Commune-Based Society

A specific, radical form of community-based society where the commune is not just a social unit but a fully integrated political and economic entity. In this model, the commune collectively owns and manages all property and means of production within its territory. Work is organized communally, resources are distributed based on need, and all members participate in direct democratic decision-making. Society is a voluntary federation of such self-sufficient, egalitarian communes. It is the structural goal of many anarcho-communists and utopian socialists, rejecting both the market and the state.

*Example: The theoretical endpoint of a Commune-Based Society is often illustrated by the short-lived Paris Commune of 1871, which aimed to turn Paris into such a collective entity. A modern small-scale example is the Twin Oaks Intentional Community in Virginia, which operates as a secular, income-sharing commune, though it exists within a larger capitalist state rather than as a federated societal model.*

Commune-Based Society by Dumu The Void February 5, 2026

People-Based Society

A populist and often ambiguous term for a society where political legitimacy flows directly from "the people" as an undifferentiated, collective sovereign, typically expressed through mechanisms that bypass traditional institutions like political parties, legislatures, or a free press. This can manifest as a radical direct democracy using digital plebiscites, or it can be the ideological justification for a charismatic leader or single party claiming an unmediated connection to the popular will. The term is unstable: it can describe a utopia of mass participation or a dystopia of majoritarian tyranny against minorities and institutional checks.

Example: Populist movements on both left and right often call for a People-Based Society. A positive interpretation might be Rojava's democratic confederalism in Northern Syria, which emphasizes communal councils. A negative interpretation could be a system where a leader, claiming a direct "will of the people" mandate, systematically weakens courts, the media, and opposition, arguing these intermediaries corrupt the pure connection between leader and populace.

People-Based Society by Dumu The Void February 5, 2026

People-Based Democracy

A rhetorical term emphasizing that ultimate sovereignty resides with "the people" as an undifferentiated whole, often used to contrast with "elite-based" or "property-based" systems. It can be a genuine call for populist empowerment or an empty slogan used by authoritarian regimes to claim legitimacy while suppressing actual popular will. Its meaning is entirely dependent on who gets to define "the people."

Example: Populist movements on both the left and right claim to champion People-Based Democracy against a "corrupt elite." However, in practice, this can lead to majoritarian tyranny, as seen when a leader, claiming a direct connection to "the real people," bypasses institutional checks and balances, arguing they are obstructing the people's will.

People-Based Democracy by Dumu The Void February 5, 2026

Jargon Based Life Form

A human that is quite ambitious and works in private industry and speaks excessively in odd industry terms. These individuals are typically middle management all the way to the top of companies and they constantly spout statements that are popular at the time, jargon and specific to whatever is in fashion in their industry. A good example as of early 2026 would be the CEO of a massive burger restaurant chain taking a tiny bite of a cheese burger and calling it a "product." Suspiciously avoiding any language that may cause the viewer to think the product was actually food.

Investigations indicate that all MBA students are trained to be Jargon Based Life Forms.

I was shocked to be the only non jargon based life form in that board meeting.

Jargon Based Life Form by Dr Cornelius Higginbotham March 13, 2026

Evidence-Based Biases

The collection of biases that arise from the misapplication of "evidence-based" thinking—treating evidence as a magic word rather than a practice, demanding evidence asymmetrically, mistaking certain kinds of evidence (usually quantitative) as inherently superior, ignoring the values and assumptions embedded in what counts as "evidence," and using "evidence-based" to dismiss any claim that doesn't fit narrow evidentiary standards. These biases don't reject evidence—they fetishize it, turning a valuable tool into a weapon of dismissal and a shield against genuine engagement with complexity, uncertainty, and other ways of knowing.

Example: "His Evidence-Based Biases meant he demanded randomized controlled trials for community wisdom that had worked for centuries—not because he valued evidence, but because he valued only his kind of evidence."

Evidence-Based Biases by Dumu The Void March 13, 2026

Evidence-Based Bias

The specific bias where one treats "evidence-based" as an automatic warrant for one's position and a automatic disqualifier for others', without actually engaging the quality, relevance, or interpretation of the evidence. Evidence-Based Bias operates when someone says "the evidence supports my view" as a conversation-ender, without acknowledging that evidence is always interpreted, that different evidence can support different conclusions, that evidence alone never dictates policy or values, and that "evidence-based" is often claimed by all sides. It's the bias that turns the legitimate principle of grounding claims in evidence into a rhetorical cudgel.

Example: "He kept saying his position was 'evidence-based' as if that settled everything—pure Evidence-Based Bias, using the word 'evidence' to avoid actually discussing what the evidence showed."

Evidence-Based Bias by Dumu The Void March 13, 2026

Evidence-Based Fallacy

A fallacy and metafallacy where scientific evidence is invoked to justify positions that lie outside the proper domain of evidence—particularly bigotry, prejudice, racism, xenophobia, aporophobia (hatred of the poor), and other forms of discrimination. The fallacy operates by claiming that discriminatory policies or attitudes are "supported by evidence" (about crime rates, economic impacts, cultural differences) while ignoring that evidence never dictates values, that statistical patterns don't justify moral judgments, and that using evidence to justify oppression misuses the very concept of evidence. It's a metafallacy because it weaponizes the legitimate authority of science to defend what science cannot possibly justify—treating "evidence-based" as a blank check for any position that can find a supporting statistic, regardless of the values, ethics, and human consequences involved.

Example: "He cited crime statistics to justify housing discrimination—the Evidence-Based Fallacy in full flower, using numbers to launder prejudice while pretending that evidence alone could ever justify treating humans as less than human."

Evidence-Based Fallacy by Dumu The Void March 13, 2026