In other ways, people seem to associate into groups around particular ideologies relatively naturally, and start all moving at once like one object. Religion. People getting pushed away from one race category and into another one through the process of forming populations. People sorting together around the same experiences of gender, and settling onto their accurate gender, and possibly forming a movement. Not all of it is reducible simply to "cultural traditions", "cultural compatibility". What if people cluster into a more highly-specific, constructed identity like "Trotskyist" or "Gramscian"? It's like there's something actively gluing people together that keeps them from merging into the same Marxism. Something which also might be operating in some of the supposedly "cultural" cases.
I have been fixated on quarks for a really strange reason.
Of course I take the literal physics on their own seriously, as you can see here.
But I have been thinking about whether capitalist biases have warped everyone's sense of what causality and time are.
Everyone keeps trying to understand society from the point of view of specific individuals and the life they supposedly "choose".
But every time, I would keep thinking, does any interaction of two anythings in the universe function that way? Every interaction uses and comes from each of the objects at once. Every chemical reaction, every bundle of quarks, every interaction between two animals we can name.
Caveat #2: I could absolutely be wrong.
The meat of this, if it were going to become a paper, is really the problem of unifying special and general relativity with determinism.
Special relativity doesn't seem like such a problem, because all the equations you get in basic textbooks are always standing on some specific point which can observe other things moving in time according to its own perception of time even if movement distorts it. But general relativity isn't like that. The point of general relativity is basically that the reference frames get smaller, and anything that happens in the universe could happen starting anywhere without happening according to the perception of time on any other planet or roadside or atom or anything. Again it might seem like "what's the big deal?".
But the big deal is that almost every physics equation assumes that there is such a thing as time evolution. There seems to be a really fundamental assumption since Newton that everything that happens in the universe is similar to a thrown ball arcing through the air, where you can add in a time axis and it doesn't conflict with anything else happening on the surrounding earth. But looking at the above (imperfect?) description of general relativity, you can already see how that violates the concept of being able to start at any position in the universe and having no special position for observing events. Doesn't general relativity suggest that every proton can be its own "observer"? Can a quark be an observer? We know a gauge boson can't stop and be an observer because then it would be difficult to describe causality, but if we exclude those and only pick slower, more massive things, where does it end?
Today my best guess was that it ended approximately at quarks. Quarks were the smallest observers, approximately, and they would observe gluon exchange binding them into a proton which would occur in time. The reason the three quarks point in different yet unknown color directions (entanglement of color charge) is basically that everything is happening at once; the three quarks are all having an equally valid reference frame and exchanging gluons from one reference frame to another, all sort of rotating around interchangeably because their constant balanced interactions have made them equally important to the history dimension and thus approximately interchangeable.
Here is what I think: physicists might be oversimplifying things by not separating these three reference frames into different timelines that then combine.
There is a probability dimension below time — Q405
The claim that a single dimension of time is not a sufficient model for investigating the relationship between relativity and quantum mechanics, but the real model specifically looks like one non-spatial dimension of many tiny fermion-like things attempting to evolve in time virtually and one non-spatial dimension of history which represents the final outcome of how all the virtual timelines actually interacted (3+1+1D space). Relativity is two or three times becoming one history. The time or probability dimension is a construct that makes mathematical equations possible, the history dimension is real.
[Dimensionality:] S2 - proposition or hypothesis
[Field:] Physics (STM)
You might or might not have been able to guess that.
It's the layer of "Careerist" types who spend huge amounts of time and money on education and then have to move around to tons of places gambling and gambling on different corporations and government sub-structures before they finally get a career.
This is the group of people that's writing a lot of First-World ideology and trying to convince everyone that they're the only class that exists.
The most ironic thing about it is that Careerists are often appalled by their own ideology, wondering who could have created something so soul-crushing and insensitive.
How could you act like Rudolph or the red angry bird will only be accepted when they're useful?? You created that. That was you.
originating class — P92
Property for associating a concept or proposition with the social class that is believed to have created or popularized it according to current Marxist understandings.
[Dimensionality:] P - Property; basic statement about Item, data table slot
[Field:] mainstream Marxism-Leninism (ML), meta-Marxism (MX)
[Data type:] Item - concept or object
I remember outlets like PragerU and Fox News getting so upset about it circa 2015, almost always in the context of "universities!" "people coming to universities and making them into nothing but women's studies, Black studies, and gender studies!"
and quite honestly, I found that so incomprehensible I basically wrote the entire thing off as a reactionary conspiracy theory that had nothing to do with real life.
Only much later did I finally find out that Antonio Gramsci had existed and I was like "......oh". Gramsci believed, in a nutshell, that Marxist parties would only successfully form if progressive types already controlled all the bourgeois positions of prestige and held them down from reactionaries.
What had seemingly happened was Tory types had found out about Gramscianism and freaked out about it and confused anarchism and anti-racism for Gramscianism when they were never the exact same entity.
From there things only got more confusing. I asked myself many times if Gramsci was remotely right on the particular point that people could occupy parts of society to change culture, or "the popular mentality" as he put it.
For a while I thought he was simply wrong. "It's like he thinks there's a single Spanishness Office that rules on what all culture will be. Can there really be such a thing?"
I was convinced for a while that there was no Spanishness Office. What Gramsci recommended might work practically for some purposes but it wasn't actually changing "culture".
Only after a lot of thinking did I realize that most likely, it was a deepity to try to claim this, because after everyone had been going on about "culture" and "mentality" and "attitudes" I'd made a wrong assumption in thinking that "culture" and "mentality" were actually what any of this was about.
What I think now after dissecting this concept over and over is that it is actually an argument about free will. What people are actually doing is arguing over whether corporations and government offices have free will.
And that may sound ridiculous. But if, say, a corporation is being misogynistic, it has to be making that decision somehow. This leads people to elaborate discussions about how they can basically hijack or rebuild the free will of corporations into a different "desire" to mitigate the damage they cause as fast as possible.
So, are there Spanishness Offices? Yes. There are going to be some ten million Spanishness Offices that will all do whatever they want in spontaneity to the detriment of everybody unless millions of people in millions of places can conquer each and every one of them separately.
The Spanishness Office — Q21,50
The abstract concept of the overall culture of a nation or population being a singular, nearly-physical place such that if people don't like how Spain's culture is treating the people of Spain they could just all flood into the Spanishness Office and take it over.
[Dimensionality:] S1 - motif or phenomenological description of concept
[Field:] Western Marxism / Gramscianism (W)
I've half settled onto "it feels like a matrix?"
I think this because the imaginary square roots i and j (which squares to 1) have both been assembled from matrices that each happen to multiply into -1 and 1.
I do not know how to make a matrix add to exactly itself to produce zero but it feels too close to things that are possible to rule out just yet.
star — Q5,38
A number-like object which is not a positive or negative integer, somehow simultaneously both between 0 and 1 and between 0 and -1. It cancels itself out when added to itself, but unlike zero it can have multiples. (The first whole multiple is called *1.)
[Dimensionality:] S1 - motif or phenomenological description of concept
[Field:] combinatorial game theory (STM)
Today?
I was possessed to take this older game called Telefang and start imagining a Telefang region which would act like a fantasy Third World country. My thoughts are this.
Digimon is really futuristic.
Some fantasy worlds are really ancient, like how Pokémon was able to turn itself into Legends: Arceus.
But Telefang is so neatly situated in this era exactly after ancient fantasy and before the era of social media and good internet, like some kind of missing piece. I think this is some people's favorite era, honestly.
It's so easy to re-frame it as like, an awkward world behind the times that is bumbling along at its own pace.
Telefang "legends". We're in the historical period before cell phones and there are carrier pigeon things, but just like in the real world, only these rare big estates have them.
The plot revolves around central characters that are like foot messengers that travel long distances because there isn't technology.
Denjuu everywhere just wish things could go a little faster and the world could finally get to modernizing.
Of course, this will expose the world to the danger of external corporations invading it and trying to own it or make it dependent on them. Exactly like happened in the original game. This could literally be a prequel
But what I really like is the idea of an alternate swath of Denjuu that didn't give into the pressures of Sanaeba and basically created defenses to this situation ahead of time
In the original game there are "Natural Denjuu" and "Cultivated Denjuu"
But I think in this continuity there would be a third category? I don't know what it would be called. The third category is trying to build things domestically, basically, rather than changing due to the influence of foreign technology.
This could make a lot of game-mechanical sense. Natural Denjuu had natural evolutions and Cultivated Denjuu would often have "modified" evolutions, if I remember right. The new category of Denjuu would have their own distinct preference of evolution methods and other small distinctions like that.
They'd represent this particular bloc of "Communist" Denjuu trying to work together and build something constructive, not letting the outside control the Denjuu world, trying not to end up stuck with the "responsibility" of becoming capitalist empire just to resist it.
There is just something about this that really feels right. It's somehow poetic to take this game that became infamous because a Third World country just barely developing a videogame industry made a bootleg of it to not have to import foreign games, and make the story genuinely themed around that perspective.
Especially when those themes were already weakly but noticeably present in the un-garbled game already.
> since I became RD...
> I have had this thing for taking every fictional universe and trying to figure out how it transitions through Communism
until you realize what they're really advocating,
and then you go "...oh. that's rather horrifying"
Taiwanese massage degrees going to Turkey — Q12,102
The motif of spambots posting semi-nonsensical advertisements about how easy it is to get Turkish citizenship once you get a massage degree, or something vaguely in that vein, substituting Turkey for various countries but often keeping the theme of "massage certificates" or "massage tools".
This is a complicated scheme, but when you boil it down, what this appears to be is neocolonialism.
Step one is to persuade every country that capitalism is freedom (this is not mentioned on any spambot page). Step two is to attract a bunch of would-be capitalists from other countries to Turkey or Jamaica to generate businesses. Step three: the capitalists get citizenship. Step four: ten thousand Taiwanese capitalists dictate all the policies of Turkey based on what Taiwanese people would prefer, and insist that Turkey's people thinking up anything else is undemocratic. They remain connected to their families in Taiwan if they feel like it. They thoroughly disclaim that this is Taiwan conquering Turkey because they didn't hand Turkey to the government office of the island of Taiwan, thus it must be okay. If accused of settler-colonialism they shrug their shoulders and say they didn't violently claim all of Turkey in a war or kill its people, they just started businesses. And they don't know why living in a place doesn't entitle you to a government that serves you.
This scheme should really open people's eyes to how toothless the word "colonialism" is by itself at protecting anyone from empires. When all countries are chopped into pieces for sale, governments always serve the people that live in them.
[Dimensionality:] S1 - motif or theme
[Apparent ideology:] classical liberalism (ES/LR)
The kids are treating international wars like casual war games and throwing around armies of adults like toy soldiers.
The adults decide they aren't going to take it any more.
The kids are staunch Idealists. The adults are Materialists.
The setting morphs into a weirdly scathing critique of Idealist models of society that makes you question if Growing Around is actually just a perfect metaphor for capitalism
In Soviet Russia, adults rule you — S2 / Q69,83
The fan theory that everyone regenerates the system of kids being in control and adults being subordinate because kids strictly maintain that only this can bring freedom. In the Soviet Union region adults broke it all open, but they were ultimately defeated, and children subsequently gloated that only a world that lets kids create utter chaos and paintball the world with conflicting kinds of "creativity" understands "having ideals" and "freedom for all limited by equal freedom for others".
[Dimensionality:] S2 - proposition or hypothesis
[Field:] fictional-universe fan theories (Fy)
[Series:] Growing Around