirby Does His Taxes will always be the better form though
6032. [S2] Science fiction is just nonsensical physics -> not very controversial. science fiction begins with physics discoveries, hypotheses in various fields of science, and the application of physics or general mathematics to create hypothetical technologies or worlds. warp drives. four-dimensional worlds. it's kind of all just applying advanced mathematics to storytelling.
6033. [S2] Fantasy is the best history test / Fantasy is just nonsensical history -> the more fantasy books I read the more I see this particular hypothesis building up that the impulse behind writing fantasy is to play with the causal mechanisms of history and try to slowly figure out what they are. science fiction can sidestep the actual way anyone gets to the future to focus on hypothetical technologies or forms of physics, but in a weird way, fantasy is almost inherently more progressive than sci-fi if you aren't too stupid to see it. although science fiction often does focus on analyzing civilizations in series such as Star Trek, fantasy is inherently more barebones in its palette of concepts in a way that often immediately forces it to reckon with the workings of societies. fantasy grounds itself in things like social structures, wars, nationalities and identities, whether particular civilizations are good or bad, who should be in power, and how imagined historical periods give way to other periods containing different civilizations. sometimes it seems like there is no difference between the categories of fantasy and politics, because a great heap of the things that happen in fantasy books are just medieval politics, and existing notions like Law/Chaos axes naturally lend themselves to fantasy stories about such things as characters slipping out of existing structures or patterns to discover LGBT identities. fantasy stories have all the puzzle pieces to turn into a believable imagined account of history where the material processes inside particular kingdoms, populations, or worlds actually unfold in understandable ways into new historical periods for centuries and centuries and you can actually trace through a fictional world's past and possible future(s) without any of it being arbitrary. if you actually understand history, fantasy is wired. I'm convinced that fantasy stories could teach the crustiest White people to actually understand historical materialism, maybe even more effectively than actual history could. in real-life history if somebody asks you to guess what happens next you always have "the answers at the back of the book", while fantasy is genuinely a blank history test you have to fill in. the act of creating fantasy is an act of showing that there really is such a thing as historical materialism and "history in general" without the content of a specific country. if that's not the case, how do people evaluate whether a fantastical history is convincing? why would there be a discussion about that where people have different opinions? I believe it all traces back to fantasy largely being simple representational art with regard to the processes that create real-world history. when people call for Media Representation in fantasy what they mean to say is that, because reality is stranger than fiction, in their attempt to represent the general concept of history current fantasy stories are overlooking a whole bunch of real-world historical events. it's one thing to say a story is technically unrealistic, and another to say it's literally missing information about reality that's making the representational art worse, which in this case is the complaint.
6034. [S] text claims to be bunch of senseless events, becomes discussion on history / work claims to be a bunch of senseless events, ends up a discussion on history -> happened in both Adventure Time and Dragon Ball. it's funny how works that intend to show that history is senseless actually just end up discussing the proposition it can be understood. no matter how much they try to turn around and say the characters' efforts to understand it are in vain. the point of the work is still to say that not being able to understand and steer history is a problem.
6035. [S2] If society does not run on magic, Marxism-Leninism is not ruled out -> follows from: The heart of Marxism is historical materialism / Proposition zero of Marxism is historical materialism
6036. ??
6040. [S2] Narratives exist to portray possible societies or situations
6041. [S2] Narratives exist to depict each possible kind of individual / Narratives exist to tell us about individuals
6042. [M3] Why do narratives exist?
6043. ??
6050. ??
6060. ??
6070. player as relative to game
6080. ??
6090. ??
6098. [S] speedrun
6099. [S] challenge run
6100. [S] seemingly-impossible challenge run
6101. [S] But first we need to talk about parallel universes
6110. ??
6120. ??
6130. ??
6140. ??
6150. ??
6160. ??
6173. SCP Foundation Wikis
6180. elemental card color (Arcmage)
6181. ??
6182. ??
6183. ??
6184. Gaian card / earth color card (darkmage)
6185. Red Banner card / sun color card (darkmage)
6186. House of Nobles card / sea color card (darkmage)
6187. Empire card / steel color card (darkmage)
6188. Shadow Legion card / death color card (darkmage)
6189. ??
6190. elemental card color (Magic)
6191. ??
6192. ??
6193. ??
6194. green card (Magic)
6195. red card (Magic)
6196. blue card (Magic)
6197. white card (Magic)
6198. black card (Magic)
6199. ??
6200. Magic: the Gathering (1993 - present)
6300. (62-6300: Magic: the Gathering sets, not totally exhaustive. list of sets being compiled here)
6312. [S] Twelve things form a Chinese zodiac / Twelve things means Chinese astrology
6313. ??
6314. ??
6315. ??
6315. Dark Fountain
6316. Yume Nikki
6317. [S] RPG progression as horror -> Undertale; Deltarune chapter 3; FNaF Security Breach & Gregory destroying not-so-scary artificial beings. there was another counterpart trope appearing mainly in Deltarune, but I can't remember what it was.
6318. Super Sentai (metaseries) / Super Squad (unofficial name)
6319. Uchū Sentai Kyuranger [vol. 41] / Space Squad Kyuranger
6320. Power Rangers (abridged-series)
6321. Himitsu Sentai Gorenger [vol. 1] (1975) / Secret Squad Gorenger
6322. J.A.K.Q. Dengekitai [vol. 2] (1977) / JAKQ Blitz Squad
6323. Battle Fever J [vol. 3] (1979)
6324. Denshi Sentai Denziman [vol. 4] (1980) / Electric Squad Denziman / Electronic Squad Denziman
6325. Taiyo Sentai Sun Vulcan [vol. 5] (1981) / Solar Squad Sun Vulcan
6326. Dai Sentai Goggle-V [vol. 6] (1982)
6327. Kagaku Sentai Dynaman [vol. 7] (1983) / Science Squad Dynaman
6328. Chodenshi Bioman [vol. 8] (1984) / Super Electronic Squad Bioman
6329. Dengeki Sentai Changeman [vol. 9] (1985) / Blitz Squad Changeman
6330. Choshinsei Flashman [vol. 10] (1986)
6331. Hikari Sentai Maskman [vol. 11] (1987)
6332. Choju Sentai Liveman [vol. 12] (1988) / Super Beast Squad Liveman
6333. Kousoku Sentai Turboranger [vol. 13] (1989) / Lightspeed Squad Turboranger
6334. Chikyu Sentai Fiveman [vol. 14] (1990)
6335. Chojin Sentai Jetman [vol. 15] (1991) / Aviator Squad Jetman
6336. Kyoryu Sentai Zyuranger [vol. 16] (1992) / Dino Squad Zyuranger
6337. Gosei Sentai Dairanger [vol. 17] (1993)
6338. Ninja Sentai Kakuranger [vol. 18] (1994)
6339. Choriki Sentai Ohranger [vol. 19] (1995)
6330. ??
6340. ??
6350. ??
6360. ??
6370. ??
6380. ??
6390. ??
6400. ??
6410. twelve or more -> precise order of magnitude
6411. exactly twelve -> precise order of magnitude
6412. [S] Twelve things form a European zodiac / Twelve things means European astrology
6413. Homestuck - included almost just as a joke, but the number is nice
6420. ??
6433. [S] beam balance of justice
6440. ??
6450. ??
6460. ??
6469. [S] "cancer" refers to crabs
6484. end-of-the-world scenario -> referencing SCP-ES-084, one of them where people think the world is going to end. but highly appropriate to put next to Homestuck, I mean that's exactly how it begins
6500. ??
6525. [S2] The wolf shall dwell with the lamb / The wolf and the lamb shall graze together / lion laying down with the lamb -> seen in many different bible verses, several in the book of Isaiah. perhaps one of the single most interesting things said in the Christian bible because A) it creates logically coherent narratives, even if ecologically inaccurate in the real world and B) it acts as one of the central themes driving many of the books. Q3009 "lion of kindness" should be considered a component of this proposition
6550. ??
6569. [S] Progressive theorists are practically aliens / Social justice theorists speak another language -> Kankri Vantas
6600. ??
6650. ??
6600. [S] alternate world / isekai -> super-case of: superstructural fantasy world.
6601. ??
6612. Homestuck act 5 / Hivebent
6613. [S] The Underground
6614. [S] Light World
6615. [S] Dark World
6616. [S] The Core
6617. [S] W.D. Gaster
6618. [S] Man behind the tree (Deltarune) / egg man (Deltarune)
6619. [S] eggs of unclear importance
6620. [S] The Angel (Deltarune)
6621. [S] Kris
6622. [S] Susie
6623. [S] Noelle
6624. [S] Ralsei
6625. [S] Shadow Crystals
6626. [S] Seam
6627. [S] Jevil
6628. [S] Spamton
6629. [S] Berdly
6630. [S2] Kris was The Knight in Chapter 2 / Kris is The Knight
6631. [S2] Multiple characters are The Knight
6632. [S2] The player plays as The Angel -> what I thought to be true
6633. [S2] Noelle is The Angel -> I think this is only true in the sense of her being the "other" Angel, but might as well record it
6634. [S2] December Holiday is The Knight -> one line of reasoning is Mother 3 [104]
6635. [S2] The Knight is a knife which became a Darkner -> supposedly, knives have a "long hand"
6626. [S2] Kris gained the Red Soul after dying / Kris is dead
6637. [S2] Kris fails to play the piano because they're too nervous -> the theory that the player would be able to prompt Kris to play the piano but Kris simply doesn't want to because they can't get into the right mood. [105] very good explanation in my opinion given that Kris always does the things the player selects in some particular way, like a particular tone, not provided by the player. Kris can take out the soul and pick up their knife as a passive-aggressive gesture at The Player. do you think they couldn't play a piano?
6638. ??
6639. ??
6640. ??
6641. [S2] Deltarune is a horror scenario about a world without creativity [106] / Deltarune is a horror story about networkism -> the claim is that Darkners not being able to create fiction is a relatable narrative for art creators. interesting theory, even if I don't see much evidence right now
6642. [S] magic as bending the world to one's individual will / magic as the ability to inflict one's Free Will on the world regardless of the consequences -> Wings of Fire series, Darkstalker, Deltarune chapter 2 weird route. note very closely that Noelle is called a spellcaster, and her attacks to turn Darkners back into unmoving objects (!) are referred to as magic.
6643. ??
6650. [S] Ralsei's chapter 3 speech
6651. [S] "it might be your imagination" -> several lines implying that Berdly has passed from "reality" into imagination, or rather, from the world into Kris' mind.
6659. living block tree / Darkerner puzzle [107] -> found in Chapter 1
6660. [S] gray characters / Goners
6661. [S2] "Goners" have been deleted from Undertale's world / Goners are something more than dead
6664. [S2] The next level below Dark Worlds is the game code -> this doesn't make any sense to me because it breaks the basic/superstructural pattern, especially when Darker-ners have been found
6665. [S2] The level below Dark Worlds is the inanimate objects inside Dark Worlds coming to life -> evidence: tree object coming to life
6666. [S2] IMG_FRIEND is the darkness outside the game universe come to life -> haven't heard this from anybody but me but it seems quite possible visually. sure looks like nothingness with a face
6670. [S2] The level above the Light World is earth / The level above the Light World is Toby Fox's world / The level above the Light World is the real world
6671. [S2] The level above the Light World is The Angel's Heaven / The level above the Light World is technically fictional -> narratively parallel to: when you open up a Digimon show or game, the Real World and the Digital World are both technically fictional but the Real World is material and the Digital World is intangible relative to it
6680. ??
6682. SCP-682 "Hard-to-destroy reptile"
6687. [S] Dark Shard -> an item dropped by the Roaring Knight that exists in the Dark World and is not the same entity as the Shadow Crystal, at least at the level of the TV and Tenna not being the same entity.
6688. [S] Black Knife / Black Blade
6689. [S] Shadow Mantle
6690. [S] The Roaring Knight / The Knight (Deltarune)
6691. [S] Roaring Knight sphere -> The Knight reverts into a little rotating sphere when defeated. is that just a cool move, or is that actually the thing that created it in some sense, like the Pippins showing up as dice in the monochrome pictures?
6692. [S] TV screen glitches (Chapter 3)
6693. [S] say it didn't snow -> appears to be tying snow to the notion of the barrier between mind and reality breaking? shows up in room of TVs in Chapter 3, Noelle says the words in weird route.
6694. [S] "your heartbeat becomes twisted" -> quote that appears in Roaring Knight battle.
6695. [S] guitar phone call -> seems to literally tell us what is happening and what will happen, only very cryptically.
6698. [S2] The Roaring Knight is Kris' repressed memory come to life -> Deltarune chapter 3. we've gotten occasional hints there is psychoanalysis in Deltarune. A) Deltarune has several surface similarities to OMORI, which was about repressed memories; toby even acknowledged this. B) Tenna's Dark World was full of memories. C) the code 1225 is included in the Dark World presumably as a memory. D) Kris opened the fountain, but the Roaring Knight was inside the fountain as what would appear to be a Darkner, and Tenna thinks "she" opened the fountain. E) Darkners are described as a very serious absence of real-world data, like a hallucination. if this is true, you'd expect that painful thoughts that torment you when you're up at night could bleed into the Dark World or even become entire Darkners.
6699. Red Soul (Deltarune)
6700. Dragon Ball pre-reboot era
6701. Dragon Ball Kai episode 1
6867. (... Dragon Ball Kai)
6868. [S2] Madotsuki's shirt symbol shows she is empty -> pattern said to be PNG transparency or censored out shape from Madotsuki's appearance, like a missing piece; evidence through same "missing piece" showing up in Poniko's room
6869. Dragon Blazers -> note the dimension. fictional works of fiction may be marked S, though real works of fiction are marked Z.
6870. ??
6880. ??
6890. [S2] Trying hard enough enough times always makes money / Individuals having skills or good ideas always leads to making money with enough time and attempts / Wackytown fallacy -> the more people are born and compete for jobs as more unique products exist the less true this gets. MDem entry 4.4/2050 baxter
6891. [S2] Diversity should be accepted because it's useful / Being different is okay only when you're useful / Red (Angry Birds) is useful to society because he's different in the perfect way -> the proposition people pick out and regard with much confusion when they're actually looking at the Wackytown fallacy. this is more a subjective thing than an error because you probably find this proposition some places too.
6892. [S] Rudolph was useful -> plot motif in Christmas movies or similar fictional works when a character supposedly finds acceptance for being different but it falls flat. "Rudolph was useful" is a local joke in the United States about misunderstandings that happened somewhere between Japanese speakers attempting to translate the Rudolph song and Japanese students trying to make sense of the translation. we think the bigger part of the misunderstanding occurred the second time around, as "役に立つ" can be a perfectly positive and complimentary thing to say in the moment, similar to "a towel comes in handy wherever you go", and not very similar to the flat and uncaring connotation of "was useful".
6900. ??
6910. ??
6911. ??
6912. [S] December Holiday / Dess Holiday
6913. ??
6914. SCP-914
6920. ??
6930. ??
6940. ??
6950. ??
6960. ??
6970. Garfield
6971. [S] John Arbuckle (character)
6972. [S] Garfield (character)
6973. Garfield minus Garfield -> Garfield + absence.
6974. ??
6975. The Secret of Platform 13 (Ibbotson 1994) -> somebody pointed out that this one came before Harry Potter and I laughed. good catch.
6976. ??
6977. ??
6978. ??
6979. ??
6980. Growing Around (unreleased series with ~1 published book)
6981. ??
6982. ??
6983. ??
6984. [S2] Growing Around is a dystopia
6990. ??
7000. ??
7001. ??
7002. ??
7003. ??
7004. ??
7005. ??
7006. ??
7007. ??
7008. ??
7009. ??
7010. ??
7011. ??
7012. ??
7013. ??
7014. ??
7015. ??
7016. Marxists Internet Archive
7017. Moscow: Progress Publishers
7018. Beijing: Foreign Languages Press
7019. ??
7020. ??
7021. Kersplebedeb
7030. ??
7040. ??
7050. ??
7060. ??
7070. ??
7080. ??
7090. ??
7091. ??
7092. Ironblood series -> basically just a reserved item
7093. Aurora system / IronShard -> reserved, but closer to being real
7094. ??
7095. ??
7096. ??
7097. ??
7098. ??
7099. ??
7100. ??
7138. Helix Chamber
7200. ??
7250. ??
7270. ??
7271. [S2] Vegeta IV is worse than Vegeta III
7272. [S2] Vegeta III is worse than Vegeta IV -> this is the one I think was true, although both become irrelevant when the series reboots into Super
7300. ??
7301. [S] Android 1
7302. [S] Android 2
7303. [S] Android 3
7304. [S] Android 4
7305. [S] Android 5
7306. [S] Android 6
7307. [S] Android 7
7308. [S] Android 8
7309. [S] Android 9
7310. [S] Android 10
7311. [S] Android 11
7312. [S] Android 12
7313. [S] Android 13
7314. [S] Android 14
7315. [S] Android 15
7316. [S] Android 16
7317. [S] Android 17
7318. [S] Android 18
7319. [S] Android 19
7320. [S] Android 20
7321. [S] Android 21
7322. ??
7323. ??
7324. ??
7325. [S] Android 25
7326. [S] Android 26
7327. ??
7328. ??
7329. ??
7330. ??
7331. ??
7332. ??
7333. [S] Android 33
7334. ??
7335. That time I got reincarnated as Yamcha
7336. [S] Future Trunks timeline
7337. [S] Trunks (Dragon Ball)
7338. [S] Trunks' sword -> is it different from Z sword?
7339. ??
7340. ??
7341. ??
7342. ??
7343. ??
7344. ??
7345. ??
7346. ??
7347. [S] 15-generations-prior god-of-worlds
7348. [S] Z sword (Dragon Ball)
7349. ??
7350. ??
7400. ??
7401. ??
7402. ??
7403. ??
7404. [S] Super Saiyan 4 (GT)
7410. ??
7411. ??
7412. ??
7413. ??
7414. ??
7415. ??
7416. ??
7417. [S] Android 17 (GT)
7450. ??
7500. Wings of Fire prequels
7501. [S] empire plant -> I forget its name but that's what it is
7502. [S] the king I can't remember
7503. [S] Freedom
7504. [S] castle lord guy
7505. [S] Sky the SkyWing
7506. [S] Wren -> until I looked it up I really couldn't remember her name and thought she was named after a plant like several other characters in that book
7507. [S] Darkstalker -> there's a lot to say about Darkstalker and narrative parallels. the funniest one is his parallel to Death Note. the most unexpected one is his parallel to the description of LV in Undertale.
7508. [S] Clearsight
7509. [S] Book of Clearsight
7510. Dragonslayer
7511. Darkstalker
7512. Wings of Fire series
7513. Warriors series
7514. Guardians of Ga'Hoole series
7515. One for Sorrow, Two for Joy
7516. Kimba the White Lion / Jungle Emperor Leo -> move? not sure how many chapters there are
7520. ??
7532. [S] there is only power and those who seek it -> appears in: Harry Potter
7600. Epic of Gilgamesh
7601. Crime and Punishment -> the most notable thing about this book to me is that it was loosely adapted to create Death Note.
7602. Death Note
7603. Death Note (artifact)
7603. animus scroll (Wings of Fire)
7610. [S] mistaken quest to steal immortality from the gods
7616. Undertale
7617. Deltarune
7618. ??
7662. SCP-6662 [108] -> lost cereal mascot seeking "own destination"
7663. ??
7665. [S] Mx. Satan -> when a character in a story is asserted to be a regular character within a world and not necessarily supernatural in the sense of having anything to do with gods, even the gods of that secular fantasy narrative etc, but is really really clearly paralleling a Satan/antichrist narrative as you would see in the Christian bible. Mr. Satan - trope namer; ice queen (Narnia). really can be any gender.
7666. [F2] The enemy of one entity is the enemy of all humankind / The world only has one opposer / Satan fallacy -> fallacy best known in the Christian Bible, but repeated in many fantasy books. this statement fails the Trotsky model hard. if you think this statement could ever be true, then it could hypothetically be true that the enemy of Stalin's government is the enemy of all humankind. you've gotta put Trotsky to death to save Soviet civilization. and that's a pretty big contradiction to have in your philosophy for all First World countries. Trotsky is sacred. but if there's any such thing as Bible-style Good and Evil, he's done. which thing is correct? you can't change the Soviet Union to Liberalism to make the problem easier, you have to answer the moral conundrum exactly as it is.
7687. PragerU / Prager University
7688. Fox News
7689. ??
7690. [S] portraying negative phenomenon without recommending it / ironic phenomenon
7691. [S] unironic misogyny
7692. [S] ironic misogyny -> see: Dragon Ball
7693. [S] heteronormativity
7694. [S] ironic heteronormativity -> see: Amy Rose, DHMIS "Malcom"
7695. [S] normalcy of relationships proved by Lived Experiences / gay relationships are normal
7696. [S] normalcy of gender proved by Lived Experiences / transgender identity is normal
7697. ??
7700. Journey to the West
7701. [S] golden light
7702. [S] fictional religious cosmology -> Girl from the other side; Warriors / StarClan
7703. [S] evil god takes form as the earth -> Tiamat; hinduism?
7704. [S] cosmic graph struggle
7735. [S] Yamcha (Dragon Ball)
7742. [S] understanding the universe
7743. [S] karma (spatial rank)
7744. [S] bailing someone out of system
7745. [S] bailing someone out of supernatural system
7746. [S] bailing someone out of karma
7747. [S] Saiyans losing tails -> lore significance specifically
7747. ??
7748. ??
7771. [S] Sonic the Hedgehog
7772. [S] Tails
7773. [S] Knuckles
7774. [S] Amy Rose -> what is misogyny?
7775. [S] (sonic character)
7776. [S] (sonic character)
7777. [S] Shadow the Hedgehog
7778. [S] MarioCube / MarioCube theory
7779. [S] Black Arms
7780. [S] GUN -> planetary police, planetary army
7781. [S] ??
7782. [S] Sonic × Shadow / Sonadow -> Group Subject containing: Sonic, Shadow
7783. ??
7783. VIZ media
7784. Bird Studio
7785. Sega
7786. ??
7787. [S] Funtime Shenron -> "eternal dragon" or other character/device that claims to grant you a wish but actually just eats you or takes your dead body. perfectly okay to give this a different primary label, I just think "Funtime Shenlong" is a really funny image
7788. ??
7793. Steel Wool games
7794. ??
7795. ??
7796. ??
7797. ??
7798. [S2] Children are composed almost entirely of memories / Children are a shard off their parents' memories / Children are a fork off their parents' inner timeline of Lived Experiences -> Lacanianism; Charlie (Fourth Closet); Girl from the other side
7799. Girl From the Other Side (all media) / Other Side / Girl from the Outside (typo) / The Outsiders (typo)
7870. (... Girl From the Other Side)
7900. ??
7965. Ultra Q (1966)
7966. Ultraman (1966)
7967. Ultraseven (1967)
7968. The Return of Ultraman (1971) / Ultraman Jack (show)
7969. Ultraman Ace (1972)
7970. Ultraman Taro (1973)
7971. The☆Ultraman (1979) / Ultraman Joneus (show)
7972. Ultraman 80 (1980)
7973. Ultraman Zearth (1996)
7974. Ultraman Leo (1973) -> features signifier: Leon Trotsky counterpart
7975. ??
7976. ??
7977. ??
7978. ??
7979. ??
7980. ??
7981. ??
7982. ??
7983. ??
7984. ??
7985. ??
7986. ??
7987. ??
7988. ??
7989. ??
7990. Ultraman Geed (2017) -> this one was so questionable, it was like, nazi-framed Ultraman show
7991. ??
7992. ??
7993. ??
7994. ??
7995. ??
7996. ??
7997. ??
7998. ??
7999. Slay the Princess
8000. ??
8151. Pokémon (metaseries)
8190. virtual pet form / virtual pet stage / evolution stage / Pokémon kind / Pokédex kind
8191. virtual pet form tier / evolution stage
8192. virtual pet species / virtual pet strain / virtual pet form chart (internal mechanic)
8193. reused virtual pet form / virtual pet form switching from one series of forms to another / track switch / trackswitch
8194. ??
8195. ??
8196. ??
8197. Digimon (metaseries)
8198. ??
8199. ??
8200. ??
8326. neopets
8327. [S] neopet -> toon-style being, LCD-style being, Subject-style being; medium: virtual pet; only really here to demonstrate categories
8328. ??
8329. [S2] The Mimic was hiding in every game as Jackie
8330. [S2] The Mimic was hiding inside Shadow Freddy
8331. [S] MCI victim names / Gabriel (??) / Jeremy (??) / Fritz (??) / Susie (??) / Susie (Return to the Pit)
8332. [S2] Golden Freddy contains "The one you should not have killed"
8333. [S2] Golden Freddy DOES NOT contain "The one you should not have killed"
8334. [S2] Michael became Old Man Consequences
8335. [S2] Henry became Old Man Consequences
8336. [S2] Ralph became Old Man Consequences -> reliving old traumas in cyclic timeline (FNaF)
8337. [S2] Andrew, Jake, and Stitchwraith are in games / StitchlineGames
8338. [S2] Tales from the Pizzaplex takes place in games setting / TalesGames
8339. [S2] Michael Afton was protagonist of FNaF 1-4 / The Box contains Foxy mask
8340. [S2] Chica was created during Fredbear era
8341. [S2] Toy animatronics originated from Fall Fest / Toy animatronic characters first shown at carnival
8342. [S2] Mangle came from carnival ride / Mangle is not Funtime Foxy / Mangle first shown at Fall Fest
8343. [S2] The Mimic copied William Afton to create Glitchtrap
8344. [S2] Every instance of The Mimic is networked together
8345. [S2] Carnie was built out of LEFTE
8346. [S2] Cassidy died in springlock incident -> red lakes and drowning imagery
8347. [S2] Fazbear Enterprises is responsible for bringing back Fall Fest
8348. [S2] Tiger Rock plush is a counterpart to the books
8349. [S2] Desk guy counts as Henry because he is based on Scott / Scott is desk guy is Henry -> FNaF World
8350. [S2] LEFTE contains five dead kids / LefteDCI / LeftyDCI -> 1 2
8351. [S2] Circus Baby is not William's creation but Henry's revenge on William -> Circus Baby - based on - Charlie; "the baby is not mine"
8352. [S2] There are actually multiple William Aftons from different timelines
8353. [S2] Candy Cadet is contrasting Circus Baby's plan with Henry's plan / Candy Cadet is contrasting Sister Location's worst ending with Pizza Simulator's best ending
8354. [S2] Helpy is a Funtime because the Pizza Place is Henry's version of the Funtimes intended to catch Funtimes
8355. [S2] William based the Funtime animatronics on LEFTE -> I think this is slightly "anachronistic" because Baby existed at the time of the fire, but it's definitely fun, and it creates a nice transition between FNaF 6 and The Fourth Closet
8356. [S2] Henry and William are in an arms race / Whenever Henry builds something William appropriates it for evil / When William builds something Henry appropriates it for good
8357. [S2] Michael is "The one you should not have killed" and UCN was Michael's revenge -> this implies that "The vengeful spirit" is not "The one you should not have killed" because the ghost voice and Michael would be two different characters - both tormenting William.
8358. [S2] William Afton deliberately made the Funtimes able to feel pain in order to harvest Agony -> strangely enough, actually becomes more plausible on Jackie's timeline where the Mimics seem to have pre-dated Freddy Fazbear
8359. [S2] Dave Afton longed for Fredbear to protect him and possession granted him his wish -> [109]
8360. [S2] Fazbear Frights is an in-universe series created by Fazbear Entertainment -> different from the concept of Security Breach timeline vs classic timeline; some argue Frights is too insulting to Fazbear Entertainment - [110]
8361. [S2] The mound in Midnight Motorist contains a hidden Twisted One waiting to strike -> man I love the creativity. I don't think there is any serious Silver Eyes in the games before Security Breach but the image is hilarious
8362. ??
8400. [S] forest beings turning into trees -> QID references: SCP.
8401. ??
8443. [S] Lenin counterpart -> also in: Ultraman Leo
8444. [S] Leon Trotsky counterpart / Emmanuel Goldstein / Snowball -> also in: Ultraman Leo
8445. [S] Rosa Luxemburg counterpart
8453. [S] Joseph Stalin counterpart / Napoleon (pig)
8454. [S] Pigs (Animal Farm)
8500. ??
8501. [S] Pyrrhia
8509. [S] dragon tribe
8510. [S] dragon (Wings of Fire)
8511. [S] MudWing
8512. [S] SeaWing
8513. [S] RainWing
8514. [S] NightWing
8515. [S] SandWing
8516. [S] moon-touched dragon
8517. [S] Icewing
8518. [S] SkyWing
8519. [S] animus magic
8520. [S] dragon created through animus magic -> there are about three in the series: Boa, fake Clearsight, Peacemaker. notably, Darkstalker is responsible for two of them.
8521. [S] SilkWing
8522. [S] Hivewing
8523. [S] LeafWing
8524. [S] flamesilk dragon
8525. [S] Boa / Jerboa (construct)
8526. [S] hybrid dragon
8527. [S] animus dragon
8528. [S] firescales
8550. ??
8600. ??
8650. ??
8700. Dragon Ball (metaseries)
8701. Dragon Ball (first era)
8702. Dragon Ball (Z era)
8703. Dragon Ball Super (era)
8704. ??
8705. Dragon Ball prequels (era)
8706. Sonic the Hedgehog (2006)
8707. ??
8708. ??
8709. ??
8710. ??
8711. ??
8712. ??
8771. Sonic the Hedgehog (metaseries)
8772. ??
8773. ??
8774. ??
8775. "I am all of me" (song)
8776. "This is who I am" (song)
8777. Shadow the Hedgehog (2005)
8778. "Live and Learn" (song)

8779 - 8999 [full]

Five Nights at Freddy's imagery, and so forth.

8779. [S] Jackie (FNaF)
8780. The Silver Eyes
8781. The Twisted Ones
8782. The Fourth Closet
8783. [S] great bite was unexpected until fatal bite II
8784. [S] Missing Child Incident (FNaF)
8785. [S] Dead Child Incident (FNaF)
8786. [S] Remnant (FNaF)
8787. [S] Agony (FNaF)
8788. Return to the Pit (FNaF)
8789. The Week Before (FNaF)
8790. Five Nights at Freddy's (metaseries)
8791. FNaF 1
8792. FNaF 2
8793. FNaF 3
8794. FNaF 4
8795. FNaF: Sister Location
8796. FNaF 6: Freddy Fazbear’s Pizzeria Simulator
8797. FNaF World
8798. FNaF: Ultimate Custom Night
8799. FNaF AR
8800. FNaF: Help Wanted
8801. FNaF: Help Wanted 2
8802. FNaF: Security Breach
8803. FNaF: Ruin
8804. Chipper & Sons Lumber Co.
8805. [S] tainted object (FNaF) / haunted object / corrupted object
8806. [S] corrupted mascot / corrupted animatronic / monster toy / polymer monster
8807. [S] corrupted mascot (FNaF) / animatronic (FNaF)
8808. [S] William Afton / Purple Guy / Dave Miller (Silver Eyes)
8809. [S] Michael Afton
8810. [S] Dave Afton (Survival Logbook) / Crying Child / Bite Victim / CC / BV / Evan (typo)
8811. [S] Charlie / Charlotte Emily
8812. [S] Charlie (Silver Eyes trilogy)
8813. [S] Charlie bots / Ella (Silver Eyes trilogy)
8814. [S] Illusion disk
8815. [S] Elizabeth Afton (Silver Eyes) / Circus Baby (Silver Eyes)
8816. [S] single characters splitting into unities of opposites / single characters splitting into foils or rivals to tell a lesson / Sun Wukong becomes Goku and Vegeta / Charlie bots become Charlie and Elizabeth / Fazbear Entertainment becomes William and Henry
8817. [S] Henry
8818. [S] Edwin (Tales?)
8819. [S] Nightmarionne / Nightmare puppet
8820. [S] Fredbear-era animatronic
8821. [S] Fredbear / Golden Freddy suit
8822. [S] Golden Freddy (apparition)
8823. [S] Spring Bonnie
8824. [S] Springtrap
8825. [S] Scraptrap
8826. [S] Burntrap
8827. [S] Afton amalgamation (Frights / Tales?)
8828. [S] Glitchtrap / Malhare
8829. [S] The Yellow Rabbit (Return to the Pit) / Pittrap
8830. [S] Toy animatronic
8831. [S] Shadow animatronic / Agony animatronic (theories)
8832. [S] Toy Freddy
8833. [S] Toy Bonnie
8834. [S] Toy Chica
8835. [S] The Mangle / Mangle / Toy Foxy with hook (Help Wanted 2) / Funtime Foxy with hook (Help Wanted 2)
8836. [S] Balloon Boy
8837. [S] The Puppet / The Marionette
8838. [S] Shadow Freddy
8839. [S] RWQFSFASXC / RWQ / Shadow Bonnie
8840. [S] Classic animatronic
8841. [S] Freddy Fazbear
8842. [S] Bonnie
8843. [S] Chica
8844. [S] Foxy
8845. [S] ominious minigames / minigame ARG clue / 8-bit minigames
8846. [S] Mediocre Melodies
8847. [S] Mr. Hippo
8848. [S] Classic wolf character / Twisted Wolf (Silver Eyes trilogy)
8849. [S] Classic alligator character
8850. [S] Funtime animatronic
8851. [S] Circus Baby / Bidybabs' boss -> because I didn't want to make another entry for Bidybabs and Minireenas yet
8852. [S] Funtime Freddy
8853. [S] Bon-Bon
8854. [S] Funtime Chica (FNaF 6 / UCN)
8855. [S] Funtime Foxy
8856. [S] Lolbit
8857. [S] Balora / Minireenas' boss
8858. [S] Ennard
8859. [S] Molten Freddy
8860. [S] Nightmare animatronic
8861. [S] Nightmare Fredbear / Nightmare in proper colors
8862. [S] Nightmare (FNAF 4 / Ultimate Custom Night)
8863. [S] Eleanor (Fazbear Frights) -> favorite or desired thing: Agony
8864. [S] The Stitchwraith (Fazbear Frights) -> I put these guys here just because there was space, but also because I saw a stretched connection between 4 & UCN of traumas coming back to repeat
8865. [S] Jake (Fazbear Frights)
8866. [S] Andrew (Fazbear Frights)
8867. [S] Cassidy (Survival Logbook)
8868. [S] The one you should not have killed / TOYSNHK / vengeful spirit -> UCN
8869. [S] Old Man Consequences (FNAF World / Ultimate Custom Night)
8870. [S] Rockstar animatronic
8871. [S] LEFTE / Lefty
8872. [S] Helpy
8873. [S] Candy Cadet parables
8874. [S] fabricated memories / fake memories
8875. [S] overwriting bad memories with good memories
8876. [S] each story ending experienced by a different character / different story endings belonging to different focal characters -> FNaF World protagonist vs desk guy; Elizabeth vs Charlie (Silver Eyes)
8877. [S] reliving old traumas in cyclic timeline (FNaF)
8878. [S] a labyrinth with no exit, a maze with no prize / maze with no exit and no reward -> FNaF 6, FNaF World
8879. [S] ending the story by killing the storyteller -> FNaF World, Tales books - I freaked out when I realized "The Storyteller" might be referencing this line
8880. [S] person overwritten by virus (FNaF)
8881. [S] Vanessa A. / Vanny's original form
8882. [S] Vanessa (movie)
8883. [S] Vanny (mascot suit)
8884. [S] Fall Fest animatronic / Fall Fest toon character / Fall Fest mascot suit
8885. [S] Virtual animatronic character
8886. [S] Billy (Fazbear Frights) / B-7's victim
8887. [S] B-7 (Fazbear Frights)
8888. [S] Chipper's other son
8889. [S] Mimic-based animatronic
8890. [S] Glamrock animatronic
8891. [S] Glamrock Freddy
8892. [S] Glamrock Bonnie
8893. [S] Glamrock Chica
8894. [S] Roxanne Wolf / Roxy
8895. [S] Montgomery Gator / Monty
8896. [S] Glamrock Mr. Hippo
8897. [S] The Mimic / THE MIMIC!!
8898. [S] M.X.E.S. / MXES / The Entity
8899. [S] Tiger Rock (Tales from the Pizzaplex)
8900. [S0] FNaF ontology / FNaF fan theory / FNaF book series continuity model / FNaF games continuity model
8901. [S2] William Afton stuffed MCI victims into FNaF 1 suits / WillStuff
8902. [S2] The Puppet stuffed MCI victims into FNaF 1 suits / PuppetStuff
8903. [S2] Security guard killed the kids / Phone guy is purple guy
8904. [S2] First four FNaF games are Dave having a bad dream / Dream Theory -> unsubstantiated / discarded
8905. [S2] Dave Afton became Golden Freddy / Golden Freddy is Bite Victim / GoldenVictim / Dave Afton is 5th MCI victim is Golden Freddy
8906. [S2] Cassidy became Golden Freddy / Golden Freddy is "The one you should not have killed" / GoldenCassidy / GoldenTOYSNHK
8907. [S2] William Afton pulverized his own son in a springlock suit / Cassidy is the Crying Child / CassidyVictim
8908. [S2] Dave and Cassidy both became Golden Freddy / Jake and Andrew resemble Dave and Cassidy / GoldenDuo / GoldenBoth / Andrew is "The one you should not have killed"
8909. [S2] Molten Freddy contains MCI victims / MoltenMCI
8910. [S] "Some things should be left forgotten..." / The Box
8911. [S] The One Retcon (FNaF)
8912. [S2] The Box contains some kind of memories -> quite evidenced by The Fourth Closet, reasonably evidenced by FNaF World
8913. [S2] The Box contains Dave Afton's dissolved memories / True interpretation died with Dave Afton
8914. [S2] (The Box theory)
8915. [S2] The Box contains every retcon
8916. [S2] Happiest day didn't release the trapped children / Happiest day didn't work / Unhappiest day
8917. [S] animatronics as proletarian allies / Sunny Rooster -> "William Afton is real"
8918. [S] Ralph the security guard (The Week Before) -> favorite: Foxy
8919. [S] This job is not prestigious enough to allow me to survive / I better rank up in order to afford rent / Careerism in fiction -> a motif that surprisingly keeps recurring specifically in FNaF books and storylines; "Help Wanted" (books)
8920. [S2] Fancy artifacts don't fix your body or make it better -> Eleanor's trash necklace, Jessica's hospital necklace ("Frailty"), The Fourth Closet
8921. [S2] Modern FNaF draws from "Coppelia" and "The Sandman" -> think I also have to link this one to Klara and the Sun (2021)
8922. [S] bogus game character / video game legend / pokégod / Nazo the Hedgehog
8923. [S] Pokémon scrapped for game balance reasons -> subset of: named missingno
8924. [S] scrapped Pokémon / named Missingno
8925. [S] Pokémon (being)
8926. [S] That's too complicated to be a Pokémon / Braviary is practically a Digimon / Digimon have too many guns to be Pokémon / A Digimon is a dog with five guns / Pikachu should not have an evolution -> Pokémon evolutions being cut for game balance reasons doesn't count
8927. incompatible FNaF communities -> nickel score slowly increasing. two nickels on "incompatible FNaF communities slowly becoming object of legitimate sociological study"
8928. [S] in-game speeches or visual sequences (FNaF) / straightforward cutscenes
8929. [S] environmental storytelling (FNaF classic era)
8930. Fazbear Frights
8966. (... Frights books)
8967. [S] environmental storytelling (FNaF Steel Wool era) / Security Breach environmental storytelling / Ruin environmental storytelling
8968. V.I.P.
8969. Escape the Pizzaplex
8970. Tales from the Pizzaplex
8994. (... Tales books)
8995. Don't feed the muse
8996. [S] Digimon (being) -> tokusatsu-style being, LCD-style being, Subject-style being; medium: virtual pet
8997. Digital Monster keychain (1997)
8998. Digimon Adventure (1999)
8999. Digimon World (1999)

9000 - 10249 [full]

Dragon Ball episodes and Signifiers, etc.

9000. [S] Dragon Ball cosmos
9001. (... Dragon Ball works)
9968. [S] Remember who you are / reminder in the clouds / remember Maria -> Kimba, Simba, Shadow the Hedgehog
9969. [S] turning on evil emperor -> Bardock, Vegeta, Shadow
9970. [S] Saiyan empire / Saiyan kingdom
9971. [S] vision of the future -> A Christmas Carol, "Bardock"
9972. (... Dragon Ball works)
9976. [S] Goku
9977. [S] Vegeta / Vegeta IV
9978. [S] Freeza Force
9979. [S] Freeza
9980. [S] Cell
9981. [S] Majin Boo (ancient)
9982. [S] Majin Boo / Kid Boo
9983. [S] Zamasu
9984. [S] bad future / alternate dystopian timeline
9985. [S] using timelines to break karma
9986. [S] Goku Black timeline -> the one where Zamasu doesn't die apparently
9987. [S] Goku Black
9988. [S] King Vegeta III
9989. [S] Bardock
9990. [S] Sea Turtle -> did you know he's in Journey to the West
9991. [S] Muten Rōshi / Turtle Sage
9992. [S] God-of-earth
9993. [S] Karin
9994. [S] Lord-of-worlds
9995. [S] Grand Elder Guru
9996. [S] Whis
9997. [S] Dragon Balls
9998. [S] eternal dragon
9999. [S] Beerus
10000. plurality / free-floating groups / open plurality / plural factions / plural subpopulations / "ours groups" -> consists of components: social graph - replicated at order of magnitude - two or more; social graph - taking the form of - discontinuous object
10001. Dragon Ball Super chapter 1
10131. (... Dragon Ball Super)
10132. Dragon Ball (books) / Dragon Ball Z (books)
10133. Dragon Ball (show)
10134. Dragon Ball Z (show)
10135. Dragon Ball Daima
10136. Dragon Ball Super films
10137. Dragon Ball Z films / Dragon Ball films
10138. Dragon Ball GT
10139. Dragon Ball Super (books)
10140. Dragon Ball Super (show)
10182. (... Dragon Ball Super)
10183. Dragon Ball GT episode 1
10246. Dragon Ball GT episode 64
10247. Dragon Ball Kai (first edition)
10248. Dragon Ball Kai (international edition)
10249. Dragon Ball Z Abridged -> feels beyond satisfying to drop this right next to Kai and let people come to their particular conclusions on which is better. I will not make Items for the episodes of this for now, but, past the myriad mark anything can happen, so maybe eventually. we're all about parallel episode guides here.

10249 - 12100

National Pokédex, and various items that simply didn't fit earlier.

10250. [S0] hypothetical battle
10251. [S] power scaling / power level calculations
10252. [S] one billion lions
10253. [S] black hole (opponent)
10254. ??
10255. ??
10256. ??
10257. [S] Super Dragon Balls
10258. [S] Super Shenron
10300. (... literal Missingno. entries)
10302. [S] Pokémon form / Pokémon visual form / Pokémon variant within single stage
10303. [S] Spiral Shellder / Turbann (theories)
10304. [S] Crystal Onix
10309. (... beta Pokémon)
10310. [S] split Mega evolution
10311. [S] Mega Venusaur
10312. [S] Mega Charizard X
10313. [S] Mega Charizard Y
10314. [S] Mega Blastoise
10315. [S] Mega Beedrill
10316. [S] Mega Pidgeot
10317. [S] Mega Gyarados
10318. [S] Mega Mewtwo X
10319. [S] Mega Mewtwo Y
10320. [S] Mega Alakazam
10321. [S] Mega Slowbro
10322. [S] Mega Gengar
10323. [S] Mega Kangaskhan
10324. [S] Mega Pinsir
10325. [S] Mega Aerodactyl
10326. [S] Mega Scizor
10327. [S] Mega Heracross
10328. [S] Mega Steelix
10329. [S] Mega Ampharos
10330. [S] Primal form
10331. [S] Castform (Normal form)
10332. [S] Castform (Sunny form)
10333. [S] Castform (Rainy form)
10334. [S] Castform (Snowy form)
10335. [S] Primal Kyogre
10336. [S] Primal Groudon
10337. [S] Deoxys Attack form
10338. [S] Deoxys Defense form
10339. [S] Deoxys Speed form
10340. [S] Origin form
10341. [S] Shellos West Sea
10342. [S] Gastrodon West Sea
10343. [S] Shellos East Sea
10344. [S] Gastrodon East Sea
10345. [S] Shadow Lugia
10346. [S] Dark Dialga (Explorers of Time/Darkness) / Primal Dialga
10347. [S] Origin Dialga
10348. [S] Origin Palkia
10349. [S] Origin Giratina
10350. [S] Mega-evolved form
10351. [S] Mega Houndoom
10352. [S] Mega Tyranitar
10353. [S] Mega Sceptile
10354. [S] Mega Blaziken
10355. [S] Mega Swampert
10356. [S] Mega Gardevoir
10357. [S] Mega Sableye
10358. [S] Mega Mawile
10359. [S] Mega Rayquaza
10360. [S] Mega Aggron
10361. [S] Mega Medicham
10362. [S] Mega Manetric
10363. [S] Mega Sharpedo
10364. [S] Mega Camerupt
10365. [S] Mega Altaria
10366. [S] Mega Banette
10367. [S] Mega Absol
10368. [S] Mega Glalie
10369. [S] Mega Salamence
10370. [S] Mega Gallade
10371. [S] Mega Metagross
10372. [S] Mega Latias
10373. [S] Mega Latios
10374. [S] Mega Lopunny
10375. [S] Mega Garchomp
10376. [S] Mega Lucario
10377. [S] Mega Abomasnow
10378. [S] Mega Audino
10379. [S] Mega Diancie
10380. [S] Pokémon regional form / Alolan form / Galar form
10381. [S] Alolan Rattata
10382. [S] Alolan Raticate
10383. [S] Alolan Raichu
10384. [S] Alolan Sandshrew
10385. [S] Alolan Sandslash
10386. [S] Alolan Vulpix
10387. [S] Alolan Ninetales
10388. [S] Alolan Diglett
10389. [S] Alolan Dugtrio
10390. [S] Alolan form
10391. [S] Alolan Meowth
10392. [S] Alolan Persian
10393. [S] Alolan Geodude
10394. [S] Alolan Graveler
10395. [S] Alolan Golem
10396. [S] Alolan Grimer
10397. [S] Alolan Muk
10398. [S] Alolan Exeggutor
10399. [S] Alolan Marowak
10400. [S] Galar Meowth
10401. [S] Galar Ponyta
10402. [S] Galar Rapidash
10403. [S] Galar Farfetch'd
10404. [S] Galar Weezing
10405. [S] Galar Zigzagoon
10406. [S] Galar Linoone
10407. [S] Galar Articuno
10408. [S] Galar Zapdos
10409. [S] Galar Moltres
10410. [S] Galar Mr. Mime
10411. [S] Galar Slowpoke
10412. [S] Galar Slowbro
10413. [S] Galar Slowking
10414. [S] Galar Corsola
10415. [S] Galar Darumaka
10416. [S] Galar Darmanitan Standard Mode
10417. [S] Galar Darmanitan Zen Mode
10418. [S] Galar Yamask
10419. [S] Galar Stunfisk
10420. [S] Hisui Growlithe
10421. [S] Hisui Arcanine
10422. [S] Hisui Voltorb
10423. [S] Hisui Electrode
10424. [S] Hisui Typhlosion
10425. [S] Hisui Qwilfish
10426. [S] Hisui Sneasel
10427. [S] Hisui Samurott
10428. [S] Hisui Lilligant
10429. [S] Hisui Braviary
10430. [S] Hisui Zorua
10431. [S] Hisui Zoroark
10432. [S] Hisui Sliggoo
10433. [S] Hisui Goodra
10434. [S] Hisui Avalugg
10435. [S] Hisui Decidueye
10436. [S] Bloodmoon Ursaluna
10437. [S] White-Stripe Basculin
10438. [S] Male Basculegion
10439. [S] Female Basculegion
10440. [S] Paradox Pokémon
10441. [S] Terastallized state
10442. [S] Paldean form
10443. [S] Paldean Tauros (Combat Breed)
10444. [S] Paldean Tauros (Blaze Breed)
10445. [S] Paldean Tauros (Aqua Breed)
10446. [S] Paldean Wooper
10447. [S] Normal Terapagos
10448. [S] Terastal Terapagos
10449. [S] Stellar Terapagos
10450. [S] Gigantamax form
10451. [S] Gigantamax Venusaur
10452. [S] Gigantamax Charizard
10453. [S] Gigantamax Blastoise
10454. [S] Gigantamax Pikachu
10455. [S] Gigantamax Meowth
10456. [S] Gigantamax Eevee
10457. [S] Gigantamax Rillaboom
10458. [S] Gigantamax Cinderace
10459. [S] Gigantamax Inteleon
10460. [S] Gigantamax Butterfree
10461. [S] Gigantamax Machamp
10462. [S] Gigantamax Gengar
10463. [S] Gigantamax Kingler
10464. [S] Gigantamax Lapras
10465. [S] Gigantamax Snorlax
10466. [S] Gigantamax Garbodor
10467. [S] Gigantamax Melmetal
10468. [S] Gigantamax Corviknight
10469. [S] Gigantamax Orbeetle
10470. [S] Gigantamax Drednaw
10471. [S] Gigantamax Coalossal
10472. [S] Gigantamax Applin / Gigantamax Flapple / Gigantamax Appletun
10473. [S] Gigantamax Sandaconda
10474. [S] Gigantamax Toxtricity
10475. [S] Gigantamax Centiscorch
10476. [S] Gigantamax Hatterene
10477. [S] Gigantamax Grimmsnarl
10478. [S] Gigantamax Urshifu (Single Strike)
10479. [S] Gigantamax Urshifu (Rapid Strike)
10480. [S] enigma-tier Pokémon / Ultra Beast tier / Paradox tier / Pokémon from another realm using Legendary Pokémon conventions
10481. [S] Gigantamax Alcremie
10482. [S] Gigantamax Copperajah
10483. [S] Gigantamax Duraludon
10484. [S] Basic form
10485. [S] Battle form
10486. [S] Ride form
10487. [S] Battle Cyclizar
10488. [S] Apex Koraidon
10489. [S] Ultimate Miraidon
10490. [S] method of obtaining Pokémon -> in cave and only one, etc.
10491. [S] available in wild
10492. [S] one encounter available in specific location
10493. [S] raid battle / raid battle (Pokémon Sword/Shield) / raid battle (Pokémon Go)
10494. [S] environmental trace / shaking grass (Pokémon) / rippling water (Pokémon) / dust clouds (Pokémon) / overhead shadow (Pokémon) / shaking trash can (Pokémon)
10495. [S] Pokémon feeder / joining (Pokémon gen 8) / honey tree (Pokémon gen 4)
10496. [S] Pokémon day care
10497. [S] gift Pokémon / in-game trade
10498. [S] scripted story event
10499. [S] event distribution
10500. (... generations)
10520. [S] Legendary Pokémon
10521. [S] Box Legendary
10522. [S] dungeon Legendary / cave Legendary / ARG Legendary
10523. [S] Roaming Legendary
10524. [S] cosmic Legendary / pantheon deity Legendary
10525. [S] doom Legendary -> Mewtwo, Deoxys, Necrozma, Eternatus
10526. [S] type drive Legendary -> Silvally, Arceus, Genesect
10527. [S] unique hero Pokémon / unique antagonist Pokémon -> Zoroark, Zeraora, Kubfu, Zarude
10528. [S] event Legendary / tie-in Legendary
10529. [S] Mythical Pokémon
10530. [S] movie-relevant Pokémon / movie figurehead Pokémon -> doesn't have to be Legendaries, if there's a movie totally centered on Eevee, or Zoroark
10531. [S] fusion Legendary
10532. [S] fusable Legendary
10533. [S] composite Legendary -> Melmetal, Zygarde
10534. [S] event-distributed form of regular Pokémon -> Zoroark, Own Tempo Rockruff, etc.
10535. [S] Pokémon with special-edition forms -> Pichu, Pikachu & Eevee, Greninja
10536. [S] Pokémon with natural variations -> Shellos, Basculin, Pumpkaboo, Sinistea, Sinistcha, Dudunsparce
10537. [S] Pokémon with branched evolutions
10538. [S] pseudo-legendary Pokémon
10539. [S] fossil Pokémon -> clearly not a type of Legendary, but put here to stop me wondering if Dracozolt is an enigma-tier. enigmas are Legendaries that seem like they should be regular, fossil Pokémon are fossil Pokémon
10540. ??
10541. ??
10542. ??
10543. ??
10544. ??
10545. ??
10546. ??
10547. ??
10548. ??
10549. ??
10600. ??
10700. Pokémon technique / Pokémon move
10719. (... Stellar-type move)
10720. ??
10730. ??
10740. ??
10750. ??
10760. ??
10770. ??
10780. ??
10799. ??
10819. (... Pokémon types)
10820. ??
10830. ??
10840. ??
10850. ??
10860. ??
10870. ??
10880. ??
10899. ??
10919. (... Pokémon of Types)
10920. ??
10929. Baby Pokémon
10930. Basic Pokémon (main series)
10931. Stage 1 Pokémon (main series)
10932. Stage 2 Pokémon (main series)
10903. ??
10904. ??
10905. ??
10906. Mega evolution stage / Primal reversion stage
10907. ??
10908. ??
10909. ??
11000. National Pokédex -> has serialized parts: every single Pokémon ever.
11001. Bulbasaur (Pokémon; gen 1 / Kanto)
11002. (... National Pokédex)
12025. Pecharunt (Pokémon; gen 10 / Paldea) -> last known Pokémon as of 2025. do not reserve the next hundred slots for Pokédex slots, just start over on a clean hundred when the next game comes out.
12026. ??
12100. ??
12500. ??
13000. periodic table of elements
13001. Hydrogen (H)
13002. Helium (He)
13118. Oganesson (Og)
13200. (... reserved for future element discoveries, unless there is good evidence heavier elements stop being possible before 200)
13201. island of stability

Even further?

17776. 17776 football

MDem SSR: 19000 - 20000

An area for managing MDem draft entries. This is now being managed on its Category page.

19000. Molecular Democracy
19521. 5021 fountains / entry
19999. (... MDem SSR entries)

Property

These can now be found at Philosophical Research:Properties/Numeric.

Example item

S9003
Saiyan empire

characteristic	value
appears in work	Dragon Ball
refers to or visualizes model	planetary nation
	imperialism (Marxism-Leninism)
adapted from signifier	monkey kingdom (Journey to the West)
derived from model, phenomenon, or event	Imperial Japan
incidentally resembles model, phenomenon, or event	United States

Lexeme

Lexemes tie together unique sets of inflections or conjugations, and sets of definitions. See here for a chart of inflected forms for each of these terms
In practice, many of these will end up comically resembling some sort of "Devil's dictionary" with shocking contrasts between everyday usages and specific usages.

L1 - L900

Once the list is complete, these terms will be listed on Ontology:Lexemes 1 to 900

1. master signifier
2. Lacanian discipline -> symbolic castration (Lacanianism)
3. The Real -> Lacanianism
4. The Symbolic -> Lacanianism
5. The Imaginary -> Lacanianism
6. other / Other / The Other -> Lacanianism
7. object small-a / objet petit a
8. knowledge / know
   1. association through signifier equation
   2. factical observation
   3. Amalthean interpretation
9. philosophy / philosophical
10. facticity / factical
    1. (MDem) set of all entities in material reality
    2. (Existentialism) Lived Experience
11. category error
12. science / scientific
13. ascientific / non-science
14. scientism / scienticist
15. non-overlapping magisteria
16. rationalism
    1. internal definition
    2. (Existentialism) pejorative definition -> science imperializing philosophy
17. revolution
18. fallacy -> common definition; fallacy fallacy or double fallacy where somebody's error is incorrectly thinking something is an example of a fallacy; "fallacy" in loose usage as any kind of physically inaccurate axiom used as a pillar of thought as if it were fact (MDem scraps have used this a lot, as with "printing press fallacy" and "Twilight Sparkle fallacy")
19. history / historical / historicize / historiology (Heidegger) / material-history / historiography
    1. (center-Liberalism, Existentialism) -> series of unique events
    2. (Marxism) -> material-history
20. bias
    1. common definition
    2. (Existentialism) -> corrupted ideology held immorally
    3. (MDem) the presence of any preferences, worldviews, or codes of morality whatsoever - which is not inherently bad; see Amalthean interpretation
    4. (Toryism) -> anything from another ideology; heresy against Toryism
21. orthodoxy / orthodox
    1. (religion)
    2. (philosophy)
    3. (Marxism, meta-Marxism) -> formation of "orthodox Marxism"
    4. (Trotskyism) -> early Leninism, which is good
    5. (right-Liberalism) -> classical Liberalism, which is good
    6. (Toryism) -> "the establishment", which is Bad
22. heresy / heretical / heretic
    1. (religion)
    2. (center-Liberalism) see fascism
    3. (Toryism) see bias
    4. (Trotskyism) see anti-Stalinism
23. lived experience / Lived Experience
    1. common definition
    2. (Existentialism)
    3. (existential materialism, MDem)
24. schizophrenia / schizophrenic
    1. real-world condition
    2. schizoanalysis metaphor
25. escape / Escape / escapism -> schizoanalyst sense, escaping reality sense
26. subject / The Subject
    1. common definition
    2. (Existentialism)
    3. (existential materialism, MDem)
27. Being
28. Dasein
29. object
30. truth / true
    1. common definition
    2. (Existentialism) Lived Experience; see Idealism
    3. (religion) see Truth specifically excludes physics; see Māyā
31. norm / normalcy / normal / normative
32. real / reality / realism -> many fields have realisms speaking about the reality of that field, note for instance theoretical physics realism. as well any model at all can have a "realism", including so-called "race realism" (the realism of a conspiracy theory) or the assumption that particular art styles represent reality when they might not, etc.
33. theory -> there are many, many definitions for this, though almost every one of them subsets "an ontological model"
34. idealism / Idealism
35. materialism / Materialism
36. Hyper-Materialism -> facticity, Particle Theory, existential materialism
37. objectivity
38. neutrality
39. historical materialism
40. dialectical materialism
41. existential materialism / exmat
42. meaning
    1. common definition
    2. (structuralism) -> signifier meanings
    3. (existentialism, nihilism) -> the actually-okay definition that meaning is constructed
    4. (Existentialism) -> bullshit concepts that the shorter you live the more it means
    5. (postmodernism?) -> end of history confusion about what means anything
43. false / falsify
    1. common definition
    2. (science) to a show a testable theory to be inaccurate to reality based on observations; to show a testable theory to be badly matched to the Factical systems that constitute reality.
    3. to create forgeries or misleading versions of something; to create a false version of something which was not false
44. revisionism / revisionist
    1. common definition
    2. (historiography) field of history which seeks to re-examine and update historical facts; see "falsify"/science
    3. (Toryism) purported malicious attempt to erase accurate historical facts because they are inconvenient; see "falsify", item for "historical-revisionism/inclusive-history conspiracy theory"
    4. (Marxism) the act of promoting a political-economic model or model of history which has been shown to be inaccurate; see "falsify"/science
    5. (mainstream Marxism-Leninism) category of ostensibly Marxist models regarded with great doubt which may include plans to realize Marxism inside Liberal democracy, ultra-imperialist models of waiting for imperialism to slow down, labeling a free-floating sea of private business territories as "socialist transition", and so forth.
    6. (Trotskyism) category of Marxist models claimed to be incorrect or disproven which may include socialism in one country, strategies involving government ministries over workers' councils, and so forth.
    7. (Western Marxism) category of Marxist models claimed to be incorrect or disproven which may include models that treat the emergence of movements as in any way predictable, and so forth.
    8. (Existentialism) category of either all Marxist theories or some subset of Marxist models which is claimed to be incorrect or disproven, and may include the entire category of historical materialism, or models which do not make their most fundamental scale The Subject.
45. liberal / liberalism / Liberalism / liberalize / illiberal / illiberality -> oh boy one of my least favorite words in the English language
    1. common definition
    2. relaxed set of rules given to a particular set of rules
    3. Washingtonism. anti-monarchist republicanism. center-Liberalism
    4. capitalist anarchy; right-Liberalism
    5. (Toryism) actual anarchist ideologies presented as if they were the inevitable result of Menshevism or center-Liberalism. see PragerU videos
46. left / Left / The Left
    1. a direction
    2. (center-Liberalism) all compatible and utterly-incompatible progressive movements in unison
    3. (meta-Marxism) any plural progressive movement which is not directly affiliated with other progressive movements; should be pluralized as "The Lefts"
47. progress / progressive / progressivism / progressivist
48. take -> category: noun-based term. movie scene attempt; design attempt; interpretation, arts; fan theory; political proposition, often pejorative
49. indeterminism -> I have my suspicions there's not actually any such thing, and it's just the presence or absence of predictability or the ability to measure things in a sea of otherwise deterministic processes. it's relativity and physical-plurality that screws everything up, it's the fact that for most of its existence the universe has generally never been a single object and has always been a collection of separate objects. are these objects particles, or something else? that's the thing science genuinely doesn't know yet
50. determine / determined / determination / determinism -> category: action or process term (verb-based)
51. predetermine / predetermined / predetermination
52. random
53. vote -> don't forget the skewering sense of people being convinced voting will result in policies, where it really means nation membership
54. party -> Liberal party versus party-nation
55. party-nation
56. fair / fairness / unfair -> category: abstract condition term, adjective-based term, positive term having negation
    1. common definition
    2. fairness as in no unnecessary obstacles: unfair card game
    3. fairness as in objectivity: evaluating art etc on the standards it intends to deliver on and that are most applicable to it
    4. fairness as in the presence of morality or standards: the claim that nature or life is "unfair" when the intended meaning is that they have no standards and are neither fair nor unfair
57. just / justice / unjust -> category: abstract process term, adjective-based term, positive term having negation. seems to me that fairness is a state of things while justice is generally an active process
58. anomaly -> unrelated to "fairness" and "vote". normal definition; Star Trek; SCP definition with its full connotations
59. should / ought to / must -> words like this get me every time somebody says a moral statement and it's practically unenforceable. "should" sometimes means "absolutely will not, but I will be utterly furious at everyone else when my model doesn't work"
60. morality
61. ethics
62. good / Good
63. evil / Evil
64. right / Right
65. wrong / Wrong
66. enemy
    1. common definition
    2. (Toryism) -> evil and criminal nationality purportedly intending to destroy one's country - "the United States' enemies"
    3. (Christianity) -> people in separation from God
    4. (Buddhism) -> arbitrary separation between individuals which results in violence
    5. (Maoism) -> class subpopulations who actively oppose Communist revolution - see The Communist Necessity
67. opponent
    1. common definition
    2. (meta-Marxism, MDem) separate free-floating group or individual with which one exists in open plurality and for which re-unifying the plural groups is not trivial
    3. (center-Liberalism, right-Liberalism) -> prescriptive connotation that ideologies are not separate and they inherently want to respect each other and regard themselves as part of the same group
68. territory / territorial / territorialize / deterritorialize
    1. a bounded area associated with a particular use or occupant
    2. (ecology) the bounded area occupied by an individual animal or animal social unit
    3. a particular bounded domain recently added to the borders of a global empire: Northwest Territory, Oregon Territory
    4. a particular bounded area permanently occupied and administered by a global empire: United States territories
    5. (arts) the mutually-exclusive division between concepts believed to be separate and non-overlapping
    6. (schizoanalysis) whatever (de)territorialization means
69. irony / ironic / unironic
70. individual / individual / individuality / individuation
71. authenticity / authentic / inauthentic -> Existentialism, Zinovievism
72. will / individual will / free will
73. free will / Free Will / libertarian free will / compatibilist free will -> entry for "Free Will" specifically
74. volition / volitional
75. voluntary
    1. common definition
    2. (right-Liberalism) of an agreement or relationship, being determined purely by the two parties involved. despite the word voluntary generally having to do with concepts of will or freedom, a "voluntary" agreement is characterized not by whether somebody wants to agree to it but whether the agreement is currently active or not. an agreement two parties are currently in is voluntary, and it becomes involuntary specifically when one of the parties involved Escapes.
76. freedom / free -> almost as fraught as "economics", easily 15 definitions
    1. common definition
    2. ... various definitions
    3. Free Software definition
    4. Free Culture definition
    5. (physics, chemistry) available for the purposes of particular physical processes: free energy equation
    6. (physics) the ability to produce more outcomes in the sense of a Cartesian dimension of outcomes: degrees of freedom
    7. (early-existentialism) the prisoner parable or Jevil definition where supposedly nobody is not free if they merely will otherwise, the definition where physical freedom does not matter to the definition of freedom
    8. (pejorative) freedom units: tools used by an enclosed cultural region which does not want to change itself
77. power -> at least 3-4 specific usages
78. anarchy -> needs to link several Signifier items for different theories of what Archons are
79. anektiry / ektirion
80. anektirism / ektirionism
81. thoughtcrime
82. doublethink
83. newspeak
84. censorship
85. Objective / Objectivism -> separate from objectivity/objectivism because it has its own complex array of definitions
86. Tory / Tories / Toryism
87. stochastic terrorism
    1. (center-Liberalism) -> common definition
    2. (MDem) -> violent horizontal attack, has alternate mathematical definition
88. fascism / fascist
    1. (historians) a militant nationalist movement of the 1940s World War II period associated with re-making national culture and imperial conquest over other countries.
    2. internal definition
    3. those ~3 lists of characteristics
    4. (Trotskyism) a nationalist movement begun by the petty bourgeoisie -> retrieve work where Trotsky claimed this
    5. (Gramscianism) -> requires nationalists to fill up all available slots as a graph
    6. (center-Liberalism) literally any ideology which is not orthodox center-Liberalism; anti-center-Liberal heresy. -> "Radical intellectuals and the subversion of politics"
    7. (Toryism) -> absolutely not Toryism even when you can't tell their values apart
89. mathematical fascism
    1. (MDem) when millions of individuals who agree on nothing all agree to team up and commit imperialism for the separate benefit of each individual. logical result of: chunk competition; incidentally resembles: Saiyan kingdom
90. politics
    1. common definition
    2. (historians) the process of operating any government, state, regime, class society, or warring states periods; sometimes near-synonymous with material-history
    3. (center-Liberalism) the process of operating Liberalism
    4. (Toryism) bringing up opinions that are not consistent with Toryism; anti-Tory heresy; see: "politically correct" "artists with politics" "don't talk politics"
91. end of history -> has more precise meanings than you'd think
92. molecular democracy
    1. molecularized democratic regime / molecularized democratic theory
    2. Marxist Molecular Democracy / Molecular Marxism
    3. (unattested) Existentialism as purported molecularized democratic regime
93. signifier -> remember the ontological senses
94. ontology -> companion to signifier
95. excess
    1. common definition
    2. relativistic definition thanks to Heidegger where there can be excessive rainclouds
    3. (Lacanianism) unreachable information inside each Subject; alleged to be a good thing
    4. (existential materialism, MDem) unreachable information inside Subjects or objects which may or may not be a huge problem; see Vegeta effect
96. quantum -> literal, mathematical, figurative-math definitions
97. subjectivity / Subjectivity
98. culture / cultural / countable culture / Culture -> possibly 20 definitions
    1. ... various definitions
    2. (Toryism) the purported only correct way of doing things such that if somebody does not follow it, it will result in the ruin and destruction of the overall population - see "stupid idiot garbage trash"
99. hegemony -> man I hate this one. guess it's going in here
100. economics -> very controversial term with like 10-15 definitions. this wiki is about unraveling the word economics into every hyper-specific sense. screw economics
101. market
     1. common definition
     2. (right-Liberalism) -> the neoliberal nonsense definition
     3. (MDem) -> Market Society, Filamentism, primitive Existentialism
102. microeconomics
103. macroeconomics
104. empire / imperialism / anti-imperialism
105. hierarchy / anhierarchy
     1. common definition
     2. accurate medieval definition; spatial hierarchy
     3. anhierarchy: the crude absence of spatial hierarchy and "territorialization" for utterly any reason they are absent including the area being uninhabited or contested
106. feudalism / feudal / feudal order -> I temporarily deleted warring states period, reassign that later
107. capitalism / capitalist adj. / capitalist agent-noun
108. crime / criminal / criminal
     1. (center-Liberalism) requires definition in legal code
     2. can refer to any action that "should" be illegal: criminally underrated
     3. (Toryism) -> thug, gangster, mafioso, bandit, barbarian, Sea Peoples
109. terrorism / terrorist
     1. (center-Liberalism) -> common definition
     2. (Toryism) -> international mafioso who attacks countries out of malice
110. wrecker
111. counterrevolutionary
112. reactionary
113. deviant -> Lacanianism
114. perversion -> Lacanianism
115. body without organs / Body Without Organs / BWO
116. patchification / patchify -> when a country population is divided into tiny populations of "a million countries per 300 million people", either ideologically or more literally into tiny ethnic patches scattered wildly
117. choppification / choppify -> pejorative term for concepts of "decentralizing" or "de-monopolizing" societal structures over and over, sometimes to such extreme extents that structures don't even exist and society has truly been atomized into just a bunch of individuals. the word "competition" might be thrown around to justify how choppifying things and making them less coordinated will inherently improve them. the need to choppify things ultimately originates from Blobonomics and Escape models of society, which always slowly create large centralized blobs as smaller ones die or people simply begin to think large ones are better because they're more consistent.
118. anarculture -> the stance that culture should be smashed to take away its power over people. democulture is the notion that chunks of people exert the authority of the Spanishness Office to punish people for not performing their part in culture perfectly, and anarculture is the notion that everyone sort of just, attempts to not have culture. usually for really specific reasons that a specific empire has power over people by filling their minds with the wrong signs of "Whiteness" etc. to be clear the problem is not that the process of alterity isn't real, the problem is that people try to remove the notion of physical populations and historical events from the model and reduce it purely down to ideas as if ideas and signs mechanically, near-deterministically cause all human behavior. I had a hard time naming this thing because for the longest time it didn't even make sense. "so anarchism has been turning into... an-... a-culture-ism? what even is this?" I still don't know what the agent-noun form is. but to be fair, I don't know what that is for democulture either. democulturalist? not sure.
119. zeroth world problems -> problems so divorced from the basic layer of local individual survival in the First World that they are uniquely bourgeois problems. problems that employed Careerists complain about but which can feel completely irrelevant to the lives of unemployed people like they should not matter whatsoever. for some reason, zeroth world problems are the primary kind of problem complained about on most of YouTube, as people continuously do things like "review media" by discussing the best way for distant owners of specific business territories to order workers and subsidiaries inside corporations in order to generate products they would be satisfied with.
120. copyright
121. copyright violation / copyright infringement
122. copyleft
123. artist -> has a great many connotations nobody notices that require documenting
124. creator
125. indie / independent
126. centralize / centralized / centralization
127. decentralize / decentralized / decentralization
128. algorithm / The Algorithm -> method of calculation; machine learning algorithm; recommendations algorithm; reciprocal effect of a consumer base on creators which creators have difficulty distinguishing from the recommendations algorithm
129. democulture -> the hypothetical or theoretical concept that culture is a government in a similar sense to how a monarchy is, and a particular corrupt individual or locus of corrupt culture can be overrun by the masses and turned into a new form. I find the idea really stupid to be honest, but almost every single theory within "The US Left" since the 1990s seems to invent this concept as one of its core principles. Existentialism is in general a group of theories that ignores democracy per se and by going on and on about Free Will and The Subject tries to find the best way to invent democulture. queer theory is infamous in Tory settlements for constantly attributing the "institutional power" of homophobia and transphobia to the absence of democulture in "institutions".
130. Demos / Demotes / demo- -> a group of people which really does function as an unbroken "we" which can describe its shared process of government as "our". the whole United States is not one of these, and the United States consists of at least two Demotes.
131. democracy / our democracy -> tons of connotations. I am coming to really hate this one English word for how much hidden complexity it conceals that nobody notices. however... we can fix that
132. demofederation -> a structure composed of multiple linked Demotes. what the United States _actually_ is.
133. democompetition -> etym: Demos + competition; mutually-exclusive competition of populations over a demoinstitution, in place of "democracy". the process of two separate Social-Philosophical Systems or Demotes competing to exclusively control the process of demorevision.
134. demoinstitution -> etym: Demos + institution; the basic building block of republicanism, in which multiple people take the place of one person. a demoinstitution is almost or exactly the same thing as an ektirion depending on the context; the definition of demoinstitution subsets the definition of ektirion.
135. demorevision -> etym: Demos + revise; the process of changing the country's current layout of demoinstitutions.
136. demoadministration -> etym: Demos + administer; the process of running demoinstitutions in a particular consistent way with no current possibility of change.
137. constant -> has nothing to do with demoinstitutions but is a very important number
138. demosuccession -> the process by which one defined Demos overtakes another defined Demos and comes to decide but not fully control the process of demorevision. if there is not democolonialism there may be many demosuccessions. however, the outcome of a demosuccession is separate from and above the outcome of a demorevision, which is something that issues from inside each particular Demos, i.e., contains the things individuals actually vote on. democompetition is the larger account of a daily process of many smaller demosuccessions.
139. democolonialism -> the process by which one plural Demos completely secures control of the process of demorevision and effectively takes ownership of the territory and population within which another Demos lives, allowing it no part in determining demoinstitutions or culture. named by analogy to neocolonialism and the associated process of stripping autonomy from Third-World countries by overwriting everyone who manages their external relations with allies or puppets of a particular global empire
140. anarchism / Anarchism
141. archon / Archon -> not typically used, but very important to discuss as part of the definition of Anarchism; historical definition; definition in religion
142. RDem / relativistic democracy -> a category of molecularized theories of society which properly enter the era of unifying survival, economics, sociality, culture, politics, and government, but which choose to do this by reifying plurality and focusing on unbridgeable gaps between free-floating plural entities as making them fundamentally uncontrollable. "relativistic" in the sense of the universe having no center and all events having to travel at or below the speed of light in space and time to hit other objects; an object in motion not affected by another object keeps independently flying along "relativistically". RDem theories seem like trouble because they seem to bake in war and authoritarian attacks over the top of other populations after leaving no physical method to preemptively influence decisions and prevent bad decisions. Gramscianism, Existentialism, Liberalism, and some Anarchisms tend toward creating RDem. Deng Xiaoping Thought may tend toward RDem as well. Stalin Thought and Trotskyism each tend toward MDem whether they do it well or badly.
143. multitude / The Multitude -> an Anarchist concept that at first sounds like nonsense (see "spaghetti".) but then later you suddenly realize is in a bunch of other theories including alterity theories, Liberalism, and Trotskyism. the origin of the Multitude concept is in people thinking that material boundaries between populations aren't present when in reality they are - Trotskyism thinking the whole entire world is one big unbroken population of workers is the same error as Anarchists talking about The Multitude, it's just a matter of what scale the error is made at
145. multiculturalism -> one of those words which is no problem as far as its surface value but whose overall context for being and connotations baffle the hell out of me. who could be against multiculturalism? and yet, why do we need this word, and what's with everyone talking about it
146. language -> prescriptivist definition; descriptivist definition; plural languages versus post-language; language registers; etc
147. sign
149. significary -> the equivalent of a dictionary or thesaurus which covers all possible connotative definitions of a particular written sign, within reason, up through every meaning which is relatively common or notable though not necessarily the most obscure ones
150. prejudice
151. racism
152. sexism
153. homophobia / homomisia
154. transphobia / transmisia
160. microaggression
161. microinvalidation -> when these are real terms people use, you can see where exactly I got started on eventually creating new monstrosities like "demosuccession", "Everybodyism", and "PeopleWhoMadePeopleRunAwayism". the bright side is that I think that silly words are just as useful as words that aren't silly; my models have room for microaggressions if they have room for Everybodyism
162. microinsult
163. microassault
169. microdisaster / microDeoxysMeteor (obscure) -> an instance of an individual behaving in a problem manner according to a lack of information they could not possibly have known thanks to the limitations of communicating through material physics — a mindless meteor in motion tends to stay in motion.
170. -phobia / -misia
171. PeopleWhoMadePeopleRunAwayism -> a generic category of corrupt ideologies or philosophies that end up making people run away, such as fundamentalist religious sects (the primary thing the term was created to explore). theoretically includes "Stalinism" if such a thing were to actually exist, given the fact some number of people and Trotsky fled the Soviet Union. does not refer to a narrow prejudice such as "homophobia", but specifically to a larger ideology which generates a narrow prejudice such as homophobia. perhaps we are talking about a "metaprejudice"? I don't quite like that term yet but maybe I'll find reasonable justification for it and realize it does have to be added.
172. PeopleWhoMadePeopleRunAwayphobia / PeopleWhoMadePeopleRunAwaymisia
173. PeopleWhoRanAwayphobia / PeopleWhoRanAwaymisia -> a generic category of processes of demographic identities being pushed away from the area of some particular PeopleWhoMadePeopleRunAwayism. coined to explore the difference between targeting particular PeopleWhoMadePeopleRunAwayisms and particular PeopleWhoRanAwayphobias as well as whether either effort is physically possible in a universe full of Vegeta effects.
174. TheseAreTheDefinitionsEveryoneHasToUseionary -> a dictionary that operates according to linguistic prescriptivism or one that only accommodates definitions of words within a single ontology or narrow range of ontologies instead of the full range of possible ontological assignments used in practice
180. system / systemic / structural -> almost every time I read a work by "The US Left" I have no idea what this is actually supposed to refer to. it sounds like it makes sense at first, and you think you understand it, but what really is a system? could anybody explain it materially in terms of what parts or ongoing processes distinguish a "system" of oppression from something that is not a system?
181. monosexism -> the counterpart to biphobia. I do prefer these to the individual-action terms on the level that they are attempting to describe the actions of groups of people, although I honestly really doubt that the actions of groups of people can be neatly described as ideas versus literal material objects. my beef with "colonialism" is that colonialism is not an idea, an oppressive colony is a material object
182. cissexism -> the naturalization of cisgender behavior and "biology"
183. heterosexism -> similar
181. unique -> specific identifiable entity within a sea of free-floating entities; Heidegger had a sillier term for this I do not remember
182. non-unique -> the policy is becoming that grammatical negations use the same Lexeme, but given the unique/non-unique distinction is so absolutely central to Materialist ontology, this will be one exception
190. speciation
191. evolution
     1. common definition
     2. (sciences) progression of any particular physical process through different points in time: stellar evolution (stellar life cycle), evolution of quantum-mechanical systems (development of wave functions and entanglement over time)
     3. (sciences) speciation by way of natural selection; progression of speciation across geologic eons, eras, or periods
     4. (sciences, obscure) emission
     5. (fiction) progression from one growth stage of a virtual pet or fictional Subject-style being to another; similar usage to "stellar evolution", see sense S2
192. 進化（しんか） -> evolution as it is used in the Japanese language
193. species / sp. / spec. / spp. (plural)
194. subspecies / ssp. / subsp. / sspp. (plural) / subspp. (plural)
195. variety / var.
196. forma / form / f.
197. kind -> has been used to describe Pokémon stages; has also been used to confusedly describe creationism
198. clade
200. class -> so many right and wrong definitions
201. worker -> cover different definitions of "working class" in mainstream Marxism-Leninism vs Maoism, etc
202. proletariat / proletarian -> cover "big proletariat" model versus smaller-proletariat models
203. entrepreneur / undertaker -> super often misused to mean investor/capitalist, when it best means director/founder
204. bourgeoisie / bourgeois
205. petty bourgeoisie / petty-bourgeois -> in my opinion a confused and outdated term that has conflated two different classes: Artisans and Careerists
206. Artisan / Artisan type / Artisanal / Artisanize -> a tiny business so small it has absolutely no room for employees
207. Careerist / Careerist / Careerism -> the class of people who survive by seeking out higher-quality Job Slots and insisting "social mobility" is normal
208. Refuse / Refuse class / refusariat (obsolete form) -> the class of people who are persistently never integrated into capitalism/Careerism because there aren't enough Job Slots or aren't the correct ones. becoming less relevant in recent MDem drafts as Careerism has been turning into the main focus
209. Filament / Filamentism -> micro-sized local subpopulation / nameless tiny subpopulation; process of large-scale populational Bauplan stochastically forming through Filaments swapping in and out on an open graph connection
210. structural racism / systemic racism -> specific Sense-term combining L180 systemic + L151 racism. I had this in the S Items but I now think it's better to just when reasonable have Items reference Lexeme Entities
211. chunk competition / chunk-compete
212. spatial slot hierarchy -> very specific mathematically-defined process of individuals claiming slotted resources or spatial positions; can occur in simpler forms with animals in nature
213. Blobonomics
214. Everybodyism -> nameless prejudice against all other individuals as all individuals participate in Careerist competition to shove others out of social slots
215. Populationism -> nameless prejudice against all other populations
217. construct / constructive -> this had a very specific use in earlier MDem versions, where it was used to describe social graphs combining together instead of shoving each other out of things. "molecular" was also sometimes used for this, until I decided that was more obvious to use to refer to everything that happens at small scales instead of specifically things fitting together. as time went on I realized that even if it wasn't wrong that description was a bit too simplistic, and Particle Theory analysis was more critical
219. rank / ranking / pecking order -> common definition; numerical list position; spatial position in spatial slot hierarchy; taxonomic level; military title; others. some people confuse "class" for "rank", such as in terms like "middle class" (middle rank). it is still possible to do Marxism about rank, but the key is you can't confuse the two things. Saiyans have ranks. they have no real social structure except number 1, 2, 3, 100. earth people in Dragon Ball have classes, like capitalists and peasants. rank is all about plurality and relativity, and to overcome rank you have to actually build structure where there wasn't structure.
220. networkism / networkist / networkize -> the notion of modeling capitalism as a stability process of capitalist owners having to solve the physical stability of industrial structures, and stock markets being a process of groups of investors attempting to predict and make money on social stability — unless they are day traders trying to make money on social breakages.
     1. networkism: the system of workers ultimately gaining their pay from the presence of a surrounding Audience, Careerists striving to manufacture more Audience as Directors, and capitalists owning the activity of congregating people into an arbitrarily-created culture-group they will exploit the existence of to earn money
     2. networkize: to tightly connect into the Audience of a particular Director
     3. microcolonialism: old synonym for networkism, used to emphasize the framing of profiting off people being a certain culture that also must be the culture of the old established population that first solidly conquered that slot a while ago. "networkism" and "Careerism" can still have this connotation; those terms are just favored over "microcolonialism".
221. Audience / Audiencize -> because this isn't the standard use of the word, don't put the regular word "audience" here. link to regular word in first definition only
222. Director / Director type / Directorize / Directorization
     1. link to regular word
     2. Director: a skilled expert with the unique ability to create assets that might successfully become capital or attract a large Audience of customers
     3. Directorization: conversion of an owner, Artisan type, or Careerist into a permanent resident expert without the right to pack up the company or take the capital elsewhere
223. Serializer
224. Metaserializer / Franchiser
225. Metafranchiser
230. identity -> process of Being; mathematical graph definition of things being linked together into the same object; mathematical equality comparison between different data objects; operation that does not change a data object (identity transformation); arbitrary list of characteristics that an individual Being has picked up; synonym for demographic; identity politics - "identity and hypocrisy!"
231. graph
     1. common definition
     2. (graph theory) an arrangement of connected points
     3. (graphemics) smallest functional piece of a given writing system, or one of the variations of such units; informal variant for grapheme, glyph
231. relative / relativism -> common definition; family relation; cultural relativism as the study of free floating populational Beings that develop over time - "Sonic is not Shadow", potential building block of historical materialism; pejorative misunderstandings of cultural relativism; various uses of things being relative; definition of words being relative to other words; "Marxism is spatially relative" (relativity); link to relativity
241. ecological fascism -> ecofascism definitions; purported encroachment of "Green Faceism" (gotta retrieve what that even was again)
242. nature / natural
250. empiricism -> it is such a pain point for me that like, philosophy terms will name things like the world is made of alchemy, and as if everything is made of Fire or Water or Light or Darkness, act like it's possible for ways of doing things to be entirely made of "rationalism" or "empiricism" just so they can act powerful over people by pulling this fake gotcha of "wow I told you everything had to be separated into abstract Platonic categories and then I caught you red-handed using a fake category that can't be universally applied Way Too Much in violation of The Alchemical Principle of Moderation!!" and it's so stupid
251. verificationism -> god why are there so many terms... I hate most of what people call traditional philosophy, I really do. on a different note: I am not a logical positivist because verificationism doesn't have room for predictive theoretical models, and in my mind that makes it not science. if you believe this thing you'll get dreadfully stumped by black holes, yet unfortunately black holes are real.
252. logical positivism -> I hear this thrown around so much and each time I increasingly feel like logical positivism and verificationism are fake categories that nobody truly practices and the terms are only tossed out as strawmen when people are confronted with hypotheses or possibilities they don't want to hear. I will get opinionated on this one initial prototype page, yes I will.
270. ego / egoism -> individualist concept of a self; id, ego, and superego; a few definitions
271. individualism -> people say this like it means something but it's like six different philosophies. I accidentally pissed someone off when I was a young adult by not knowing there were six different things called individualism and guessing they were talking about a different one than they were. I thought "individualism" referred to the Existentialist celebration of individuals in things like identity politics movements, efforts against prejudice toward things like the arts and humanities, and "Wackytown" style be-yourself fables. years later after reading a whole bunch of things about different demographics and philosophies I still don't really know what "Western individualism" actually meant or what its opposite might be.
281. dieconomics -> hypothetical study of managing the links between pairs of things (two "houses") as opposed to one thing at a time. di- as in two things, but also by analogy to "dialectic", "dialectical materialism"
282. dipsychology -> hypothetical study of human psychology as primarily driven by relationships between two or more people rather than the development of either of the individual Subjects. this is one of the major reasons Lacanianism believes it has become profound. in reality, the goal is good but the methods are bad. saying Lacanianism is good because it attempts dipsychology is like saying Trotskyism is the correct Leninism because it attempts dieconomics by merely proposing the possibility of a global civilization instead of workers' states fighting each other.
283. diphilosophy -> hypothetical study of doing philosophy in a world where people have multiple philosophies they will always misconstrue any philosophical statement through. approximately the same thing as meta-philosophy, but since being obsessed with "meta-" versions of fields is meta-Marxism's thing, a decent way to hide that you are actually talking about meta-Marxism.
300. Existentialism / Existentialist-Structuralist tradition -> put all of like 20 senses of Existentialism on here because why not
301. existentialism / early existentialism
302. phenomenology -> Husserl's definition (which is the bane of me); scientific definition of reality that rarely uses the word but is the same thing (which I'm fine with)
303. psychoanalysis / psychoanalyst / psychoanalyze / Freudian psychology / Freudian / Jungian / Lacanian -> I think Jung is weirdly discarded these days, which is fair enough but odd when the stuff Lacan says is still so strange
309. schizoanalysis / schizoanalyst
310. primitive Existentialism -> see "ES-strands"
311. entropy Existentialism -> see "ES-strands"
313. morality Existentialism -> see "ES-strands". seems like it's been shown to be synonymous with democulture.
314. free-choice Existentialism -> see "ES-strands"
315. hyper-Liberalism / fractal Liberalism -> see "ES-strands"
316. Difference Existentialism -> see "ES-strands". near-synonymous with intersubjectivity. the more accurate name for this might be "intersubjectivity theories".
318. Prejudice Existentialism -> a seemingly distinct category from Difference Existentialism. Prejudice Existentialism is purely focused on the act of constantly smashing signs in the hope that depriving people of any notion of facts or truth will lead to everyone perceiving reality correctly, although paradoxically Prejudice Existentialists typically claim that it is impossible to see reality through anything but signs and ontological models, which should make their task literally impossible to achieve for even a second. a rather intellectually dishonest field of philosophy in my opinion. if it were true that it is potentially a prejudice to call basically anything a fact, it would also be true that reality is nothing more than a bloody chunk war where whoever wins is automatically correct for the rest of history. Prejudice Existentialists have no way to actually disprove that claim, so they just resort to saying that acknowledging it to be true is Evil and equivocating everything else to be equally true is Good. I really hate the notion that morality is the only thing that's true. because first of all, how do you even know if morality is correct or real if nothing else is, how can you use it as your grounding? the problem they always run into in real life is that people all over the real world reject morality, and then when they point out prejudice as the fundamental sin that is the most obvious thing that makes any statement wrong nobody actually listens or cares. how do they know that thinking anybody cares about the concept of "prejudice" isn't a prejudice that makes their own theory obsolete?
319. right-Existentialism -> the manifestation of various common themes of Existentialism within Toryism, right-Liberalism, and other such ideologies, seemingly forming the scaffolding of "conservative" ideologies the same way regular center-Existentialism forms the inner structure of center-Liberalism and progressive ideologies. it's really all the same Existentialism, but this is the same thing being used to serve questionable ends.
320. filter / filtrate / filtration -> literal grating; censorship process in linguistic communication; meta-Marxism definition of process that orders people into movement Bauplan
321. Washington's filter -> the process by which a Liberal republic builds up certain consensuses and various layers of experts or constitution-partisans who are allowed to administer the consensuses, supposedly all in order to determine what's true with regard to living in a republic, but filters out people who don't understand how the Liberal republic works
322. Lenin's filter -> as soon as I noticed this thing in one of Lenin's writings I immediately had to throw a name onto it just because it was so unusual compared to any non-Marxist writing about movements. Lenin's filter is the process of taking a coarse movement of people and building up correct answers, procedures, strategies, and movement shapes such that the movement improves itself and becomes a party-nation. according to some Maoists, the process of operating Lenin's filter is synonymous with the party itself, and I'd say that is broadly correct but I still prefer to label a filter as the process that creates the party and the Bauplan as the shape of the party-nation
323. rhizome / the rhizome / Rhizome -> I've taken to always calling this thing like a proper name just because schizoanalysts insist it's totally uncountable — okay then, people don't form "a" rhizome, people form Rhizome. this thing may technically be schizoanalysis' filter, as well as the filter of a number of other Existentialist periods. as a filter, Rhizome is the process that magnetically pulls together anybody who is suffering into one big slime mold that then crushes everything in its path. I find this harder to dispute than some other models but I don't quite like it because of how mystical it is.
324. Trotsky's filter -> theoretically exists inasmuch as Trotsky has a different movement-building strategy from Stalin. at one time I heard a Trotskyist group very much try to explain it, so I presume that it exists
327. Village filter -> this is approximately the same thing as networkism, but not exactly the same, because its context is meant to be social instead of economic. it's when people sort away from each other into separate non-interacting groups or "villages" of people.
328. Goku's filter / Potter's filter -> one of the most crude filters there is. this is the filter where Good people are defined as humans who are part of the population and Bad people are punished, and all the Good people come together to punish all the Bad people. I don't like this filter. it makes it very hard to distinguish the mathematical shape of progressive movements from the shape of racism, xenophobia, Colonial Exploitation, bigoted monotheisms, or the anti-mental-illness processes described by Deleuze and Guattari or Foucault. this filter is the thing that makes me outright dislike the concept of morality and feel like we need to use other methods to avoid morality ever turning into a justification for atrocities
329. Lattice model / The Lattice -> this is either MDem's filter or at least another mathematical transform very adjacent to filters. it's the process of taking isolated islands and linking them, going through a "search for quantum lions and avoid quantum leopards" process until people aren't isolated and are safe from being surrounded by threats. this concept can apply to many different scales from very small ones to very large ones, such it could be used to diagram going from isolated individuals all the way up to a Communist International. why is it a lattice? because it's a graph of nodes, and before meta-Marxism the idea of using graph theory to describe movements wasn't heard of as far as I know. final note: the Lattice model is different from Rhizome in that it explicitly acknowledges the possibility of many tiny plural "rhizomes" and that as separate objects they may not inherently want to come together. it's also different in that it recognizes that every tiny "rhizome" can be a different Social-Philosophical System, only deciding where to go based on what it actually believes and in no way magnetically pulled toward anything without deliberately following the Lattice model as a guide.
330. Bauplan -> building structural plan; animal body shape; in meta-Marxist usage, the physical shape of a movement or society
331. Particle Theory / particle theory (old) / molecular theory (old) -> Lexeme for meta-Marxist usage, in case this is also a "normal" phrase. a mathematically-describable arrangement of people arranged into a graph, as it applies to society models or movements. sometimes a synonym for Bauplan when it describes the whole picture of something. in a few cases, Particle Theory connotatively suggests the local graph structures inside a larger Bauplan.
360. degree -> mathematical measurement; extent or extreme; certificate of academic expertise
361. moderation / moderate (v.) / moderate (adj.)
     1. common definition
     2. the process of regulating the position of something after it has been ranked on an artificial abstract-quality based scale
     3. forum oversight or censorship -> isn't it telling that people would use "moderate" for this? it really does show how Existentialism is Liberalism is Platonism is alchemy
368. absolute / Absolute / absolutism / absolutist
369. extreme / extremist -> absolute weasel word. the strangest thing is I can't think of the exact antonym: it isn't center, moderate, middle-ground, normal, reasonable, equatorial. I think in an Existentialist perspective the antonym may actually be "tolerant". "extreme" conceals the concept of totalization and the contrast to a morality-based view of individual tolerance of absolutely anything and everything from other individuals or groups unless it is absolutely hazardous. (previously I had this at L58, but it belongs much more nicely next to degree)
370. alchemy
371. quality / qualify / qualifier -> it's remarkable how Platonism is not necessarily distinguishable from alchemy. or how the way normal people talk about ideologies and philosophies seems indistinguishable from this Platonism-alchemy.
372. idea / Idea
373. 'pataphysics -> I'm pretty sure the SCP wiki uses it slightly wrong. pataphysics seems to be the use of creativity and nonsense-jamming to uncover problems in ontologies including things easily recognized as metaphysics. [111] it also seems like certain chapters of MDem are basically doing the same thing as pataphysics in the way they start with strange associations and throw in total curve balls to get everyone off their established scripts and get them to actually think. Alfred Jarry called it 'pataphysics, I just call it "meta-ontology". in a sense, it's like the SCP wiki has to use a wrong definition because the Foundation is all about containing things and keeping things normal, but 'pataphysics is actually about using such insane strategies to solve things it would go against the Foundation's typical protocols. "Admonition" was a missed opportunity to define 'pataphysics utterly correctly yet make it this bizarre anomalous almost-scary thing that's not just philosophy and is nearly forbidden most of the time
374. metaphysics
380. chemistry
     1. common definition
     2. chemistry of relationships
     3. metaphor for history and movements being material objects with structure
381. threshold
     1. sill-sized doorstep
     2. mathematical / ecological definitions
390. religion -> favor every serious definition before getting into joke definitions — although if they are popular or firmly historically-established for even a small group of people, joke definitions become okay. joke definition example: religion - a system of rituals designed to prevent people from investigating and thinking about material reality and all its deeper horrors beyond their current comprehension - see "opium of the masses", The German Ideology
391. cult -> a localized religion for a specific local god or religious ontology; corrupt local religion - see "body without organs" / "Escape"
392. sect / sectarian / sectarianism -> category: concrete association process, noun-based
393. sacred -> religious status; figurative sense of something which is taken for granted as a core assumption grounding people to their current ontology of reality. ("my god!" implies God is the standard for what is unsurprising to be real; Wings of Fire's "by the trees!" is one of the few things that genuinely captures the same purpose)
394. worship / idol worship / idolatry -> religious ritual; figurative sense of "idolatry" toward some particular cause
395. eschatology -> I am so damn tired of Lacanians and Western-Marxists and shit trying to say Marxism fills the role of eschatology. if you understand the fundamental role of religion and most theories of morality as justifying why one group is better than another you would know that if Marxism really were eschatology it would be doomed.
396. invisible pink unicorn
397. garage dragon / dragon in my garage / invisible garage dragon
398. flying spaghetti monster / FSM
399. god / God -> I hated allocating Items for religion until I thought of instead making them Lexemes. now I am laughing about the probably 200 Senses God is going to have. most likely more than any other single Lexeme. unless "we/our" ended up containing a definition of "we" for every single Social-Philosophical System of people believing a philosophy and assuming everyone else has the capacity to believe it.
400. Leninism / Marxism-Leninism
     1. any and all sects of Leninism
     2. (Trotskyism) Trotskyism; see "Trotskyism" for further claimed definitions of Leninism
     3. (mainstream Marxism-Leninism) Stalin Thought to the exclusion of Trotskyism - as used in the form "Marxism-Leninism"
401. Bolshevism
402. Marxism
404. Trotskyism -> every variation of Trotskyism, so I don't have to put it on Leninism
405. communism / Communism / Communist
406. socialism / Socialism / socialist
500. tag -> common definition; HTML tag; xml tag; mediawiki pseudo HTML tag; mediawiki edit label; etc
599. (... HTML tags)
600. relativity / relativistic -> special relativity; general relativity; earlier relativity models; separate term from "relative/relativism", but ok to link the two
601. predict / prediction / predictive
602. stochastic / stochastic process
603. unistochastic
604. orthostochastic -> I have no idea what this even is yet
605. observable -> noun
606. beable -> yeah, I started out using Lexemes to try to group equivocated concepts but there's a point where I just started recording fine-grained slang/jargon forms the way Lexemes are "supposed" to work
607. emergeable
608. indivisible -> has a special definition regarding non-Markovian stochastic processes
609. unitary
610. field -> data parameter; area of study; mathematical object in physics. on most but not all pages on this wiki it's the second
611. symmetry
612. invariance
613. gauge -> gauge transformation; gauge boson; gauge potential
614. quaternion
615. vector -> mathematical object; disease carrier
616. tensor
617. placeholder -> to be used for testing Lexemes, but also literally the concept of placeholders
618. matrix / matrices / The Matrix -> mathematical object; false reality
620. emergence / weak emergence / strong emergence
621. ergodicity -> I may or may not have used this slightly wrong in various v4 MDem scraps, saying ergodicity when I meant emergence. in my defense, when you see the world really literally and tend to conceptualize everything through a kind of non-well-founded set theory where a group of things that quacks like a duck is a duck, it can be hard to understand how things arranging into a particular consistent shape doesn't also "inevitably" lead to emergence. it does lead to emergence sometimes, just not in every single case.
622. pattern / repeated pattern -> I say "repeated pattern" a ton, and I always mean it relatively literally. normal people might call the same notion of repeated patterns ten different things. they would look at mathematical objects consistently forming the same data structure and say "proper class". etc
623. superposition -> general mathematical object of multiple possibilities considered at once; quantum superposition
660. metagame / The Meta / metagame (V) / metagaming -> real-world surrounding staging-ground of how different people play a competitive game; figurative use of finding the best ways to play a game, similar to minmaxing but arguably includes the broader concepts of creativity and finding ways to solve many different goals - like if we have a Dragon Ball simulation you could find the most optimized way to play Gogeta, or you could find the best possible way to succeed with Tarble. in my mind both of those are "metagaming".
661. role-playing (N,A) / roleplay (V) / roleplaying / experience taking ([112] [113]) / live-action roleplaying / LARPing -> several connotations. dungeons & dragons as terrible gnostic alternate reality leading people away from the one true God; reasonable thought experiment activity of understanding different possiblities; what you arguably do when you read any book, by reconstructing the characters' inner experiences; thinking that putting on an identity equals action when it doesn't
662. Gnosticism / Gnostic / gnosticism -> make this a different term from "agnostic"/"gnostic", because this has its own conflicting connotations. to some people it's just a rival religion, to others it's basically the devil
663. ??
664. speedrun / speedrunning
665. lateral thinking / thinking with portals -> I think it's so stupid how every guide to jobs and business is like, lateral thinking! lateral thinking! but if you really truly have lateral thinking you turn the entire thing sideways and realize the inherent contradictions and paradoxes of capitalism that make it eat itself, and once you've thought so laterally you turn against capitalism they really don't like that. then they're like, no, don't you go thinking laterally, there's only one way to do things. this seems to be the heart of that one reactionary video I saw where the guy I can't remember was really mad about the concept of speedrunning. he was like, I hate that people are spending their time speedrunning, it's definitely a synonym of a crumbling civilization when people are going around the real way to do things and looking for shortcuts. and I thought it was unbelievably stupid, because the point of speedruns is basically to learn about the physics of the particular game engine and do science experiments to see if there are different ways those artificial physics could be applied technologically. speedrunning is basically a fictional process of research and development. you're shooting your civilization in the foot by getting rid of all the scientists and inventors. and why would you do it? because you think pure numerical ranking and graph placement produces stuff rather than labor and creativity. you're King Vegeta. but he can't build a fucking scouter and has to buy it from another country. all because he doesn't like speedrunning, but speedrunning is lateral thinking.
666. Satan / Satanism / Lucifer
     1. bible definition - literally described as the opposer of God
     2. (Toryism) Satanic: anybody or any thing theorized to secretly be plotting Evil conspiracies to prevent everybody from joining the one correct human social circle and knowing the narrow set of behaviors and cultural associations which are Good. a wrecker who prevents realizing the Material System of world Christianity.
     3. Satanism: a code of morality and moral Right designed around social connection to Satan, taken as entirely figurative and poetic
     4. (Dragon Ball usage) Satan: someone who tells a lot of lies and is very popular - see book of Revelation
696. post-language -> don't know if other theories have other definitions of this word. in MDem entries post-language refers to a kind of communication which eradicates all mental associations and has a hard requirement to be equally understandable to any individual who reads it anywhere regardless of what that particular individual believes words to mean. in some cases this can lead to wordy, absurdly-precise descriptions which put readers to sleep and are equally unintelligible to everybody. art is almost always written in language and hardly ever in post-language. any nonfiction statement posted to the internet almost invariably ends up having to be expressed in post-language. "logical fallacy" and "cognitive bias" guidelines very frequently force perfectly understandable language into stilted and unnatural post-language: somebody says "there are two options" not intending to rule out others, and a pedant comes along forcing a correction to "there are at least two options", "there are two major options", or "there are two options but I was not saying those were the only ones" (these explicit disclaimer clauses seem to be one of the most common forms of post-language). the "ours groups" chapter is very deliberately and satirically written in post-language.
697. nonsense -> oddly enough, has several jargon definitions. nonsense mutation; non-sense (Lacanianism); others?
698. bull -> I'm hesitant to quite put "bullshit" in the first 2000 Lexemes, although I don't see any reason it shouldn't be added after that; we've gotta contain our swearwords somewhere before we ban them, and what better place than here? oh well, now this term can also contain senses of "bullcrap".
699. spaghetti / spaghetti code / ontological spaghetti -> literal food; difficult to understand code; completely meaningless-sounding plate of unfamiliar philosophy words that never seems to get easier to understand (meta-Marxist term first used to mock Lacanianism). similar to "word salad", but with the difference that it strongly appears to actually mean something due to its proper lexical structure of signs and statements until the points at which all the self-referentiality and insular forms of meaning render it impossible to actually comprehend or explain to anybody. ontological spaghetti is twisted and woven into a neat yet unexplainable structure just like spaghetti noodles.
700. narrative -> history; legend; fantasy book; of or relating to dramatization techniques; slanted sociophilosophy; fascist rhetoric; single official record of history everybody is fighting over; etc. this word is an adventure in itself
701. alien -> how many different rhetorical meanings are there in science fiction, there are a lot. also: foreigner
702. unicorn -> first I think of the usage of something that nearly never appears, then of the notion that unicorns are 'wonderful', then the notion that they are overrated
703. dragon -> like lions these creatures have multiple readings as monsters or as strong beings of courage. monster; courage; Satanic anathema; word reused for arbitrary new creatures; plurality, diversity, outright used in scheme of Media Representation (Dragon Masters)
704. greed
705. corporate greed -> I hate this phrase because it is in nearly every critique of capitalism indicating in the space of one two-word phrase that the critique is bullshit
706. hero -> has fairly common pejorative usage dismissing its possibility; also, the concept that reactionaries can have heroes and they certainly aren't other people's heroes
707. villain -> driving arts experts crazy by including descriptivist accounts of fans downgrading villains to antagonists and explaining the hell out of them. I love it because as much as some people are total beginners at writing, it does show they're thinking about things and questioning the assumptions of real or fictional societies
708. immortality -> why is this word 2/3 of the time a backdoor to sneak Buddhism and its model of the individual into Christian or progressive-philosophical discourse. the moment before we discuss fiction people have ordinary comprehensible definitions of what life and death are. the moment we start talking about "immortality" suddenly everyone on earth believes in Buddhism and thinks life and death are each totally different things from what they usually are.
709. immortal -> separate Lexeme which contains the concept in Buddhism sloppily called this when it's something different
710. verisimilitude / verisimilitudinous / verisimilar -> very relevant when analyzing fiction. why are Marxist analyses of fiction possible when in theory it should be that fiction can be anything at all and a great number of authors do not know anything about Marxism? because of verisimilitude. people create fictional ontologies by superficially copying real-life ontologies, which can amusingly result in fiction containing ontologies that are specifically realistic enough they provide for the possibility of Bolshevism.
717. diegetic
718. metanarrative -> in my scrap about Vegeta and Asriel I realized there were multiple possible definitions of metanarrative. so here we go.
776. bookman's bluff -> when an author tries to claim that the story goes together and makes sense on some level even though it doesn't. [114] can turn into Calvinball if done really well to continuously expand mistakes into believable lore; can turn into a scottcon if done badly.
777. signifier mad libs -> when an audience fails to ask what a fiction or non-fiction work is actually trying to communicate and begins carelessly filling in all the nouns, verbs, and adjectives with their own meanings
778. Calvinball -> game created by Calvin & Hobbes; metaphor for serialized writing
779. retcon
780. lore
781. continuity
782. canon / canonical
783. scottcon -> when Scott Cawthon writes a story beginning with one underlying narrative or none and leaves a bunch of unclear clues as to what it is but then comes back and "solves the mystery" by assigning all the surface manifestations of things to new meanings. basically a form of bookman's bluff that occurs specifically in the case of serialized or ongoing stories. the only reason this isn't the same thing as Calvinball is Calvinball implies the author is carefully following rules and creating consistency rather than strictly making rules up as they go along.
784. Wings of Fire book 1 - qww
785. Wings of Fire book 2 - qww
786. Wings of Fire book 3 - qww
787. Wings of Fire book 4 - qww
788. Wings of Fire book 6 - qww
789. Wings of Fire book 5 - qww
790. Wings of Fire book 6 - qww
791. Wings of Fire book 7 - qww
792. Wings of Fire book 8 - qww
793. Wings of Fire book 9 - qww
794. Wings of Fire book 10 - qww
795. Wings of Fire book 11 - qww
796. Wings of Fire book 12 - qww
797. Wings of Fire book 13 - qww
798. Wings of Fire book 14 - qww
799. wild west -> it is so bizarrely common to use this phrase to specifically describe a time before things were well ordered and when they flowed around chaotically without thinking about the fact this ends with the creation of territories and the crystallization of particular internal ontologies that begin to function like laws of physics. Sonic the Hedgehog adaptatons were the wild west! but that was because the arrangement of characters, objects, and processes in the Sonic universe had not become consistent, or simply because the arrangement of real-life corporations producing the Sonic series and arrangement of people and teams inside them had not become consistent.
800. timeline
     1. common definition
     2. different scifi definitions
     3. many-worlds model
     4. material-history
     5. colloquial usage: observed series of real-life events on the news, which is usually stated to be "the worst timeline", or occasionally "the best timeline"
801. past -> recorded material-history; hypothesized origins, as with folk etymology; memories of a different social structure taken as a time period, as with nostalgia; partisan outright-fabricated version of reality said to exist a while ago - this ties into inflammatory definitions of "revisionist history"
802. present
803. future -> in fictional models where the future literally exists, it is effectively just a kind of (material-)history no different from the past; there are also reasonable hypotheses that the future might not exist except in the relativistic sense of areas of the universe going along faster or slower
810. ??
811. Amalthean interpretation / Amalthean
812. Beagelian interpretation / Beagelian / Beagelize

L900 - L999 meaningful names

900. we / our -> the real version of we/our, with every possible significance
     1. most basic and common definition
     2. (Existentialism, center-Liberalism) every individual human being on earth in unison
     3. each of every local set of connected members of particular separate groups in unison
     4. every individual human being on earth in parallel but separately
     5. each of every local set of connected members of particular separate groups in parallel but separately
     6. the followers of any particular ideology to the exclusion of anybody outside that ideology, possibly presented as the only human beings who exist; may be synonymous with a particular localized Left's definition of "The Left" / "progressivism" as a national-scale phenomenon
     7. (mainstream Marxism-Leninism) members of the proletariat and the greater subpopulation of Communist allies
     8. (right-Liberalism, Toryism) used ironically to mock Bolshevism by suggesting all "I" statements have morphed into "we" statements said by the nation as a unified whole. see Anthem (if I remember right); see "socialicizing the people"; see r/AccidentalCommunism
     9. (MDem) used ironically to mock Liberalism by suggesting that an accurate "we" statement within the conditions of Liberalism should be hyper-pluralized to reflect the real-world situation of "we" never belonging to a single unified group of humans and always belonging to separate localized groups. see "ours groups" entry
901. we / ours -> the nightmare hyper-pluralized version of we/our depicted in "ours groups", used to show "how" to inflect it in different situations if the Lexeme template can accommodate this. look over and adequately finish the inflections for all 900 previous Lexemes before attempting this one. that will probably provide clues of how to do this
902. they (impersonal pronoun)
903. they (personal pronoun) -> to be used for character Signifiers
904. he (personal pronoun) -> to be used for character Signifiers
905. she (personal pronoun) -> to be used for character Signifiers
906. pronoun
     1. common definition - a part of speech which is substituted for another noun
     2. any descriptive noun which takes the place of another common noun or name - impersonal pronoun
     3. preferred pronoun
     4. (Toryism) supposedly improper or unexpected attempt to prescribe language usage; see "politics", "heresy", "freedom (Existentialism)"
907. it -> to be used for fictional object / character Signifiers
908. 私（わたし）（代名詞） -> to be used for character Signifiers
909. あたし（代名詞）
910. 俺（オレ）（代名詞） / オラ（代名詞）
911. 僕（ぼく）（代名詞） -> honestly I've always been confused why there are two male pronouns but not two female pronouns
912. 俺様（オレさま）（代名詞） / I think there are equivalents
913. わし（代名詞） -> this is the old people pronoun isn't it? that's what I half remember
917. comrade (impersonal pronoun) -> in practice, mainly used to refer to audiences of Marxist texts; still, this can technically go in the pronouns section for some Marxist theorists who fit the category or get addressed as "Comrade —"
926. Joseph / José
     1. a general-use name
     2. name used in the Christian bible
     3. Joseph as Stalin-follower name
927. Martin
     1. a general-use name
     2. (unattested) Martin as phenomenologist name
     3. Martin as schizophrenia-(schizoanalysis-term) -> Petscop, Tapers
928. Felix
     1. a general-use name
     2. Felix or Guattari as schizoanalyst name
929. ??
     1. a general-use name
     2. Deleuze as schizoanalyst name
930. Theodore / Theo
     1. a general-use name
     2. Theodore as center-Liberal name
931. Michael / Mike
     1. a general-use name
     2. name used in the Christian bible
     3. Mike as Bakuninist name
932. Peter / Pete
     1. a general-use name
     2. name used in the Christian bible
     3. Peter as Kropotkinist name
939. Karl / Carl
     1. a general-use name
     2. Karl as Marxist name
940. Leo / Lev
     1. a general-use name
     2. Leo as Trotskyist name
941. Rosa / Rose
     1. a general-use name
     2. Rosa as Trotskyist name
942. Greg
     1. a general-use name
     2. Greg as Trotskyist name
949. Newton / Newtonian -> classical physics
950. Einstein / Einsteinian -> relativistic physics
952. Everett / Everettian -> please just say many-worlds. this isn't one of those terms that makes me angry but, the opacity
953. Lagrange / Lagrangian -> mathematical object or operation; aren't there also other Lagrange things named for the same guy. yes, there are Lagrangian multipliers, and Lagrangian several other things
954. Hamilton / Hamiltonian -> mathematical object or operation; equivocates with Alexander Hamilton depending on the context
960. Gramsci / Gramscian
961. Marcuse / Marcusean
965. maybe some theorist names which really need inflections? Gramsci/Gramscian/Gramscianism, Ted Grant/??/??, etc
966. 怪獣（かいじゅう） -> "monster" as defined in the Japanese language. continue SPoV, but only with faction-meanings that would conceivably be sensical and recognizable to a native Japanese speaker: faction-meanings might include big kaiju in rubber-suit shows versus small kaiju in animation, etc.
976. Vegeta (impersonal pronoun) -> half-jokingly, half-seriously, but rather extensively used in MDem 5.2 drafts
977. ドラゴンボール / Dragon Ball -> category: work citation phrase; work citations dictionary (qww). I considered having two separate Lexemes but for citation-phrase entries there is just no good reason for that when the lemma field and Senses can both be localized into multiple "real" languages
978. ドラゴンボール超 / ドラゴンボールスーパー / Dragon Ball Super -> work citations dictionary (qww)
983. Clara / Klara -> this name is in like, every story about robot kids
     1. a general-use name
     2. Clara as used in The Sandman
     3. Clara as used in Five Nights at Freddy's
     4. Klara as used in Klara and the Sun
983. Trotsky / Trotskyist / Trotskyite -> for covering the difference between "Trotskyite conspiracy" and "Trotskyism"
984. Stalin / Stalinist / Stalinism / Stalin follower / Stalin-follower -> for covering the difference between "Stalinism" and "Stalin Thought"
985. Zinoviev / Zinovievism / Zinovievist / Grigori Zinoviev levels of tired and done -> MDem term for Trotskyite-conspiracy ideologies; historically, also used to mean other things which would be worth recording here
989. Urvogel -> Archaeopteryx's common name. separate lexeme because it could refer to different objects than A. lithographica.
990. Archaeopteryx lithographica / A. lithographica / Archaeopteryx sp. / Archaeopteryx
991. Tyrannosaurus rex / T. rex / Tyrannosaurus sp. / Tyrannosaurus / T-Rex / T-rex
992. Lithographica -> link to Items for Sun Wukong, undirected graph, and A. lithographica. doesn't have contrasting definitions, but as it's a name for the project gets a special status that way
999. Linnaeus / L. -> Lexeme for "L." citation placed after binomial names, as in Pica pica (Linnaeus, 1758) or Hyacinthoides italica (L.)
1000. plurality / plural -> category: static process term (concrete-noun-based)

L1001 - L2000 meaningful numbers

1004. four as Trotskyist number / etc
1007. seven as number of power or chaos / etc
1017. 17 as secret debug mode number / etc
1027. 27 as designated number of the process of Being - see Being and Time (1927) / etc
1033. 33 as conspiracy-theory number / etc
1042. 42 as number of cosmic significance / etc
1088. 88 as Nazi symbolism / etc
1099. 99 as maximized number / etc
1101. 101 as number of crash course / etc
1137. 137 as particle physics number / etc -> nobody knows what it really is but we do know it's in many equations
1146. 146 as number of Lexeme: namespace / etc
1147. 147 as number of Lexeme talk: namespace / etc
1280. 1280 (symbolic number)
      1. a general-use number
      2. hospital room in which William Afton undergoes very bad NDE
1326. 18326 as asparagus number / etc
1350. 1350 as racist conspiracy theory / etc
1413. 413 as coincidentally repeated birthday / etc
1488. 1488 as Nazi symbolism / etc
1532. 1532 as birth of Machiavellianism / etc
1616. 616 as number of Evil / etc
1666. 666 as number of "the opposer" / 666 as number of Evil / etc
1845. 1845 as number of base-to-superstructure relationships, approximate date of The German Ideology / etc
1882. 1882 as number of literary ambiguity / etc
1917. 1917 as year of Russian Revolution / etc
1940. 1940 as sad but expected defeat / etc
1941. 1941 as official beginning of World War II / etc
1953. 1953 as beginning of the end / etc
1977. 9000 as dub mandela effect / etc
1983. 1983 as year of deadly bite / etc
1984. 1984 as year of thought control / etc
1987. 1987 as year of disfiguring bite / etc
1991. 1991 as end of Soviet Union / etc
1992. 1992 (symbolic number)
      1. a general-use number
      2. general-use historical date within the Gregorian calendar
      3. number of Molecular Marxism. year after 1991 used in a symbolic sense of "life goes on"/"undefeatable"
1997. 1997 as game release date / etc
2000. ??

L2000 - L2200 "nimi toki pona"

The first two hundred or so Lexemes past L2000 are set aside for the full set of toki pona words in common use.
There is no particular plan to include toki ma, but if there is ever a day somebody is entering Item labels in toki ma there could be a range set aside for it then.

2003. 👍 / pona
2004. ♾️ / ale
2100. (... "nimi")

L2200 - L3000 works to be analyzed

2279. Losing Earth: A Recent History (Rich 2019; citation)

Unsorted Lexemes

• egoism
• individualism
• meta-ontologically sound / meta-ontological soundness -> a statement is meta-ontologically sound when it would be recognized as true by anyone in any ideological faction or interest-having population of people which has a high school education and does not believe blatantly false statements. those are a little hard to find for Toryism, of course, but educated Tories do exist; they're a bit scary because they see all the evidence that progressives point to without being able to deny it, and then spin that factual information as bad to protect some pre-defined set of interests like "my family" or "my socially-linked several-state-sized reactionary subpopulation of White people". the good news is that a lot of statements by Tories fail to be meta-ontologically sound even if they're based on lists of true facts because there are reasons they blatantly cannot be recognized as true by other ideologies.
• slider-speak -> this didn't have its own term in MDem drafts until very very recently. for a while I called it generalized alchemy, or metaphysics, or mistaking the ability to create adjectives for reality. I still think those all fit fine. but we need to really stop and characterize this thing at length so we genuinely see how weird it is.
• stealth activism -> this is a totally stupid term for a reasonable thing. the definition I heard almost reduced it down to taking over structures and Each Individual In Parallel Culturing Better. which is... very Gramscian. it may be necessary and even effective but my one issue is I wish nobody would use the word activism for it. it's like. sure, you can do that. but there eventually comes a point where you're preserving particular oppressive countable Cultures for the hell of it and committing to take the steering wheel of the oppression bus and run it a little less bad, while — here is the real problem that overshadows any other concern — you're part of an overall national population which by its own existence justifies torching other people-groups in an act of self-defense murder just because the national population exists. self-defense genocide exists now. (even though it did exist in 1800, I know.) do you know what kind of atom-thick hair edge Gramscianism is operating on? do people even know that. one day you can be doing ""stealth activism"" and the next day the people you barely shifted over to win one issue could be torching you too, because two different swaths of stealth-activists for different issues ended up on different sides of the Torching Unamericans divide where only so many people fit in the core group of people truly allowed to live. as time goes on I increasingly feel like Gramscianism is an elite ideology and it's not really for the people who actually get hurt by Toryism or "fascism". why do you need Gramscianism if you already fit into institutions well enough to infiltrate them?
• cultural context -> this phrase kills me because I feel like it is used for ten different things and every time people say it they're using it to get out of distinguishing those things from each other. Foucault used it to describe a stage of development of class society, with actual structures and territory-owners. a Deltarune video I listened to used it to describe people living in one US state instead of another, literally just the geographical region people live in and the weather and climate they had experiences about. see why it's not actually a very clear thing? people are conditioned to think populations are made out of culture and culture can easily be used to distinguish populations but then when they describe what culture is they're often describing things that come almost strictly before culture per-se.
• military-cultural complex -> this is what has existed since the Cold War. this is what I have been trying to get at with descriptions of all socially-linked groups of people generating The State to protect the sheer existence of their socially-linked group of friends.
• Herculean task
• Sisyphean task
• Minosian task -> a task so bad you lock it away
• Promethean task -> "something you know is the right thing to do but you still get punished for it"
• Odyssean task -> task that "should have been simple but everything goes wrong in the worst ways making it insanely long"
• Orphean task -> when you are doomed to fail for the same reasons you are desperate to succeed
• solidarity -> the more I read about this word the more it sounds to me like it's a question rather than an answer. it began around the time of the French Revolution but every single person trying to create a new theory of how to build society defined it a bit differently. I really think solidarity is just a word more than it's a concept. to actually achieve proletarian solidarity you need to define new much more specific concepts like filtration
• recursion -> fractal process of some kind; programming usage; specific cybernetics use
• world party -> pros of Bordigism: actually talks about patterns of party operation which are oddly specific. cons of Bordigism: I don't have the slightest idea what any of these things are.
• essentialism
• anti-essentialism -> one of the better theories for understanding human individuals themselves rather than whole populations
• strategic essentialism -> a particular concept of benign nationalism used in context of national independence from global empire, as in India. I am trying so hard not to say the words "culture", "colonial", or "postcolonial" because I feel like that cluster of concepts has muddied up absolutely everything and made every single struggle people are trying to get through across the world harder. why did we all decide people were made of culture rather than being made of people and populations. why did we do that.
• strategic anti-essentialism -> George Lipsitz (b.1947). the act of resisting membership in a particular restrictive Social-Philosophical System of culture by expressing the practices of a different Social-Graph System of culture. see: Satanism and Gnosticism, wiccans and pagan revival, schizoanalysis, United States otaku.
• agent -> already used to describe the concept of Group Subjects in slightly obscure biology/ecology research
• solidarity -> original definition of Third World proletarian subpopulations standing together against all owning classes; vulgarized definition where it has been co-opted into the entirely different idea of Existentialist individuals throughout multiple First World countries standing together because they are The Subject. this word is like, the day that Marxism absolutely died because Marxists ceased being aware that the First World was weaponizing the notions of "empathy" and "community" to defend all scales of chunk competition and crush empathy, community, and solidarity alike.
• denial of coloniality -> way better phrasing than trying to turn every word for empire into a word for prejudices in people's heads
• The West -> it's always been really weird to me people say this. it always weirdly feels as if people passively acknowledge the existence of a British Empire after the British Empire.
• The East
• relaterminism / relativistic determinism / retermine -> placeholder word for how relativity replaces determinism
• Filamentocracy -> add to "Filament"
  • democulture is the class ideology of Filamentocracy. that's just it. that's why people believe in democulture and Goku's filter
• intersubjectivity
• Market Society -> this came up in MDem v4.3 and kind of fell off as a major topic although it very much stayed a term. near synonym for primitive Existentialism but focuses more on the notion of isolation. coined to mock the term "market economy" by pointing out what economies really are: society itself. socioeconomies.
• [S2] Kirby is a metaphor for humanity / Kirby is the quintessential Subject -> really funny copypasta [115] [116] somebody seems to have dreamed up while up into the morning unable to sleep, I mean that's my injection of my own experience but yeah. from a Polygon video? I was just trying to find the definition of "bookman's bluff" and here we are
• free-floating -> add to "free"; very similar usage to an object being "knocked free" or "wrested free"
• constructive process -> related to "construct" as is also used as a verb
• destructive process
• nationogenesis -> the slow or quick assembly of individuals within an existing national population into a new nation and spatially-unique realized Bauplan. the reason this "needed" a new word is that it can happen with people of the same ethnic group and religion and who are overall seemingly the same group of people in every way, yet who spontaneously begin drifting into totally new groups of people thanks to the news station they listen to, their incomplete understanding of Leninism, or some other factor that would be unexpected to most people
• postification / post- / post-ify -> not used many times in v5.2 in favor of returning to plainer language, but the concept is always there in basically every chapter
• physics as equalling factical systems; physics as relativistic causality exchange
• thought / think -> logical process Lexeme
• modal realism: all hypothetically possible worlds are technically real. David Lewis.
• economy / socioeconomy
• socioeconomy, sociophilosophy, socioempire, sociocurrency
• rival / rivalrous -> I forget why I added this. it had something to do with Creative Commons and "non-rivalrous goods" and some killer analogy I'd gotten from that vaguely related to chunk competition or graph economics but I forget the exact connection I made. I think it was something like, when everyone lives in rivalrous houses, and has to pay for them with rivalrous jobs, and it's so easy to totally slip past anyone else's attention because people have to "spend" their attention on one thing or another, it's hard for anything to really actually be non-rivalrous. populations are rivalrous, countable Cultures are rivalrous, physical individuals are rivalrous. you have to overcome all of that just to create a non-rivalrous good