Notices by Nate Cull (natecull@mastodon.social), page 17

@zensaiyuki well yeah, she was White Russian though, who are the bitterest anti-Communists in the world. Her family lost everything to the Bolsheviks and she wanted revenge. And got it.

I like him a lot though.

He had me at the words 'systems thinkers'.

Also at his chord changes.

I like him a lot though.

He had me at the words 'systems thinkers'.

Also at his chord changes.

huh, here's Milenko Matanovic, of the Findhorn/Lorian circle (and musician for the New Troubadours circa 1972) talking to the Auckland City Council in 2015

And he was in Christchurch too!

I wish I could feel that 'community development' has any actual meaning now that house prices have soared to insanely unaffordable levels. How can any kind of urban planning mean anything anymore if only the rich can get houses to start with?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_AGfZkJZ0c

@zensaiyuki also the failure of capitalism in 1929 must have just... hit these people so hard it practically made them unhinged.

"This cannot happen. This cannot be happening. This cannot have happened. This didn't happen. It must have been a Communist plot! The Great Depression was all Communist lies!"

@zensaiyuki and I imagine they were looking aghast at the rise of FDR's Democratic/Progressive politics and going '.... what in the HECK are all these people thinking? what happened to the America I knew? is it some kind of mind virus? what's all this nonsense about the wellbeing of the group? this isn't how Real Men Of Power And Action think!'

@zensaiyuki also I suppose if people came up in business through, say, the cutthroat 1920s-30s, and survived and became millionaires and then went looking for an economic ideology to defend that wealth against a culture rapidly souring on the idea of millionaires... probably chances were good that those people also didn't have much in the way of altruism, so 'nobody ever is altruistic' seemed like an accurate model of their personal social networks.

@zensaiyuki that's a fascinating story!

makes a terrifying lot of sense. Game theory was big in the nuclear war scene, where it probably *was* a good working assumption that both the USA and USSR were 1) acting like psychopaths toward the other yet 2) still mostly rational

@zensaiyuki Only that he struggled to achieve equilibrium

@zensaiyuki << “You have seen the puzzle of the Paper Ring?” Mein Herr said, addressing the Earl. “Where you take a slip of paper, and join its ends together,
first twisting one, so as to join the _upper_ corner of _one_ end to the _lower_ corner of the _other_?”

“The _bag_ is just like that, isn’t it?” I suggested. “Is not the _outer_ surface of one side of it continuous with the _inner_surface of the other side?” >>

@zensaiyuki Fun fact: Lewis Carroll, in 'Sylvie and Bruno Concluded', half-seriously describes a 3D structure called the 'Purse of Fortunatus' which is basically a Klein Bottle... I think the idea was 'three Mobius Strips sewn together'

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/48795/48795-0.txt

@zensaiyuki Oh yeah, Islamic art/architecture is full of maths and fractals and stuff.

but, eg, if the cube is a 3D representation, the hex star formation is a 2D representation, a 1D representation is something like

( ( ( o ) ) )

@zensaiyuki Penrose himself certainly seems to believe that something spooky goes on in the human brain.

@zensaiyuki Penrose himself certainyl seems to believe that something spooky goes on in the human brain.

The idea that came to me a few months back is that the 3+3 map to something like two genders and three ages (ie, of which the Celtic Triple Goddess is a surviving example of the female half, and the Sphinx's Riddle the male half).

Also, perhaps, three generations of a polarised field or waveform. Three 'shells of light' or three local world-planes.

The 1 is the zero balance point.

All of these probably just geometrical / biological metaphors for something not entirely representable.

The 12 in the middle are nice. But one could move the small points of the 12 to the edges, and you'd get something maybe clearer, if perhaps blander.

Coded as edges, the small points indicate rotations to opposite 'polarity' faces, assuming the faces are polarised in a way that maps to the two overlapping triangles of the hexagram. (Which seems to be a big part of the 3+3+1 thing; I'm not sure why, but it's very definitely there). The big points indicate rotations to the same polarity.

It must be something about how my brain is wired but I absolutely love this image.

Quite a neat way of illustrating that recurring esoteric Jewish-Persian-Indian construct of (7=1+3+3)+12. Which seems to roughly correspond with the 7 directions and 12 edges of the cube. Interesting that it puts the 12 inside of the outer 6.

Symmetry = beauty? Not always, but in this case it seems to be.

This author is maybe not making this case... I don't really even grasp WHAT they are saying about conflict, except perhaps that they find most modern fiction boring. Something that I agree with. Perhaps they just want the conflicts in the stories to be real, not artificial? And I would agree. But again: I would say that that need to artificially *introduce*, not *resolve*, interpersonal conflicts, is the neoliberal (ie: conservative, competitive, capitalist) impulse.