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TERMS COMMON in Q.PUBLIC CONSPIRACY THEORY CULTURE
A CrazyMaking Project
2ANA / AANA “Always Alone Never Alone”: A term popular among young Q.Publicans conflating existential angst and collective belonging.
Aphasiaphilia: The love of the loss of language (see Logoclasm).
Apophenia: The tendency to perceive meaningful connections between seemingly unrelated things. The term (German: Apophänie) was coined by psychiatrist Klaus Conrad in his 1958 publication on the beginning stages of schizophrenia. (see pareidolia)
Non Tempus Nullius: A derivation from a Latin expression “terra nullias” meaning "nobody's land" used to justify colonization of Australia with the proposition that “nobody lives there.” “Non Tempus Nullius” indicates the modern industrial extractive attitude which assumes that future generations do not need to be considered when current generations enact resource consumption and environmental destruction. See “Decolonize the Future.”
Call of the Void: Also known as the “High Place Phenomenon” (HPP), describes impulsive thoughts of self-destruction associated with finding oneself at the edge of a high precipice. Q.Publicans hold that nihilist authoritarians and their supporters are motivated by this instinct, and are consequently expressing the dynamics of a death cult.
Chaos Magick: Contemporary magic practice, developed in the 1970’s, associated with willful belief in propositions not known empirically to be true.
Corporeations / Corporiations: A population of non-terrestrial, hyper empowered, sociopathic entities that began colonizing and enslaving humans on the European peninsula in 1600.
The Craftsman / Artisan: Reference to the Gnostic idea of the Abrahamic God as a “Demiurge” (artisan / craftsman / maker).
Customer Smythe: The original Quisling, the first human agent of the colonizing Corporeate Egregore suzerains that currently control human destiny. (see John Company)
Decolonize the Future: A phrase used to critique modern industrial impact on future generations.
Deep State: A term used to describe the state of subversion or transgression of false binaries. Derived originally from Hans Morgenthau’s Dual State and coopted (and inverted) by modern Simulationist conspiracy theorists such as QAnon to indicate a sinister, permanent administrative state or ruling entity, it originally referred to a “state of depth”, of post-binary thought and experience.
Dunbar’s Number: A suggested cognitive limit to the number of people with whom one can maintain stable social relationships—relationships in which an individual knows who each person is and how each person relates to every other person. Beyond this number, and particularly in the globally connected web-verse, humans are poorly equipped to distinguish between reliable and suspect actors. From the research of British anthropologist Robin Dunbar, who calculated that number to approx. 150.
Egregore: An occult concept representing a distinct non-physical entity that arises from the beliefs of a collective group of people. Used by Q.Publicans to describe modern for-profit corporations. (See also Tulpa).
Fine Structure Constant: Also known as Sommerfeld's constant, in physics, the fine-structure constant, commonly denoted by α, is a fundamental physical constant which quantifies the strength of the electromagnetic interaction between elementary charged particles. (1/137 +/-). Often cited as poetic evidence for Panpsychist thought.
Fregoli Delusion: The (mistaken) belief that some person currently present in the deluded person's environment (typically a stranger) is a familiar person in disguise. The stranger is believed to be psychologically identical to this known person (who is not present) even though the deluded person perceives the physical appearance of the stranger as being different from the known person's typical appearance. Q.Publicans sometimes refer to themselves as “Fregolists”, indicating the belief that humans are are all close kin.
Hyperstition: A portmanteau of "superstition" and "hyper" coined by Nick Land that describes the action of successful ideas in the arena of culture. Hyperstitions are ideas that, once "downloaded" into the cultural mainframe, engender apocalyptic positive feedback cycles. Hyperstitions – by their very existence as ideas – function causally to bring about their own reality.
Ideolotry: Worship or undue reverence for a specific system of ideas and ideals, or for systems of ideas and ideals in general.
Imp of the Perverse: A metaphor for the urge to do exactly the wrong thing in a given situation for the sole reason that it is possible for wrong to be done. Derived from an Edgar Allan Poe short story of the same name. which discusses the narrator's self-destructive impulses. See “Call of the Void”.
Jes Grew: A fictional virus in Ishmael Reed’s Mumbo Jumbo, which functions as a personification of ragtime, jazz, polytheism, and freedom.
John Company: A pseudonym for the first Corporeation to begin widespread colonization and enslavement of humans.(see Customer Smythe).
Kayfabe: In professional wrestling, kayfabe, as a noun, is the portrayal of staged events within the industry as "real" or “true.”
Linguistic Determinism :The contested idea that the specific language(s) we speak shape and influence our experience of the world and the thoughts we think about it.
Logoclasm: Suspicion of language, and especially written language.
Mirror Neurons: A neuron that fires both when an animal acts and when the animal observes the same action performed by another. Thus, the neuron "mirrors" the behavior of the other, as though the observer were itself acting. Such neurons have been directly observed in human and primate species, and birds, and are considered to be a foundation for the capacity for empathy.
NPC: “Non-Player Character” Gamer terminology (originally from D+D) for a character which is not representing a player but rather is operated by the game’s underlying code or structure.
Overview Effect: A cognitive shift in awareness reported by some astronauts during spaceflight, often while viewing the Earth from outer space, characterized by new or renewed awareness of the beauty and fragility of life on Earth, and the commonalities uniting humanity.
Pachamama: A goddess revered by the indigenous peoples of the Andes. She is also known as the earth/time mother.
Panpsychist Simulation Hypothesis: The “Basement floor” level of the Q.Public Conspiracy Theory. A conflation of the Simulation Hypothesis and Panpsychist thought held by most Q.Publicans which posits that the most real choice a person is able to make is between an expansive Panpsychist perspective (in which there are no NPC’s within and beyond the human community) and a contractive Simulation Hypothesis (in which everyone and everything is a NPC—see “NPC”). Also expressed as the choice between viewing everything as fundamentally alive, and everything as fundamentally dead.
Personhood: The contingent state or condition of highest esteem among human beings. Since their arrival on Earth in 1600, Corporeate Egregores have been manipulating human legal and social systems into revoking the recognition of personhood from selective groups of humans, while redistributing this recognition to the corporeations themselves. Q.Publicans and others struggle to retain personhood status for all humans, and to distribute it outward toward traditional allies, such as trees, rivers, mountains, animals and ecosystems.
Pareidolia: The perception of pattern or signal where none exists, classically in the form of a figure or face, such as seeing a face in a rock formation or an appliance interface, or seeing an animal in a cloud shape. (see Apophenia)
Pascal’s Second Wager: A calculation of the probability of the current moment falling somewhere within the span of a subject's lifetime, or the temporal odds of being alive. eg: 200 billion years (projected lifespan of the universe) divided by 80 (approximate ave. lifespan) = 1-in-2.5bil. That’s approx 2,500 miles of stacked pennies. And that’s about the distance between NYC and LA. If the hypothetical subject selects the single correct penny from the 2500 mile-long stack of pennies, they are allowed to live. The conceit of this game is that we have all taken this wager and won, by dint of being alive. (see Fine Structure Constant)
Poetic Evidence: Data which testifies to the truth of a proposition rather than its factual accuracy.
Pronoia: A neologism used to describe an opposite condition to paranoia, sometimes characterized as the suspicion that the universe is conspiring to help you, and working toward your ultimate wellbeing.
Publicani: The name given to Corporeations in Republican Rome.
Purkinje Hypothesis: The idea that the digital revolution, by propagating a pandemic of distracted attention, is functionally preparing humans to address the most vexing problems of our near- and medium-term future. By directing our cognition away from a “predatory” posture of sustained focused attention (inaugurated mainly by the printing press and widespread literacy, and by a sustained emphasis on scientific, academic, professional and industrial specialization), and toward a “prey” posture of distributed attention and induced sense of loss-of-control, digital technology is sensitizing humans to subtle and difficult-to-perceive patterns. As a side effect, this also renders us vulnerable to conditions such as Apophenia (see Apophenia).
QPUF: At various times “Q” has been said to refer to Query, Queer, Quelle (the hypothetical source of common material in the Synoptic Gospels of Matthew and Luke), and Qualia, or “the way thing seem” (Daniel Dennett) as addressed in the so-called ‘hard problem’ of human consciousness. PUF has been taken to refer to Physical Unclonable Function, a digital encryption strategy used in electronic security regimes. Alternately, it is taken to refer to “Public Universal Friend”, a charismatic 18th century transgender Quaker minister.
Shreni: The name given to Corporeations in bronze age India.
Simulation Hypothesis: The proposal that all of reality, including the Earth and the rest of the universe, could in fact be an artificial simulation, such as a computer simulation. Attributed to Nick Bostrom but with clear connections to Cartesian Skepticism.
Theopoetics: A hybrid cognitive / cultural Third Space between art and religion.
Toxoplasma Gondii: A single-celled pathogen associated with a range of conditions in humans, including suspicion of authority, increased risk-taking, intermittent explosive disorder (rage), schizophrenia, and arousal by the smell of cat urine. It is one of the most common infections in humans, spread by cats and eating undercooked meat, and possibly the most widespread human pathogen on the planet. Q.Publicans suspect it is partly responsible for the endemic mass-psychosis currently affecting the US. Some fringe Q.Publicans cite the practice of kissing a cat’s anus in Ishmael Reed’s 1972 conspiracy novel “Mumbo Jumbo” as poetic evidence of its intentional use in social engineering (see Poetic Evidence).
Understory Effect: The ability or effort to derive sublime awareness of the intimate relationship between all things through attentive interaction with mundane, often domestic tasks, experiences and environments. Often referred to as “Selviscience” or the Ungrund Effect by Q.Publicans.
Whakapapa: A fundamental principle in Māori culture, establishing identity and placing the self in a wider context with links to land and tribal groupings and ancestors.
Continue to PART 7: Q.Public Research Laboratory Continuing investigations and indexed documentation of the emerging details of Q.Public meta-conspiracy theory.