Croix S. Almer

Oh look at the date!
#zangooseday #ザングースの日

You did fantastic!

some peepee pumping for the timeline. for fun, while i still can.

a fat short jackalope jamming his tongue up a chubby boy's hairy asshole.

peaked with this one

*shlomf shlomf*

wish i devoted my time to learn how the fuck to make art, instead of shit about nazis

star robot✨

its projects are consistently about making knowledge require greater capacity, and bigotry require less capacity.

anyway.

a lot of people believe bigotries are individualistic, about hate, and would be solved if people just Knew Better.
i think this misunderstands the problem so, so much.

problem then is that at the state level, bigotry is actually extremely useful for consolidating power. the state is never going to want to implement policy which increases the cost of bigotry or lowers the cost of knowledge.

if you watch what the state does, it does the opposite of that in fact.

"do you feel ashamed? have you considered it's actually ____'s fault?" is now the buy in for 99% of fascist grifts.

likewise, comtech revolutions like the internet radically lower the cost of knowledge transmission, or compress knowledge more effectively.

huge boom in queer progress post internet.

we've tried different methods of this in the past. "shame" for example was effective for brief periods. when it became socially stigmatized to be a bigot, adoption rates went down.

however, engines of cultural production adapted, and made bigotry easier to adopt by focusing on shame negation.

solving bigotry is never going to be handled at the individual level. it is an emergent product of our social reality.

combating it means making the capacity cost substantially higher to discourage adoption.
if it costs 16 to be bigoted but 10 to be educated, you'll get more of the latter.

complex networks of information become flat and legible. a bigotry is a highly effective tool for resolving a lot of cognitive tasks in the social world, on which our survival now critically depends.

performing bigotry sometimes nets you millions of dollars in support. it is a social strategy.

what do bigotries offer?
immediate social clarification. there is an in-group you belong to and receive benefits from, and an out-group who you must produce hatred for. social questions like "morality" and "goodness" are handled immediately and flatteringly, because you're good and they're not.

bigotry's survival strategy in the memetic metagame is that it is highly compressed, highly reproductive, naturally emergent, fast moving and highly effective information.

that Dino Bone information is going to cost you 15 capacity. but this bigotry will do quite a lot for you at only .01 capacity.

if i spend twenty years learning all the information i'll ever need to pinpoint the location of every dinosaur bone on the planet, then i need to be in collaboration with people who know how to make those bones into something useful for this to benefit my survival.

so how does bigotry factor in?

and learning this knowledge is a massive time investment with invisible and varying value with regards to how well you survive.

knowledge is hard to acquire. it cannot be easily transferred. and it is relatively useless on the scale of individuals.
knowledge is however very useful in collaboration.

here's one example of something we all have to do that takes up a lot of our capacity: learning languages (lingual, symbolic, cultural). clothing is a language. media literacy is a language. your verbal language has hundreds of dialects, some of which better express emotion and others imperialism.

in return for buying into those systems, they make a set of default assumptions/choices for you. that's the cost of the tools.

anyway, our survival needs have shifted. we're a social species, and so navigating the social world takes up a huge percentage of our total capacity.

it doesn't mean it's any less complex, we have just found methods of socializing the cost and making its creation and acquisition easier.
the grocery store itself runs off of hundreds of subsystems that are incredibly complex. these tools take most of the cognitive load off of us specifically.

you had to know where to acquire the food, how to acquire it, how to prepare it or cultivate it, and you had to allocate a lot of time to it.

over time we've created so many millions of technologies intended to lower how much capacity is required for food gathering. maybe it costs a 2 now.

imagine everyone can store 100 data, and they have to partition that to support various tasks.

we cannot raise that base 100, that's just the hardware humans come with. but we can lower the cost of software running on it.

"food gathering" for example. at a start, it may have taken as much as 30.

it stands to reason that if reality itself is evil, then doing anything to defy it is probably good.

It's a lucky few who get to actually learn and develop.

And this also goes for Faith and Ritual. Those are the highly compressed, streamlined information packets of the Spiritual and Material world.

Anyway. Yeah, somehow, just being conscious is well above the bare minimum.

To actually know the world requires years and decades of work. Information that is so large that by virtue of its size, it is near impossible to transfer to others.
No one has that time when they're living under brutally austere capitalism, intentionally designed to waste their time.

So, bigotries are highly streamlined information for addressing the social world. Adopt one and instantaneously you have an in-group and an out-group. Questions about your competence and morality vanish, because flatteringly, you're not one of the bad ones. Politics is solved. How to live is solved.

I think the way we understand bigotries is just way off the mark as well. They produce hatred, but they are not about hatred.

Humans are small, we have very limited capacity for data. The social world, the spiritual world, and the material world are all too complex for any one person.

Thanks, Rem Deadlock. But I never did any of this, I just lived in a box my entire life. I couldn't do any of this, so I became colorful dancing pixels.

If this were a poster it would slap so hard.

one thing is certain of this world: it will ask you what you love, and if you answer it, it will use that thing to kill you.

so die for something that you value. i can think of no way I’d rather die.

anything good that has ever been had been a gift from those
who defied convention and stepped off the beaten paths and searched out where others do not.

this is the realm of art and imagination. to chase truth is to one day see in color for the first time. it is an endless pursuit.