I’m going to cry.

Hmm this katamari seems very “exploitation-ish” not that we know if that’s a good thing or not.

Let’s pop it up into the cosmos.

I hate that this will be seen only by people that agree with it, and most will not understand it.

when you’re staring at a fan it just looks like a big circle but if you drag your eyes in the direction the fan is spinning for a split second you can see the individual blades when discussing macro versus micro level human behavior this is a pretty good analogy macro studies the fan micro studies the blades but much like this analogy micro analysis is sort of doomed to be pulling something out of a moment as the blades are constantly moving also in this analogy the blades instead of consistently spinning with the fan can sometimes fly off and invent the fidget spinner or do 911 macro Trends and behaviors are slower moving and easier to establish micr Trends are volatile sometimes microt Trends aren’t even Trends they’re isolated events spur of the- moment happenings driven by emotion or time bombs that we had no idea the fuse had been lit for ages ago in Katamari damasi you play a little dude with a ball he rolls [ __ ] up in it it’s cute and Plucky let’s say you’re a citizen of a city citizen of a city sorry little vocal stem there in the catamara universe a little guy the size of an eraser Rolls by look at him go sure all your bobby pins are missing but he looks so happy and he’s turning all that random crap into stars in the sky that doesn’t seem so bad organization of civilization seemed fantastic in the early days pulling an organized system out of a seemingly hateful world where dying of starvation and thirst and animal maming or regular occurrences was akin to Alchemy in that way societal structure still is a good thing given that alternative I imagine people who think that having some amount of order to parse out a bit of the chaos of existence is bad have never lived in abject chaos by this logic so what if the people determining the order lives slightly better than those just living in it at least there’s consistently available water and food that’s a huge upgrade and this justification of inequity based in fear began to snowball that little guy’s ball is now the size of a cat he’s rolling up all the dish wear and food off people’s plates the children cry because all the juice boxes and snacks have become one with the sphere your Chihuahua is gone but look at those stars can’t beat that view right yeah boy after a while things start to skew a bit more in terms of balance it’s no longer that the organizers live slightly better they live massively better and they’ve appointed many organizers to oversee protection of how much better they’re living and the many organizers live slightly better as compensation sure things have improved for the regular people somewhat as well but the ratio is no longer in the realm of reasonable comparison and negative sentiment is circulating among those Born Into the lower group the ball is now the size of a person Shrubbery books pets and anything of holdable size are now one with the ball the skinny children are missing parents are desperately fattening their children in hopes to outrun the ball’s growing size it’s growing hunger inequity grows the Gap widens more systems are put into place to protect the Gap the have Moores want more systems are put into place to Grant the lower people slightly more security from the survivalist fears they’re still connected to these systems still benefit the have Moores they feed off the population fear of returning to how things were before using examples in the world where things are that way to encourage gratitude the fear is still stronger than descent to work alongside the system is viewed as the only sensible solution Brian Thompson grew up in this stage the ball is now the size of a car the remaining people are hiding in their homes yards are Barren and stripped of fences there are no street signs or bicycles anymore there are barely roads things are now Wild disparate between the halves and Have Nots but there’s enough middling distribution that sentiment is still mixed anyone who questions this distribution is covertly deposed information is controlled and parsed out entertainment becomes a center point for focusing the attention of the populace the worst labor is distributed to people far away to prevent the building of negative sentiment locally those who look can see it but most choose not to the ball is now the size of a building homes are in runs the population is down to dozens people are hiding in bunkers and praying to the stars made of their children and loved ones for Sanctuary still the ball takes every structure until All That Remains is flat hard packed dirt a Gilded Age exists simultaneously alongside a crisis of distribution random individuals are elevated in what is essentially a lottery that gives those at the bottom hopes of seeing the heights they defend those who feed off them believing one day will be their time to feed the Hales need for more has crippled the ecology they live alongside but this is deemed fair in pursuit of a lifestyle that they one day hope to obtain the system is poised to strike against anyone who questions this order death and sickness are key leverage points for the system the suppression of our natural discomfort and the Reliance on whether or not the purse holders deem you worthy of treatment the sick can’t push back as easily the people watch as their parents and grandparents suffer under a system that manipulates and abuses them as they work into old age because they’re retiring was insufficient while Psychopaths and morons are drowned in more money than a single person or family could ever use in a reasonable manner the ball is now the size of a city awareness is no longer a question everyone everywhere can see it no matter where they distribute the labor no matter where they move the trash in this age of information the halves can no longer hide even those who do not want to look can see it but most lie to themselves to avoid the pain or convince themselves of its normaly there must be something they can do but this system is so deeply entrenched that those benefiting from it don’t even recognize their fortune and they still want more descent has become louder than fear with increasingly little to lose if the system is inescapable and increasing misery is nearly a guarantee what is there to fear in descent the ball is now the size of a small island there must be something that can be done Luigi manone grew up in this stage