#They're not able to understand “ok that's of a different frequency reality to this one”
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there's an outbreak of BPD in men and it's called The Manosphere.
Since they are men and we villainize men more readily, everyone's insisting that "no it's not BPD, it's Covert NPD / Compensatory NPD". Failing to realize that these two conditions are the exact same thing. BPD is literally just the unstable and more openly wimpy version of NPD.
The core psychology of both disorders is the same solipsistic, self-obsessed sociopathy where you are completely driven by your insecurities and you view other people as mere tools to ease your constant suffering.
#Or if you wanna get more esoteric they are both cases of malevolent demonic possession#In BPD / NPD the demons channel themselves through you and act malevolently through you and jump to others thru you#You become a channel for nasty forces#In depression the demons just get you down and make you useless and devastated#Milder stuff like depression is the precursor to stuff like BPD and NPD#it's a spectrum of how much hold the demons have on you#Cluster A disorders (schizophrenia variants) is different#It means your perceptions are tuned to different frequencies than the frequencies of this reality#And you struggle to keep your perceptions exclusively within this reality#So you see stuff that is indeed real but others think it's not there#However whilst what schizos see might be real... they are still delusional... Both can be true at the same time because#Schizophrenics are not able to put all the things they're seeing into the correct context#They're not able to understand “ok that's of a different frequency reality to this one”#It's like they've lost control of their radio tuning fork or whatever it's called#Picture the frequencies randomly changing numbers on your car radio... Imagine the channels changing chaotically due to power malfunction#That's a schizo brain#Suddenly the channel changes without ur control or worse two / three channels overlap at the same time#If you've never experienced how reality is just a set of frequencies and you're the radio... this will sound super mumbo jumbo to you#A normal person stays on the same few channels which are all right next to each other and chooses when to switch between them#And only ever hears one channel at a time
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See... on one hand I'm grateful to the concept of "metaverse" for becoming so popular cause it means that there's a baseline understanding for Amber that means I don't have to put in the footwork of explaining the concept of more than one reality
But also... it's just all so... marvel, if you get what I mean... or maybe I just want the word commercialized, but almost any time -verse is tacked onto the end of something it just... ugh... it gets so franchise-y
Like Amber, the basic premise is that Reality casts infinite shadows and in those shadow you find literally everything. Sci fi, fantasy, our Earth... literally anything and everything exists infinitely as a reflection of some facet of the one point of Reality (well... more than one but that's not that important)
So you can see where metaverse stuff helps with making it so people'll get that but where it's also like... yes, marvel comics all exist in this cause everything does, but there's no universe of marvel it's just another drop in an infinite sea... it's a cluster of shadows that are easy to travel between but... basically every metaverse out there is just going to be an infinite sized fraction of infinity
I just... I don't know. Basically I like he groundwork done by popularizing the concept but don't like how franchise based it's ended up feeling
Anyway... you can see why Zelazny's work on this stuck with me, cause even if in a lot of ways I've probably twisted things around into my own version... just nice to have an infinite sized box that contains literally everything as a way to decide how everything relates to each other in fiction and easily have anything interact with anything else because they're all just in the same space
(It's a shame that all the thinking I've done on this stuff has no practical use)
(For instance, the way that one travels through shadow is usually by making small changes as you go to slip from shadow to shadow. You start out here and now driving down the highway, and maybe you decide that the next town you pass through all the street lamps will look like electric gas lamps, and then that the road's gonna transition to paved stones instead of asphalt, then you get out of your car and buy a horse because the next town you come to you're not going to be seeing any cars in, and then you'll find those are all actually gas lamps now... and ok... you've made it into a new setting)
(Each of those is a new shadow that's similar enough that it's easy to slide into from the one you were in if you know how to shadow walk, and by just changing a little each time you pass through like a half dozen shadows until you're some place totally different)
(Anyway, this is totally useless... even in universe this would be totally useless, but I think there's an argument you can make that while our brains like to think of things like a map with things next to each other, there's probably a very good chance that all of shadow is basically overlayed simultaneously in the same spot all happen at once but... on different frequencies let's say)
(Actually to an extent that really does add up with shadow walking and how it's done, because you could very easily compare it to a metaphor of tuning the radio, you don't massively leap from one spot to another, you slowly dial towards what you're wanting to hit)
(So congratz to me on being able to talk theoretical physics and philosophy about a fictional world that basically I only have myself to talk with about)
(Shame I don't have any useful skills instead, eh?)
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