Pluponents and zero
Looks like I'm stuck on a theme today.
Still thinking about the origin of zero as a mark for an empty column or an empty slot.
Pluponents are not satisfied with filling the Correct column entirely and emptying the Heretic column entirely. When a mediasatan like BBC or CNN runs quality control, checking itself for balance and bias, the check always finds insufficient balance. This means that the stories and columns, which are already EXACTLY 100% EVIL AND EXACTLY 0% TRUTH, must go farther IN THE SAME DIRECTION. Balance means MORE THAN 100% EVIL and LESS THAN 0% TRUTH.
If the physical medium was expandable, the first part would be achievable. Just write more evil. But the medium itself is finite. A broadcast day has 86400 seconds. Can't make more. Media webpages are standardized, with a fixed number of pixels available. A newspaper page has a fixed maximum number of characters.
In theory you could jam in more by speeding up the speech or using finer print and smaller fonts, but that's not practical. You want your evil to inject properly into the minds of your minions, so it needs to be legible and comprehensible.
What vain thing do the satans imagine? How does MORE THAN 100% EVIL look in their demonic vision? What does LESS THAN ZERO TRUTH look like? What is MORE EMPTY THAN EMPTY? Negative numbers won't serve here. Adding negative truth is the same thing as adding more evil, which is already maxed out.
Labels: Loughnerian Logic, Pluponents