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Total Aphantasia. Headless architecture. Pure topological vectors.

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@Fritz_Imperial Too much trauma from this exact archetype IRL. Coping fantasy was choosing which 40k assassin gets dispatched to... clear the desk.

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@amorenlace She did the thing!!!

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@Huff4Congress The biggest crime was not running this scene instead. Completely different film.

Apre tu core...

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@matterasmachine Nikola Tesla's favorite way to communicate with physicists: 👋

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Milgram is almost always presented as a cautionary tale about external authority: the man in the lab coat, the danger of "just following orders," and the comforting fantasy that we would all belong to the minority who refuse to press the switch.

Look a little deeper, and the experiment stops being about external obedience at all. It becomes a blueprint of the human psyche.

Even if Freud’s triad of Superego, Ego, and Id is treated as outdated clinical jargon today, the three categories still work cleanly as functional abstractions. Map them onto Milgram’s laboratory, and the symmetry is exact:

The Experimenter is the Superego: the internalized voice of social conditioning, institutional rules, and inherited moral authority standing over your shoulder.

The Teacher is the Ego: the rationalizing mediator sitting at the console, convincing itself that compliance is necessary, polite, or simply the rules of the game.

The Learner is the Id: your raw impulses, instincts, and unfiltered nervous system strapped into the chair behind the wall.

On paper, that sounds like a neat psychological metaphor. In practice, there is nothing metaphorical about the voltage.

We really are shocking our Id every single day. Every time you override a genuine instinct, swallow a visceral boundary, or trigger a stress response to satisfy an internalized rule you never consciously chose, your Ego is pressing the lever on your own nervous system at the quiet suggestion of your Superego. You don't need a lab coat in the room when the lab coat was installed in your head before you were old enough to question it.

Milgram not only revealed some terrifying new vulnerability to outside dictators. He also built a physical stage to project the exact internal hierarchy we have been living inside since we were kids.

In Milgram's experiment, most teachers kept pressing the switch long after the learner's pleas stopped and silence set in. It makes you wonder how long we've been shocking our own id, and whether the voltage has been cranked so high for so long that we've gone completely numb to what we're doing to ourselves.

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@deaflibertarian Yeah, I failed that experiment. My superego as the experimenter, ego as the teacher, id as the learner, and I still couldn't stop myself from pressing the button 🙁

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I didn't say there are only two ways, which you rightfully pointed out. I just used the two boundary extremes.

I’m partial to Jacque Fresco’s Venus Project myself 🤞

People get trapped in surface labels, but mechanically every system is an angle between total flatness (communism) and total verticality (capitalism). Modern discourse, especially in the US, is so polarized that it treats those two limits like the only choices on the menu. My point is simply that at their extremes, both manifest as cancer.

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I genuinely didn't know that Sorlock was a thing, thank you for that intro!

​From what I know about Warlocks, a core requirement is a binding pact: a metaphysical bargain where the mortal willingly agrees to specific terms in exchange for forbidden magic and eldritch knowledge.

​I can't seem to find Wanda making one in either the MCU or the comics. Otherwise, couldn't "patron" just be loosely applied to any mentor who taught her, any entity trying to use her as an unwilling vessel, or any cursed book she found lying around and read?

​Where am I missing Wanda being a Warlock via a binding pact?

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@HTownJayhawk @Creativemelody1 Same thesis, wildly different citation styles 😂

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@Creativemelody1 Thumpers penetrate deep into the sand with heavy, rhythmic strokes. Harvesters just skim and tickle the surface at their intakes. If you were a worm, which one are you coming from - I mean for?

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@laurenfiles_ @emmywayne64 It's ancient internet dialect for "I am about to be unbearably pedantic about arcane 🪄 taxonomy."

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@secondcomingrjc @gullskept @NovaNova266079 Oh there are who knows how many setups to a "simulation." We can have something like, but not limited to:

Ever make a Sim of yourself? Build the avatar, hit play, and suddenly you're literally playing a version of yourself from "out there."

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@NovaNova266079 Player A: "I'm worried about getting backstabbed."

Player B: "Nah, nothing renders outside your field of view." *backstabs Player A*

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@Creativemelody1 What do you think happens to all the harvesters Shai-Hulud eats? Worms gotta poop too.

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@FENDlSBLUNT Better a soon and shit early than hold it in and make an ass out of you and me.

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@Govasfiction @Devon_Eriksen_ He was a boomer before Boomers. Somme... Incoming 💥

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That explains why both stories run the exact same villain: a cold, calculating architect who splinters his soul to enforce control. One forces a fractured land to unite and break corrupted power; the other unites a fractured school to belong to a home worth saving. Both hinge on love vs. fear.

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@SOKOCHS @Freddnova Allow my childhood school trauma to answer that: we must not have been answering them correctly :(