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All the different worlds, cultures, and stories we might be able to experience through the genre of fiction across various forms of media, maybe most vividly in gaming...

and it's always just white Christian Europe over and over

That's just how fascism works, there are telltale characteristics: adopting the language of the left, rewriting history, identifying a vague national "enemy" etc

Human nature is when people like mega-yachts and shit, and definitely not something like being with your loved ones

Related to liberal philosophy and psychology, I think, the whole "rational actors" perspective of the human being. That we are machines that take some input and spit out an output in reliable and accurate ways. The ones who don't are ignored as part of humanity to maintain the definition.

Another way to look at education is that it is a factory line to output workers to exploit for labor. The defects are discarded, and the ones who make it out are the ones who somehow take any input and reliably accurate and exploitable output (labor)

Which is why graduates of most fields have no experience and function on cultivated instincts like memorization. Only when a worker works with their actual hands, so to speak, do they learn real knowledge of their labor. This is how education used to be, an apprenticeship sort of model, which you still see in certain trades and fields like the medical field.

Yeah like the one poster who wanted to fuck the bunny cop

I realize how that sounds. Maybe we should have a wiki like someone else suggested

That's just language in general, people together create lects like dialects, sociolects, etc. Just like how a group of friends have inside jokes only they know. Or memes emerge online to serve as symbols and references for communication.

Hexbear is an independent online social space, so of course we'd eventually see our own slang and lects! We even have our own lore, but I don't get it too much either tbh

This song captures how I feel looking out at a snowy winter night: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sbOiD7PZsQM

It's from an instrumental piano album called December by George Winston

I want to interpret this as a phase diagram. I wonder what that octuple point feels like. An unstable and ephemeral moment, yet consisting of all possible mental experiences of the world at once?

Could that be enlightenment? Medium challenge, medium skill?

Yeah I think it was Kim Stanley Robinson who said that sci-fi is taken as religious mythology often, like the prophecy of superluminal space travel or machine superintelligence, very much like prophecies of heaven and a savior god.

Also the point that if you point this out as a myth, whatever your credentials as a sci-fi writer or even a physicist, the faithful will launch a crusade against you

There are non-literary religious traditions. This is most of human religious experience in fact

Language is only possible and enjoyable because of ambiguity.

Otherwise we have Lojban or Ithkuil for the hyper-rationalist types. I'd actually like to have a conversation with one of them if they can really pick it up, but that's just because I'm a nasty conlanger who enjoys shit like this

So you enjoy hanging out even if you don't catch any fish?