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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[S2] Trotskyism's internal structure differs from Stalin Thought -> add to other proposition?
[MDem] [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.
[geo] [Z] determinacy game / Gale-Stewart game [1] -> 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
[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"
[S] Grimey the neckbeard [2] -> 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. " + unlikely hero = Berdly.
[S2] humans perceive random behavior as malicious / inconsiderate
[S2] behaving compassionately requires cultural conditioning / education of specific facts about reality
[S2] smashing signs turns behavior random / smashing signs leads to random behavior / poststructuralism is a terrible idea
[S2] many acts of marketing perform education / consumerism is inseparable from media representation
[S2] god belief is a Cartesian system of reasoning
[F2] East Germany was indistinguishable from an Anarchism / East Germany was actually an Anarchism -> I am pretty sure this is false but I could not actually explain why. so this is basically one of those "man is equivalent to a chicken" type statements. the heart of this probably-spurious claim would be that because events like Black Lives Matter and the Paris Commune were built around people of a particular idealistic countable Culture assertively occupying a particular spatial area, the distinction between a hypothetical successful Anarchism and a real-world historical fortress state is rather fuzzy. what actually is the difference? you can't say that a fortress state is different from an Anarchism because it's based around the proletariat, because North Korea became a fortress state and hardly had a proletariat at all. I guess you could appeal to "The State", but personally? in my opinion an army always counts as having a State. that's the easiest way to interpret the Trotskyite conspiracy as the seeds of a plural Marxism and open up the road to diplomacy and healing traumas between rival Marxisms. so like, if an Anarchism always realistically has to have a State to perform realization and exist, how is it actually different from a fortress state?
[MDem] [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.
[MDem] [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.
[MDem] [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.
[MDem] [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?
[MDem] [S2] If Communist-ally is not an identity, East Germany wouldn't have existed / If Communist-ally is not an identity, there would be no North Korea -> the claim that creating East Germany required the formation of an East-German identity, in the strict mathematical sense of membership in a socially-linked graph of people calling themselves East Germans. no concept of "East-German culture", "East-German traditions", or "East-German ethnic history narratives" is required for this definition; this is strictly conceptualizing the notion of groups of people or identities as raw divisions of people into groups who are connected because they agree to be connected. with that established, the claim is that East Germany formed because a particular subpopulation of workers formed connected to a particular body of theorists and non-proletarian Communist allies, and it was the agreement of all these people to form a group separate from the rest of the country if the people of West Germany did not meet the conditions to be a proletarian ally that allowed it to act as a capable subpopulation that was able to assemble a new country after the Soviet Union (which could also be considered in the category of "Communist allies") removed itself from East Germany. this is the claim that solidarity throughout the capable subpopulation in the sense of firm dedication to not dissolving it is ultimately a more important thing than the proletariat itself even as the capable subpopulation will only develop if the proletariat has a very prominent role in it. you can now see why East Germany not being a win for Trotskyists would be so confusing. a small number of mainstream Marxist-Leninist allies being able to create East Germany should logically entail that a bunch of Trotskyists wanting to wall themselves off from Stalin should be able to do the same thing starting from a relatively tiny number of people. East Germany should actually have showed that Trotskyism is more feasible than people thought because it shows that every country in Europe could go Trotskyist if the requirement is they turn over independently of each other without Stalin's help. the fact Trotskyists did not see things this way is very telling.
[MDem] [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.
[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?
[MDem] [M] 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.
[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.
[S2] Racists know stereotypes don't apply to everybody / Racists know the stereotypes they use to define people don't apply to everybody
[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.
[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. (revisit later)
[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.
[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, [3] 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.
[S] level (Deltarune)
[S] Q??55 Level of Violence (Undertale)
[S2] Deltarune's secret death animation actually means that making attacks red makes them more powerful
element (Deltarune) -> may include: Chaos - Order - Cat - Mouse - Heart - Jewel - Ice - Fight - Color - Blade - Dust - Rabbit - Virus
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[S2] The shadow mantle is a bulletproof vest / Fistful of Dollars theory -> the claim that the Shadow Mantle is a shield used for blocking projectiles in Deltarune's green Soul mode, but the discarded boss doesn't want the player finding it.
[Fy] [M3] Why was Deltarune hard to make before Undertale? -> this could have a simple answer in terms of Deltarune being a longer game and so forth... or it could have a much more specific answer. could it be that Deltarune was genuinely supposed to be based on things cut from Undertale before Undertale was made?
[Fy] [S2] Ralsei is Kris' horned headband
[Fy] [S2] Ralsei is the green crayon
[Fy] [S2] Ralsei is Asriel's drawing
[Fy] [S2] Ralsei is Asriel's shedded fur -> an explanation for why Ralsei is able to be everywhere. maybe even an explanation for why Ralsei is affiliated with Gaster — he exists as a bunch of scattered shards, effectively. ...that also describes playing cards and spam emails. oh no.
[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.
[IV] [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.
[ES] [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?
ml s2 soviet union occupied east germany because no socialism in one country
[Z0] 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.
[S2] Not all proletarian class interests are revolutionary [4]
[S2] Bordigism is an SPS [5] -> 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.
[S2] Organic centralism is a bunch of ill-defined fluff [6] -> 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.
[S2] Dark Fountains are created when a Lightner opens a wound in the earth
[S2] Dark Fountains are created when a Lightner cracks open the limited box of reality -> combines claims: blank void outside of reality is fountain of imagination
[MDem] [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
[S] approval voting
[S2] Magic glass is diegetic -> the claim that the "magic glass" that acts as an error handler in Undertale is an in-universe kind of magic, where the (speculated) fact anything can happen outside the boundaries of a game acts to actually create this nonsensical fix to Undertale's world. see: the vast field of darkness outside Deltarune's borders is a fountain of creative fantasy
[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.
[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.
[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.
[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
[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
[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.
[S2] The Soviet Union exists in the Fantastic Beasts films -> if realistic footage of World War II exists this is technically true.
[P] work is continuous with -> serious canonicity relationship between two individual works or a work and containing series. does not immediately imply reverse relationship. if fan creations are represented in Items, this should be used asymmetrically on the fan creation only. open question: should this be used for non-fiction works? I feel like the answer is yes precisely when they follow from an existing theoretical work in exactly the same way a fictional derivative work does, presuming previous works to be part of them. this allows easily coding the otherwise complex relationship that the collected works of Lenin are "canon" to Trotskyism without the faction of people immediately connected to Lenin actually approving of that. however this should not be used across the boundary between fiction and non-fiction unless it is meant to imply that the fictional work takes place inside a version of real-world history. sometimes this is the case. you can legitimately put some very funny inferences on the Fantastic Beasts entry although these would not belong directly on Harry Potter entries.
[P] work has crossed over with -> to both discourage and encourage that ridiculous form of fan theory creation where people take crossovers seriously for no particular reason. don't conflate this with "work is continuous with". do put all the sillier connections in here.
[Z] A Tale of Two Cities -> this book is about the French Revolution. I somehow did not know that until today.
[S] rebuilding civilization after apocalyptic war -> this can be used in combinations to get Posadism, Adventure Time, one or more SCP stories, etc.
[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
[sci] [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.
[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
[S] popular-level science text
[S] popular-level history text
[S] popular-level historical materialism text -> haven't seen very many of these. it's my hope to make them more popular
[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
[S] popular-level dieconomics text -> basically doesn't exist until a workers' state is created
[S2] Discussions of global warming existed before 1970 / Writings about global warming existed before 1970 [7]
[PT] [F2] The US Clean Air Act wasn't meant to include carbon dioxide [8] -> 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.
[S] 1960s level of consumption -> trying to retrieve the general context I heard this thing recommended in
[PT] [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.
[S2] ordinary people don't care about democracy
[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.
[M] why do US people say "inside thoughts" in public -> there are multiple causes
[S2] privacy is the separation of individuals from society
[S2] private is a smaller scale than public
[S2] town squares are public spaces
[S2] social platforms are public spaces
[M] why are social platforms regarded like houses when they are public spaces?
[S2] social platforms are capitalists parcelling up the smallest scales of society
[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
[S] pacifist route of otherwise violent narrative
[S] violence route of otherwise peaceful narrative
CUT Tree + pacifist route = Sudowoodo
[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.
[M] What did Ralsei say to Kris?
[S2] Ralsei told Kris the Dark World is an Angel cage -> look closely at what Susie did right before Ralsei says this in the prison section. Susie attacks Lancer. given a particular situation she is forced to make Lancer the bad guy and fight him to the death. but if she is in the Dark World when this happens, nobody truly gets hurt even if she kills a Darkner. "so, that's why" we are opening Dark Fountains and fighting these seemingly meaningless antagonists: if we didn't do that, The Angel might take control of Kris and do that to the Light World. in this scenario Kris already knows about the ritual of keeping The Angel contained. they know The Angel's "special containment procedures".
[S2] Varik is Ness -> a silly theory created by young Toby Fox during Earthbound Halloween Hack. there is not a lot of difference between Ares and Ness despite their very different fantasy (?) and suburban sci-fi settings, leading to the funny theory that one could just have turned into the other at some point. they should be different individuals with different lives, but how would you even know they weren't interchangeable? this seems to have intentionally led to the concept of Frisk getting displaced by Chara, and unintentionally led to "Sans is Ness" when matpat almost correctly saw the pattern but just barely overshot in the wrong direction.
[S2] Varik is secretly afraid of monsters -> what seems to have led to the themes of prejudice in Undertale
[M] How is it that while being perceived as shallow video games are the most likely to make people study other countries? [9]
[Z] Brandish
[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 [10] 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.
[S] king of injustice / prince of darkness / lord of darkness / 魔王 (まおう) -> king of injustice + ??? = Vegeta
[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
[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.
[S2] Toby Fox made Undertale "parasocial" for a reason
[S2] Undertale is already fiction within fiction
[S2] CHARA does the same thing to The Underground that The Player does to Kris or Varik [11] -> very good catch. this is like noticing that Noelle is acting as "the angel" to the Dark World when she is ordered to clear it out; certain elements of Deltarune and maybe Undertale do reflect particular things the player could do to the world in things that the characters do to each other. note Noelle. also note Lancer being "forced to be the bad guy" in the Dark World's narrative when The Knight (Kris?) creates the Dark World. The Knight wields Kris to fight Lancer and Spade King, just like The Player or The Angel wields Kris to fight the fabled Knight, just like CHARA wields Asgore to fight humans. this view of parallels rather implies the view that Deltarune is one big box to trap the player so they can't actually hurt anybody — Kris made up The Knight so the player would chase after this fake enemy and the fake characters in the Dark Worlds but could never target the people of the Light World. that also has disturbing implications for where the weird route is going: maybe the player really can break out of the box and hurt someone in the Light World.
[S2] Deltarune is one big Angel cage
[S2] Dess isn't actually gone, she's hiding from The Angel -> if we accept that Deltarune is an Angel cage, then maybe the reason people don't talk about Dess is that they have to keep up the fake narrative she's missing so the player won't know what's actually happening and they can all buy time. by the time Dess actually reaches her goal, the player will feel bad for her instead of seeing her as a threat who set out to defeat and banish them, and might not fight back. alternatively, maybe something like this indeed happened but Dess failed halfway so now Kris has to do the same thing without ever letting the player catch on. it's a weird and funny coincidence that "December" sounds like a valid anti-Shadaloo agent name in the context of Street Fighter: June, July, December. someone who was once trapped, but now is secretly helping everyone else break out. is that intentional? I have absolutely no idea.
[F2] December Holiday changed her name to Noelle -> there's no way this could be true but I did find it a really funny idea after reading Wings of Fire.
[S2] Asgore, Toriel, and Asriel form a trinity around the values of Undertale / Asgore, Toriel, and Asriel represent comparing a player's connection to a game to a believer's connection to religion -> sounds really out there at first but becomes much more obvious when you've seen Deltarune with its mentions of The Angel. also brings up an interesting contradiction: Asgore is at first presented as some kind of king of demons, but turns out to be more like the god of one religion reviled by someone else's.
[S2] Asriel is the son of the Underground / Asriel is the son or avatar of the abstract Father of the Underground -> The Father would not literally be Asgore in this case even though Asgore has to be there to remind us of the concept of The Father versus The Son.
[S2] Each of the seven fallen humans represents an act of playing through Undertale -> kind of uncontroversial when totally figurative but becomes more important as a literal statement
[S2] CHARA reincarnated into the seven fallen humans -> not sure there is evidence for this but it's definitely an interesting idea
[S2] Undertale monsters exist through an act of stage magic -> the claim that the term "magic" refers to a special kind of illusionism which can apply to the creation of fictional works.
[S2] The crystals that guided monsters Home are a parallel to shadow crystals -> the argument here is that if monsters can use crystals to see, the crystals are bringing light to darkness, so they are doing something vaguely similar to the way Dark Worlds begin in darkness and generate their own kind of light.
[S2] Golden flowers represent the world outside a console RPG -> this can be used with "CHARA weaponized Asgore" to argue that Flowey metaphorically represents CHARA transforming the innocent people of the RPG world into cynical outside-world style people in a kind of death of what they were. I like that interpretation a lot more than the interpretation that Flowey is only what happens when people exhaust the possibilities in a game. it provides an actual explanation for why Asriel would have died before the player even did anything: Undertale has history whether the player is there or not, and a whole different player "played" (deceived) the Underground in a very negative sense to give the result that "god is dead and CHARA killed him". I also like the way this implies that a "touch grass" message isn't always productive because sometimes it's the real world that makes people terrible and letting them back into the material world to hurt people would actually be worse.
[S2] Sans was animated from a bone by an act of stage magic / Sans bleeds the blood of the other creature he came from -> a better theory than that Sans is Ness. real bones could contain bone marrow if they died recently, so, a bone leaking blood is only a little silly. the real question is, which reality did the bone come from?
[S2] Undertale is not actually making an "I believe that everybody" statement -> video creator remarks that Undertale's endings simply telling you to not do what CHARA did in weaponizing Asriel and Asgore seem shallow and like basically they have not properly done a historical-materialist analysis of either the player or CHARA — thus, it must actually be the case that there is something missing from the narrative of Undertale that correctly understands the notion of historical materialism. one of the single most Marxist things I have ever heard a probably non-Marxist Undertale theorizer say.
[S2] The Light World is an escape from something just as the Dark Worlds are / The Light World represents the idea that the real world is a social construct -> I like this one though I have no idea what the point of it would be to Toby Fox. it's similar to the idea of Adventure Time's different realities all springing out of imagination and ending with GOLB — because none of them are technically the most real one anyway, the pillow world isn't exactly fake, it's equally as real or unreal.
[S2] Ralsei's connection to The Angel parallels Asriel's connection to CHARA
[S2] "strategic essentialism is an anti-essentialist act" [12] -> 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.
[PT] [F2] Returning land doesn't work / Returning farms to Black South Africans Will Never Work -> a new one on me! reactionary tries to claim that there is an equation for what race of people should own farms. the most negative true thing you could say about returning land is that empire is arbitrary and reparations are arbitrary so it won't change much, but they specifically go 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. how much of economics is just a bunch of made-up bullshit to justify chunk competition after it's already been happening, when underneath people believe in maximal chunk competition and want an excuse to continue it?
[Z] German church tax -> an optional tax only for members of churches that actually collect it.
[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?
[ES] [Z] 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.
[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.
[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.
[Z] 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.
[Z] 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".
[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 [13] / 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 [14] -> 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.
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.
[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.
[ES] Q???? when The Subject simply is, it compels people to listen
[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] 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.
[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. [15] 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] whatsisname the unlikeable guy will stop the problem by stoking empathy / watch my taffy dance -> special case of intersubjectivity proposition. The Excessive Subject, "Come along with me"
[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.
[ML] [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.
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 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) [16]
[S2] Wackytown fallacy
[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.
[S2] The four elements lived in harmony until the fire nation attacked -> Avatar: The Last Airbender, Adventure Time, Pokémon, Wings of Fire
Adventure Time s9 e2
- "sit tight like a windowpane, and you'll be back to normal" -> 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
- link 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
why do narratives exist?
[ES] narratives exist to tell us about individuals
[Mdem] narratives exist to portray possible societies or situations
adventure vs daily life - in AT, weirdly. s8 e27
[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.
Adventure Time season 8 episode 24 "Hide and Seek"
- [S2] "It's your responsibility to help these misguided Hiders" -> 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.
[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.
[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)
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 cares is really silly, and yet, this complete walkability you see in MLP is nothing like what we experience in real life versus the nonsense images of horses in cubicles. (Adventure Time season 8, episode 18)
[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
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 mind~~fuck~~ 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".
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.
[ml] [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.
[S2] Group Subjects willing things is literally the way we deceive ourselves
series of events which is hypothetical inside fiction
advancement (virtual pets or characters) / progression (virtual pets) / evolution (Pokémon)
level-up evolution
Large Hadron Collider
IceCube neutrino detector -> I've mentioned both of these facilities about twice or three times in MDem drafts. time to add them.
[mdem] [S2] There is no such thing as Idealism -> nobody actually desires to believe in Idealism. people only believe in Idealisms because they happen to also be FreeWillIsms. all Idealisms are actually variations of Existentialism.
[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. [17] 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
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
D-class benjamin whatsisname [18]: 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. [19]
[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?
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) [20] -> 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.

Unsorted Lexemes

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 [21] [22] ~~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
economy / socioeconomy
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.
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

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Critical concepts and best-known countable philosophies

process of Being
sea of free-floating entities
countable entity
countable concept
countable object
spatially-unique object / unique object
spacetime-unique event / unique event
series of unique events / timeline of unique events
series of non-unique events / repeatable historical pattern
repeating process
material-history -> the series of physical events that defines what any particular object or population is; the topic historical materialism studies
set of all objects in material reality / Facticity (MDem)
countable graph of people / countable set of connected people / countable community
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"
countable philosophical framework / philosophy not considered an ideology
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
revolutionary event / event which creates new regime with new population structure
countable religion or spirituality
historical account -> subset of: non-fictional work
work -> subset of: countable object
non-fictional work -> subset of: work
fictional work -> subset of: work
mythical or legendary work -> subset of: work
religious text -> subset of: mythical or legendary work
sign / signifier-signified pair
signifier
signified
signifier equation / sign containing signs
ontology / graph of associations / graph made of signifier equations
ontological model / model of concept or process
[S0] falsifiable model
[S0] unfalsifiable model
[S0] conspiracy theory / model unsubstantiated by all current knowledge / model proposing hidden individual or group agents with bad motivations
[S0] religious cosmology
[S0] philosophical metaphysics model
[S0] fictional factical system / fictional world or setting rules construct / fictional physics model / video game physics equation
[S0] non-fictional physics model
[S0] falsified or unsubstantiated physics model
[S0] current physics model
[S0] ideological nested-graph model / metaphysical society model (Existentialism) / Particle Theory (MDem) / Bauplan (MDem) / Philosophical System (MDem)
[S0] nihilism
early existentialism / existentialism / existence-philosophy / Existenzphilosophie / existentialist tradition
[S0] absurdism
[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
[S0] logical proof / proof in mathematics / formal logic argument
[S0] philosophical argument or thought experiment
[S0] religious apologetic -> subset of: philosophical argument or thought experiment
[S0] anecdotal argument / argument from Lived Experience
[S0] observation / original research statement with associated nickel Item or link
[S0] philosophy or science term
[S0] literary motif
historical time period
historical civilization / unique feudal order / unique dynasty / unique empire / unique republican period
unique named relationship / Group Subject (MDem) / relationship / connection / pairing
graph theory
game theory
[S0] social sciences
population science
mathematics
[S0] field of science
[S0] life sciences / ecology / biology
natural sciences
physics
astrophysics / physical cosmology
quantum physics / quantum mechanics research
general relativity
special relativity -> subset of: general relativity
string theory -> unsubstantiated but awfully neat at the time
quantum field theory -> substantiated
[S0] analytic philosophy
[S0] field of study diagramming signs and signifiers
[S0] phenomenology / Husserl's phenomenology (Existentialism)
[S0] Existentialist-Structuralist tradition -> note, early-existentialism is already Q42
[S0] structuralism
[S0] poststructuralism
[S0] Freudian psychoanalysis / Lacanian psychoanalysis
[S0] schizoanalysis
[S0] alterity theories / postcolonial theories
[S0] post-Marxism
[S0] continental philosophy
[S0] Materialism
[S0] mechanical Materialism / mechanical philosophy
[S0] dialectical materialism / diamat
[S0] historical materialism / histmat
[S0] Marxism believing itself to be uncountable / generic Marxism
[S0] existential materialism / exmat
[S0] Idealism
[S0] named nationalism / named fascism / named Identitarianism / nationalism distinguished into cultural category / uniquely Spanish nationalism / uniquely Japanese nationalism / uniquely United-States nationalism
[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
[S0] named Marxism / Marxism differentiated for country conditions / Marxist sect -> save the concept of named Trotskyisms for the 4000s range
[S0] named republicanism which is not Marxism / named Liberalism -> Alexander Hamilton & Thomas Jefferson are examples
meta-Marxism
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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.
data Entity / Wikibase Entity
meta-philosophy (field)
meta-ontology
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
printed source / text archived online
audiovisual source
interactive source
non-interactive recording of interactive source
commentary on interactive source
false interactive source -> Petscop, 3D workers' island, Homestuck
book / book which exists in print form -> book - conveyed through construction having parts - volume
book compilation
book in book compilation
multi-volume book / multi-volume reference text
course textbook / college textbook / grade school textbook
book chapter / article compiled in book
foreword, preface, or introduction
article / short story
article serialized in magazine or newspaper
article serialized in theoretical journal
article serialized on blog or substack
article serialized in online archive
article on miscellaneous personal homepage
article serialized in unknown printed source
article or chapter in book compilation
article, poem, or story compiled in anthology
transcribed speech
transcribed interview
court transcript
bop entry
bop scrap
bop revision entry
unfinished book chapter serialized as bop scrap
book chapter serialized as bop scrap
nameless publisher / independently published
general publishing entity
publishing organization / propaganda group
academic or theoretical journal
online book or article archive / not magazine or journal
master's thesis
non-serialized comic / graphic novel
serialized comic
multimedia serialized comic
animated series / anime / cartoon
song with lyrics
poem
computer or console game
short story
novel
novel in multi-volume series
novel in multi-volume series adapted into comic / Scholastic graphic novel
online video
YouTube video
PeerTube video
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
citation in local Item / work described in Item -> source - conveyed through model having parts - local Item
citation in qualifiers / work described in qualifiers -> source - conveyed through model having parts - set of qualifiers
citation in external Item / citation in external wikibase / work described at external data item / work described in wikidata Item
citation in external wiki / work described or anchored in external wiki article
citation buried in other work / work unknown or unconfirmed but referenced in work -> source - conveyed through model having parts - citation
video described in qualifiers -> online video - conveyed through model having parts - work described in qualifiers
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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.
serialization unit or unit of work construction / unit of series construction
serialized part -> numbered part which is syndicated or expected to release periodically
non-serialized part -> discrete part which may be released in an all-at-once or timeless manner
volume -> physical printed book, or book-sized division
chapter (serialized part)
episode -> serialized part
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text / written work ->
chapter (non-serialized part)
part (book division)
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wiki page -> non-serialized part; text not in the form of volume
MediaWiki category -> non-serialized part which clusters wiki pages
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software package
UNIX-style package / UNIX-style program
Free Software package
nonfree software package
Debian package
Arch package
Linux package / Linux program
Lisp module / asdf system / .asd system
emacs package
MediaWiki extension
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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
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[S0] alchemy / hermeticism / Historical study of chemical qualities and quality-based cosmology -> "Alchemy, the great secret"
[S0] alchemical symbol / alchemical motif
[S0] European alchemy / alchemical concepts in Christianity
[S0] Buddhist alchemy / alchemical concepts in Buddhism
consistent repetition or replicability -> component of predictability, used to define "repeating process" and events that are easy to empirically verify
Marxist text
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
no real-world defined reality
hypothetical object
hypothetical interaction / hypothetical process
hypothetical series of events
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fictional reality / fictional universe / fictional cosmos
fictional object / non-unique fictional object
unique fictional object -> do not make Items for every single kind of fictional object, just also tag it as the real thing
fictional process / non-unique fictional process / fictional physics process
unique fictional event / unique fictional process
fictional historical event / canonical event / confirmed theory
unconfirmed fictional process / unconfirmed fan theory
unconfirmed fictional event / unconfirmed fan theory
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fictional population
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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.
audience as relative to fictional world
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misinformation or disinformation
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'pataphysics
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.
transfer of packet between objects / transfer of free-floating packet from one free-floating object to another
physical interaction -> critical concept for relativity, and Heidegger's book, because it is arguably the sheer definition of physics existing
particle physics
fundamental particle / fundamental force quantum / fundamental force packet
fundamental particle interaction / Feynman diagram reaction
hadron / composite subatomic particle -> nucleons, mesons
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
[S0] fundamental force -> strong interaction, weak, electromagnetism, gravity
quantum (amount) / quanta
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[S] quantized gravity (hypothetical theory) / quantum gravity model / theory of quantum gravity
[S0] paraparticle -> [23]
[S0] boson physics
boson
boson field
double-slit experiment
gauge boson
scalar boson
higgs boson
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[S0] graviton (hypothetical particle)
[S0] fermion physics
fermion
fermion field
exclusion principle
quark -> color charge
lepton -> no color charge
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[S0] dark matter problem
[S2] supersymmetry / SuSy -> unsubstantiated; doesn't have a lot of evidence as of yet
[S] neutralino -> unsubstantiated; a supersymmetry solution
[S2] weakly-interacting massive particle (WIMP) / WIMP (hypothetical particle) -> looks unsubstantiated, but not totally falsified
[S] axion (hypothetical particle) -> currently being researched
[S2] Matter-antimatter annihilation converts dark matter to matter
[S2] Dark matter particles interact with visible matter through Higgs bosons / Higgs portal hypothesis
[S2] technicolor Higgs model
[S2] Gravity interactions are just one big coincidence / postquantum gravity -> [24]
[S] dark matter / unknown solution to dark matter problem -> [25]
[S0] quantum field
photon field
gluon field / strong field / quantum chromodynamics field
W & Z boson field / weak field / flavor swap field / stellar fusion field
Higgs field -> scalar field not transformed by relativity
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[S] theta field / axion field
physical field
scalar field
vector field
spinor field
tensor field
classical field
electric field -> vector field
magnetic field -> vector field
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gravitational field (classical physics) / gravity field (classical physics)
radian (unit)
degree (unit)
[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
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[S2] Spacetime can be broken down into a probabilistic process / To find quantum gravity, create a probabilistic version of general relativity [26] -> 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)
[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 [27] [28]
[S] time travel
[S] world line / correlation shown on Penrose diagram
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.
[S] time paradox
original timeline
desirable future
undesirable future
future as mathematical superposition
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[S] The Hat Man
[S] Was this made on drugs?? / How could anybody have made this sober / I want what they were smoking
[S] Actual drug trip artwork / Ambien post
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player score point
team score point
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game rules manual / card game rules sheet / board game rules sheet -> to be used for reference statements, or entries preserving official rules sheet links
board game piece / board game card / board game token / card game token / unspecified game card / unspecified game piece
playing card / unspecified game card
playing card deck -> has three uses. explaining card game mechanics; references; explaining Deltarune / Homestuck
trump deck / poker deck
pinochle deck
tarot deck
mahjong set / mahjong deck
creature deck / medieval kingdom deck / Arcmage-style deck / Magic-style deck
named trading-card-game deck / named deck
trading-card-game set
chess piece
pawn (chess piece)
knight (chess piece)
bishop (chess piece)
rook (chess piece)
queen (chess piece)
king (chess piece)
promoted pawn (chess piece)
checker (board game piece)
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
draw deck -> board field, either central or player-specific
card suit -> the concept of something that goes in a card suit
object-based card suit / playing card suit / season-based card suit / plant or animal card suit
elemental card suit / card color
numbered card
face card
resource card / Resident card (Aurora) / mana card / land card / energy card
character card which may act as figurehead / character card / creature card / monster card / Theorist card (Aurora)
event card / Action card (Aurora) / instant event card
continuing event card / Condition card (Aurora) / enchantment card
card area / board field -> in general
main draw deck / deck / central draw deck / market deck (Tea Dragon Society) -> board field
player draw deck / deck / library / character deck -> board field
hand / player hand / hand cards / hold (Tea Dragon Society) -> board field
character area / creature area / Army (Arcmage) / Member Zone (Aurora) -> implied to be player-specific but not stated to be
condition area / permanents area / Condition Zone (Aurora) / terrain area / supporter area -> could be plural
figurehead area / commander area / Guide Space (Aurora) / main character area
removed from the game / exile zone -> board field
prize card area -> central or player, either can exist
discard pile / graveyard / GY / Devastation Zone (Aurora) -> implied to be player-specific
in-play card area -> superset of: character area, etc
stack of connected cards -> solitaire, Member Zone masses/groups (Aurora)
modifiable card
modifier card / equipment card / enchantment card / power-up card / card eaten by character card -> refers to visually representing cards more than to effects
face-up card
face-down card
generated card / token card
modifying token / modifying counter / damage counter / power-up counter / status effect counter
free-floating token / board game token -> miscellaneous token placed on some space on table for status purposes
transient card / effect card which does not enter play
card field / card stat / card metric / card attribute -> superset of: object suit, suit color, number
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
card suit / card element / card color
card name / card title
card cost
card worth / point value / victory points
card power / offensive power
card endurance / defensive power / stamina / hit points if same as defensive strength
card resource value / energy value / mana value / growth value (Tea Dragon Society)
card rules / card basic effects
card flavor text -> the concept of flavor text. put especially memorable flavor text in "relevant quote"
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
card with draw effect
card with discard effect
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
card with in-discard-pile effect / card with in-graveyard effect
card with in-draw-deck effect -> never heard of this one but maybe it exists, who knows
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
single-use game piece / single-use card / card which is discarded after effect
card with unique rules -> superset of: card with draw effect, etc.; card which is not neatly described by set theory statements
twenty-sided die
face-up card area / card area with cards face-up
face-down card area / card area with cards face-down
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
card area with cards laid out horizontally / card area with cards separated
card area with cards laid out vertically -> superset of/instance of/consists of?: bound stack of cards
bound stack of cards / stack of cards which is deck-shaped -> as opposed to informal card stacks in solitaire, equipment stacks, etc.
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resource card area -> doesn't necessarily exist in game rules but likely to exist on svg images
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False / FALSE / F -> formal logic or boolean value
True / TRUE / T -> formal logic or boolean value
communication rating level / work rating code
U / Unknown -> highly implies "probably not false" but doesn't state it
NG / Not Good
G / Good
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N/A / Not Applicable
E / Excepted
zero or more
one or more
exactly 52 / deck of 52 -> subset of: order of magnitude
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many
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[S] fictional incident, tragedy, or crime / un-true crime
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absence -> the lack of something that would otherwise be there, usually physically, sometimes within a logical framework
inanimate object / countable inanimate object
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
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[S] dystopian alien nation
[S] Beast (AllDir simulation) / Beast (mathematics) / Beast field atop natural resource field -> vector representation of an individual animal; see scrap MDem 4.4/"starclan"
[S] (AllDir structure?)
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placeholder -> the concept of placeholders
[S] (AllDir structure?)
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[S0] formal logic operator / logical operator / logic gate
[S] NOT (logical operator) / NOT (logic gate)
[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
[S] converse (logical operator) / ← / P ← Q -> not always equal to IMPLY operation
[S] NAND (logical operator) / NAND (logic gate) -> absolutely everything except an overlap
[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.
[S] OR (logical operator) / OR (logic gate)
[S] AND (logical operator) / AND (logic gate)
[S] XOR (logical operator) / XOR (logic gate)
[S] NOR (logical operator) / NOR (logic gate)
set theory
set (set theory) -> collection of elements modeled by mathematical structures; mathematical structure
empty set (set theory) / ∅ / {} / void set / size-zero set -> my nemesis ever since Rothenberg bizarrely abused it to explain The Subject
non-empty set (set theory)
multiset (set theory) -> set that behaves like a programming language array, with non-unique members allowed
subset -> set contained in another set; empty set is a subset of most non-empty sets
union (set operation) / OR (set operation) -> combination of two sets; empty set causes no change
intersection (set operation) / AND (set operation) -> overlap of two sets only; use the empty set, get the empty set
symmetric difference (set operation) / ∆ / A ∆ B / XOR (set operation)
absolute complement (set operation) / NOR (set operation)
set theory axiom
set property / set characteristic / set indicator function result
[S2] Sets are equal if they contain the same members / axiom of extensionality (ZFC set theory)
[S2] No set can be a member of itself -> true in ZFC set theory, but not all set theories
[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)
[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
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
hyperset -> a set which definitionally contains itself in a bisimilarity relation
hyperset theory
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
non-well-formed set theory
anti-foundation axiom (set theory)
[S2] Sets are actually just directed graphs containing the same arrows (AFA) / Aczel's anti-foundation axiom (AFA)
[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)
[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
[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
atom (set theory) / set element that cannot have set-structured members / https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urelement urelement]
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
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
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
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two indistinguishable iron spheres called Castor and Pollux -> I love when mathematicians actually think of entertaining thought experiments
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
graph-to-set mapping / exact picture of set -> a concept that comes up quite a bit in defining non-well-founded set theories
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graph node
disjoint union -> logical combination of internally unconnected graphs/sets. seems like I might have to use it to describe populations some day
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
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graph (graph theory) -> a collection of nodes and node pairs, typically visualized as a path
undirected graph (graph theory)
directed graph (graph theory) / 𝒢 (variable)
cyclic graph (graph theory)
acyclic graph (graph theory)
tree (graph theory) / tree graph -> acyclic graph, one path between any two nodes, every vertex a particular point in space on a map essentially
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
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
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[S0] metamathematics -> this is it. if Marxist economics is mathematics, this is almost exactly what meta-Marxist economics is
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[S] casual steganography for fun -> how Spore creatures are stored in an image [29]

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Historical events, texts, etc.

[S] MAI reading list / Anti-Imperialist Movement Marxist-Leninist reading list
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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
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jamming proposition or question / jamming antithesis
jamming proposition -> seems to be a major component of 'pataphysics, but also of meta-Marxism
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.
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[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
[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
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[S] plateau (philosophy) / plateau (schizoanalysis) / thing claimed to have no beginning or end / spatially-unique object which does not remain unique
formatting device -> any kind of device which styles, tags, or structures text. Unicode encoding might count as a formatting device
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
basic bop formatting - ad-hoc markup language
Markdown - markup language
HTML - markup language
prototype -> an early version of anything made for testing. not related to markup languages.
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
CSS classname -> instance of: formatting device
Item usable as Hue list classname
unique language
English (en)
French (fr)
German (de)
Spanish (es)
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Russian (ru)
Korean (ko)
Japanese (ja)
Chinese metalanguage (zho)
Mandarin Chinese (cmn)
Cantonese (yue)
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North Korean dialect
South Korean dialect
Chinese character (hani)
Traditional Chinese (hant)
Simplified Chinese (hans)
uncommon, constructed, or system-internal language / language possibly coded as mis
simple English (en-simple) -> 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
toki pona (tok) -> implied to be either sitelen pona or sitelen Lasina
toki pona, sitelen Lasina (tok-Latn)
toki pona, sitelen pilin / sitelen emoji (tok-pilin)
toki pona, sitelen jelo (tok-jelo)
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taxonomic names dictionary (la-sci) - [30] [31]
work citations dictionary (qww)
Wikimedia message ID (qqx) - [32]
(reserved for languages)
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fantasy work
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speculative fiction
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utopian fiction
dystopian fiction
anticommunist fable / anticommunist parable / "dystopian fiction" created to attack a progressive theory
socialist realism
meta-transitional realism / meta-transitional fantasy -> like socialist realism or science fiction, but for meta-Marxism
afterlife fiction / Bangsian fiction
horror work
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. [33] I am becoming slowly convinced that the use or implication of this story genre this is a major reason Pokémon appeals to people.
hero's journey narrative
superhero story / superhero narrative
fictional history
evil empire narrative -> distinguishable from hero's journey narrative because it explicitly involves populations. may simultaneously be an anti-imperialist fable, or might not.
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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
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.
cue ball
pool ball
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eight ball
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order of magnitude / scale of particular numerical base / power of ten / power of two / multiple of one
multiple of number -> subset of: order of magnitude
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
[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.
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[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
[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.
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[S] Good Place / good afterlife
[S] Bad Place / bad afterlife
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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
action against society by countable group of people / incorrect action by countable group of people -> used in defining what protests are about
street protest
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[S2] Populations must be studied relative to their own traditions / cultural relativism proposition
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subculture -> refers to any subculture, although QID references internet subcultures.
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structural racism -> material phenomenon as described by real-world evidence, and not whatever papers and books say, should that somehow be a problem
redlining
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[S] socioempire / towns are empire / jobs are empire / families are empire / gentrification results from small-scale empire -> see also "chunk competition across the spatial slot hierarchy"
[S] critical race theory / CRT
[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
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[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
[S] drug legalization
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[S] historical fascisms / nationalist regimes recognized as fascisms by historians -> a somewhat deceptive term explicitly excluding the British imperialist framework but including falangism
Axis powers of World War II -> Nazism, Italian fascism, and Japanese global empire
Nazi germany / Nazism
Fascist Italy / Italian fascism
Falangist Spain / falangism / Francoism
Imperial Japan / Japanese global empire
British Empire / British imperialist framework (hypothetical)
United States global empire / United States imperialist framework (hypothetical)
[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"
[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
[S] Duginism
European New Right
[S] claimed characteristic of fascism / claimed warning sign of fascism
[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
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The Prince (Machiavelli 1532)
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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
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Guy Fawkes
Gunpowder plot of 1605
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[S] revisionist history (field) -> to be used for actual instances of updating the facts and making them more accurate
[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
[S] inclusive history -> subset of: revisionist history (field)
[S] 1619 Project (2019) -> attempted education project by inclusive-historians
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
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The German Ideology part 1A: Idealism and Materialism
The German Ideology part 1B: The Illusion of the Epoch
The German Ideology part 1C: The Real Basis of Ideology
The German Ideology part 1D: Proletarians and Communism
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United States constitutional amendment
Amendment 1
Amendment 2
Amendment 3
Amendment 4
Amendment 5
Amendment 6
Amendment 7
Amendment 8
Amendment 9
Amendment 10
Amendment 11
Amendment 12
[S2] United States people will not own slaves (Amendment 13)
Amendment 14
Amendment 15
Amendment 16
Amendment 17
Amendment 19
Amendment 22
Amendment 23
Amendment 24
Amendment 25
Amendment 26
Amendment 27
[S] taxation without representation
United States constitution
United States independence movement (1776) / American revolution
Amendment 18
Amendment 21
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French Revolution (1789-1790)
[S] democracy (center-/right-Liberalism) / democracy as defined in center-/right-Liberal republicanism
[S] metric system / International System of Units (SI) / Système international d'unités (SI)
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
Thomas Paine treason trial (1792) -> there's something to be said about this in relation to the Moscow Trials. I'm not sure what.
French First Republic -> very notable given there was a second one
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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
Napoleonic empire -> French civilization under Napoleon's dictatorship
[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
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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
Hundred Days -> Napoleon comes back from exile to rule Europe again; every European country goes to great effort to stop him
Bourbon Restoration -> restored French monarchy which remained until 1830
Sixth Coalition -> Great Britain, Austria, Prussia, Sweden, and Russia, united to defeat Napoleon at the Battle of Leipzig
Seventh Coalition -> Sixth Coalition plus Switzerland and the Bourbon Restoration; each alliance contained many smaller territories too
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Indian Removal Act of 1830
Trail of Tears (1830-1850)
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[M] What is the relationship of Jewish people to German citizens? / Jewish national question / Jewish question (not Nazism)
On The Jewish Question (Marx 1844)
The German Ideology (Marx 1846/1932)
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Communist manifesto / Manifesto of the Communist Party (1848)
[S] United States westward expansion
[S] "Go west, young man"
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Confederate States of America (1861-1865) / Confederacy / The South
United States Civil War (1861-1865)
Jefferson Davis (Confederate president 1861–1865)
Emancipation Proclamation of 1863
Reconstruction (1863-1877)
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Capital volume I (Marx 1863/1867)
Capital volume II (Marx 1863/1893)
Capital volume III (Marx 1863/1894)
Capital volume IV (Marx 1863/1963)
Theories of surplus value -> sometimes separated from Capital vol IV, sometimes grouped into it
(further divisions of volume IV?)
(further divisions of volume IV?)
International System of Units (SI)
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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
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Caesar Antichrist (Jarry 1895)
Exploits and Opinions of Dr. Faustroll, Pataphysician (Jarry c.1911)
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Course in General Linguistics (Saussure 1911/1959) -> approximate benchmark for finding the birth of "general-sense" structuralist philosophy within the literal descriptivist study of linguistic structuralism. despite all the bad things to be said 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.
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Russian Revolution
German revolution of 1918
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The State and Revolution (Lenin 1918/1920)
Terrorism and Communism (Trotsky 1920)
The trade unions, the present situation, and Trotsky's mistakes (Lenin 1920)
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Being and Time (Heidegger 1927)
Terrorism and Communism chapter 8 [TC8]
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ministry rearrangements in the USSR -> makes timelines of ministries comically unreadable, but makes a lot of sense when viewed as graph theory
[S] forced population rearrangements in the USSR -> complicated. some of this was moving isolated farmers into collective farms & social structures; some overlapped with deportations
deportations of nationalities in the USSR -> mainly I think of the Chechen & Ingush incident
The Revolution Betrayed (Trotsky 1936)
Moscow trials
My visit described for my friends (Feuchtwanger 1937)
testimony of Bukharin
death of Trotsky
World War II
founding of North Korea
founding of People's Republic of China
founding of East Germany (1949)
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
Common Lisp
Joint World Congress to reunify the Fourth International (1962)
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865)
Through the Looking-Glass (1871)
Settlers / Settlers: The Mythology of the White Proletariat / Read Settlers (slogan) [34] -> 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.
Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism And Schizophrenia
A Thousand Plateaus (Anti-Oedipus vol. 2)
German reunification (1989)
Losing Earth: A Recent History (Rich 2019) -> a recap of climate change investigations and debates. narrative-style and memoir-like, very readable
The Excessive Subject: A new theory of social change (2010)
The End of History and the Last Man (Fukuyama 1992)
Childhood's End (Clarke 1953)
Animal Farm (Orwell 1945)
1984 (Orwell 1949)
Anthem
[S] The Giver quartet
The Giver (Lowry 1993)
Gathering Blue (Lowry 2000)
Messenger (Lowry 2004)
Son (Lowry 2012)
dissolution of the Soviet Union -> as series of real concrete events
Molecular Marxism / Marxist Molecular Democracy (MDem)
GNU/Linux operating system
[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
[S] virtual pet / virtual pet keychain / virtual pet game
Tapers
Petscop
3D workers' island
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Item with primarily literal associations / Item with literal meaning -> Z items, and S items used as part of fictional facticities
Framework believes model to be incoherent or wrong
Probably no serious symbolism
The Subject (exmat)
social graph connection (non-unique)
connection weight (society models)
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)
material graph struggle / chunk competition (MDem) -> individuals or Social Systems (SGS) competing to secure a specifically physical territory
mutually-exclusive filament-based construction / Filamentism (MDem) -> stochastic construction of a larger society through many small localized graph struggles
violent material graph struggle / violent chunk competition (MDem) -> graph struggle at the expense of human life.
expulsion from social graph / social rejection (mathematical)
class territory
class territory owner
class territory resident
The Communist Necessity (Moufawad-Paul 2014/2020)
feudal order
duke
marquess
earl
count
baron
manor lord
Existential Physics
duchy
march (feudal territory)
earldom
county (feudal territory)
petty nobility
feudal manor
principality / princedom
kingdom
emirate
caliphate
shogunate / bakufu
empire
global empire
imperial colony
site of proxy war / buffer state
republic
supranational federation
business territory
state business
state business ministry
party-nation
workers' state / countable instance of Marxism
countable Marxist movement / countable instance of Marxism
Communist International
plural Communist Internationals
rival proletarian revolution
class subpopulation
nationality subpopulation
demographic subpopulation
ethnic subpopulation / Black community (Existentialism) / Latino community (Existentialism)
religious subpopulation
historical heritage subpopulation / cultural Christian subpopulation / secular-Jewish subpopulation
LGBT+ subpopulation / LGBT+ community (Existentialism)
disability subpopulation
neurodivergent subpopulation / autistic subpopulation
city or town subpopulation
industry subpopulation / Artist subpopulation / musician subpopulation / grocery clerk subpopulation
capitalist ally subpopulation
proletarian ally subpopulation
capable subpopulation / capable layer
[S] class (spatial rank) / middle class / rich and poor -> spatial slot hierarchy; money is capital
[S] class (repeated relationship) / Individuals are comparable because they belong to a class
[S] class (subpopulation) / Classes become powerful through capable subpopulations
[S] unskilled worker
[S] skilled worker
[S] Artisan type
[S] Artisan layer
[S] Careerist / social mobility (center-Liberalism)
[S] Careerist layer / Careerist class
[S] Refuse class / refusariat (outdated term)
[S] labor aristocracy (Maoism)
Liberal representatives / Liberal legislators
Liberal government employees
charity employees
[S] Bureaucrats constitute a class / professional-managerial class / The Bureaucracy
ruling population
leaping State
[S] shepherd ruling population / shepherd sheet
[S] herd-of-cats effect
[S] birdcage model / economy separable from republic
[S] not a matter of black and white cats
[S] worker / group of people said to qualify as "workers"
proletariat / class of workers / working class / group of people who practically functions as capable subpopulation
[S2] Proletariat includes unemployed
[S2] Proletariat consists of unskilled workers
[S2] Proletariat includes skilled and unskilled workers but not unemployed
[S2] Proletariat excludes First-World workers
[S2] Proletariat excludes Second-World workers -> Trotskyism
[S2] Proletariat is singular and multiple countries can unite at once -> Trotskyism, some anarchisms
[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
[S2] Proletariats are plural and belong to specific national populations -> Juche-socialism, Maoism
[S2] First-World workers will form capable subpopulation -> Trotskyism, Marcuseanism
[S2] Second-World workers will form capable subpopulation / Second-World countries will become capable subpopulation -> Stalin Thought, MDem
[S2] Third-World workers will form capable subpopulation
[S2] Any educated people can form capable subpopulation / Proletariat is immaterial to forming capable subpopulation -> Marcuseanism
[S2] Third-World countries will become capable subpopulation / First World defined strictly by neocolonialism / First World defined strictly by global structural racism
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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.
[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
[S2] Different societies contain the same repeated patterns / societies contain repeated patterns in the manner of quantum fields
[S2] Societies have developmental processes from one set of repeated patterns to another
[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
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[S] socialism in one country
[S] socialist transition
[S] era of socialism / lower-phase communism -> workers' state
[S] era of communism / upper-phase communism
[S] further transitions (Marx)
[S] creatorism (MDem)
[S] Particle Theory / Bauplan -> ideological nested-graph model
[S] Social-Graph System (SGS)
[S] Social-Behavioral System (SBS)
[S] Social-Philosophical System (SPS) / Particle Theory (MDem)
[S] Social-Philosophical-Material System (SPMS) / Bauplan (MDem)
[S] realization / construction of society form
[S] "the hand bone is connected to the arm bone" / "Dem Bones"
[S] receiving node
[S] granting node
[S2] Economic processes comprehensible through graph models / Economic processes will one day be comprehended through graph theory / Historical processes comprehensible through graph models
economic graph model
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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.
[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.
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[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.
[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.
[S] needlessly complicating Palestine -> see: Palestine is not complicated
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[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.
[S2] A monarchy spanning two continents is global empire -> not easy to dispute. an empire which is global in scope is global empire.
[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.
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[S2] A country killing populations that stand in its way is empire
[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.
[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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[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.
[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.
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[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".
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[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
[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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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.
animal home territory (ecology) -> relevant to describing real-world crow behavior, Warriors series, chunk phenomenon.
individual animal
[S2] If mathematics is purely arbitrary, Krillin can punch Chiaotzu for any answer
[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.
[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.
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[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.
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[S2] Goku cannot decide what Vegeta does / Goku cannot Freely Will what Vegeta does
[S] Vegeta effect / Shadow effect / Entei effect / dice effect
[S] Shenlong effect / Goku effect
[S] cat in superposition inside box / Schrödinger's cat
[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
[S] quantum dice / quantum coins / funny metaphors for wave functions
[S] quantum shoes / funny metaphors for entanglement
[S] box filled with overlapping lions / quantum Social-Philosophical Systems
[S] Starlight Glimmer paradox / Trunks paradox
[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
[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
[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
[S] Communist Bardock
[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
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[S] horizontal attack / Hatfield attack (MDem) / crime defined outside legal codes / local warfare / crime-war / war crime / stochastic terrorism / William Afton is real
[S] nonviolent horizontal attack / SLAPP suit / copyright takedown
[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
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[S2] Inventions are purposeless without a permanent caretaker or institution / Inventions cannot be valued by any society as a whole
[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
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[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"
[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?
[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.
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[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.
[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.
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[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
[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.
[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
[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
[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.
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[S2] Culture exists as the relationships between individuals / The real uncountable culture was the friends we made along the way
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[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
[M] How can Stalin and Trotsky coexist in the same reality?
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[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".
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[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.
[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
[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
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[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.
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[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
[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 ~~piss~~ing 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.
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[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.
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[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.
[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.
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[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.
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[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.
[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

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[S] S0 Concept / S0 Item / mathematical structure Item / abstract category Item / Item for highly generic motifs -> general category of all S0 Concepts
[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
[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
[S] Item for wiki-internal categorizations / internal-category Item
[S] lion of Trotskyism -> L940 Leo as Trotskyist name
[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.
[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
[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
[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"
[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
[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"
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[S] F2 Statement / Signifier Item stating claim about first-level Signifiers which appears to be false
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folklore trope
fictional trope
[S] slogan or motif promoting Bolshevism / slogan or motif promoting mainstream Marxism-Leninism, hypothetical Trotskyist workers' state, Third World Marxist party-nation, etc.
[S] slogan or motif promoting non-proletarian Marxism / slogan or motif promoting Gramscianism/Althusserianism, etc.
[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
[S] Z0 Concept / physical structure Item / natural structure Item / real-world physics model
[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
[S] Z2 Statement / Z2 Item / basic Item stating claim about elementary basic Items which appears to be substantiated / physics model / physics theory / physical equation
[S] M0 Meta-level Question
[S] M1 Mid-Positioned Trace / M1 Superpositional Object
[S] M2 Mid-Positioned Relation
[S] M3 Meta-Stating Question
[S] The Real -> Lacanianism
[S] The Symbolic -> Lacanianism
[S] The Imaginary -> Lacanianism
[S] floating signifier
[S] concept spaghetti / spaghetti
[S] poetic signifier equation / the snark was a boojum you see / selagadoola means menchickaboola roo
[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
[S] emergence / ergodicity of free-floating entities
[S] moving like a room of helium atoms
[S] missing the forest for the trees / ignoring ergodicity / ignoring emergence
[S] God is dead
[S] existence philosophy (motif)
[S] nihilism (motif)
[S] Absurd (motif)
[S] theism / theists
[S] nonbelievers / atheists / atheism
[S] Atheism is something different from nonbelief
[S] Agnosticism is something different from nonbelief
[S] Truth specifically excludes physics / Truth (religion) / Māyā (Hinduism)
[S] invisible dragon in garage
[S] "if God exists in one of all possible worlds..."
[S] if Trunks exists in one of all possible worlds... / Trunks is invincible
[S] cognitohazard / infohazard
[S] secret room of forbidden books / decisions made in elder council / figurative priests -> The Giver, Girl from other side
[S] cultural Christian / secular Jew
[S] cultural Tory -> a term I said in irony but am terrified could be real
[S] Bolshevik identity politics / culturally-defined Communist
[S] Socialism (Toryism) / socialicism / Socialism imperializing partisan politics
[S] not coming from specific ideology equals biased
[S] mainstream media (Toryism)
[S] cultural Marxism (Toryism) -> Western Marxism, Marcuse, Gramscianism
[S] hegemony politics
[S] musical chairs attack (MDem) / cancellation (Toryism) -> expulsion from social graph
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[S] science imperializing philosophy / scientism / scienticist / rationalism (Existentialism)
[S] squashing The Subject
[S] squashing Difference
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[S] replacing Shadow with Sonic / replacing Tails with Sonic
[S] complete apathy -> depression symptom, interpretation of aliens - Dragon Ball
[S] Can't turn off my mind reading / thought broadcasting -> schizophrenia symptom, interpretation of mind reading - Wings of Fire
[S] Protestant or Catholic atheist
[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.
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[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
[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. [35] 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
[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.
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"I believe that everybody" statement -> a more specific category of statements than it might sound; this doesn't necessarily 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.
[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
[S] Communists as subset of Utopian Socialism
[S] Communists as religious prophets
[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
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[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"
[S] progressives as stupid idiot garbage trash / gender studies professors as stupid idiot garbage trash -> Toryism; see Dinesh D'Souza's awful book
[S] non-Liberals as stupid idiot garbage trash
[S] Communists as stupid idiot garbage trash / Communist allies as — -> see: Starlight Glimmer, "dumbacabra" (Aster/Aubepine)
[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 —"
[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.
[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
[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
[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
[S] homeless people as stupid idiot garbage trash
[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.
[S] art students as stupid idiot garbage trash
[S] specific scientific field as stupid idiot garbage trash / string theorists as stupid idiot garbage trash
[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.
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[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.
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[S] random event generator -> "Fetch" / FNaF brought this up?
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[S] Subject-style being / virtual-pet-style being
[S] excessive subject
[S] excessive raincloud
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[S2] The unpredictability of Subjects will save the world -> I only caught this one after three or more times of listening to a Deltarune analysis. 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.
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[S] that (minus a buck fifty) / the zero dollars that doesn't get the coffee
[S] 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.
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[S] phoenix
[S] Parandrus / Tarandrus / bestiary reindeer
[S] panthera (mythical beast)
[S] griffin / gryphon
[S] winged horse / pegasus
[S] European dragon / "draco" dragon
[S] unicorn / monoceros (unicorn)
[S] chimera
[S] hydra
[S] filtration / filtering -> produces movement with Bauplan
[S] filtration sifts out party-nation / unions and party are different / complicated system of pulleys (Lenin) -> retrieve Lenin text
[S] filtration and party-nation are same thing -> The Communist Necessity
[S] filtration requires Subjectivity -> Marcuse
[S] filtration through morality-shaming -> Gramscianism, Existentialism, center-Liberalism
[S] filtration through national essentialism -> Toryism
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[S] fictional race
[S] humanoid being / humanoid race
[S] beast humanoid / furry
[S] intelligent beast / civilized beast
[S] intelligent monster / intelligent kaiju / civilized monster
[S] intelligent construct
[S] fictional being for which physics is suspended
[S] toon-style being / rubberhose cartoon style being / Acme cartoon style being
[S] toon animal -> intelligent beast - in the capacity of - toon-style being
[S] mythical being / paranormal being / supernatural being / magical being
[S] tokusatsu-style being / 1960s live-action style being
[S] LCD-keychain-style being -> see: Digimon, Tamagotchi
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[S] animal intended as realistic animal / intelligent animal in nature / intelligent Eukaryote in nature / intelligent organism in nature
[S] imaginary organism in nature / unrealistic organism in nature / flatlanders in nature / kaiju in nature / unicorns in nature
[S] animal tribal population / animal tribe
[S] animals in warring states period / animal feudalism
[S] animals in feudal order / animal feudalism
[S] animal monarchy
[S] animal empire
[S] animal republic
[S] animal city or town
animal rank (ecology)
[S] animal spatial rank (speculative fiction) -> see: Saiyans, Icewing leaderboard
[S] seasons as impending doom / winter is coming -> see: Animal Farm
[S] seasons as warring states / seasons as kingdoms
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[S] planetary nation / planetary population
[S] planetary civilization / planetary civilizational formation / planetary tribe
[S] planetary kingdom
[S] planetary empire
[S] planetary imperial colony / planetary Third-World civilization / planetary exploited tribal population
[S] planetary army
[S] planetary police
[S] galaxy or universe police
[S] cosmic police
[S] galactic Communist International
[S] Communist International of universes or timelines
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[S] chunk competition / all-directional contradiction between individuals
[S] spatial slot hierarchy
[S] chunk competition across the spatial slot hierarchy
[S] Filament / tiny local subpopulation / nameless tiny subpopulation
[S] Filamentism
[S] networkism
[S] Blobonomics
[S] Meshonomics
[S] Market Society
[S] behavior-control device / behavior-control machine -> business territory, Blobonomics
[S] Blobonomist / society predictor
[S] Everybodyism / nameless prejudice against all other individuals
[S] Populationism / nameless prejudice against all other populations
[S] town ain't big enough for the two of us
[S] town more than big enough for the two of us
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[S] arborescent society / arborescence (schizoanalysis) -> I have no idea what this even means. we're going to find out
[S] rhizome (schizoanalysis)
[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
[S] rhizome sign regime / rules by which rhizome contains uncountable(?) Philosophical System -> sounds impossible in real life but definitely very interesting
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[S] assertion something is an anarchism -> seems a little random, but is oddly useful for defining silly fan theories like "Snufkin is an anarchist" (one I have heard. apparently anarchists do not seriously believe this is true. [36])
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. 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.
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[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.
[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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[S] flappy planes and stick towers -> xkcd 1322: Winter. the motif of using unheard-of phrases for common things
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[S2] Spanish people can be anything / anti-essentialist proposition
[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.
[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.
[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.
[S] anime, the trash I love anyway -> this + Q1337 subculture = otaku
[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.
[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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[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
[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. [37] 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?
[S2] If two works are similar, one is the other's bootleg
[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.
[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?
[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.
[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.
[S2] Pokémon fangames are bootlegs / Pokémon fangames are identical with bootlegs -> what corporations tend to believe, or imply that they believe.
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[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.
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[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"
[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?
[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.
[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.
[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 kingdoms 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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[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 want 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.
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[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
[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
[S] voted off the island -> very interesting because it gives you a different perspective on the concept of "voting"
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[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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[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.
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[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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[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.
[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.
[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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[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.
[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.
[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.
[S2] Manipulative people manufacture emergencies in order to create desperate behaviors / "manipulative people shift context to normalize extreme behavior" [40] -> 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.
[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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[S2] Freedom requires rejecting COVID measures
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[F2] Nobody is actually transgender
[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.
[F2] If nobody went to work and made money, there'd be no need for labor movements
[F2] If nobody ever voted, nobody would get angry about voting
[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
[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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[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.
[F2] 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.
[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.
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[S2] Democracy is government of the person, by the people and for the people
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[S2] Applin is a scam -> several ideas to unpack
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It's a Wonderful Life
A Christmas Carol
superstructural world or cosmos -> superset of: superstructural fantasy world, superstructural boring world.
superstructural fantasy world / Superstructure, meet base / what happens out there affects us in here (check wording? FNaF World)
superstructural boring world -> rather special case. Deltarune, Fionna & Cake
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[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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[S] molecular fascism
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[S] atomized theory / atomic theory / theory defined by individuals
[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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[S2] Caesar Antichrist sees all possible worlds while men glimpse just one
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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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[S] molecular nationalism / molecular Toryism -> believed to refer to: right-Existentialism
[S] molecular imperialism -> believed to refer to: capitalism
[S] molecularized democratic regime / molecular democracy (generic)
[S] molecular Liberalism -> believed to refer to: Existentialism
[S] molecular Socialism
[S] molecular Anarchism
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[S] molecularized Multitude theory -> I'm slowly becoming more certain that Rhizome is this
[S] molecularized Existentialism -> Existentialist periods that believe in graphs or Social-Philosophical Systems
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[S] Platform 9¾ -> 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
[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.
[S] unofficial LGBT+ retcon / "I don't care if it isn't canon" (LGBT+)
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[S2] 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
[S] named molecular Marxism
[S] Molecular Stalin Thought
[S] Molecular Trotskyism
[S] Molecular Maoism
[S] Molecular Third-World Marxisms
[S] Molecular Gramscianism
[S] Reverting from the anomalous hyper-future to the past
[S] Beyond the end of history in the hyper-future

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

[S] Bolshevik-Leninism / Leninism (Trotsky's definition) -> use to mark highly specific definitions of "Leninism" in Trotskyist texts
[S] Stalinism (prejudice)
[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
[S] degenerated workers' state
[S] restore the soviets
[S2] State businesses equal capitalism -> Hayashi
[S2] State capitalism inevitably evolves to uncontained capitalism -> Hayashi
[S2] Workers will all take action given crisis
[S2] Workers will all take action given spontaneous tiny breakages / clinamen (Althusser) / The Fracture (meta-Marxism) -> Althusser actually
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internationally-scoped collection of connected Trotskyist groups -> important element of - international-conference Trotskyism, international-party Trotskyism, Trotskyism in one identity-federation
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Trotskyist revolution -> very theoretical concept despite a great number of Trotskyists claiming they are described in the collected works of Lenin
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[S] named Trotskyism
[S] international-conference Trotskyism -> motif, Particle Theory
[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
[S] multiple Trotskyisms in one country / multiple local Trotskyist parties -> hypothetical Particle Theory; Trotskyism - taking the shape of - North American Maoism / New Democracy
[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
[S] Trotskyism in one subpopulational minority / Ethnic Trotskyism -> believed to be different from: Maoism in one subpopulational minority
[S] Trotskyism in one union republic / Trotskyist nationality / Trotskyist local-state -> hypothetical Particle Theory; Trotskyism - taking the shape of - local state
[S] Trotskyism in one country / Trotskyist nation-state -> hypothetical Particle Theory
[S] Fortress Trotskyism -> subset of: Trotskyism in one country; Trotskyism - taking the shape of - Juche-socialism
[S] Trotskyism in one identity subpopulation / hegemony Trotskyism -> hypothetical Particle Theory; Trotskyism - taking the shape of - Gramscianism; superset of: Ethnic Trotskyism
[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
[S] Trotskyism-in-Maoism -> subset of: Trotskyism in one union republic
[S] Maoism-in-Trotskyism -> subset of: Trotskyism in one supranational federation
[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
[S] economic peace Trotskyism / Deng Xiaoping Thought in Trotskyism in Wilsonianism -> hypothetical Particle Theory; Trotskyism - taking the shape of - Deng Xiaoping Thought
[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
[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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[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
[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
[S2] Socialism-in-one-country is basically Existentialism with countries -> Ted Grant
[S2] Hegemony politics is reformism and Gramscians are a bunch of bureaucrats -> Ted Grant
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[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.
[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
[S2] Capitalism only ends when workers' states form into a single government -> the generic Trotskyist version.
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.
[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
[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.
[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.
[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.
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Leninism (top-level category)
early Marxism
[S0] Third-World Marxisms
Stalin Thought / mainstream Marxism-Leninism
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
Juche-socialism / leadership socialism
Maoism
Deng Xiaoping Thought / Dengism / socialism with Chinese characteristics (Deng era)
Western Marxism
Gramscianism
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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[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.
[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"
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[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.
[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 [41] -> 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 unions and ""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 their otherwise sacred Lived Experiences and forcing them to exist better when they weren't existing good.
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[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.)
[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.
[M] 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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[S2] Absurdism, nihilism, and existentialism are the biased political compass of philosophy
[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
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Socialism: Stalinist or scientific (Hayashi 1998/2000) / "Stalinism, socialist ..." (typo)
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[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.
[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?
[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.
[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.
[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.
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[S] terrorist (Zinovievism) -> wrecker, rival proletarian revolution
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[S] contentless revolutionary socialism - Rosa Luxemburg
contentless Trotskyite-conspirator ideology / Zinovievism (meta-Marxism)
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Russian Social-Democratic Labor Party
Bolshevik party
Third International
Left Opposition
Menshevik party
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Trotskyist group, organization, or party
Fourth International (1938) -> became: International Secretariat, International Committee
International Secretariat (1953) / ISFI (attempted International)
International Committee (1953) / ICFI (attempted International)
(reserved for International)
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Committee for a Workers' International (defunct) / CWI (attempted International)
local Trotskyist group unaffiliated with larger formation
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[S0] Trotskyist group affiliated with the Fourth International of 1938
Socialist Workers' Party (United States) -> helped split the Fourth International into the ISFI and ICFI, funny enough
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International Marxist Tendency (party) -> international-party Trotskyism
Workers' International League (1938) -> [42]
"The Militant" -> [43]
Revolutionary Communist Party -> [44] [45]
In Defence of Marxism (outlet; Britain)
Socialist Appeal (Britain)
Socialist Alternative (United States)
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Left Voice (federated outlet)
[S0] Maoist group, organization, or party
[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"
[S0] prominent mainstream-Marxist-Leninist theorist or organizer / prominent Marxist theorist or organizer associated with Stalin Thought
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
Joseph Stalin
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Enver Hoxha -> yes, he has his own subset ideology, but it still falls under this tradition
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[S0] prominent Trotskyist theorist or organizer / notable Trotskyist theorist or organizer
Leon Trotsky -> Soviet Union / miscellaneous; Fourth International
Rosa Luxemburg -> Germany
Ted Grant -> United Kingdom (?)
James P. Cannon -> United States; Socialist Workers' Party
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Hiroyoshi Hayashi / HAYASHI Hiroyoshi -> Japan; (retrieve organization)
[S0] notable Trotskyite resistance leader or advocate / notable Zinovievist advocate or leader / notable Trotskyite conspiracy member
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
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Nikolai Bukharin -> he quit, but there's not a better place to put him
George Orwell -> by some definitions of Trotskyite, the most famous one ever
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
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[S2] Anarchism is over
[S2] Stalin Thought is over -> had some vanishing chance of being true in 1940, not very believable these days
[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.
[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
[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.
[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.
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[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.
[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.
[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)

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
[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
[S] comparing city-wide phenomena to individual friendships / comparing town-wide phenomena to friendship
[S] comparing region-wide phenomena to individual friendships
[S] comparing nationwide phenomena to individual friendships
[S] comparing global phenomena to individual friendships
[S] comparing whole social graphs to individual friendships / comparing whole communities to friendship / comparing fanbases to friendship / comparing platform membership to friendship
[S] comparing galactic or cosmic phenomena to individual friendships
[S] comparing institutions to individual friendships / comparing workplaces to friendship / comparing ministries to friendship
[S] comparing local community centers to individual friendships / comparing forums to friendship / comparing churches to friendship
[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 ↓
[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
[S] individual described by neopronouns / individual described by "nonsense" pronouns / individual described by "nounself" pronouns
[S] individual described exclusively by pronouns from another language -> Damara Megido. this is a true example of a character with "nonstandard pronouns"
[S] individual described by alternating pronouns / individual described by cycling pronouns -> thanks Mangle
[S] individual described by pronoun of surrounding physical object / ghost using possessing object's pronoun
[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
[S] individual described by pronoun of characters from other planet / fictional human described with alien pronouns -> thanks Piccolo, thanks Crystal Gems.
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[S] pronoun not listed as Lexeme (type pronoun in qualifiers) / pronoun listed in external Lexeme (ex.: ey)
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[S] individual described by pronoun usages containing ARG clues -> I have never heard of this but I bet it will happen some day
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vote -> a single show of support or non-support
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.
approval ball / white ball -> ball used in hopes of collecting a unanimous vote
ballot
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[S] microdistrict / walkable neighborhood / car-free neighborhood
[S] microdistrict (Soviet Union)
[S] mass-produced building
[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
[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. [46] 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.
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[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.
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[S] adventure
[S] kingdom (Adventure Time)
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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.
Candy Kingdom
Ice Kingdom
Fire Kingdom
Evergreen's wishing crown (Adventure Time) -> hypothetically, I may or may not be coding this in order to compare it to fanmade universes.
Princess Bubblegum
Ice King
Flame Princess
apocalyptic event (Adventure Time) -> there are at least two on the core timeline, not just one.
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Fionna and Cake
Cake the cat
Fionna the human
Jake the dog
Finn the human
Shermy
Beth
GOLB
Simon Petrikov
Betty
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Chronicles of Narnia
wardrobe (Chronicles of Narnia)
Narnia
[S] Aslan
[S2] Monotheism is similar to friendships (fiction) -> more or less seen in real-world religion, but that should be a separate item
[S2] International war is similar to friendships / World War I is similar to friendships -> Wings of Fire
[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.
[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
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[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.
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[F2] 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.
[S2] Knowledge cannot teleport / Knowledge cannot travel faster than a photon -> what actually appears to be true, and was depicted in XKCD 1053.
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[S] Ghost of Individualities Future / Ghost of Possibilities Future -> SCP-8000, It's a Wonderful Life, A Christmas Carol.
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[S] Wow, I've never heard of France before! -> 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.
[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.
[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. [47]
[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. [48]
[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 [49]
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[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 [50]
[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.
[S2] Discoveries come from violating metaphysics -> the 'pataphysics axiom that I like so much better than the way Pokémon appears to see things
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[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
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[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.
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"dumbacabra" (Aster/Aubepine)
[S2] Preventing revolution is similar to friendships / Stopping Maoism is similar to friendships
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Starlight Glimmer
[S2] City governments are similar to friendships / Village governments resemble friendships
[S2] Freedom to be yourself is similar to friendships / Authenticity is similar to friendships -> Authenticity (Existentialism)
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My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic
My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic episode 1
My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic episode 221
"Tempest Shadow"
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[S2] Pi can't beat a Pokémon game
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My Little Pony: Make Your Mark
My Little Pony: Make Your Mark episode 1
My Little Pony: Make Your Mark episode 27
My Little Pony: Tell Your Tale
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The Tea Dragon Society (all media)
The Tea Dragon Society
The Tea Dragon Festival
The Tea Dragon Tapestry
The Tea Dragon Society Card Game
Autumn Harvest: A Tea Dragon Society Card Game
[S] Town market (The Tea Dragon Society) / town bazaar
Mentor rules sheet
Glossary rules sheet -> are these different for the two games? if so, consider them editions of the same work
[S] True dragon (The Tea Dragon Society)
[S] Tea Dragon (The Tea Dragon Society)
[S] Jasmine tea dragon
[S] Rooibos tea dragon
[S] Chamomile tea dragon
[S] Ginseng tea dragon
[S] Earl Grey tea dragon
[S] Hibiscus tea dragon
[S] Ginger tea dragon
[S] Peppermint tea dragon
[S] Tea Dragon society (group)
Mentors token
Growth token
Victory point token
Tea Dragon card
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Tea Dragon deck / character draw-deck area
[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]~~
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[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.
[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.
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[S] walnut shell (analogy) -> approximately represents a national border, populational border, or party-nation
[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.

[S] fictional character
[S] first-person narrator
[S] second-person narrator -> see: Homestuck, narrator Chara
[S] third-person narrator
[S] narrator
[S] point-of-view character
[S] player character
[S] non-player character (NPC)
[S] hero
[S] villain
[S] antihero
[S] antivillain
[S] Good-aligned character
[S] Neutral-aligned character
[S] Evil-aligned character
[S] Lawful-aligned character
[S] Chaotic-aligned character
[S] True-Neutral-aligned character
[S] character alignment / moral alignment
[S] I contain multitudes / I am all of me
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[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
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player as relative to game
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[S] speedrun
[S] challenge run
[S] seemingly-impossible challenge run
[S] But first we need to talk about parallel universes
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SCP Foundation Wikis
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elemental card color (Magic)
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Magic: the Gathering (1993 - present)
(62-6300: Magic: the Gathering sets, not totally exhaustive. list of sets being compiled here)
[S] Twelve things form a Chinese zodiac / Twelve things means Chinese astrology
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Dark Fountain
Yume Nikki
[S] RPG progression as horror -> Undertale; FNaF Security Breach & Gregory destroying not-so-scary artificial beings
Super Sentai (metaseries) / Super Squad (unofficial name)
Uchū Sentai Kyuranger [vol. 41] / Space Squad Kyuranger
Power Rangers (abridged-series)
Himitsu Sentai Gorenger [vol. 1] (1975) / Secret Squad Gorenger
J.A.K.Q. Dengekitai [vol. 2] (1977) / JAKQ Blitz Squad
Battle Fever J [vol. 3] (1979)
Denshi Sentai Denziman [vol. 4] (1980) / Electric Squad Denziman / Electronic Squad Denziman
Taiyo Sentai Sun Vulcan [vol. 5] (1981) / Solar Squad Sun Vulcan
Dai Sentai Goggle-V [vol. 6] (1982)
Kagaku Sentai Dynaman [vol. 7] (1983) / Science Squad Dynaman
Chodenshi Bioman [vol. 8] (1984) / Super Electronic Squad Bioman
Dengeki Sentai Changeman [vol. 9] (1985) / Blitz Squad Changeman
Choshinsei Flashman [vol. 10] (1986)
Hikari Sentai Maskman [vol. 11] (1987)
Choju Sentai Liveman [vol. 12] (1988) / Super Beast Squad Liveman
Kousoku Sentai Turboranger [vol. 13] (1989) / Lightspeed Squad Turboranger
Chikyu Sentai Fiveman [vol. 14] (1990)
Chojin Sentai Jetman [vol. 15] (1991) / Aviator Squad Jetman
Kyoryu Sentai Zyuranger [vol. 16] (1992) / Dino Squad Zyuranger
Gosei Sentai Dairanger [vol. 17] (1993)
Ninja Sentai Kakuranger [vol. 18] (1994)
Choriki Sentai Ohranger [vol. 19] (1995)
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twelve or more -> precise order of magnitude
exactly twelve -> precise order of magnitude
[S] Twelve things form a European zodiac / Twelve things means European astrology
Homestuck - included almost just as a joke, but the number is nice
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[S] beam balance of justice
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[S] "cancer" refers to crabs
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
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[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
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[S] Progressive theorists are practically aliens / Social justice theorists speak another language -> Kankri Vantas
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Homestuck act 5 / Hivebent
[S] The Underground
[S] Light World
[S] Dark World
[S] The Core
[S] W.D. Gaster
[S] Man behind the tree (Deltarune) / egg man (Deltarune)
[S] The Knight (Deltarune)
[S] The Angel (Deltarune)
[S] Kris
[S] Susie
[S] Noelle
[S] eggs of unclear importance
[S] Shadow Crystals
[S] Seam
[S] Jevil
[S] Spamton
[S2] Kris gained the Red Soul after dying / Kris is dead
[S2] Kris was The Knight in Chapter 2 / Kris is The Knight
[S2] Multiple characters are The Knight
[S2] The player plays as The Angel -> what I thought to be true
[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
[S2] December Holiday is The Knight -> one line of reasoning is Mother 3 [51]
[S2] The Knight is a knife which became a Darkner -> supposedly, knives have a "long hand"
[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. [52] 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?
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[S2] Deltarune is a horror scenario about a world without creativity [53] / 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
[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.
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[S] gray characters / Goners
[S2] "Goners" have been deleted from Undertale's world / Goners are something more than dead
[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
[S2] The level below Dark Worlds is the inanimate objects inside Dark Worlds coming to life -> evidence: tree object coming to life
[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
[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
[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
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SCP-682 "Hard-to-destroy reptile"
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Red Soul (Deltarune)
Dragon Ball pre-reboot era
Dragon Ball Kai episode 1
(... Dragon Ball Kai)
[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
Dragon Blazers -> note the dimension. fictional works of fiction may be marked S, though real works of fiction are marked Z.
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[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
[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".
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Garfield
[S] John Arbuckle (character)
[S] Garfield (character)
Garfield minus Garfield -> Garfield + absence.
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Marxists Internet Archive
Moscow: Progress Publishers
Beijing: Foreign Languages Press
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Ironblood series -> basically just a reserved item
Aurora system / IronShard -> reserved, but closer to being real
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Helix Chamber
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[S2] Vegeta IV is worse than Vegeta III
[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
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[S] Android 1
[S] Android 2
[S] Android 3
[S] Android 4
[S] Android 5
[S] Android 6
[S] Android 7
[S] Android 8
[S] Android 9
[S] Android 10
[S] Android 11
[S] Android 12
[S] Android 13
[S] Android 14
[S] Android 15
[S] Android 16
[S] Android 17
[S] Android 18
[S] Android 19
[S] Android 20
[S] Android 21
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[S] Android 25
[S] Android 26
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[S] Android 33
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That time I got reincarnated as Yamcha
[S] Future Trunks timeline
[S] Trunks (Dragon Ball)
[S] Trunks' sword -> is it different from Z sword?
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[S] 15-generations-prior god-of-worlds
[S] Z sword (Dragon Ball)
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[S] Super Saiyan 4 (GT)
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[S] Android 17 (GT)
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Wings of Fire prequels
[S] empire plant -> I forget its name but that's what it is
[S] the king I can't remember
[S] Freedom
[S] castle lord guy
[S] Sky the SkyWing
[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
[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.
[S] Clearsight
[S] Book of Clearsight
Dragonslayer
Darkstalker
Wings of Fire series
Warriors series
Guardians of Ga'Hoole series
One for Sorrow, Two for Joy
Kimba the White Lion / Jungle Emperor Leo -> move? not sure how many chapters there are
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[S] there is only power and those who seek it -> appears in: Harry Potter
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[S] mistaken quest to steal immortality from the gods
Undertale
Deltarune
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SCP-6662 [55] -> lost cereal mascot seeking "own destination"
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[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.
[S] Freedom / freedom (right-Liberalism)
[S2] Freedom is business territories existing without government
[S2] Freedom is individuals having no accountability to others
[S2] Freedom is the ability to make decisions
[S2] Freedom is the absence of unnecessary populational divisions -> Lenin, Trotsky
[S2] Freedom is the absence of manipulation and abuse by territory owners -> Lenin, some anarchisms
[S2] Freedom is the discovery of escape routes / Freedom is the rearrangement of social connections -> schizoanalysis
[S2] Freedom is the discovery of new possibilities / Freedom is the creation of new combinations -> MDem
[S] many tiny fragmented things equals Democracy
[S] egoism
[S] individualism
PragerU / Prager University
Fox News
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[S] portraying negative phenomenon without recommending it / ironic phenomenon
[S] unironic misogyny
[S] ironic misogyny -> see: Dragon Ball
[S] heteronormativity
[S] ironic heteronormativity -> see: Amy Rose, DHMIS "Malcom"
[S] normalcy of relationships proved by Lived Experiences / gay relationships are normal
[S] normalcy of gender proved by Lived Experiences / transgender identity is normal
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Journey to the West
[S] golden light
[S] fictional religious cosmology -> Girl from the other side; Warriors / StarClan
[S] evil god takes form as the earth -> Tiamat; hinduism?
[S] cosmic graph struggle
[S] Yamcha (Dragon Ball)
[S] understanding the universe
[S] karma (spatial rank)
[S] bailing someone out of system
[S] bailing someone out of supernatural system
[S] bailing someone out of karma
[S] Saiyans losing tails -> lore significance specifically
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[S] Sonic the Hedgehog
[S] Tails
[S] Knuckles
[S] Amy Rose -> what is misogyny?
[S] (sonic character)
[S] (sonic character)
[S] Shadow the Hedgehog
[S] MarioCube / MarioCube theory
[S] Black Arms
[S] GUN -> planetary police, planetary army
[S] ??
[S] Sonic × Shadow / Sonadow -> Group Subject containing: Sonic, Shadow
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VIZ media
Bird Studio
Sega
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[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
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[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
Girl From the Other Side (all media) / Other Side / Girl from the Outside (typo) / The Outsiders (typo)
(... Girl From the Other Side)
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Ultra Q (1966)
Ultraman (1966)
Ultraseven (1967)
The Return of Ultraman (1971) / Ultraman Jack (show)
Ultraman Ace (1972)
Ultraman Taro (1973)
The☆Ultraman (1979) / Ultraman Joneus (show)
Ultraman 80 (1980)
Ultraman Zearth (1996)
Ultraman Leo (1973) -> features signifier: Leon Trotsky counterpart
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Ultraman Geed (2017) -> this one was so questionable, it was like, nazi-framed Ultraman show
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Slay the Princess
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Pokémon (metaseries)
virtual pet form / virtual pet stage / evolution stage / Pokémon kind / Pokédex kind
virtual pet form tier / evolution stage
virtual pet species / virtual pet strain / virtual pet form chart (internal mechanic)
reused virtual pet form / virtual pet form switching from one series of forms to another / track switch / trackswitch
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Digimon (metaseries)
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neopets
[S] neopet -> toon-style being, LCD-style being, Subject-style being; medium: virtual pet; only really here to demonstrate categories
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[S2] The Mimic was hiding in every game as Jackie
[S2] The Mimic was hiding inside Shadow Freddy
[S] MCI victim names / Gabriel (??) / Jeremy (??) / Fritz (??) / Susie (??) / Susie (Return to the Pit)
[S2] Golden Freddy contains "The one you should not have killed"
[S2] Golden Freddy DOES NOT contain "The one you should not have killed"
[S2] Michael became Old Man Consequences
[S2] Henry became Old Man Consequences
[S2] Ralph became Old Man Consequences -> reliving old traumas in cyclic timeline (FNaF)
[S2] Andrew, Jake, and Stitchwraith are in games / StitchlineGames
[S2] Tales from the Pizzaplex takes place in games setting / TalesGames
[S2] Michael Afton was protagonist of FNaF 1-4 / The Box contains Foxy mask
[S2] Chica was created during Fredbear era
[S2] Toy animatronics originated from Fall Fest / Toy animatronic characters first shown at carnival
[S2] Mangle came from carnival ride / Mangle is not Funtime Foxy / Mangle first shown at Fall Fest
[S2] The Mimic copied William Afton to create Glitchtrap
[S2] Every instance of The Mimic is networked together
[S2] Carnie was built out of LEFTE
[S2] Cassidy died in springlock incident -> red lakes and drowning imagery
[S2] Fazbear Enterprises is responsible for bringing back Fall Fest
[S2] Tiger Rock plush is a counterpart to the books
[S2] Desk guy counts as Henry because he is based on Scott / Scott is desk guy is Henry -> FNaF World
[S2] LEFTE contains five dead kids / LefteDCI / LeftyDCI -> 1 2
[S2] Circus Baby is not William's creation but Henry's revenge on William -> Circus Baby - based on - Charlie; "the baby is not mine"
[S2] There are actually multiple William Aftons from different timelines
[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
[S2] Helpy is a Funtime because the Pizza Place is Henry's version of the Funtimes intended to catch Funtimes
[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
[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
[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.
[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
[S2] Dave Afton longed for Fredbear to protect him and possession granted him his wish -> [56]
[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 - [57]
[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
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[S] forest beings turning into trees -> QID references: SCP.
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[S] Lenin counterpart -> also in: Ultraman Leo
[S] Leon Trotsky counterpart / Emmanuel Goldstein / Snowball -> also in: Ultraman Leo
[S] Rosa Luxemburg counterpart
[S] Joseph Stalin counterpart / Napoleon (pig)
[S] Pigs (Animal Farm)
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[S] Pyrrhia
[S] dragon tribe
[S] dragon (Wings of Fire)
[S] MudWing
[S] SeaWing
[S] RainWing
[S] NightWing
[S] SandWing
[S] moon-touched dragon
[S] Icewing
[S] SkyWing
[S] animus magic
[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.
[S] SilkWing
[S] Hivewing
[S] LeafWing
[S] flamesilk dragon
[S] Boa / Jerboa (construct)
[S] hybrid dragon
[S] animus dragon
[S] firescales
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Dragon Ball (metaseries)
Dragon Ball (first era)
Dragon Ball (Z era)
Dragon Ball Super (era)
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Dragon Ball prequels (era)
Sonic the Hedgehog (2006)
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Sonic the Hedgehog (metaseries)
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"I am all of me" (song)
"This is who I am" (song)
Shadow the Hedgehog (2005)
"Live and Learn" (song)

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

[S] Jackie (FNaF)
The Silver Eyes
The Twisted Ones
The Fourth Closet
[S] great bite was unexpected until fatal bite II
[S] Missing Child Incident (FNaF)
[S] Dead Child Incident (FNaF)
[S] Remnant (FNaF)
[S] Agony (FNaF)
Return to the Pit (FNaF)
The Week Before (FNaF)
Five Nights at Freddy's (metaseries)
FNaF 1
FNaF 2
FNaF 3
FNaF 4
FNaF: Sister Location
FNaF 6: Freddy Fazbear’s Pizzeria Simulator
FNaF World
FNaF: Ultimate Custom Night
FNaF AR
FNaF: Help Wanted
FNaF: Help Wanted 2
FNaF: Security Breach
FNaF: Ruin
Chipper & Sons Lumber Co.
[S] tainted object (FNaF) / haunted object / corrupted object
[S] corrupted mascot / corrupted animatronic / monster toy / polymer monster
[S] corrupted mascot (FNaF) / animatronic (FNaF)
[S] William Afton / Purple Guy / Dave Miller (Silver Eyes)
[S] Michael Afton
[S] Dave Afton (Survival Logbook) / Crying Child / Bite Victim / CC / BV / Evan (typo)
[S] Charlie / Charlotte Emily
[S] Charlie (Silver Eyes trilogy)
[S] Charlie bots / Ella (Silver Eyes trilogy)
[S] Illusion disk
[S] Elizabeth Afton (Silver Eyes) / Circus Baby (Silver Eyes)
[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
[S] Henry
[S] Edwin (Tales?)
[S] Nightmarionne / Nightmare puppet
[S] Fredbear-era animatronic
[S] Fredbear / Golden Freddy suit
[S] Golden Freddy (apparition)
[S] Spring Bonnie
[S] Springtrap
[S] Scraptrap
[S] Burntrap
[S] Afton amalgamation (Frights / Tales?)
[S] Glitchtrap / Malhare
[S] The Yellow Rabbit (Return to the Pit) / Pittrap
[S] Toy animatronic
[S] Shadow animatronic / Agony animatronic (theories)
[S] Toy Freddy
[S] Toy Bonnie
[S] Toy Chica
[S] The Mangle / Mangle / Toy Foxy with hook (Help Wanted 2) / Funtime Foxy with hook (Help Wanted 2)
[S] Balloon Boy
[S] The Puppet / The Marionette
[S] Shadow Freddy
[S] RWQFSFASXC / RWQ / Shadow Bonnie
[S] Classic animatronic
[S] Freddy Fazbear
[S] Bonnie
[S] Chica
[S] Foxy
[S] ominious minigames / minigame ARG clue / 8-bit minigames
[S] Mediocre Melodies
[S] Mr. Hippo
[S] Classic wolf character / Twisted Wolf (Silver Eyes trilogy)
[S] Classic alligator character
[S] Funtime animatronic
[S] Circus Baby / Bidybabs' boss -> because I didn't want to make another entry for Bidybabs and Minireenas yet
[S] Funtime Freddy
[S] Bon-Bon
[S] Funtime Chica (FNaF 6 / UCN)
[S] Funtime Foxy
[S] Lolbit
[S] Balora / Minireenas' boss
[S] Ennard
[S] Molten Freddy
[S] Nightmare animatronic
[S] Nightmare Fredbear / Nightmare in proper colors
[S] Nightmare (FNAF 4 / Ultimate Custom Night)
[S] Eleanor (Fazbear Frights) -> favorite or desired thing: Agony
[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
[S] Jake (Fazbear Frights)
[S] Andrew (Fazbear Frights)
[S] Cassidy (Survival Logbook)
[S] The one you should not have killed / TOYSNHK / vengeful spirit -> UCN
[S] Old Man Consequences (FNAF World / Ultimate Custom Night)
[S] Rockstar animatronic
[S] LEFTE / Lefty
[S] Helpy
[S] Candy Cadet parables
[S] fabricated memories / fake memories
[S] overwriting bad memories with good memories
[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)
[S] reliving old traumas in cyclic timeline (FNaF)
[S] a labyrinth with no exit, a maze with no prize / maze with no exit and no reward -> FNaF 6, FNaF World
[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
[S] person overwritten by virus (FNaF)
[S] Vanessa A. / Vanny's original form
[S] Vanessa (movie)
[S] Vanny (mascot suit)
[S] Fall Fest animatronic / Fall Fest toon character / Fall Fest mascot suit
[S] Virtual animatronic character
[S] Billy (Fazbear Frights) / B-7's victim
[S] B-7 (Fazbear Frights)
[S] Chipper's other son
[S] Mimic-based animatronic
[S] Glamrock animatronic
[S] Glamrock Freddy
[S] Glamrock Bonnie
[S] Glamrock Chica
[S] Roxanne Wolf / Roxy
[S] Montgomery Gator / Monty
[S] Glamrock Mr. Hippo
[S] The Mimic / THE MIMIC!!
[S] M.X.E.S. / MXES / The Entity
[S] Tiger Rock (Tales from the Pizzaplex)
[S0] FNaF ontology / FNaF fan theory / FNaF book series continuity model / FNaF games continuity model
[S2] William Afton stuffed MCI victims into FNaF 1 suits / WillStuff
[S2] The Puppet stuffed MCI victims into FNaF 1 suits / PuppetStuff
[S2] Security guard killed the kids / Phone guy is purple guy
[S2] First four FNaF games are Dave having a bad dream / Dream Theory -> unsubstantiated / discarded
[S2] Dave Afton became Golden Freddy / Golden Freddy is Bite Victim / GoldenVictim / Dave Afton is 5th MCI victim is Golden Freddy
[S2] Cassidy became Golden Freddy / Golden Freddy is "The one you should not have killed" / GoldenCassidy / GoldenTOYSNHK
[S2] William Afton pulverized his own son in a springlock suit / Cassidy is the Crying Child / CassidyVictim
[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"
[S2] Molten Freddy contains MCI victims / MoltenMCI
[S] "Some things should be left forgotten..." / The Box
[S] The One Retcon (FNaF)
[S2] The Box contains some kind of memories -> quite evidenced by The Fourth Closet, reasonably evidenced by FNaF World
[S2] The Box contains Dave Afton's dissolved memories / True interpretation died with Dave Afton
[S2] (The Box theory)
[S2] The Box contains every retcon
[S2] Happiest day didn't release the trapped children / Happiest day didn't work / Unhappiest day
[S] animatronics as proletarian allies / Sunny Rooster -> "William Afton is real"
[S] Ralph the security guard (The Week Before) -> favorite: Foxy
[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)
[S2] Fancy artifacts don't fix your body or make it better -> Eleanor's trash necklace, Jessica's hospital necklace ("Frailty"), The Fourth Closet
[S2] Modern FNaF draws from "Coppelia" and "The Sandman" -> think I also have to link this one to Klara and the Sun (2021)
[S] bogus game character / video game legend / pokégod / Nazo the Hedgehog
[S] Pokémon scrapped for game balance reasons -> subset of: named missingno
[S] scrapped Pokémon / named Missingno
[S] Pokémon (being)
[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
incompatible FNaF communities -> nickel score slowly increasing. two nickels on "incompatible FNaF communities slowly becoming object of legitimate sociological study"
[S] in-game speeches or visual sequences (FNaF) / straightforward cutscenes
[S] environmental storytelling (FNaF classic era)
Fazbear Frights
(... Frights books)
[S] environmental storytelling (FNaF Steel Wool era) / Security Breach environmental storytelling / Ruin environmental storytelling
V.I.P.
Escape the Pizzaplex
Tales from the Pizzaplex
(... Tales books)
Don't feed the muse
[S] Digimon (being) -> tokusatsu-style being, LCD-style being, Subject-style being; medium: virtual pet
Digital Monster keychain (1997)
Digimon Adventure (1999)
Digimon World (1999)

9000 - 10249 [full]

Dragon Ball episodes and Signifiers, etc.

[S] Dragon Ball cosmos
(... Dragon Ball works)
[S] Remember who you are / reminder in the clouds / remember Maria -> Kimba, Simba, Shadow the Hedgehog
[S] turning on evil emperor -> Bardock, Vegeta, Shadow
[S] Saiyan empire / Saiyan kingdom
[S] vision of the future -> A Christmas Carol, "Bardock"
(... Dragon Ball works)
[S] Goku
[S] Vegeta / Vegeta IV
[S] Freeza Force
[S] Freeza
[S] Cell
[S] Majin Boo (ancient)
[S] Majin Boo / Kid Boo
[S] Zamasu
[S] bad future / alternate dystopian timeline
[S] using timelines to break karma
[S] Goku Black timeline -> the one where Zamasu doesn't die apparently
[S] Goku Black
[S] King Vegeta III
[S] Bardock
[S] Sea Turtle -> did you know he's in Journey to the West
[S] Muten Rōshi / Turtle Sage
[S] God-of-earth
[S] Karin
[S] Lord-of-worlds
[S] Grand Elder Guru
[S] Whis
[S] Dragon Balls
[S] eternal dragon
[S] Beerus
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
Dragon Ball Super chapter 1
(... Dragon Ball Super)
Dragon Ball (books) / Dragon Ball Z (books)
Dragon Ball (show)
Dragon Ball Z (show)
Dragon Ball Daima
Dragon Ball Super films
Dragon Ball Z films / Dragon Ball films
Dragon Ball GT
Dragon Ball Super (books)
Dragon Ball Super (show)
(... Dragon Ball Super)
Dragon Ball GT episode 1
Dragon Ball GT episode 64
Dragon Ball Kai (first edition)
Dragon Ball Kai (international edition)
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.

[S0] hypothetical battle
[S] power scaling / power level calculations
[S] one billion lions
[S] black hole (opponent)
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[S] Super Dragon Balls
[S] Super Shenron
(... literal Missingno. entries)
[S] Pokémon form / Pokémon visual form / Pokémon variant within single stage
[S] Spiral Shellder / Turbann (theories)
[S] Crystal Onix
(... beta Pokémon)
[S] split Mega evolution
[S] Mega Venusaur
[S] Mega Charizard X
[S] Mega Charizard Y
[S] Mega Blastoise
[S] Mega Beedrill
[S] Mega Pidgeot
[S] Mega Gyarados
[S] Mega Mewtwo X
[S] Mega Mewtwo Y
[S] Mega Alakazam
[S] Mega Slowbro
[S] Mega Gengar
[S] Mega Kangaskhan
[S] Mega Pinsir
[S] Mega Aerodactyl
[S] Mega Scizor
[S] Mega Heracross
[S] Mega Steelix
[S] Mega Ampharos
[S] Primal form
[S] Castform (Normal form)
[S] Castform (Sunny form)
[S] Castform (Rainy form)
[S] Castform (Snowy form)
[S] Primal Kyogre
[S] Primal Groudon
[S] Deoxys Attack form
[S] Deoxys Defense form
[S] Deoxys Speed form
[S] Origin form
[S] Shellos West Sea
[S] Gastrodon West Sea
[S] Shellos East Sea
[S] Gastrodon East Sea
[S] Shadow Lugia
[S] Dark Dialga (Explorers of Time/Darkness) / Primal Dialga
[S] Origin Dialga
[S] Origin Palkia
[S] Origin Giratina
[S] Mega-evolved form
[S] Mega Houndoom
[S] Mega Tyranitar
[S] Mega Sceptile
[S] Mega Blaziken
[S] Mega Swampert
[S] Mega Gardevoir
[S] Mega Sableye
[S] Mega Mawile
[S] Mega Rayquaza
[S] Mega Aggron
[S] Mega Medicham
[S] Mega Manetric
[S] Mega Sharpedo
[S] Mega Camerupt
[S] Mega Altaria
[S] Mega Banette
[S] Mega Absol
[S] Mega Glalie
[S] Mega Salamence
[S] Mega Gallade
[S] Mega Metagross
[S] Mega Latias
[S] Mega Latios
[S] Mega Lopunny
[S] Mega Garchomp
[S] Mega Lucario
[S] Mega Abomasnow
[S] Mega Audino
[S] Mega Diancie
[S] Pokémon regional form / Alolan form / Galar form
[S] Alolan Rattata
[S] Alolan Raticate
[S] Alolan Raichu
[S] Alolan Sandshrew
[S] Alolan Sandslash
[S] Alolan Vulpix
[S] Alolan Ninetales
[S] Alolan Diglett
[S] Alolan Dugtrio
[S] Alolan form
[S] Alolan Meowth
[S] Alolan Persian
[S] Alolan Geodude
[S] Alolan Graveler
[S] Alolan Golem
[S] Alolan Grimer
[S] Alolan Muk
[S] Alolan Exeggutor
[S] Alolan Marowak
[S] Galar Meowth
[S] Galar Ponyta
[S] Galar Rapidash
[S] Galar Farfetch'd
[S] Galar Weezing
[S] Galar Zigzagoon
[S] Galar Linoone
[S] Galar Articuno
[S] Galar Zapdos
[S] Galar Moltres
[S] Galar Mr. Mime
[S] Galar Slowpoke
[S] Galar Slowbro
[S] Galar Slowking
[S] Galar Corsola
[S] Galar Darumaka
[S] Galar Darmanitan Standard Mode
[S] Galar Darmanitan Zen Mode
[S] Galar Yamask
[S] Galar Stunfisk
[S] Hisui Growlithe
[S] Hisui Arcanine
[S] Hisui Voltorb
[S] Hisui Electrode
[S] Hisui Typhlosion
[S] Hisui Qwilfish
[S] Hisui Sneasel
[S] Hisui Samurott
[S] Hisui Lilligant
[S] Hisui Braviary
[S] Hisui Zorua
[S] Hisui Zoroark
[S] Hisui Sliggoo
[S] Hisui Goodra
[S] Hisui Avalugg
[S] Hisui Decidueye
[S] Bloodmoon Ursaluna
[S] White-Stripe Basculin
[S] Male Basculegion
[S] Female Basculegion
[S] Paradox Pokémon
[S] Terastallized state
[S] Paldean form
[S] Paldean Tauros (Combat Breed)
[S] Paldean Tauros (Blaze Breed)
[S] Paldean Tauros (Aqua Breed)
[S] Paldean Wooper
[S] Normal Terapagos
[S] Terastal Terapagos
[S] Stellar Terapagos
[S] Gigantamax form
[S] Gigantamax Venusaur
[S] Gigantamax Charizard
[S] Gigantamax Blastoise
[S] Gigantamax Pikachu
[S] Gigantamax Meowth
[S] Gigantamax Eevee
[S] Gigantamax Rillaboom
[S] Gigantamax Cinderace
[S] Gigantamax Inteleon
[S] Gigantamax Butterfree
[S] Gigantamax Machamp
[S] Gigantamax Gengar
[S] Gigantamax Kingler
[S] Gigantamax Lapras
[S] Gigantamax Snorlax
[S] Gigantamax Garbodor
[S] Gigantamax Melmetal
[S] Gigantamax Corviknight
[S] Gigantamax Orbeetle
[S] Gigantamax Drednaw
[S] Gigantamax Coalossal
[S] Gigantamax Applin / Gigantamax Flapple / Gigantamax Appletun
[S] Gigantamax Sandaconda
[S] Gigantamax Toxtricity
[S] Gigantamax Centiscorch
[S] Gigantamax Hatterene
[S] Gigantamax Grimmsnarl
[S] Gigantamax Urshifu (Single Strike)
[S] Gigantamax Urshifu (Rapid Strike)
[S] enigma-tier Pokémon / Ultra Beast tier / Paradox tier / Pokémon from another realm using Legendary Pokémon conventions
[S] Gigantamax Alcremie
[S] Gigantamax Copperajah
[S] Gigantamax Duraludon
[S] Basic form
[S] Battle form
[S] Ride form
[S] Battle Cyclizar
[S] Apex Koraidon
[S] Ultimate Miraidon
[S] method of obtaining Pokémon -> in cave and only one, etc.
[S] available in wild
[S] one encounter available in specific location
[S] raid battle / raid battle (Pokémon Sword/Shield) / raid battle (Pokémon Go)
[S] environmental trace / shaking grass (Pokémon) / rippling water (Pokémon) / dust clouds (Pokémon) / overhead shadow (Pokémon) / shaking trash can (Pokémon)
[S] Pokémon feeder / joining (Pokémon gen 8) / honey tree (Pokémon gen 4)
[S] Pokémon day care
[S] gift Pokémon / in-game trade
[S] scripted story event
[S] event distribution
(... generations)
[S] Legendary Pokémon
[S] Box Legendary
[S] dungeon Legendary / cave Legendary / ARG Legendary
[S] Roaming Legendary
[S] cosmic Legendary / pantheon deity Legendary
[S] doom Legendary -> Mewtwo, Deoxys, Necrozma, Eternatus
[S] type drive Legendary -> Silvally, Arceus, Genesect
[S] unique hero Pokémon / unique antagonist Pokémon -> Zoroark, Zeraora, Kubfu, Zarude
[S] event Legendary / tie-in Legendary
[S] Mythical Pokémon
[S] movie-relevant Pokémon / movie figurehead Pokémon -> doesn't have to be Legendaries, if there's a movie totally centered on Eevee, or Zoroark
[S] fusion Legendary
[S] fusable Legendary
[S] composite Legendary -> Melmetal, Zygarde
[S] event-distributed form of regular Pokémon -> Zoroark, Own Tempo Rockruff, etc.
[S] Pokémon with special-edition forms -> Pichu, Pikachu & Eevee, Greninja
[S] Pokémon with natural variations -> Shellos, Basculin, Pumpkaboo, Sinistea, Sinistcha, Dudunsparce
[S] Pokémon with branched evolutions
[S] pseudo-legendary Pokémon
[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
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Pokémon technique / Pokémon move
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Baby Pokémon
Basic Pokémon (main series)
Stage 1 Pokémon (main series)
Stage 2 Pokémon (main series)
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Mega evolution stage / Primal reversion stage
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National Pokédex -> has serialized parts: every single Pokémon ever.
Bulbasaur (Pokémon; gen 1 / Kanto)
(... National Pokédex)
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.
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periodic table of elements
Hydrogen (H)
Helium (He)
Oganesson (Og)
(... reserved for future element discoveries, unless there is good evidence heavier elements stop being possible before 200)
island of stability

Even further?

17776 football

MDem SSR: 19000 - 20000

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

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

master signifier
Lacanian discipline -> symbolic castration (Lacanianism)
The Real -> Lacanianism
The Symbolic -> Lacanianism
The Imaginary -> Lacanianism
other / Other / The Other -> Lacanianism
object small-a / objet petit a
knowledge / know
1. association through signifier equation
2. factical observation
3. Amalthean interpretation
philosophy / philosophical
facticity / factical
1. (MDem) set of all entities in material reality
2. (Existentialism) Lived Experience
category error
science / scientific
ascientific / non-science
scientism / scienticist
non-overlapping magisteria
rationalism
1. internal definition
2. (Existentialism) pejorative definition -> science imperializing philosophy
revolution
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")
history / historical / historicize / historiology (Heidegger) / material-history / historiography
1. (center-Liberalism, Existentialism) -> series of unique events
2. (Marxism) -> material-history
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
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
heresy / heretical / heretic
1. (religion)
2. (center-Liberalism) see fascism
3. (Toryism) see bias
4. (Trotskyism) see anti-Stalinism
lived experience / Lived Experience
1. common definition
2. (Existentialism)
3. (existential materialism, MDem)
schizophrenia / schizophrenic
1. real-world condition
2. schizoanalysis metaphor
escape / Escape / escapism -> schizoanalyst sense, escaping reality sense
subject / The Subject
1. common definition
2. (Existentialism)
3. (existential materialism, MDem)
Being
Dasein
object
truth / true
1. common definition
2. (Existentialism) Lived Experience; see Idealism
3. (religion) see Truth specifically excludes physics; see Māyā
norm / normalcy / normal / normative
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.
theory -> there are many, many definitions for this, though almost every one of them subsets "an ontological model"
idealism / Idealism
materialism / Materialism
Hyper-Materialism -> facticity, Particle Theory, existential materialism
objectivity
neutrality
historical materialism
dialectical materialism
existential materialism / exmat
meaning
1. common definition
2. (structuralism) -> signifier meanings
3. (existentialism, nihilism) -> the actually-okay definition that meaning is constructed
4. (Existentialism) -> b~~ullshit~~ concepts that the shorter you live the more it means
5. (postmodernism?) -> end of history confusion about what means anything
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
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.
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
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"
progress / progressive / progressivism / progressivist
take -> category: noun-based term. movie scene attempt; design attempt; interpretation, arts; fan theory; political proposition, often pejorative
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
determine / determined / determination / determinism -> category: action or process term (verb-based)
predetermine / predetermined / predetermination
random
vote -> don't forget the skewering sense of people being convinced voting will result in policies, where it really means nation membership
party -> Liberal party versus party-nation
party-nation
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
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
anomaly -> unrelated to "fairness" and "vote". normal definition; Star Trek; SCP definition with its full connotations
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"
morality
ethics
good / Good
evil / Evil
right / Right
wrong / Wrong
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
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
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
irony / ironic / unironic
individual / individual / individuality / individuation
authenticity / authentic / inauthentic -> Existentialism, Zinovievism
will / individual will / free will
free will / Free Will / libertarian free will / compatibilist free will -> entry for "Free Will" specifically
volition / volitional
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.
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
power -> at least 3-4 specific usages
anarchy -> needs to link several Signifier items for different theories of what Archons are
anektiry / ektirion
anektirism / ektirionism
thoughtcrime
doublethink
newspeak
censorship
Objective / Objectivism -> separate from objectivity/objectivism because it has its own complex array of definitions
Tory / Tories / Toryism
stochastic terrorism
1. (center-Liberalism) -> common definition
2. (MDem) -> violent horizontal attack, has alternate mathematical definition
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
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
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"
end of history -> has more precise meanings than you'd think
molecular democracy
1. molecularized democratic regime / molecularized democratic theory
2. Marxist Molecular Democracy / Molecular Marxism
3. (unattested) Existentialism as purported molecularized democratic regime
signifier -> remember the ontological senses
ontology -> companion to signifier
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
quantum -> literal, mathematical, figurative-math definitions
subjectivity / Subjectivity
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"
hegemony -> man I hate this one. guess it's going in here
economics -> very controversial term with like 10-15 definitions. this wiki is about unraveling the word economics into every hyper-specific sense. screw economics
market
1. common definition
2. (right-Liberalism) -> the neoliberal nonsense definition
3. (MDem) -> Market Society, Filamentism, primitive Existentialism
microeconomics
macroeconomics
empire / imperialism / anti-imperialism
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
feudalism / feudal / feudal order -> I temporarily deleted warring states period, reassign that later
capitalism / capitalist adj. / capitalist agent-noun
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
terrorism / terrorist
1. (center-Liberalism) -> common definition
2. (Toryism) -> international mafioso who attacks countries out of malice
wrecker
counterrevolutionary
reactionary
deviant -> Lacanianism
perversion -> Lacanianism
body without organs / Body Without Organs / BWO
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
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.
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.
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.
copyright
copyright violation / copyright infringement
copyleft
artist -> has a great many connotations nobody notices that require documenting
creator
indie / independent
centralize / centralized / centralization
decentralize / decentralized / decentralization
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
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".
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.
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
demofederation -> a structure composed of multiple linked Demotes. what the United States _actually_ is.
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.
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.
demorevision -> etym: Demos + revise; the process of changing the country's current layout of demoinstitutions.
demoadministration -> etym: Demos + administer; the process of running demoinstitutions in a particular consistent way with no current possibility of change.
constant -> has nothing to do with demoinstitutions but is a very important number
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.
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
anarchism / Anarchism
archon / Archon -> not typically used, but very important to discuss as part of the definition of Anarchism; historical definition; definition in religion
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.
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
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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
language -> prescriptivist definition; descriptivist definition; plural languages versus post-language; language registers; etc
sign
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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
prejudice
racism
sexism
homophobia / homomisia
transphobia / transmisia
microaggression
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
microinsult
microassault
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.
-phobia / -misia
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.
PeopleWhoMadePeopleRunAwayphobia / PeopleWhoMadePeopleRunAwaymisia
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.
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
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?
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
cissexism -> the naturalization of cisgender behavior and "biology"
heterosexism -> similar
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unique -> specific identifiable entity within a sea of free-floating entities; Heidegger had a sillier term for this I do not remember
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
speciation
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
進化（しんか） -> evolution as it is used in the Japanese language
species / sp. / spec. / spp. (plural)
subspecies / ssp. / subsp. / sspp. (plural) / subspp. (plural)
variety / var.
forma / form / f.
kind -> has been used to describe Pokémon stages; has also been used to confusedly describe creationism
clade
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class -> so many right and wrong definitions
worker -> cover different definitions of "working class" in mainstream Marxism-Leninism vs Maoism, etc
proletariat / proletarian -> cover "big proletariat" model versus smaller-proletariat models
entrepreneur / undertaker -> super often misused to mean investor/capitalist, when it best means director/founder
bourgeoisie / bourgeois
petty bourgeoisie / petty-bourgeois -> in my opinion a confused and outdated term that has conflated two different classes: Artisans and Careerists
Artisan / Artisan type / Artisanal / Artisanize -> a tiny business so small it has absolutely no room for employees
Careerist / Careerist / Careerism -> the class of people who survive by seeking out higher-quality Job Slots and insisting "social mobility" is normal
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
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
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
chunk competition / chunk-compete
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
Blobonomics
Everybodyism -> nameless prejudice against all other individuals as all individuals participate in Careerist competition to shove others out of social slots
Populationism -> nameless prejudice against all other populations
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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
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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.
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".
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
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
Serializer
Metaserializer / Franchiser
Metafranchiser
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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!"
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
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
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ecological fascism -> ecofascism definitions; purported encroachment of "Green Faceism" (gotta retrieve what that even was again)
nature / natural
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
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.
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.
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ego / egoism -> individualist concept of a self; id, ego, and superego; a few definitions
individualism -> people say this like it means something but it's like six different philosophies. I accidentally ~~piss~~ed 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.
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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"
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.
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.
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Existentialism / Existentialist-Structuralist tradition -> put all of like 20 senses of Existentialism on here because why not
existentialism / early existentialism
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)
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
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schizoanalysis / schizoanalyst
primitive Existentialism -> see "ES-strands"
entropy Existentialism -> see "ES-strands"
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morality Existentialism -> see "ES-strands". seems like it's been shown to be synonymous with democulture.
free-choice Existentialism -> see "ES-strands"
hyper-Liberalism / fractal Liberalism -> see "ES-strands"
Difference Existentialism -> see "ES-strands". near-synonymous with intersubjectivity. the more accurate name for this might be "intersubjectivity theories".
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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?
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.
filter / filtrate / filtration -> literal grating; censorship process in linguistic communication; meta-Marxism definition of process that orders people into movement Bauplan
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
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
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.
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
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.
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
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.
Bauplan -> building structural plan; animal body shape; in meta-Marxist usage, the physical shape of a movement or society
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.
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degree -> mathematical measurement; extent or extreme; certificate of academic expertise
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
absolute / Absolute / absolutism / absolutist
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)
alchemy
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.
idea / Idea
'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. [58] 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
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chemistry
1. common definition
2. chemistry of relationships
3. metaphor for history and movements being material objects with structure
threshold
1. sill-sized doorstep
2. mathematical / ecological definitions
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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
cult -> a localized religion for a specific local god or religious ontology; corrupt local religion - see "body without organs" / "Escape"
sect / sectarian / sectarianism -> category: concrete association process, noun-based
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)
worship / idol worship / idolatry -> religious ritual; figurative sense of "idolatry" toward some particular cause
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.
invisible pink unicorn
garage dragon / dragon in my garage / invisible garage dragon
flying spaghetti monster / FSM
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.
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"
Bolshevism
Marxism
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Trotskyism -> every variation of Trotskyism, so I don't have to put it on Leninism
communism / Communism / Communist
socialism / Socialism / socialist
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tag -> common definition; HTML tag; xml tag; mediawiki pseudo HTML tag; mediawiki edit label; etc
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relativity / relativistic -> special relativity; general relativity; earlier relativity models; separate term from "relative/relativism", but ok to link the two
predict / prediction / predictive
stochastic / stochastic process
unistochastic
orthostochastic -> I have no idea what this even is yet
observable -> noun
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
emergeable
indivisible -> has a special definition regarding non-Markovian stochastic processes
unitary
field -> data parameter; area of study; mathematical object in physics. on most but not all pages on this wiki it's the second
symmetry
invariance
gauge -> gauge transformation; gauge boson; gauge potential
quaternion
vector -> mathematical object; disease carrier
tensor
placeholder -> to be used for testing Lexemes, but also literally the concept of placeholders
matrix / matrices / The Matrix -> mathematical object; false reality
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emergence / weak emergence / strong emergence
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.
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
superposition -> general mathematical object of multiple possibilities considered at once; quantum superposition
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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".
role-playing (N,A) / roleplay (V) / roleplaying / experience taking ([59] [60]) / 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
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
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speedrun / speedrunning
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.
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
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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.
nonsense -> oddly enough, has several jargon definitions. nonsense mutation; non-sense (Lacanianism); others?
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".
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.
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
alien -> how many different rhetorical meanings are there in science fiction, there are a lot. also: foreigner
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
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)
greed
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 b~~ullshit~~
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
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
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.
immortal -> separate Lexeme which contains the concept in Buddhism sloppily called this when it's something different
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.
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metanarrative -> in my scrap about Vegeta and Asriel I realized there were multiple possible definitions of metanarrative. so here we go.
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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. [61] can turn into Calvinball if done really well to continuously expand mistakes into believable lore; can turn into a scottcon if done badly.
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
Calvinball -> game created by Calvin & Hobbes; metaphor for serialized writing
retcon
lore
continuity
canon / canonical
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.
Wings of Fire book 1 - qww
Wings of Fire book 2 - qww
Wings of Fire book 3 - qww
Wings of Fire book 4 - qww
Wings of Fire book 6 - qww
Wings of Fire book 5 - qww
Wings of Fire book 6 - qww
Wings of Fire book 7 - qww
Wings of Fire book 8 - qww
Wings of Fire book 9 - qww
Wings of Fire book 10 - qww
Wings of Fire book 11 - qww
Wings of Fire book 12 - qww
Wings of Fire book 13 - qww
Wings of Fire book 14 - qww
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.
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"
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"
present
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
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Amalthean interpretation / Amalthean
Beagelian interpretation / Beagelian / Beagelize

L900 - L999 meaningful names

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
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
they (impersonal pronoun)
they (personal pronoun) -> to be used for character Signifiers
he (personal pronoun) -> to be used for character Signifiers
she (personal pronoun) -> to be used for character Signifiers
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)"
it -> to be used for fictional object / character Signifiers
私（わたし）（代名詞） -> to be used for character Signifiers
あたし（代名詞）
俺（オレ）（代名詞） / オラ（代名詞）
僕（ぼく）（代名詞） -> honestly I've always been confused why there are two male pronouns but not two female pronouns
俺様（オレさま）（代名詞） / I think there are equivalents
わし（代名詞） -> this is the old people pronoun isn't it? that's what I half remember
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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 —"
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Joseph / José
1. a general-use name
2. name used in the Christian bible
3. Joseph as Stalin-follower name
Martin
1. a general-use name
2. (unattested) Martin as phenomenologist name
3. Martin as schizophrenia-(schizoanalysis-term) -> Petscop, Tapers
Felix
1. a general-use name
2. Felix or Guattari as schizoanalyst name
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1. a general-use name
2. Deleuze as schizoanalyst name
Theodore / Theo
1. a general-use name
2. Theodore as center-Liberal name
Michael / Mike
1. a general-use name
2. name used in the Christian bible
3. Mike as Bakuninist name
Peter / Pete
1. a general-use name
2. name used in the Christian bible
3. Peter as Kropotkinist name
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Karl / Carl
1. a general-use name
2. Karl as Marxist name
Leo / Lev
1. a general-use name
2. Leo as Trotskyist name
Rosa / Rose
1. a general-use name
2. Rosa as Trotskyist name
Greg
1. a general-use name
2. Greg as Trotskyist name
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Newton / Newtonian -> classical physics
Einstein / Einsteinian -> relativistic physics
Markov / Markovian / non-Markovian -> category: adjective-based, name-based
1. (positive definition)
2. non-Markovian: a stochastic process with memory
Everett / Everettian -> please just say many-worlds. this isn't one of those terms that makes me angry but, the opacity
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
Hamilton / Hamiltonian -> mathematical object or operation; equivocates with Alexander Hamilton depending on the context
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Gramsci / Gramscian
Marcuse / Marcusean
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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.
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Vegeta (impersonal pronoun) -> half-jokingly, half-seriously, but rather extensively used in MDem 5.2 drafts
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
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)
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(neologisms) -> we have room for at least 20 neopronouns, because there are way too many spaces here. doesn't matter if only one recorded character / author uses them.
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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
Trotsky / Trotskyist / Trotskyite -> for covering the difference between "Trotskyite conspiracy" and "Trotskyism"
Stalin / Stalinist / Stalinism / Stalin follower / Stalin-follower -> for covering the difference between "Stalinism" and "Stalin Thought"
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
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Urvogel -> Archaeopteryx's common name. separate lexeme because it could refer to different objects than A. lithographica.
Archaeopteryx lithographica / A. lithographica / Archaeopteryx sp. / Archaeopteryx
Tyrannosaurus rex / T. rex / Tyrannosaurus sp. / Tyrannosaurus / T-Rex / T-rex
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
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Linnaeus / L. -> Lexeme for "L." citation placed after binomial names, as in Pica pica (Linnaeus, 1758) or Hyacinthoides italica (L.)
plurality / plural -> category: static process term (concrete-noun-based)

L1001 - L2000 meaningful numbers

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

L2200 - L3000 works to be analyzed

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

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