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I have a half-baked theory... one which is not mine to bring to fruition alone, should it even be of value: the relationship between referees and players is pro

I have a half-baked theory... one which is not mine to bring to fruition alone, should it even be of value: the relationship between referees and players is probably the best analogy to a functional world order plausible. The players can't have a say on the rulings, and the refs shouldn't have an opinion on the winners. In other words, you're either in the game, or out, but never both. I imagine a world where there's a very clear delineation between people who are currently in and currently out. When you're in, you go with the flow. You follow your heart, sing, dance, try to be happy, be creative. And when you're out, that shits a no go. You remember what it was like to be emotional, you empathize, but decisions must be strictly non-impulsive. People take turns going from one side to the other. Too long on either side and you'd lose sight, ruin the game. It's also kind of analogous to trip-sitters.

pdkl95 7y ago
> You remember what it was like to be emotional, you empathize, but decisions must be strictly non-impulsive. Bruce Sterling called that group "Zen Serotonin" in his novel Schismatreix[1] about posthuman ideologies. They enforced their "strictly non-impulsive" zen-like calm with biomonitor-regulated sci-fi drugs. They advocated strongly for social order and slowing the rate of social change. My username ("pdkl95") is based on the opposite ideology. It is another sci-fi drug from Schismatrix, used by another ideological faction to force (often destructively, as brain damage) a change in perspective; it forces someone out of the comfortably familiar paradigm that Zen Serotonin tried to maintain. This "clear delineation" between groups will eventually happen. All species eventually fracture into separate daughter-species. Instead of finding different ecological niches, human will speciate into different ideological niches. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schismatrix#Ideologies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schismatrix#Ideologies

pdkl95 7y ago

> You remember what it was like to be emotional, you empathize, but decisions must be strictly non-impulsive. Bruce Sterling called that group "Zen Serotonin" in his novel Schismatreix[1] about posthuman ideologies. They enforced their "strictly non-impulsive" zen-like calm with biomonitor-regulated sci-fi drugs. They advocated strongly for social order and slowing the rate of social change. My username ("pdkl95") is based on the opposite ideology. It is another sci-fi drug from Schismatrix, used by another ideological faction to force (often destructively, as brain damage) a change in perspective; it forces someone out of the comfortably familiar paradigm that Zen Serotonin tried to maintain. This "clear delineation" between groups will eventually happen. All species eventually fracture into separate daughter-species. Instead of finding different ecological niches, human will speciate into different ideological niches. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schismatrix#Ideologies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schismatrix#Ideologies