“They saw their injured country's woe;
The flaming town, the wasted field;
Then rushed to meet the insulting foe;
They took the spear, - but left the shield.”
―Philip Freneau
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And by a prudent flight and cunning save A life which valour could not, from the grave. A better buckler I can soon regain, But who can get another life again?
Archilochus
Friday, November 28, 2025
The Thinking Game
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The Glass Bead Game
Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org › T...
The Glass Bead Game is the last full-length novel by the German author Hermann Hesse. It was begun in 1931 in Switzerland, where it was published in 1943 ...
Plot and analysis of " The Glass Bead Game " monogram I think I'll be brief. For, despite the scope of the work, its eventful component is quite meager.
Josef Knecht is a gifted, meek, and thoughtful boy. Noticing his talent and diligence, his schoolteachers send him to the elite school of Castalia, a special province where the country's most promising and intelligent young people study: future intellectuals, teachers, and philosophers. Castalia is a kind of autonomous region, living within the state, but by its own rules. The province produces nothing; its material wealth comes from outside, while Castalia provides the outside world with teachers and consultants. Within the country, this province is treated with reverence, like Buddhist monks in Thailand. The life of the Castalians is organized by the Order of Servants of the Spirit. The Order's task is to preserve and develop the purity of the spirit and the cultural and moral heritage of humanity. The Castalians perceive this service as their sole duty; they have no concept of life outside of Castalia and show little interest in it.
In this environment, Knecht never ceased to feel like he didn't quite belong (this is revealed to the reader not immediately, but towards the end of the book). During his first years of study, he met Plinio Designori, a "free student" at Waldzell, the school where Joseph was studying. Plinio, an outsider, didn't live in Castalia but was only attending a short course of study there. He criticized the hermetic spiritual and social life of the Castalians, accusing them of artificially isolating themselves from the real troubles and problems of the wider world. Joseph was preoccupied and troubled by these accusations, and although he debated Plinio, defending the principles of Castalia, he himself felt that Designori was not as far from the truth as he, Knecht, would have liked.
Decades pass. Knecht climbs the career ladder, becoming a member of the Order and then Master of the Glass Bead Game. Almost devoid of ambition and aspirations, the main character views his career as a burden of service, which he must humbly bear. Indeed, in Castalia, there is no such thing as a "salary" or other frivolous passions. Having become Master, he simply became more obligated to the Order and more revered within it. And, of course, more burdened with administrative work.
The Glass Bead Game is a complex intellectual process. Its essence can be briefly explained as follows: players take a topic (a phenomenon, object, art, science, etc.), identify a pattern within it that interests them (development, structure, influence on other spheres, etc.), and attempt to find a similar pattern in a completely different topic, unrelated to the original one, or project the discovered pattern onto something else and bring this project to some logical conclusion. The aesthetics of the game are often intertwined with ethics, morality, culture, and art: the more unexpected the recreated analogy, the greater the intellectual pleasure it brings to players and spectators.
Already an elderly man, Knecht encounters his old companion and friend Plinio. He has aged and changed. Knecht realizes that Designori is crushed by life. This meeting and renewed acquaintance become the final impetus for Joseph's long-planned demise: he will retire and leave Castalia to live in the real world outside, not in the world of scholasticism.
Before this, Kastalia had never known such a precedent - for a Game Master to refuse his position.
Leaving Waldzell, where he had spent most of his life, Knecht arrived at the home of the Designori family. The family happily agreed to provide him with a job as personal tutor to their son, Tito. The boy had grown up spoiled and disrespectful to his parents. Joseph enthusiastically accepted their offer, for nurturing immature minds and guiding them along the path of true morality was the only thing he felt called to do.
One day after leaving the Order, Josef leaves for the mountains to begin teaching his protégé at Designori's dacha. The boy invites his teacher to swim in a mountain lake, and Tito, enchanted by the life force gushing within him, refuses. The cold water of the lake—symbolic of the hostile outside world into which Josef has retreated, leaving his safe vigil in Castalia—saps the aging man's strength, paralyzes his body, and drags him down. Full of energy, the boy copes with the cold with ease; the world doesn't seem "outside" or hostile to him—because it is his world, his element. Knecht, however, is being destroyed by a life he never knew. But by dying before Tito's eyes, he fulfilled his mission: the boy feels that this death forever changed him, shaped him.
The novel then continues with Knecht's poems, which he wrote while a student and member of the Order, and three short stories featuring different characters. These are "biographies" of Knecht's previous incarnations. He wrote these stories in his future as a member of the Castalian Order (another Castalian game—one might say, a practice of literature and spiritual development). The protagonist of each biography is a minimally veiled version of Knecht's personality. The three stories demonstrate that, from the very beginning and throughout his life in Waldzell, Joseph gravitated toward something greater than simply serving the Order or the divine Glass Bead Game. Each story explores themes of liberation and self-realization.
""People suffering from M0 really aren’t very good at appreciating feedback effects. They can only think one step ahead. Tramlines that can be policed can kind of hold societies of M0 people together, but have no inherent value beyond this, since the universe cannot in fact be understood procedurally. Moreover, people suffering from M0 can always do the unspeakable, and then deny it. The need for self-honesty so that their maps can be maintained accurately isn’t there, since they have no maps to maintain."" November 25, 2025 at 1:29 PM -FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew What is MO? Modus Operandi?
I just thought that you'd like it. ;-)
Self-Seeding Self-Organisation In 3: Reciprocal Cosmology we have a model of a universe with two arrows of time. The creative arrow goes from the Big Bang in our future to a featureless blur in our past. The re-creative arrow goes the other way, and is what we see. The new Big Bang is different to the old one in that it is not a dimensionless point – it has volume and internal structure. When it explodes, aspects of the internal structure re-form through time, such that all structure found anywhere at any time, are decay products of structures in our future. At the same time, we see causal sequences that can account for some of what we see happening around us (although not the observable self-organisation or the observable fractal geometry of nature).
So we can say that there are two causal sequences in operation. Any structure can be accounted for in both creative arrow and re-creative arrow processes. Sometimes however, one arrow’s version will be much more plausible than the other. There can be no observable miracles in this model. There can only be events that are plausible on the creative arrow, and implausible (but still possible) on the re-creative arrow.
I think it MAP-ZERO.
since everyone is born a mapper and hence can do the shared map trick if they break out of M0.
-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew Your Cook Book provided no recipes. It was a "fill in with your own recipes" Cook Book. You could have at least provided One recipe (for an ovo fish) and listed the needed ingredients for others to begin "growing". The tech farmers need to know what to plant. November 25, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Yap. If you know how it works. If you *KNOW* the technology of it. You can devise a plan of what to do with it.
Otherwise... you can only burn incense with hope "gods" will like their smell and fulfill your wishes.))))))) November 25, 2025 at 2:26 AM -FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew If you "know" the requirements for a technology and can "specify" at least one component, others can go from there, especially if that component is the "interface"... aka (a microtubule piercing the cell membrane that serves a specific function - fuel, cooling, bio-electric information...).
-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew To prevent a ridiculous speculative bubble from forming, and then collapsing in a spectacular fashion, like Dutch East India Co. "Tulip" futures. Remember the dot.com bubble?
The dot-com bubble burst caused significant economic damage, leading to a market crash that wiped out trillions in investor losses, widespread bankruptcies, and a rise in unemployment. It also prompted a shift in trading regulations and influenced corporate strategies, with survivors learning to focus on sustainable business models rather than pure growth November 25, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Creating bubbles... is simptom of healthy capitalistic (petit burguise ;-p) economy.
Did USSR have had bubbles? ;-p
Naaah. They have had only cycles of deficit and hunger. %-))))
RAPTOR itself is meant to be much more affordable and scalable than the current Mk-48 ADCAP (advanced capability) MOD 7 heavyweight torpedo. As per The War Zone‘s article in 2024, the goal was to have a torpedo that could enter production in a short time frame that had a total cost of $500,000.
Revealed in Fiscal Year 2025 budget documentation, the MK-48 ADCAP MOD 7 prices in at just over $4 million dollars, with a total of 79 bought. While the MK-48 is an extremely capable torpedo, the cost of production and amount procured has increasingly become a concern as the U.S Navy seeks to prepare to fight conflicts where cost-effective and mass-producible munitions are a necessity.
This is the problem with the "cult of individualism" within Society. Identity technologies get weaponized and turned inwards. Everyone becomes a Baltimoron (B'lieve, Hon!). They optimize the Individual and neglect the "team" that is a Society.
I worked on the Mk-46 Mod 7 (previous generation). And yes, mass production (like Liberty ships) will be the key to winning WWIII, but the fragile infrastructure we have now will not survive... we need anti-fragility (distributed v. centralized) production.
Stopped at the ? and it worked. It describes the Discourse of the University in the USSR, standardizing "truth" for "hysterics" according to the Master Signifier
Discourse of the University Knowledge in position of an agent is handed down by the institute which legitimises the master signifier (S1) taking the place of discourse's truth. Impossibility to satisfy one's need with a knowledge (which is a structural thing) produces a barred subject ($) as discourses sustain, and the cycle repeats itself through the primary subject being slavish to the institution values to fulfill the castratedness. The discourse's truth "knowledge " is being positioned aside of this loop and never the direct object of the subject, and the institute controls the subjects's objet a and defines the subject's master signifier's. Pathological symptom of an agent in this discourse is seeking fulfillment of their castratedness through enjoying the castratedness of their subject.
ie - Mindless consumerism of the cult of individuality
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The Glass Bead Game
Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org › T...
The Glass Bead Game is the last full-length novel by the German author Hermann Hesse. It was begun in 1931 in Switzerland, where it was published in 1943 ...
Plot and analysis of " The Glass Bead Game "
monogram
I think I'll be brief. For, despite the scope of the work, its eventful component is quite meager.
Josef Knecht is a gifted, meek, and thoughtful boy. Noticing his talent and diligence, his schoolteachers send him to the elite school of Castalia, a special province where the country's most promising and intelligent young people study: future intellectuals, teachers, and philosophers. Castalia is a kind of autonomous region, living within the state, but by its own rules. The province produces nothing; its material wealth comes from outside, while Castalia provides the outside world with teachers and consultants. Within the country, this province is treated with reverence, like Buddhist monks in Thailand. The life of the Castalians is organized by the Order of Servants of the Spirit. The Order's task is to preserve and develop the purity of the spirit and the cultural and moral heritage of humanity. The Castalians perceive this service as their sole duty; they have no concept of life outside of Castalia and show little interest in it.
In this environment, Knecht never ceased to feel like he didn't quite belong (this is revealed to the reader not immediately, but towards the end of the book). During his first years of study, he met Plinio Designori, a "free student" at Waldzell, the school where Joseph was studying. Plinio, an outsider, didn't live in Castalia but was only attending a short course of study there. He criticized the hermetic spiritual and social life of the Castalians, accusing them of artificially isolating themselves from the real troubles and problems of the wider world. Joseph was preoccupied and troubled by these accusations, and although he debated Plinio, defending the principles of Castalia, he himself felt that Designori was not as far from the truth as he, Knecht, would have liked.
Decades pass. Knecht climbs the career ladder, becoming a member of the Order and then Master of the Glass Bead Game. Almost devoid of ambition and aspirations, the main character views his career as a burden of service, which he must humbly bear. Indeed, in Castalia, there is no such thing as a "salary" or other frivolous passions. Having become Master, he simply became more obligated to the Order and more revered within it. And, of course, more burdened with administrative work.
The Glass Bead Game is a complex intellectual process. Its essence can be briefly explained as follows: players take a topic (a phenomenon, object, art, science, etc.), identify a pattern within it that interests them (development, structure, influence on other spheres, etc.), and attempt to find a similar pattern in a completely different topic, unrelated to the original one, or project the discovered pattern onto something else and bring this project to some logical conclusion. The aesthetics of the game are often intertwined with ethics, morality, culture, and art: the more unexpected the recreated analogy, the greater the intellectual pleasure it brings to players and spectators.
Already an elderly man, Knecht encounters his old companion and friend Plinio. He has aged and changed. Knecht realizes that Designori is crushed by life. This meeting and renewed acquaintance become the final impetus for Joseph's long-planned demise: he will retire and leave Castalia to live in the real world outside, not in the world of scholasticism.
Before this, Kastalia had never known such a precedent - for a Game Master to refuse his position.
Leaving Waldzell, where he had spent most of his life, Knecht arrived at the home of the Designori family. The family happily agreed to provide him with a job as personal tutor to their son, Tito. The boy had grown up spoiled and disrespectful to his parents. Joseph enthusiastically accepted their offer, for nurturing immature minds and guiding them along the path of true morality was the only thing he felt called to do.
One day after leaving the Order, Josef leaves for the mountains to begin teaching his protégé at Designori's dacha. The boy invites his teacher to swim in a mountain lake, and Tito, enchanted by the life force gushing within him, refuses. The cold water of the lake—symbolic of the hostile outside world into which Josef has retreated, leaving his safe vigil in Castalia—saps the aging man's strength, paralyzes his body, and drags him down. Full of energy, the boy copes with the cold with ease; the world doesn't seem "outside" or hostile to him—because it is his world, his element. Knecht, however, is being destroyed by a life he never knew. But by dying before Tito's eyes, he fulfilled his mission: the boy feels that this death forever changed him, shaped him.
The novel then continues with Knecht's poems, which he wrote while a student and member of the Order, and three short stories featuring different characters. These are "biographies" of Knecht's previous incarnations. He wrote these stories in his future as a member of the Castalian Order (another Castalian game—one might say, a practice of literature and spiritual development). The protagonist of each biography is a minimally veiled version of Knecht's personality. The three stories demonstrate that, from the very beginning and throughout his life in Waldzell, Joseph gravitated toward something greater than simply serving the Order or the divine Glass Bead Game. Each story explores themes of liberation and self-realization.
END
Glub. glub. glub...
Yeah. You gotcha...
""People suffering from M0 really aren’t very good at appreciating feedback effects. They can only think one step ahead. Tramlines that can be policed can kind of hold societies of M0 people together, but have no inherent value beyond this, since the universe cannot in fact be understood procedurally. Moreover, people suffering from M0 can always do the unspeakable, and then deny it. The need for self-honesty so that their maps can be maintained accurately isn’t there, since they have no maps to maintain.""
November 25, 2025 at 1:29 PM
-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew
What is MO? Modus Operandi?
I just thought that you'd like it. ;-)
Self-Seeding Self-Organisation
In 3: Reciprocal Cosmology we have a model of a universe with two arrows of time. The creative arrow goes from the Big Bang in our future to a featureless blur in our past. The re-creative arrow goes the other way, and is what we see. The new Big Bang is different to the old one in that it is not a dimensionless point – it has volume and internal structure. When it explodes, aspects of the internal structure re-form through time, such that all structure found anywhere at any time, are decay products of structures in our future. At the same time, we see causal sequences that can account for some of what we see happening around us (although not the observable self-organisation or the observable fractal geometry of nature).
So we can say that there are two causal sequences in operation. Any structure can be accounted for in both creative arrow and re-creative arrow processes. Sometimes however, one arrow’s version will be much more plausible than the other. There can be no observable miracles in this model. There can only be events that are plausible on the creative arrow, and implausible (but still possible) on the re-creative arrow.
I think it MAP-ZERO.
since everyone is born a mapper and hence can do the shared map trick if they break out of M0.
I see it other name for Meta-Talking, Meta-Thinking.
https://reciprocality.org/reciprocality/r6/design.html
-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew
Your Cook Book provided no recipes. It was a "fill in with your own recipes" Cook Book. You could have at least provided One recipe (for an ovo fish) and listed the needed ingredients for others to begin "growing". The tech farmers need to know what to plant.
November 25, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Quite contrary. ;-p
Whole three... recepies.
You remember? Tier 2. Tier 1.
Tier Zero. -)
Yap. If you know how it works. If you *KNOW* the technology of it.
You can devise a plan of what to do with it.
Otherwise... you can only burn incense with hope "gods" will like their smell and fulfill your wishes.)))))))
November 25, 2025 at 2:26 AM
-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew
If you "know" the requirements for a technology and can "specify" at least one component, others can go from there, especially if that component is the "interface"... aka (a microtubule piercing the cell membrane that serves a specific function - fuel, cooling, bio-electric information...).
Hah... and what if you have no membrane... yet?
-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew
To prevent a ridiculous speculative bubble from forming, and then collapsing in a spectacular fashion, like Dutch East India Co. "Tulip" futures. Remember the dot.com bubble?
The dot-com bubble burst caused significant economic damage, leading to a market crash that wiped out trillions in investor losses, widespread bankruptcies, and a rise in unemployment. It also prompted a shift in trading regulations and influenced corporate strategies, with survivors learning to focus on sustainable business models rather than pure growth
November 25, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Creating bubbles... is simptom of healthy capitalistic (petit burguise ;-p) economy.
Did USSR have had bubbles? ;-p
Naaah. They have had only cycles of deficit and hunger. %-))))
-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew
Drexler's Grey Goo...
Part 1
The Technologist vs Part 2 Unintended Consequences, vs Part 3 Consequnces multiplied and resolved
November 25, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Yeah. Better just do this. ;-p
I think I ate in that restaurant once... but I ordered the Number 8.
Reciprocality/ Reciprocity...Communality...and Domination (Pinker). I think I've been to those countries as well.
Reciprocality disguising itself as Communality (like Shareware vs Open Source)
Then you get eaten.
Reminds me of the Pilgrims their first winter.
...go rob the bees.
Hah.
And then next winter. And next. And again. And again...
Looks like I succeeded with "flooding" you out. Like you usually do. ;-p
Well, that was not my intention. Just happen to meet couple links that looks quite naturally as what you talking/posting about...
I just have more time to spend flooding... the remains of a mispent youth.
Nah. They decided to "privatize" their hippie commune experiment. Communality didn't pan out.
What I meant -- what USSR did.
Proclaimed "Prosperity", for those who'd follow it.
But in Reality just created chain of struggles for em.
Well... traditional culture. AKA Grumpy Parents "we have had it rough, when we was kid... so, you nasty younglings, need to go through it too"...
Nothing to eat. If there's no body. ;-p
“Now I can say, there’s no third gamete, men should not be in women’s prisons, children are never in the wrong body, and not all white people are racist. I will be saying this even if they bring back the guillotine, right before the blade falls.”
Tik-tok, tik-tok...
RAPTOR itself is meant to be much more affordable and scalable than the current Mk-48 ADCAP (advanced capability) MOD 7 heavyweight torpedo. As per The War Zone‘s article in 2024, the goal was to have a torpedo that could enter production in a short time frame that had a total cost of $500,000.
Revealed in Fiscal Year 2025 budget documentation, the MK-48 ADCAP MOD 7 prices in at just over $4 million dollars, with a total of 79 bought. While the MK-48 is an extremely capable torpedo, the cost of production and amount procured has increasingly become a concern as the U.S Navy seeks to prepare to fight conflicts where cost-effective and mass-producible munitions are a necessity.
https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2025/11/u-s-navy-seeks-offers-for-new-heavyweight-torpedo/
Time when USA will be dieing... without technology of mass-(self)producing robots... coming closer and closer. ;-p
https://novayagazeta-ru.translate.goog/articles/2025/11/28/kogda-on-edinyi-my-nepobedimy?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=uk&_x_tr_pto=wapp
What you'll NEVER read about USA.
Revealed how "those who know better" (trying to) holding their power.
Yawn.
The parts are eaten "whole" (in their multiplicity)
Isn't that capitalism (only you do it to yourself). Byung-Chul Han, "The Burnout Society" aka Achievement Society)
This is the problem with the "cult of individualism" within Society. Identity technologies get weaponized and turned inwards. Everyone becomes a Baltimoron (B'lieve, Hon!). They optimize the Individual and neglect the "team" that is a Society.
(Adam Curtis, "The Century of the Self"
American kitsch.
Like "The Mods" in Britain/UK (The Who, "Quadrophenia")
I worked on the Mk-46 Mod 7 (previous generation). And yes, mass production (like Liberty ships) will be the key to winning WWIII, but the fragile infrastructure we have now will not survive... we need anti-fragility (distributed v. centralized) production.
link didn't work :(
Stopped at the ? and it worked. It describes the Discourse of the University in the USSR, standardizing "truth" for "hysterics" according to the Master Signifier
Discourse of the University
Knowledge in position of an agent is handed down by the institute which legitimises the master signifier (S1) taking the place of discourse's truth. Impossibility to satisfy one's need with a knowledge (which is a structural thing) produces a barred subject ($) as discourses sustain, and the cycle repeats itself through the primary subject being slavish to the institution values to fulfill the castratedness. The discourse's truth "knowledge " is being positioned aside of this loop and never the direct object of the subject, and the institute controls the subjects's objet a and defines the subject's master signifier's. Pathological symptom of an agent in this discourse is seeking fulfillment of their castratedness through enjoying the castratedness of their subject.
ie - Mindless consumerism of the cult of individuality
...based on NEW tech(s), you forgot to add...
Why I should care? About that your *LOCAL* culture ideas.
Based on sub threat going to zero after '89. The tech was cool.
Its' the Neoliberism cult that Ukraine wants by joining the EU
Joining? Heh.
And when? ;-p
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