fectin wrote:Huh. Well, I guess that fits with the things time cube says, but I'm still completely lost as to why it would be interesting. it's like asserting loudly and angrily that every year has solstices and equinoxes: so what?
Within his paralogical reference frame, things which are paired are balanced, proper, and morally good. While unpaired things are unbalanced, improper, and morally evil. So when he posits that the day itself is continuously in paired pairs, he is stating that the universe itself is fundamentally on the side of righteousness (not that Gene Ray would condone the use of the word "
universe"), while people who talk about days as if they were singular (and thus immoral) things are attempting to hide this great truth. These people are ignorant at best, fooled by the great monist conspiracy that his schizophrenic delusions have invented, if not being members of that wicked body themselves.
The focus for Gene Ray's schizophrenia is a battle between pairs and singulars, where pairs are good and singulars are evil. So it is
very important to Gene Ray to ascribe pairedness to fundamental aspects of the world around him such as time and space. The alternative, for him, would be to acknowledge that the world around him was fundamentally wicked and out to destroy him personally. He latches onto "cubic time" because it is how he manages to cling to hope in the face of otherwise overpowering paranoid delusions. He attempts to spread the word, because he believes that "cubic time" will similarly bring hope and joy to other people. I don't think that even now he understands that the vast majority of people don't actually care whether things are paired or not, and that it does not objectively matter in the slightest. Within Gene Ray's understanding of the universe, people who mock him do so because they are either "educated stupid" by the monist conspiracy and need to be enlightened - or are part of the monist conspiracy and are actively wicked and need to be killed. I don't know if Gene Ray is actually going to kill anyone, but his tirades are using more violent imagery than they were ten years ago.
As paralogical reference frames go, it's actually really simple and concise. Usually there are a lot more moving parts and contradictions to the conspiracies and crazy talk. Gene Ray's (ironically) singular obsession with pairs focuses all of his paralogic into a fairly comprehensible (if utterly wrong) paradigm. You could walk into pretty much any psych ward and talk to a schizophrenic with a world view that is
way harder to make sense of, simply by being unfocused and/or contradictory. For example: I talked to one woman who believed that electrical devices had been modified by her husband on behalf of an international conspiracy to emit electric mind altering waves to suppress peoples' natural talents to view the auras emitted by stones. Also, she was pretty sure her children had been replaced by robots, and that is why she threw away all the electronic devices from her home and stopped feeding the kids. And she was genuinely puzzled as to why her husband was "mad" at her, and was unable to make the connection between having told me that she had destroyed his laptop and the fact that he was pissed off.
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