Bluffs
Starting with the scenes I like to build.
And the themes I like to hit in this blog:
Notice the common shape? TANH in the real world vs EXP in the fake world.
I hadn't made the connection until now.
There are two physical reasons for the dominance of tanh hills in the scenes. First, the historically genuine scenes are genuinely set against a bluff.
Cave Gas is IN a bluff. Many of my 'lost places' are in eastern Kansas, which is a bluffy place. Second, I want these scenes to be USED by real artists, so I try to make them self-contained and efficient. A hill for a backdrop is 'cheaper' in terms of rendering than a lot of trees and background buildings.
Bluffs and hillsides have a real-life connection to Insatiables vs Deplorables. As I detailed
here, rising status goes with rising altitude. Ever since the days of aristocratic castles, Insatiables want to be in a commanding position where they can survey their land and slaves.
On the world scale, you can envision Sorosia in tanh-status terms.
USA STRONG occupies the aristocrat ground. The bear occupies the peasant ground.
In between the two plateaus is an eroded area of tricky terrain, similar to the eroded band that includes eastern Kansas.
USA STRONG believes that everyone wants to be on the high ground with him. An Insatiable always believes that everyone wants to be Just Like Him. Why wouldn't they aspire to My Godlike Perfection? Why wouldn't they want to bask in My Holy Radiance? Why wouldn't they want to live on infinite debt and zero savings? Works beautifully for me! I believe that My Infinite Wealth must always increase exponentially, and the only way to do that is with Infinite Debt.
USA STRONG's radiance is actually gamma rays. The countries that share the high ground are getting sick, and finally realizing that USA STRONG is a crazy omnicidal mass killer.
Down on the low ground, the bear doesn't have to do a lot of advertising. Just continue with a low-side
tanh way of living. No aggression, limit the power of monopolies, gold standard instead of infinite debt, preserve Natural Law culture. Make things.
Many countries have already slid down the bluff to the Natural Law plateau. Italy is the most recent arrival. At the moment Turkey, Germany and Holland are somewhere in the crevices of the eroded zone. They can't quite imagine a life away from His Holy Radiance, but the Migrant Rays are making them sicker by the day, and they need to get away from the line-of-sight radiation.
Labels: Real World Math, Sorosia, switchover