Political (educational) diagrams, for revolutionaries

[ckaihatsu]

All,

Over the past few months and years I've produced a number of diagrams that are meant to be educational and useful as cognitive aids, especially for revolutionaries.

The site I started posting them to has since upped its commercialization, adding pop-up ad graphics and now even video commercials...!

They've now also made it so that you have to get an account and add me as a "friend" in order to see the full-size resolution of any of the graphics I've posted.

Unfortunately, all of my graphics are indexed to that site, through tinyurl links, so for the time being I'm going to stay with that site -- I might find time to move the entire collection to a less onerous hosting site, but it's not a priority right now. For now I'd like to just post the current index, below, and add that I would be glad to provide full-resolution versions of any of the graphics, either posted here, or via email.

Hope this helps -- take care.


Chris






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ckaihatsu Webshots albums index


History, Macro-Micro -- Precision
http://tinyurl.com/nf8gyr


G.U.T.S.U.C., Simplified
http://tinyurl.com/qn5k6x


Ideologies & Operations -- Fundamentals
http://tinyurl.com/d2564h


communist supply & demand -- Economic balance sheet
[defunct]


communist supply & demand -- Political balance sheet
http://tinyurl.com/cy5ypy


revolutionary policy *solution* (SOCIALIST SUPPLY & DEMAND)
http://www.revleft.com/vb/blog.php?b=275


Worldview Diagram
http://tinyurl.com/acacs4


communism for personal creativity / global syndicalist currency
http://www.revleft.com/vb/showpost.php?p=1324873&postcount=55


Syndicalism - Socialism - Communism Transition Diagram
http://tinyurl.com/bgqgjw


communist economy diagram
http://tinyurl.com/2be6szh


culture and critique framework (rendered)
http://tinyurl.com/bdxge2


Supply prioritization in a socialist transitional economy
http://tinyurl.com/5mjhhh


Labor & Capital, Wages & Dividends
http://tinyurl.com/6bs6va


G.U.T.S.U.C. The Grand Unified Theory of Society Under C_______
http://tinyurl.com/2c252w


culture and critique framework diagram
http://tinyurl.com/ywpdxc


Bloom's Taxonomy, Illustrated
http://tinyurl.com/yvludj


How to Secularize Common Religious Terms
http://tinyurl.com/ywonel


Affinity Group Workflow Tracker
http://tinyurl.com/yvn2xq


Prioritization Chart
http://tinyurl.com/2q48sf


Ideologies & Operations -- Dynamics
http://tinyurl.com/32qsdb


Ideologies & Operations -- Dynamics (Page 1 of 2)
http://tinyurl.com/275drt


Ideologies & Operations -- Dynamics (Page 2 of 2)
http://tinyurl.com/2vd8dg


Ideologies & Operations
http://tinyurl.com/yqotq9


History, Macro-Micro
http://tinyurl.com/2dafgr


A Business Perspective on the Declining Rate of Profit
http://tinyurl.com/2bvq3a


Political Tendency Spectrum
http://tinyurl.com/2hg538


G.U.T.S.U.C. Lite, The Grand Unified Theory of Society Under C______
http://tinyurl.com/2d7gnm


The Role of Software in the Context of Commodities
http://tinyurl.com/2wpyj4


Worldview diagram
http://tinyurl.com/ypmxx3


Humanities - Technology Chart
http://tinyurl.com/2h82yl


History, Macro-Micro (black-and-white)
http://tinyurl.com/24dw9n


History Micro-Macro
http://tinyurl.com/yqae3t

[ckaihatsu]

[1] History, Macro-Micro -- Precision
[2] G.U.T.S.U.C., Simplified
[3] Ideologies & Operations -- Fundamentals
[4] communist supply & demand -- Economic balance sheet [defunct]
[5] communist supply & demand -- Political balance sheet

[ckaihatsu]

[6] Worldview Diagram
[7] Syndicalism - Socialism - Communism Transition Diagram
[8] communist economy diagram
[9] culture and critique framework (rendered)
[10] Supply prioritization in a socialist transitional economy

[ckaihatsu]

[11] Labor & Capital, Wages & Dividends
[12] G.U.T.S.U.C. The Grand Unified Theory of Society Under C_______
[13] culture and critique framework diagram
[14] Bloom's Taxonomy, Illustrated
[15] How to Secularize Common Religious Terms

[ckaihatsu]

[16] Affinity Group Workflow Tracker
[17] Prioritization Chart
[18] Ideologies & Operations -- Dynamics
[19] Ideologies & Operations -- Dynamics (Page 1 of 2)
[20] Ideologies & Operations -- Dynamics (Page 2 of 2)

[ckaihatsu]

[21] Ideologies & Operations
[22] History, Macro-Micro
[23] A Business Perspective on the Declining Rate of Profit
[24] G.U.T.S.U.C. Lite, The Grand Unified Theory of Society Under C______
[25] The Role of Software in the Context of Commodities

[ckaihatsu]

[26] Worldview diagram
[27] Humanities - Technology Chart
[28] History, Macro-Micro (black-and-white)

[ckaihatsu]

You can download a single .zip file that contains *all 28* of the images -- they're full resolution and ready to print (as photos). The .zip file is about 12 MB in size and is available at this link:

www.mediafire.com/?yetzdeed1im

[New Tet]

Very generous of you to share these intriguing and visually arresting structural and systemic designs. Thank you.

I can't pretend to understand them all at first glance. In the Worldview Diagram, at the "Macro" level I would have included the "Individual/Cooperative" dichotomy". Maybe, because of it's apparent complexity, I missed it.

Also, have you checked out the graphic representations of the SIU as conceived by the SLP? Though simpler and less visually intriguing than yours, where would they fit within your structures if at all?

http://www.slp.org/pdf/statements/siu_chart.pdf

[ckaihatsu]

Very generous of you to share these intriguing and visually arresting structural and systemic designs. Thank you.


Hey, thanks for the thanks -- (!) I'm glad to make them available to comrades directly through RevLeft.... It took awhile, but I finally got it all done....

It's been the culmination of a prolonged effort into learning and mastering the 3-D graphics environment, bringing elements over from 2-D, vector-based design. Some of the concepts, particularly #23, go back to much earlier days, when I was first around revolutionary politics -- when I felt more at a loss in explaining some Marxist themes in plain language.

The urge to make these Marxist- and sociological-based realities more accessible has brought me to this point -- hopefully the reader can supply the particulars and use the diagrams to flesh out inter-related dynamics and relationships among any factors at hand.

My discussions here over the past year or so have spurred much more conceptual and framework development, particularly the 'communist supply & demand' stuff. I will remain forever open to discussions and critiques -- and suggestions -- that can lead to enlightenment and utility for everyone.





I can't pretend to understand them all at first glance. In the Worldview Diagram, at the "Macro" level I would have included the "Individual/Cooperative" dichotomy". Maybe, because of it's apparent complexity, I missed it.


The diagrams' content itself is decidedly *not* complex, I would say -- I have a feeling that you *do* understand the diagram well enough -- what you *might* be missing is the fitting of the 'individual / cooperative dichotomy' *onto* the framework as provided.

Note that the bottom-most level of the four is 'subjectivity / individuality', in red and yellow hues. *That* would be where the 'individual' portion of your 'individual / cooperative dichotomy' would rest. Pretty much *everything else* above *that* most-micro level will then deal with some aspect of society (and/or nature), which includes cooperation (and competition as well).





Also, have you checked out the graphic representations of the SIU as conceived by the SLP? Though simpler and less visually intriguing than yours, where would they fit within your structures if at all?

http://www.slp.org/pdf/statements/siu_chart.pdf


Okay, yeah, I just downloaded it and took a look. I have *no* objections whatsoever to a socialist industrial democracy.... I've even made it a point to brainstorm and outline a potential *procedural process* by which rank-and-file administration of industry and society might take place -- feel free to check it out at my blog entry or at my profile's visitor's page.

To answer your question, I would say - absolutely -, and that *that*'s the whole point of why I made the 'Worldview' diagram -- to show a depiction of the ultimately overarching reality in which we all live, a framework that the viewer can then adapt and run with for their *own* conceptual needs, as you've done....

Again, thanks for the feedback and appreciation -- I've felt of late that it's been the best way for me to contribute to revolutionary politics. Take care, see you around the board...!

[ckaihatsu]

While we're "on" the topic, I may as well add in here that a major impetus for my creating the worldview diagram was to clarify, or differentiate, social reality from objective reality.

This is a modality (for lack of a better term) that arises often in politics -- people may be originating their positions from a more *subjective* foundation / understanding of reality, or they may be coming from an *objective* framework / understanding of reality.

Depending on the situation we may not necessarily *want* to be absolutely objective -- for example, in a mass protest we, as revolutionary leftists, are entirely on the side of the oppressed minority, *against* the charges or persecution being leveled at the oppressed minority, no matter how well founded those charges are based in objective factors. This is because we recognize the existence of a pervasive legacy of class exploitation, including racism, sexism, and other oppressions, that may not be as apparent to the immediate situation, and which are systematically discounted (or ignored) by the officialdom. Yet this overarching system of persecution *has* a bearing on individual cases, and *that*'s where we would appear to be more-subjective in the face of "objective" "facts".

Here's another "case study":

Did a mass of Chinese workers kill a manager that was attempting to privatize a state-owned factory?

Well, what's more important here? The objective reality of the imminent privatization or the objective reality of the manager's demise? *Both* are objective facts, but in political terms they are *not* equivalent -- they're actually mutually exclusive. If we decide that the *issue* of the death is more important, then it pretty much exonerates the manager's conduct in attempting to privatize the factory for pennies on the dollar. But if we decide that the subjective *issue* of stopping the privatization is more important, then we're not going to be so concerned about what happens to those who *carry out* privatizations against the will of the masses.

There's no reconciling these two socially *subjective* political issues, as many bleeding-heart, hand-wringing types have tried to do. The *objective* facts, or reality, can be dispassionately verified no matter where one is on the political spectrum, but beyond that comes the political *assessment* of the underlying politics, and that's where one must / is forced to choose sides.

[Tower of Bebel]

I find some of them a bit difficult to comprehend, but overall they're very useful. I like how you made syndicalism greener than red though. The religious substitute -thingy is funny.

[ckaihatsu]

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[Q]

Amazing stuff, very much appreciated :)

[Honggweilo]

i do really like nr. 21 "ideologies and opperations, altough i dont understand why "fascism" is explicitly traditionalist (not al fascists are traditionalistic) but not corporatist, and third positionists are. They key economic backbone of fascism is vertical corporatism

[ckaihatsu]

i do really like nr. 21 "ideologies and opperations, altough i dont understand why "fascism" is explicitly traditionalist (not al fascists are traditionalistic) but not corporatist, and third positionists are. They key economic backbone of fascism is vertical corporatism


To clarify, you're talking about '[3] Ideologies & Operations -- Fundamentals'.

Thanks for the feedback -- it's a good critique. In retrospect I think I might have put 'Monarchism' in place of 'Fascism', but fascism is far more contemporary and also has emotional impact.

I'll keep this comment in mind for if I ever happen to produce an update.

[ckaihatsu]

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[ckaihatsu]

This is an 8-1/2" x 40" wide table that describes a communist-type political / economic model using three rows and six descriptive columns. The three rows are surplus-value-to-overhead, no surplus, and surplus-value-to-pleasure. The six columns are ownership / control, associated material values, determination of material values, material function, infrastructure / overhead, and propagation.

[ckaihatsu]

The site I started posting them to has since upped its commercialization, adding pop-up ad graphics and now even video commercials...!

They've now also made it so that you have to get an account and add me as a "friend" in order to see the full-size resolution of any of the graphics I've posted.


Okay, I just made an account at Tinypic and uploaded all of the diagrams there -- the links below will get you directly to a full-size image for each graphic.


ckaihatsu Tinypic albums index


Political Spectrum, Simplified

http://i49.tinypic.com/ifzgr6.jpg


communist supply & demand -- Model of Material Factors

http://i50.tinypic.com/ilc20z.jpg


Humanities-Technology Chart 2.0

http://i47.tinypic.com/j9269k.jpg


History, Macro-Micro -- Precision

http://i45.tinypic.com/149030w.jpg


G.U.T.S.U.C., Simplified

http://i48.tinypic.com/28smo9v.jpg


Ideologies & Operations -- Fundamentals

http://i48.tinypic.com/1zxm51g.jpg


communist supply & demand -- Economic balance sheet

[defunct]


communist supply & demand -- Political balance sheet

http://i47.tinypic.com/pu0px.jpg


Worldview Diagram

http://i45.tinypic.com/111to46.jpg


Syndicalism - Socialism - Communism Transition Diagram

http://i49.tinypic.com/5nq23t.jpg


communist economy diagram

http://i48.tinypic.com/2iiitma.jpg


culture and critique framework (rendered)

http://i50.tinypic.com/qrb3gm.jpg


Supply prioritization in a socialist transitional economy

http://i45.tinypic.com/30204e8.jpg


Labor & Capital, Wages & Dividends

http://i47.tinypic.com/dzbdzq.jpg


G.U.T.S.U.C. The Grand Unified Theory of Society Under C_______

http://i47.tinypic.com/14qzvo.jpg


culture and critique framework diagram

http://i45.tinypic.com/2jct4qg.jpg


Bloom's Taxonomy, Illustrated

http://i50.tinypic.com/2qnaao9.jpg


How to Secularize Common Religious Terms

http://i49.tinypic.com/124zcrd.jpg


Affinity Group Workflow Tracker

http://i49.tinypic.com/r89tf7.jpg


Prioritization Chart

http://i46.tinypic.com/30mr78g.jpg


Ideologies & Operations -- Dynamics

http://i46.tinypic.com/2mnoroi.jpg


Ideologies & Operations -- Dynamics (Page 1 of 2)

http://i46.tinypic.com/34qo0fm.jpg


Ideologies & Operations -- Dynamics (Page 2 of 2)

http://i49.tinypic.com/154zvdg.jpg


Ideologies & Operations

http://i46.tinypic.com/ndoaau.jpg


History, Macro-Micro

http://i48.tinypic.com/29vdjrl.jpg


A Business Perspective on the Declining Rate of Profit

http://i47.tinypic.com/28u781c.jpg


G.U.T.S.U.C. Lite, The Grand Unified Theory of Society Under C______

http://i46.tinypic.com/28rgr2p.jpg


The Role of Software in the Context of Commodities

http://i49.tinypic.com/6xywjm.jpg


Worldview diagram

http://i45.tinypic.com/1olg8y.jpg


Humanities - Technology Chart

http://i50.tinypic.com/2beati.jpg


History, Macro-Micro (black-and-white)

http://i50.tinypic.com/285x8y.jpg

[ckaihatsu]

Generalizations - Characterizations

http://i48.tinypic.com/2m2jpyd.jpg

[Dr Mindbender]

what program do you use to create these out of interest?

[ckaihatsu]

http://www.artofillusion.org/

[ckaihatsu]

http://i48.tinypic.com/2njin34.jpg

[Pawn Power]

I'm sorry, but most of this is really confusing and unclear to me. And I think I have a decent grasp of many of the topics.

I don't think these images are very assessable.

[ckaihatsu]

http://i47.tinypic.com/jiz508.jpg


IN A HOLE

[vertical dimension line with double arrows] Amount of negative political capital

"Digging a hole"
"Digging into the base"
"Letting the side down"
Loss of support from being disproven by developments, losing credibility, broken promises, lack of follow-through, lying, crying wolf

[ckaihatsu]

http://i42.tinypic.com/2hhof1w.jpg

[ChrisK]

could this be stickied please?

[ckaihatsu]

http://i46.tinypic.com/24fwswi.jpg

[ckaihatsu]

http://i56.tinypic.com/15eitkg.jpg

[ckaihatsu]

http://i51.tinypic.com/104qeqt.jpg

[ckaihatsu]

http://i52.tinypic.com/2mnr98o.jpg

[ckaihatsu]

Okay, just noticed that my tinypic.com links aren't working -- went to sign in and got a notice saying that my account's been *banned*. Also noticed that TinyPic is part of the Photobucket company....

So, for now, my work can still be viewed at Webshots, at tinyurl.com/ckaihatsu.

[ckaihatsu]

Okay, found another image hosting site for the graphics -- here's an updated list of links for *full-size*, *readable* versions:


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[1] History, Macro Micro Precision

http://postimage.org/image/34mjeutk4/


[2] G U T S U C , Simplified

http://postimage.org/image/34ml2e61w/


[3] Ideologies & Operations Fundamentals

http://postimage.org/image/34modgv1g/


[4] communist supply & demand economic balance sheet

http://postimage.org/image/34mq107j8/


[5] communist supply & demand political balance sheet

http://postimage.org/image/34mrojk10/


[6] Worldview Diagram

http://postimage.org/image/1budmnp50/


[7] Syndicalism Socialism Communism Transition Diagram

http://postimage.org/image/1bufa71ms/


[8] communist economy diagram

http://postimage.org/image/1bvfo0ohw/


[9] culture and critique framework

http://postimage.org/image/1bx6ifv9g/


[10] Supply prioritization in a socialist transitional economy

http://postimage.org/image/1bxymkrno/


[11] Labor & Capital, Wages & Dividends

http://postimage.org/image/1bygthl38/


[12] G U T S U C

http://postimage.org/image/194apk0w4/


[13] culture and critique framework diagram

http://postimage.org/image/1covri51g/


[14] Bloom's Taxonomy, Illustrated

http://postimage.org/image/1coz2ku10/


[15] How to Secularize Common Religious Terms

http://postimage.org/image/1cpr6pqf8/


[16] Affinity Group Workflow Tracker

http://postimage.org/image/1cqt82ps4/


[17] Prioritization Chart

http://postimage.org/image/35hop84dg/


[18] Ideologies & Operations Dynamics 0 of 2

http://postimage.org/image/1czq2c1l0/


[19] Ideologies & Operations Dynamics 1 of 2

http://postimage.org/image/1czwohfk4/


[20] Ideologies & Operations Dynamics 2 of 2

http://postimg.org/image/4d2ikuu7h/


[21] Ideologies & Operations

http://postimage.org/image/1d2pk9lok/


[22] History, Macro Micro

http://postimage.org/image/35q8b6o84/


[23] A Business Perspective on the Declining Rate of Profit

http://postimg.org/image/yuivdcyy5


[24] G U T S U C Lite

http://postimage.org/image/19my5qxdw/


[25] The Role of Software in the Context of Commodities

http://postimage.org/image/19n34cyv8/


[26] Worldview Diagram

http://postimage.org/image/19n82z0ck/


[27] Humanities Technology Chart

http://postimage.org/image/35qtt66n8/


[28] History, Macro Micro, black and white

http://postimage.org/image/35qyrs84k/


090923 Humanities Technology Chart 2 0

http://postimage.org/image/1d4ldatxg/


100219 Ideologies & Operations Bottom Up psd png

http://postimage.org/image/1d4wy29dw/


100312 History, Macro Micro Political ( Cognitive) Dissonance aoi 30 tiff psd

http://postimage.org/image/35rsjgh0k/


100908 Centralization Abstraction Diagram of Political Forms ai

http://postimage.org/image/35ru6ztic/


101029 Rotation system of work roles ai

http://postimage.org/image/1d53k7nd0/


101117 Interpersonal Meanings aoi 0020001 jpg psd

http://postimage.org/image/1d5a6d1c4/


communist supply & demand Model of Material Factors

http://postimage.org/image/35sw8csv8/


Consciousness, A Material Definition

http://postimage.org/image/35t4i1jc4/


Generalizations Characterizations

http://postimage.org/image/1d6itveo4/


Political Spectrum, Simplified

http://postimage.org/image/35tmoycro/

[ckaihatsu]

http://postimage.org/image/1g4s6wax0/

http://postimage.org/image/2cvo2d7fo/

[ckaihatsu]

http://postimage.org/image/pgx9pah0/

[ckaihatsu]

http://postimage.org/image/i7hg698j1/

[ckaihatsu]

http://postimage.org/image/fn8hqaxrh/

[ckaihatsu]

http://postimage.org/image/7qfa9yoh9/

[ckaihatsu]

Multi-Tiered System of Productive and Consumptive Zones for a Post-Capitalist Political Economy

http://tinyurl.com/mtspczpcpe
http://postimage.org/image/ccfl07uy5/

[ckaihatsu]

http://postimage.org/image/axvyymiy5/

[ckaihatsu]

http://postimage.org/image/6psghrjot/

[ckaihatsu]

http://postimage.org/image/6z3eh2w6l/

[ckaihatsu]

http://postimage.org/image/ixpez2rql/

[ВАЛТЕР]

http://sphotos-f.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/391520_502383353111507_1259724746_n.jpg

[blake 3:17]

http://www.justicewithpeace.org/system/files/u1/Palestinian_land_loss_Map.jpg

[ckaihatsu]

http://s6.postimg.org/s8yqs5zhp/130421_order_complexity_complication_chaos.jpg (http://postimg.org/image/s8yqs5zhp/)

[ckaihatsu]

http://s6.postimg.org/z6z3hzt65/130828_You_Are_Here_aoi_xcf.jpg (http://postimg.org/image/z6z3hzt65/)

[ckaihatsu]

http://s6.postimg.org/rciywyagd/130927_Meanings_of_Spatial_Relationships_aoi_xcf.j pg (http://postimg.org/image/rciywyagd/)

[ckaihatsu]

(a cooperative project from Dec. 2012)

http://www.revleft.com/vb/showpost.php?p=2548017&postcount=167

[Nakidana]

Honestly, the eighties CGI graphics make these confusing as fuck.

[ckaihatsu]

Honestly, the eighties CGI graphics make these confusing as fuck.


Like what, exactly -- ?

Remember, you're looking at them for free.

[Remus Bleys]

Remember, you're looking at them for free.
i would pay money not to see these.

[Sea]

Honestly, the eighties CGI graphics make these confusing as fuck.

http://i.imgur.com/BBKkN.gif

[ckaihatsu]

i would pay money not to see these.


Yeah, I'd take you up on your offer, but I'm not violent towards comrades.

[Sea]

Yeah, I'd take you up on your offer, but I'm not violent towards comrades.Chris, almost none of these make any fucking sense. Go back to an early one you made and try to figure out what it means. I dare you. I double dare you.

[ckaihatsu]

Chris, almost none of these make any fucking sense. Go back to an early one you made and try to figure out what it means. I dare you. I double dare you.


Well, "thanks" for the blanket dismissiveness, but you're going to have to be a little more specific than that to get my attention.

[Remus Bleys]

Well, "thanks" for the blanket dismissiveness, but you're going to have to be a little more specific than that to get my attention.
Okay, so what does this mean?
http://www.revleft.com/vb/attachment.php?attachmentid=7427&d=1252556857

[Sea]

Okay, so what does this mean?
http://www.revleft.com/vb/attachment.php?attachmentid=7427&d=1252556857It doesn't.

[ckaihatsu]

RB, it's counterproductive to ask someone for their assistance and then immediately level an implication that their work is "meaningless". Obviously I'm far from encouraged at this point to be accommodating.

[Remus Bleys]

RB, it's counterproductive to ask someone for their assistance and then immediately level an implication that their work is "meaningless". Obviously I'm far from encouraged at this point to be accommodating.You made this chart to help educate people.
And right now it appears nonsensical. So go on and educate me on what it means
Either:
A) You know this is nonsensical and you are saving face.
B) You actually mean this, and if this is the case, it seems so unlikely everyone assumes A is what is going on.

[ckaihatsu]

You made this chart to help educate people.
And right now it appears nonsensical. So go on and educate me on what it means
Either:
A) You know this is nonsensical and you are saving face.
B) You actually mean this, and if this is the case, it seems so unlikely everyone assumes A is what is going on.


That's a *little* better....

You're in luck -- there's already a past thread in which I happened to introduce this very one that you're asking about, with a resulting discussion:


How do you view the development of technology?

http://www.revleft.com/vb/do-you-view-t158907/index2.html?t=158907&page=2

[Remus Bleys]

That's a *little* better....

You're in luck -- there's already a past thread in which I happened to introduce this very one that you're asking about, with a resulting discussion:


How do you view the development of technology?

http://www.revleft.com/vb/do-you-view-t158907/index2.html?t=158907&page=2
this thread still doesnt answer what that means

[ckaihatsu]

this thread still doesnt answer what that means


Well, considering your attitude and your vagueness, I'll leave things where they are.

[Remus Bleys]

Well, considering your attitude and your vagueness, I'll leave things where they are.
I linked you to a specific one of your "educational charts" and asked you what you meant.
Instead of an explanation, you linked me to a thread.
It is you, not I, being vague.

[ckaihatsu]

I linked you to a specific one of your "educational charts" and asked you what you meant.
Instead of an explanation, you linked me to a thread.
It is you, not I, being vague.


Well, again, your attitude is hardly motivating. If you want to specify exactly what you're not understanding I'll take it under consideration.

[Nakidana]

Like what, exactly -- ?

Remember, you're looking at them for free.

What, apart from half of them looking like a psychedelic art exhibition gone horribly wrong?

I'm sorry, let me try and be constructive. Take this one, which I can actually grasp the meaning of:

http://i.imgur.com/sj0s3bo.jpg

Now if this was a simple 2D infographic vector diagram it would be intuitive and pretty useful. Instead you blast out the eighties CGI graphics and the bottom turns into chaos. The horrible brown "PLATFORMS" heading obscures the text underneath, and behind that text is yet another blue header stating God knows what (is it principles?). Rest is okay.

I like my diagrams clean and intuitive. All I'm suggesting is that you cut down on the graphics a bit...

[ckaihatsu]

What, apart from half of them looking like a psychedelic art exhibition gone horribly wrong?

I'm sorry, let me try and be constructive.




Take this one, which I can actually grasp the meaning of:




Now if this was a simple 2D infographic vector diagram it would be intuitive and pretty useful.




Instead you blast out the eighties CGI graphics and the bottom turns into chaos. The horrible brown "PLATFORMS" heading obscures the text underneath, and behind that text is yet another blue header stating God knows what (is it principles?). Rest is okay.

I like my diagrams clean and intuitive. All I'm suggesting is that you cut down on the graphics a bit...


I'll accept this particular critique as a valid one since the text you're referring to is not as easily read as it could possibly be.

By way of explanation I'll just note that all of these rendered illustrations were learning-curve projects for me, as a way to get crucial concepts out there as well as develop my skills with the graphics package of my choice, Art of Illusion.

You can compare the dates (of creation) on the various images in this thread to see if you think my skills have improved over the years. I hope that these illustrations are overall more helpful than opaque.

[ckaihatsu]

http://s6.postimg.org/erqcsdyb1/140415_2_Pies_Must_Line_Up_xcf.jpg (http://postimg.org/image/erqcsdyb1/)

[ckaihatsu]

http://s6.postimg.org/3n7vdvy7h/140509_communist_economy_diagram_UPDATE_xcf.jpg (http://postimg.org/image/3n7vdvy7h/)

[ckaihatsu]

http://s6.postimg.org/pxtfozist/140612_Civilization_Humanity_Framework_aoi_35_ti.j pg (http://postimg.org/image/pxtfozist/)

[Redistribute the Rep]

Looks like you spent a lot of time on these. Thanks, comrade

[ckaihatsu]

Looks like you spent a lot of time on these. Thanks, comrade


Thanks for the thanks -- next up will be a Socialist-Realism-type portrait of myself leading the IT workers of the world to Total Victory -- !


= )

[ckaihatsu]

Noticed that, for whatever reason, one image has been missing from the 'Political Diagrams' section. Just uploaded it now:


[20] Ideologies & Operations -- Dynamics 2 of 2

http://s6.postimg.org/wd6m54xo1/20_Ideologies_Operations_Dynamics_2_of_2.jpg (http://postimg.org/image/4d2ikuu7h/full/)

[The Disillusionist]

Very interesting diagrams. Thank you. My one complaint (as if I have a right to make any complaints on something I didn't contribute to), is that some of the diagrams are too busy, and thus very hard to read, especially with so many overlapping layers and dimensions. My eyes tend to lose focus and just see lots of pretty colors and lines at that point.

[ckaihatsu]

Very interesting diagrams. Thank you. My one complaint (as if I have a right to make any complaints on something I didn't contribute to), is that some of the diagrams are too busy, and thus very hard to read, especially with so many overlapping layers and dimensions. My eyes tend to lose focus and just see lots of pretty colors and lines at that point.


I'll *settle* for 'pretty colors and lines'.... (grin)

Yeah, as I've already mentioned, these diagrams have been a learning exercise for me, so that-plus the fact that they're free to the end user means that whatever you can get from them is entirely yours. (grin)

Thanks for the critique -- your feedback will be, uh, passed along through channels....

[ckaihatsu]

150131 RevLeft avatar

http://s6.postimg.org/t1dewhoq9/150131_150130_3_Rev_Left_AVATAR_aoi_frame_14_13.jp g (http://postimg.org/image/rmbu7rnn1/full/)


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http://s6.postimg.org/mgxzfhur5/2484415440046342459_VSa_We_M_fs.jpg (http://postimg.org/image/hv1v7597x/full/)

[ckaihatsu]

But money can't really ever end because the people who control it manipulate its system to just print more money.. Im not sure it will ever end by itself. Maybe we are agreeing and i am just misunderstanding. I believe that yes you are right that it will fall but only if people then realise how ridiculous it is for a modern human society to use a piece of paper to dictate the lives of everyone and that they need it for the basic needs of life, food, water, shelter etc.


We know that a fully collectivized social production would enable free-access and direct-distribution (material exchanges would no longer be necessary) -- this would solve the festering issue of *material* availability, but I think the question of (liberated) *labor* availability would remain, afterwards.

I'm all for the societal use of a collectivized political economy that measures liberated-labor labor *hours* according to a scale of difficulty / hazard for each kind of task, and that uses a circulating system of labor *credits* for the representation of the same.

Here's a model I developed that illustrates this (there's an intro to it at my blog entry):


labor credits framework for 'communist supply & demand'

http://s6.postimg.org/jjc7b5nch/150221_labor_credits_framework_for_communist_su.jp g (http://postimg.org/image/p7ii21rot/full/)

[ckaihatsu]

http://s6.postimg.org/izeyfeh9t/150403_2_Individualism_Tribalism_aoi_36_tiff_x.jpg (http://postimg.org/image/680s8w7hp/full/)

[ckaihatsu]

http://s6.postimg.org/44rloql0x/160309_History_Macro_Micro_politics_logistic.jpg (http://postimg.org/image/r686uhkod/full/)

[ckaihatsu]

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[IbelieveInanarchy]

links are broken

[Riot]

ckaihatsu,

Which diagrams you've made over the years do you think are the most important/useful, as stand-alone infographics?

[Wessex Way Monster]

ckaihatsu,

Which diagrams you've made over the years do you think are the most important/useful, as stand-alone infographics?

Lol none of them.

[ckaihatsu]

links are broken


I'm seeing the images just fine right now -- if the links were broken they wouldn't show up.





ckaihatsu,

Which diagrams you've made over the years do you think are the most important/useful, as stand-alone infographics?


I initially numbered the original batch that I brought over to PostImage.org, so you might notice the [1] to [28] numbers for those -- I intended that to be a 'ranking' of sorts, with [1] History, Macro Micro -- Precision (http://postimg.org/image/zbpxjshkd/full/) being the most important / useful at the time.

These days, with additional ones done, it's tougher to say because they (almost) all ultimately just reflect various aspects of a 'total' 3-gradient space, left-right being the left-right political spectrum, up-down being a sliding scale of magnitude, and away-from being the progression of time into the future.

As with anything, at least half of it has to do with what the user is looking for -- the 'right tool for the job'.