An approach that analyzes social phenomena as self-similar patterns that repeat across different levels of social organization. The dynamics of a couple fighting are the same as the dynamics of two rival gangs, which are the same as two feuding nations. An act of microaggression in a classroom is the fractal signature of systemic racism at a national level. Social change, then, requires intervening at all scales simultaneously, as a change in the macro-pattern will eventually ripple down to the micro-level, and vice-versa.
Fractalism (Social Sciences) "That viral video of someone being rude in a store isn't just one bad day. Fractalism says it's the same pattern as the company's exploitative labor practices, just zoomed in. Rudeness is the fractal structure of the corporation's values, visible at the human scale."
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Get the Fractalism (Social Sciences) mug.A model of the mind proposing that cognition itself is a fractal process. A single thought contains the pattern of a whole line of reasoning. A moment of perception is structured like a whole memory. The way you solve a small, trivial problem (like a typo) is a miniature, faster version of how you solve a major life crisis. The brain is not a computer with different programs, but a single, infinitely complex pattern-generator, creating self-similar structures of thought at every level of consciousness.
Fractalism (Cognitive Sciences) "The way you panicked over that typo in your email—the frantic search for a solution, the blame-shifting, the eventual acceptance—was the exact same pattern as how you handled your last breakup. Your brain doesn't have different 'crisis modules'; it just runs the same fractal pattern on different-sized inputs."
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The act of someone from outside a religion trying to explain aspects of that religion to someone who practices it. Note: It isn't always derogatory not everyone reads their own holy book and not every outsider is ill informed, but it does often come off as annoying to the person receiving the explanation.
Buddhist: "So yeah my religion is Buddhism"
Atheist: "Akshually Buddhism isn't a religion"
*The Buddhist in a full Kasaya and shaven bald*
Buddhist: "Are you literally Faithsplaining to a monk?"
Atheist: "Akshually Buddhism isn't a religion"
*The Buddhist in a full Kasaya and shaven bald*
Buddhist: "Are you literally Faithsplaining to a monk?"
by BlorboMcDorbo September 3, 2024
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It could be used as an insult against people who identifies as a "MAP" or "MAPsexual," or pedophiles like EDP445, Apollo Quiboloy and e.t.c.
It could be used as an insult against people who identifies as a "MAP" or "MAPsexual," or pedophiles like EDP445, Apollo Quiboloy and e.t.c.
Examples of fractally evil people:
- People who identify as MAP or MAPsexual
- People who are charge of child sexual abuse
- People who has a history of atrocities not limited to genocide, war crimes, deportation and ethnic cleansing (e.g. Adolf Hitler)
- People who started a world war
- Animal Abusers
- Ragebaiters, or post-trolls that does the most unhinged shit, to the point they are praising Nazis or Fascists willingly.
- Nazis and Neo-Nazis
- Confederates and Ku Klux Klan
- Any Cult Leader like Apollo Quiboloy
- Foodistzen
- Bella The Wolf
- UTTP
- People who identify as MAP or MAPsexual
- People who are charge of child sexual abuse
- People who has a history of atrocities not limited to genocide, war crimes, deportation and ethnic cleansing (e.g. Adolf Hitler)
- People who started a world war
- Animal Abusers
- Ragebaiters, or post-trolls that does the most unhinged shit, to the point they are praising Nazis or Fascists willingly.
- Nazis and Neo-Nazis
- Confederates and Ku Klux Klan
- Any Cult Leader like Apollo Quiboloy
- Foodistzen
- Bella The Wolf
- UTTP
by MarioFan171 October 25, 2024
Get the Fractally evil mug.A Faith Smith, is someone who pretends to be your best friend during a breakup and then gets with your ex two weeks later. Hence the “faith” which is broken and “Smith” a worker in metal who uses people’s trash for their own.
Hannah: She took my boyfriend Leroy, two weeks after we broke up!
Sarah: She is such a Faith Smith
Hannah: What’s that?
Sarah: Someone who steals someone’s ex
Sarah: She is such a Faith Smith
Hannah: What’s that?
Sarah: Someone who steals someone’s ex
by SadietheOGwhiteheeler January 17, 2025
Get the Faith Smith mug.An ITERATED FUNCTION SYSTEM (IFS) is a set of CONTRACTIONS, which are ways of scaling the plane by the same amount in every VECTOR BASIS. An ATTRACTOR is the set S (a shape) for which the union of the images of S under the application of all contractions in the given IFS is equivalent to S. A self-similar fractal is then the unique ATTRACTOR of an ITERATED FUNCTION SYSTEM (IFS).
by owochanriemannsigma February 3, 2025
Get the Fractal mug.Faith’s are out there in the wild, but this Faith is unique and more lovely than the rest of them. She’s lovelier than all girls in general. The only person who can have this Faith in particular is ME. SHE’S MY FAITHY. She’s the cutest most genuine person on this Earth.hjhhjbhjhgfdrx sorry there was a hair on my keyboard, pluh. Anyways, her magnanimity radiates throughout my life. She’s truly perfection and a work of art sent from the heavens. God I love my Faithy ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
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