/lit/ - Literature

y'know, this is what i think. So, there's this anime called Space Dandy, right? it's an anime about a space dandy who gets up to many comical misadventures with a NEET otter and some roboto. Anyway, that isn't important. What is important, is that there is one episode of space dandy where Dandy (the titular space dandy) is contacted by his four-dimensional ex girlfriend to help her with another ex of hers, who is a clingy guy from the second-dimension who is trying to break into the third (and presumably fourth) dimension so he can be with her. Anyway, near the end of the episode, the big space gorilla baron which is always chasing Dandy gets caught in the collapsing dimensional drive and experiences a regression of dimensions, from the third, which is the one we see (well, technically the entire show is in two-dimensions, but that isn't important), to the second dimension, which is basic shapes, to the first dimension, which is just lines. This raises the question of what it would be like to see from the different dimensions, which reminds me of this video my math teacher showed us in primary school about shapes in shape land. Anyway, so we, who had a top-down view, could see shapes in their full rotundity. However, when we get the perspective of the shapes, they only see growing and shrinking lines. Now, this is how i think of people who talk about the political spectrum: they're basically the shapes from shape land, or the space gorilla baron, who can only see a line which characterises for them their entire political understanding. If i haven't shown it clearly enough by my reference to space dandy, i have provided a magnificent visual demonstration i made in paint. Of course, i'm not saying that all of politics is a triangle, as some may think it, but only using this as demonstration. Basically, what i'm saying is that compared to space dandy's four dimensional ex girlfriend, which represents a better understanding of any political position, your idea of thinking that a dot on a compass, of left and right, is the space gorilla baron trapped in the collapsing dimensions drive, y'know?

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y'know, this is what i think. So, there's this anime called Space Dandy, right? it's an anime about a space dandy who gets up to many comical misadventures with a NEET otter and some roboto. Anyway, that isn't important. What is important, is that there is one episode of space dandy where Dandy (the titular space dandy) is contacted by his four-dimensional ex girlfriend to help her with another ex of hers, who is a clingy guy from the second-dimension who is trying to break into the third (and presumably fourth) dimension so he can be with her. Anyway, near the end of the episode, the big space gorilla baron which is always chasing Dandy gets caught in the collapsing dimensional drive and experiences a regression of dimensions, from the third, which is the one we see (well, technically the entire show is in two-dimensions, but that isn't important), to the second dimension, which is basic shapes, to the first dimension, which is just lines. This raises the question of what it would be like to see from the different dimensions, which reminds me of this video my math teacher showed us in primary school about shapes in shape land. Anyway, so we, who had a top-down view, could see shapes in their full rotundity. However, when we get the perspective of the shapes, they only see growing and shrinking lines. Now, this is how i think of people who talk about the political spectrum: they're basically the shapes from shape land, or the space gorilla baron, who can only see a line which characterises for them their entire political understanding. If i haven't shown it clearly enough by my reference to space dandy, i have provided a magnificent visual demonstration i made in paint. Of course, i'm not saying that all of politics is a triangle, as some may think it, but only using this as demonstration. Basically, what i'm saying is that compared to space dandy's four dimensional ex girlfriend, which represents a better understanding of any political position, your idea of thinking that a dot on a compass, of left and right, is the space gorilla baron trapped in the collapsing dimensions drive, y'know?