methatical

(Verb)Any actions while tweeking on meth. Working pointlessly on anything. Like cars, generators, ect.

Look at that muther fucker weedeating in circles. Thats fucking methatical.

by Slushdogg November 1, 2023

Metasocial Sciences

The study of the study of society. It's the academic equivalent of holding a mirror up to a mirror and trying to analyze the reflection. Metasocial sciences don't examine social behavior directly; they examine the theories, methods, and biases of the people who examine social behavior. It's a field where you can get a PhD for writing a paper about why other academics wrote their papers the way they did, and the ultimate goal is to achieve a state of analytical navel-gazing so pure that you forget there are actual people involved.

Example: "Her thesis in metasocial sciences was a meta-analysis of the citation patterns in papers about citation patterns. It was considered a landmark study by the three people in the world who understood it, and utterly meaningless by everyone else."

by Abzugal February 14, 2026

Metasocial Technologies

The tools and platforms designed to analyze, manipulate, or optimize not just social interaction, but the analysis of social interaction itself. This includes sentiment analysis algorithms that track how people feel about how other people feel, social media dashboards that measure the engagement of posts about engagement metrics, and focus groups convened to discuss the results of other focus groups. It's technology that has eaten its own tail and is now trying to figure out what the tail tastes like.

Metasocial Technologies Example: "The marketing team used metasocial technologies to analyze the online discourse about their previous ad campaign, which was itself an analysis of consumer trends. They concluded that the public's perception of their brand's perception-management strategy was 'confused.' They then held a meeting to discuss the implications of this finding."

by Abzugal February 14, 2026

Metasocial Engineering

The practice of attempting to design and shape the underlying frameworks that govern social analysis and discourse. It's not about changing what people think; it's about changing how they think about thinking. This includes designing academic curricula to privilege certain critical theories, creating social media algorithms that reward specific types of meta-commentary, and structuring public debates to ensure that the conversation stays focused on the "real issues" (as defined by the engineer). It's a subtle, often invisible form of power, and its practitioners are usually found in university admin buildings and think tanks.

Example: "By carefully structuring the conference panels to feature only speakers who agreed on the proper methodology for studying online communities, the organizers engaged in a bit of metasocial engineering. They weren't controlling the conversation; they were controlling the definition of what counted as a valid conversation."

by Abzugal February 14, 2026

Metasocial Social Sciences

The recursive discipline of applying social scientific methods to the community of social scientists themselves. It's the study of the academic tribes, their rituals (conferences), their status symbols (citations, tenure), and their origin myths (the "founding fathers"). It examines why certain theories become fashionable and others are forgotten, why some departments are feuding and others are allied, and why the phrase "paradigm shift" is used so often it has lost all meaning. It's sociology for sociologists, and it requires a high tolerance for inside jokes.

Example: "A metasocial social sciences study observed that papers with longer titles and more complex jargon were cited more frequently, regardless of their actual content. This confirmed what every grad student suspected: in academia, sounding smart is often more important than being smart."

by Abzugal February 14, 2026

Metasocial Sociology

The specific analysis of group dynamics within the community of people who study group dynamics. It's the study of cliques among sociologists, the unspoken hierarchy between quantitative and qualitative researchers, and the peculiar tribal behavior exhibited at academic conferences when the free coffee runs out. Metasocial sociology notes that the very people who study in-group/out-group dynamics are themselves part of the most exclusionary in-group of all: people with PhDs who study in-group/out-group dynamics.

Metasocial Sociology Example: "At the sociology department holiday party, a metasocial sociologist couldn't help but observe the seating arrangements. The symbolic interactionists were huddled together near the snacks, the Marxists were arguing in a corner about who should pay for the snacks, and the functionalists were explaining why the snacks' placement was essential for the party's overall stability."

by Abzugal February 14, 2026

Metasocial Philosophy

The branch of thought that questions the very foundations of social thought. It asks: Is society real, or is it just a concept we made up to feel less alone? Can we ever truly understand a social system, or are we just projecting our own biases onto it? And if all social interactions are performances, what happens when we perform the act of analyzing those performances? Metasocial philosophy is the art of overthinking social situations to the point where you can no longer participate in them, because you're too busy deconstructing the concept of participation.

Example: "After a three-hour conversation about the nature of conversation, he reached a state of pure metasocial philosophy. He realized that his entire identity was just a performance for an audience of one—himself—and that the self he was performing for was also a performance. He then decided to stop thinking and just go to the grocery store, where he had a perfectly normal, unanalyzed interaction with the cashier and felt profoundly relieved."

by Abzugal February 14, 2026