20061112

The Bureaucracy of Arrogation

Hypothesis: Patterns fill our world in the spaces between the common forms of reasoning.

Ancillary Data: Computer operations exist at many tiers of abstraction. The one that you are reading this data on is actually the sixth or seventh, depending on the specific machine you are using. The original Babbage machines had only one - logic gates were the only layer of abstraction.

Then came machine codes, hexidecimal digitry to command the machines. However, interacting with the direct digital code was taxing, and so the third tier of abstraction was developed. This tier was assembly code - a direct one-to-one correlation between instructions and machine code. It was only next-to-impossible to work with.

Beyond that came many other tiers, but the breakthrough was the programming language. A single "word" in the programming language was an instruction set, reactive to inputs and outputs. It wasn't until later that people realized that compiled language programs had large (sometimes massive) amounts of unused program data. Attempts were made to streamline these programs, to remove the unused segment.

The result was failure. The "unused" segments were in fact vital to the performance and operation of the computer program. Odd "glitch" behavior was in fact the program doing as instructed. Programs developed "personalities" due to the erratic nature of their inceptions.

Correlation: In our cosmos, we have matter in various elements, the atoms and mollecules existing in various ion states. We have forces, like electromagnetism and gravity. All of these things, however, are the same thing - threads of nutral wavestate particles so small that ten billion of them could bombard your body in less than a second and result in no change of any kind to your body. These "nutrinos" and "hyperstrings" are the first layer of abstraction, the "logic gates" of the cosmos. Every step beyond, from quantum tunneling to singularity to sociology, is merely some layers of abstraction beyond this basic thing.

Extension of Concept: Sapience, in most ways, is simply the aberration of cosmic assembly code interacting at different layers of abstraction, the layer of thought being among the most abstract.

Primary Conclusion: All forces in the cosmos are manipulable by means of its "secondary patterns". Through advanced pattern recognition and manipualtion, there is no entity in the cosmos that is immutable on either a micro- or a macro-scale.

Secondary Conclusion: Sapience is not a freedom. It is a controllable thing. Such chaotic-yet-deterministic sapience comes about as a consequence of the secondary data in our nervous architecture manipulating our primary processes, producing the illusion of personality, individuality, and freedom. These items can be easily changed by the most subtle of methods.

Tertiary Conclusion: The universe can be replicated, altered in macroscale, or annihilated in its entirely by a properly-timed microscale event.

THE WILL OF DIVINITY IS CORRECTABLE.

20061103

The Bureaucracy of Margins

People are unequal, but in a society in which tyranical rule is to be avoided it is mandatory for equilibrium to be achieved between all members of the society, no matter the disparity between them. In addition, it is mandatory for a single individual to have power over the entire system, the capacity to destabilize it. Thus, equality in society is achieved through a state of perpetual instability.

The purpose of the Bureaucracy of Margins is to ensure equity between all patients of the Ataraxia Foundation. We preside over law and justice. We pass laws specifically designed to render one group or another disenfranchised in some way. In the end, every person becomes disenfranchised by the law, but each person wants what freedoms the others have. As a consequence, each person and each group develops a strict "us/them" dichotomy, no matter how false.

People attempt to defect from one group to another to enjoy freedoms, they attempt to force themselves into certain freedoms, and they lash out at anybody attempting to work towards the freedoms they already possess. In this way, equality on all levels is felt. Each group has equal disenfranchisement collateral to their condition, and each individual has the power to trigger catastrophic destabilization between forces (rioting, hate crimes, etc.). The world continues on its way not because everybody thinks they're equal, but because they know they're not and believe that this is an artificial condition.

Preservation of balance in society comes only through a process of mutually-assured marginalization.