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(elaboration on existing word, in urbandic from the Left; from the Right:

> 1 a community of those who strive for a better and alternate reality than the corrupt one in which we currently live. These are the underground anarcho-capitalists who foment info-war in order to undermine distinct evils in the world, promulgated by wealthy, arrogant, callous elites, such as central banksters, corrupt politicians, and media-moguls.

> Subversion refers to a process aimed at transforming the established social order, its structures of power, authority, exploitation, servitude, deception, and secret hierarchy; examples of such structures include the nation, the state, secretive societies, agents of organized force (military), and agents of organized mind-control (mass-media). It is a counter-attack, overturning or uprooting of the Dominant Paradigm.

2 a subset of the universe; a local region with boundary separating it from some external forces such as impulse, stress, conduction, radiation, etc., while being influenced by other external forces so as to cause a local DECREASE in entropy, thereby causing an INCREASE of entropy in the external universe. This is made possible because entropy increases spontaneously, but decreases only by way of WORK done upon the subverse. Such work is always a combination of INFORMATION, allied with MATTER. Examples are DNA acting on chemicals to make life, and human-designed machines acting on metal, minerals, wood, plastic, etc. to create order.
Author Neal Stephenson supports subversion by creating a fictional subverse in his novels, and drawing attention to subversion directly.

A refrigerator is a subverse which cools its contents with electricity input, and heat-dispersing exchanger coils for output.
by adrifter February 10, 2018
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