Prep for a HoloSim contest; Thoughts?

Names can be binding. I often laugh considering how many think of magical words as nonsense, simply because look at us. Words do have power, especially with memetics (minds can be introduced to seemingly unrelated words and ideas, to ultimately come together in truly effective and astounding ways). Names can be binding, holding us to an identity that we feel we must cling to. Nick-names especially can be far too binding I believe. I've had many at the same time among different crowds (curious how people treat you differently just because of a name), even though I despise them but I try to not let me be influenced to act in any certain manner(1 was Harry Potter; I still haven't watched those movies, lol; and even in that I'm personally affected). And for each nick-name, people see me differently, and treat me differently even though I'm the same. Even adjectives can be spread from one person to the next, in a sad but effective attempt to describe a person. 1 word attached to a person can change so many perceptions in so many ways, and ultimately how that person them-self feels they must act/rebel in order to be familiar or stand out, fitting in one way or another instead of attempting to find their true-selves, they are instead reduced to a binary re-action; accept and fit in, or do a complete 180. Rare but desired are the uninfluenced but not the uncaring.

Watching people grow in general has become interesting. No one wants a boring life. No one wants to feel mundane. But they always want to ultimately fit in somewhere. This results in kids happily joining a crowd. Then wanting to stand out by acting out so that they may become more unique/noticed/forgotten. This can easily go too far at any age. Either they don't go too far, and their scenario results in them being welcomed/embraced anew, just to restart the cycle but often enough feel more bound to their peers more than ever, or they go too far and ultimately are abandoned so that they often feel the need to cast away personal traits associated with their past peers, blossoming into another person. But often then they restrict themselves, and their capabilities by not wanting to use any of their previous traits in their new life; often they feel the need to do a complete 180. They've just left the face of one clone behind only to claim themselves as a clone of another clique.

The ones who did return to their initial peers, have tested the waters. They've seen the boundaries. They either become scared at the unknown possibilities and begin to settle into that peer-influenced persona for the rest of their lives, or start the cycle again when things become too much/not-enough. Those that did escape their peer membrane give their selves an openness/possibilities, but too often they waste it to settle into another crowd to then become primarily influenced by those members only.

There is generally an unwanting/incapability to truly see things in a different light.

All the special little unique snow-flakes mostly just melt away to become part of one thing only. But cultures must be allowed to grow, for the hope they will evolve into their best forms. It is a necessary blandness for a base to work from it seems.

Attempting to understand why people think certain ways has definitely intrigued me for a large part of my life. I don't attempt to manipulate, but it is fun to test out things so minor that others would very likely think it silly, but they're often effective, if not interesting. I find memetics very interesting. It was my very first major interest in my earliest days on the internet in the mid/late 90's. But memetics have been twisted to be conceptualized as nothing but a name for smarmy pictures with text.

I often seriously doubt most peoples' ability at free will. It seems too often we are merely re-acting to whichever random stimuli peaks our interest first in the manner we've most experienced to be appropriate by our peers, without ever giving serious consideration to a proper response. Memetics in action. Just mental viruses/thought-patterns spreading from one person to the next faster and more effectively than any common code/cold. Look at how a white guy from the country will act, dress, drive versus a black guy in a ghetto, versus a person raised religiously, versus a teenager wanting to rebel, versus a beautiful woman, versus an over-weight man (what people feel they have a right to, and feel they must settle for in relationships especially saddens me). Too many feel they must act a certain way, so much so that it becomes instinct without a 2nd thought. In essence becoming brain-dead in many views. A closed mind is a dead mind.

I don't know why I'm writing all this. Sometimes I just want to actually talk. And, lol, these meds are definitely kicking my ass right now, they have been for a good bit really. I'm leaning all over the place, lol. I've had some pretty persistent back troubles for a while. Just a few days ago I had a pretty bad fall. I try to avoid the meds, but it was kind of a bad accident. Hard to fight the desire to lash out while also trying to ignore the pain. So, meds it is. Maybe my doc deserves a hug/card, lol. Maybe he's going to cause me to get put away, lol.

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