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‘0.|0 This post is here to provide a slightly technical description of this blog’s ‘riffs’ and ‘posts’ labeling method for finding posts and ‘riffs’ that remind readers of concepts and terms that relate to matters while they are being discussed. You can simply ignore these labels when they are not of help, and simply omit them in comments

‘1.|0 Various passages in the posts will be marked by ‘riffs’. These riffs are short labels that refer to passages that may provide requisite definitions and expositions. This labeling scheme is optimized to expedite the find function of word processors, and also reference to passages in printed documents.

‘2.|0 In each riff ”X.|Y’, ”X’ will be in base_10 notation and ‘.|Y’ will be in base_8 (i.e. octal) notation. This is because base-8 numbers are much easier to divide by 2. Note that 1/4 is expressed as ‘0.25’ in base 10, but 1/4 is expressed as ‘0.2’ in base 8, since base_10 1/4 = base_10 2.5/10 = ‘0.25’, but base_10 1/4 = base_8 2/8 = base_8 ‘0.2’.

Note that the digits ‘8’ and ‘9’ never appear in octal numbers. This riff marking scheme will serve us well. An example of a reference to a riff is (‘vide’ or ‘see’) ‘376.|4 [^200715] (see below).

‘3.|0 Nominally ‘dated’ designators such as ‘[^YYMMDD]’ will reference designatums (‘targets’) such as ‘[*YYMMDD]’, which will be placed in posts in order to simplify reader access. Blogging system-assigned (‘platform’ or infrasystem assigned) publication dates may differ from these author-assigned reference dates.

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Extra clues for those who would rather not have to recall 6th grade ‘number theory’ —

The so-called ‘numbers’ written on paper are actually just symbols for designating actual ‘designatums’ that are concepts in the abstract mathematics world, not the physical one. The symbol ‘479.25’ is a physical designator of an actual abstract mathematics world (real) number. So we can use differing ‘symbol systems’ to designate the various numbers of the mathematics world.

Base ten positive real numbers can be represented as:
(…C⛌10³ + B⛌10² + A⛌10 + Ω⛌1 + a⛌(1/10) + b⛌(1/10)² + c⛌(1/10)³…)

Base eight positive real numbers can be represented as:
(…C⛌8³ + B⛌8² + A⛌8 + Ω⛌1 + a⛌(1/8) + b⛌(1/8)² + c⛌(1/8)³…)

So (base 10) ‘479.25’ can be represented in base ten as:
4⛌10² + 7⛌10 + 9⛌1 + 2⛌(1/10) + 5⛌(1/10)² + 0⛌(1/10)³ = base-10_479.25

And (base 10) ‘479.25’ can be represented in base eight as:
7⛌8² + 3⛌8 + 7⛌1 + 2⛌(1/8) + 0⛌(1/8)² + 0⛌(1/8)³ = base-8_737.2

That was great fun, wasn’t it!

1:.0 Hypercrafting is a human way of dealing with the substances of the earth, and also of dealing with the minds of fellow humans. Luxthralldom is rather a condition of the human mind, created consciously, or perhaps even sometimes unconsciously, via the action of aristocratic minds over plebeian minds. It can arise anywhere, and one never knows exactly where. Let us imagine.

2:.0 Suppose upon the lovely break of one bright morning, you decide to open up a restaurant. You will need to convince people roaming around the street to ‘visit’ your restaurant, and actually, you know, buy food.

(To be continued…)

1:.0 Nothing beats an honestly narrated little anecdote for easing the reader into something that might mistakenly be expected to constitute a complex explanation, so…

While I was out shopping in town a few days ago, a bit of my little journey took me across an about 200 foot long parking lot. Heading into the parking lot I made one of those odd, very brief instant acquaintances with a nice young fellow who was doing time as a grad student at the local university. We got to talking for maybe a minute or two about some vague thing or other. When we reached the other end of the parking lot we came to an ill-kept grassy median strip, where I picked up a misshapen gritty rock about the size of a small coconut. I spoke to my new acquaintance “Isn’t that just the most beautiful car you’ve ever seen?” It was a sleek and sensuous brand-new bright red Corvette. This machine had a quality that surely transcended the concept of symmetry. It possessed a sort of perfection that effectively sneered at the grossness of the world that surrounded it. I told my acquaintance “I am now going to hurl this rock at the windshield of that beautiful new car.” Making as big of a show of it as I possibly could, I wound up a wild fling and hurled the rock through the windshield of the beautiful car, resulting in a virtual explosion of shattering glass, and a hole that was significantly larger that what I had expected.

As I said above, nothing beats an honestly narrated little anecdote for easing the reader… Unfortunately for you, the above anecdote was definitely not honestly narrated. More to the point, I made the whole thing up. I didn’t do that to you just because I don’t happen to like you.

2:.0 What are the differences between the gritty rock and the beautiful new car? Can you think of any? OK, then what is the most salient difference?

I think this question is more difficult than many would at first assume it to be. The rock was simply a less-than-primitive natural object. The beautiful new car was totally hypercrafted.

3:.0 Likely the most glorified and classic examples of the hypercrafting phenomenon are the great pyramids, such as those that line the Nile River in Egypt. The first thought that occurs to me is that these are art objects. The first creators of products of nigh on perfect precision were artists. Presumably most art is not hypercrafted, but rather it realistically portrays and intensifies the primitivistic aspects of the real world, or of some unreal world.

3:.4 What hypercrafting really imposes is near to absolute domination over the forces and substances of the raw natural world. This phenomenon often tends to be of a corruptive nature, because it often tends to levy unnecessary and gratuitous costs upon people who can least afford them.

4:.0 In the first decade of the 1900s the Ford Motor Company established the perhaps most recognized industry to produce interchangeable mass-produced precision machine parts for automobiles. Clearly these mass-produced precision components could be nothing less than hypercrafted. They could never be manually primicrafted by the relatively crude methods of the old-time horse-drawn carriage builders. And therefor nearly all of the mass-produced products that support the current life-style of the first world are hypercrafted to a fairly high degree. Many people living in the third world possess very few, if any, such hypercrafted mass produced products. Obviously the possession of hypercrafted products signalizes first world status.

5:.0 Clearly the most astute and intrepid trend analysts unanimously agree that the Western world is rapidly approaching a social and economic collapse. How will these former first world inhabitants respond when they find themselves bereft of all their status signaling hypercrafted possessions?

1:.0 Perhaps we may begin with this odd poem I wrote a few years ago. Followed by an exegesis:

The World began with primicrafting.
Things made by crude hand.
Things for same purposes, but in shapes differing.
Crude implements meeting crude demand.
Then came the steel machines.
Sewing machines to ease the work at hand.
All Baroque to hide the maker’s schemes.
Then masscrafting.
New patterns they would strike.
Bored engineers adrafting.
Designings different yet alike.
The artists started hypercrafting.
Paintings not by human hand.
Than Nature they were more exacting.
Dominion was what they had planned.
Complete control was by their hand.
Make Nature bow to their command.
The poor schools do mind masscrafting.
The better schools do hypercrafting.
The super-rich get primicrafted.

I’ll furnish the exegesis shortly.

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The Cryptoscenti

Communities around the U.S.A. are woefully under-represented on the Internet.

This must change! Our communities must survive! The confusion has become overwhelming. Now is the time to get organized.

Ad hoc BP-Disaster oil refugee sites are being formed on the Internet now. Some are much better than others. The “HELP GULF EVACUEES” forum is bullshit. It says:

Gulf Coast evacuees need to be self sufficient and able to work or contribute in some fashion to those person(s) who assist them.

But many refugees are going to be seriously sick, or old, or disabled. But these people don’t care!

Here is perhaps a better site:

Haven – A meeting place for those affected by the oil disaster and those willing to lend a helping hand.

I am also starting this page on this (soon to be upgraded to independent status) blog.

If you seek refugee assistance or can offer assistance, leave a comment at Haven, or here. Of course, the folks who assist and are assisted must know as much as possible about each other before becoming involved!