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Slime Magic and Analytical Tokens

People typically use morphological language for reasoning. For example, the precariat and farm laborers are literally the same thing. But if they're the same thing in the agrarian and post-industrial eras, then separate words and separate ways of reasoning are needed. Civilization constantly nullifies its accumulated intelligence. One way is through new words and languages. Just as you can't pay with an old ruble, you also can't appeal to an old concept. They exist in the mass consciousness only as dangerous chimeras that bite and writhe. The point is that civilization spends almost all its resources on nullifying humans as subjects, while economics, expansion, and everything else amount to little more than a margin of error. Humans are infernally powerful creatures, like the Predator or the Alien. It's very difficult to drive them into the absurdity in which we live. Yudkowsky wrote "Taboo Your Words" while discussing philosophy. This method is redundant. In fact, an analytical token can be large. That is, it's perfectly possible to think of dogs as degenerate wolves, just as it's possible to think of thugs as degenerate robbers. Moreover, this approach immediately creates the category "degenerates," which is also convenient. That is, if the essence of the original is in the action, then the essence of the degenerate is in the symbol. If a robber simply cuts off the head and takes the loot, then the thug will lie, make excuses, and won't kill—in short, he uses various performatives to avoid jail time. A dog, too, instead of immediately tearing off chunks of flesh, will bark and bite for a long time. Analytical tokens are a taboo subject. The point of thinking in them is that it's very easy to perform transfer of learning and cover a large space of meanings with a small number of concepts. Morphological concepts are simply a way to make a person WORK when they've simply decided to reflect on a topic.