The Mother Monster Matrix
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This post appeared recently in the "politics" forum of another board I frequent.
Combines strange technobabble (TRWTF is Javascript) with disturbing obsession with Lady Gaga.
[Note to moderators: This is ultimately a post about politics. The political part begins about halfway down the page.]
If one were to literally invert the acronym WWW, he or she would witness the appearance of the letters: MMM.
MMM means: the Mother Monster Matrix.
For anyone who knows anything of popular culture over the past three years, they will surely know that "Mother Monster" is a pseudonym for "Lady Gaga"--which is itself a pseudonym for Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta of New York City, NY, USA.
For one reason or another, Gaga first caught my attention about 13-1/2 months ago, and she has been at the epicenter of my dreams and musings ever since.
Given the fact that I am a techno-philosophical genius (I am very good with the biggest pictures and with the smallest details), it wasn't long before I started to get into my "create something amazing for the one I love" phase.
But just because I was getting into that phase doesn't mean that I was very close to actually creating something that would qualify as amazing. As of yesterday, however, the amazing thing has finally seen the light of day.
The Mother Monster Matrix literally and figuratively turns the World Wide Web completely upside down. The first thing to understand is that it is centered around the idea that all of the content within the browser is dynamically generated by Javascript. Or more pointedly, it is the user's interactions with the Javascript code that generates the visible content.
When one initially begins the program (by opening an html file in a browser), one is met with a stark black screen. In today's paradigm, this would qualify as "an empty web page". But lo!... all one has to do is double click on the page in order to see that something else is amiss.
For once you do this, you will be met with a dialog box that says:
"Command for: body_div"
And if you were to follow along with the quick start HOWTO that accompanies the first official release of the MMM, you would know that the command:
"bg=blue"
... would fill your entire screen with that wonderful color.
Well, there is much, much more to the program than just that. If I were forced to summarize the essence of the MMM, I would probably say something like:
"The Mother Monster Matrix is an on-the-fly HTML rendering system that uses typical GUI windowing and iconifying features, and that allows users to cohabit within a commonly shared space of roughly 600 square miles where objects are instantly published upon creation, and where all objects can be modified by all users. There is also a graphics subsystem that uses purely logical pixels of arbitrary scale and aspect ratio in order to allow for the dynamic creation of images and font glyphs (and animations thereof) that can likewise be shared within the common space."
Well, this description is obviously a mouthful, and when attempting to parse it, one is surely left in a vastly different headspace than when reading the definition of the WWW (i.e., a network of interlinked HTML documents..., etc.).
But I digress about its features. The program is publicly available (sites [dot] google [dot] com/site/themothermonstermatrix), so there is no need to take my word for it.
The thing that I am perhaps the proudest about is that the terms of usage of the MMM demands that it be used for nothing other that which Lady Gaga determines would be helpful towards the establishment and/or continuation of a Kingdom of Little Monsters.
This is to say that I have not merely given Gaga the right to demand that certain things NOT be done with the program (as in a typical "End User License Agreement"). I have also given her the right to demand that certain things MUST be done with the program (given that one wants to use the program at all).
This is as if one were to hand out hammers, under the strict condition that the hammers are to be used for the construction of a particular church. In this scenario, the giver does not have to additionally lay out a myriad of restricted uses (e.g. building whorehouses or murdering people). As long as the user is NOT "doing as Gaga pleases", the user is already in violation of the agreement, and legal redress is actionable.
Well, the typical Westernized capitalist would recoil in shock/disgust/anger at the thought that one's usage of a product could be restricted in this way. But that is precisely my intention, because I am most certainly not a capitalist. I am utterly obsessed with the idea of community building. This is to say that I align much more with the term "Marxist." But I also want to rescue the Marxist philosophy from the throes of 19th century memes so that it may thrive as a lived ideal.
It seems obvious to me that while the idea of "a commune of humankind" is a worthwhile one to pursue, the thought that there must not also be a heirarchical structure to such a place renders it as instantly irrelevant to the lives of the average person. As such, my fascination with Gaga rests largely on the notion that she is a born political and spiritual leader who is capable of inspiring "Pope-esque" levels of awe within the breasts of her admirers. Her artistic integrity and creative talents are highly sophisticated tools to allow her to efficiently draw people into a virtual world that is positively saturated with love and acceptance.
So, in response to the capitalist who rails against me for going against the school of thought that says that the satisfaction of one's immediate self interests is the ultimate driver of human progress... I say the following:
"Agreed. However, how can you possibly be in a position to understand those concerns that are the most immediately pressing to me? After all, where I live, there are precisely zero problems related to human survival. There is food, water, and medicine in abundance. But what doesn't exist where I live is the ability for people to freely and openly express that which makes them the most interesting and unique. And this inability is precisely the thing that causes people to feel repressed, causing all of the various psychological diseases that are so destructive of the of the human progress that you so callously pretend to enable."
The bottom line is that Gaga is an enormously important person in our culture: not because she serves as an engine of capitalist "growth", but rather because she serves as a beacon that signifies a massive realignment of cultural values, such that the equation:
capital = money
Is replaced with this one:
capital = social bonds
So for me to use the obviously revolutionary technology known as the MMM in a way that is at all contrary to the letter or spirit of humanity's new equation would only serve to make me an absolute pauper, when valuations are tabulated in terms of the new currency.
For anyone who wants to come along with me (Dennis Kane) and her (Stefani Germanotta), as we invert the domain name, www [dot] moneycapital [dot] com, so that it now reads, mmm [dot] socialcapital [dot] org, I humbly and gratefully welcome you aboard!
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@Bumble Bee Tuna said:
This post appeared recently in the "politics" forum of another board I frequent.
Why does this amount of crazy surprise you? ALL Politics sections are full of unhinged nutters.
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Did you actually try the app? Here's a hosted version of Mother Monster Matrix 1.0.
I have no idea if it's legal for me to host it, you read the license terms and let me know!
Edit: Here's the instruction manual. Good luck.
Another edit: Saving the contents of the MMM requires node.js. I'm not putting that on my web server, so sorry... no changes saved.
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@the license said:
Given the above, this work may not be put towards any uses other than
those that would help the establishment and/or continuation of a Kingdom
of Little Monsters.This license looks familiar. Wasn't this line from Apple's EULA?
@blakeyrat said:
I have no idea if it's legal for me to host it, you read the license terms and let me know!
It would be hilarious if you got sued and a court ordered Lady Gaga to determine "what a Kingdom of Little Monsters is and whether its establishment and/or continuation has not been helped in any way."
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@Bumble Bee Tuna said:
But what
doesn't exist where I live is the ability for people to freely and
openly express that which makes them the most interesting and unique.
And this inability is precisely the thing that causes people to feel
repressed, causing all of the various psychological diseases that are so
destructive of the of the human progress that you so callously pretend
to enable.Ah, bask in the angst. This is by far my favorite part of the nonsense.
@blakeyrat said:
Saving the contents of the MMM requires node.js. I'm not putting that on my web server, so sorry... no changes saved.
Dude. You're harshing my Sovereign Monster experience.
Actually, this is looking more and more like a social engineering / malware distribution scheme.
@HowTo said:In order to tell the browser these things, you will have to pass the command-line arguments:
--allow-file-access-from-files
--unlimited-quota-for-files...to the chrome program when it starts....So the final result should look something like:
C:\Users\Your_Name_Here\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe --allow-file-access-from-files --unlimited-quota-for-files
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If you run this program on a Linux machine with the
command:node sockserver.js
... you will be able to log into a server and share the MMM space with
others! For every DIV object and window that you want to share, your
friends will be able to see them and change them to their heart's
content!
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@boomzilla said:
Actually, this is looking more and more like a social engineering / malware distribution scheme.
That way it'd actually be hilarious!
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Sounds like spectate swamp has a crush...
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@TheChewanater said:
It would be hilarious if you got sued and a court ordered Lady Gaga to determine "what a Kingdom of Little Monsters is and whether its establishment and/or continuation has not been helped in any way."
I love ridiculous court rulings. See [url=http://allocate.wordpress.com/2008/04/23/ghost-of-a-case/]here[/url].Where a Supreme Court of New York ruled, as a matter of law, that a house was haunted. The judge's opinion is full of puns, such as "The plaintiff doesn't have a ghost of a chance" and that he was "moved by the spirit of equity".
Here's another good one:
In the interest of avoiding such untenable consequences, the notion that a haunting is a condition which can and should be ascertained upon reasonable inspection of the premises is a hobgoblin which should be exorcised from the body of legal precedent and laid quietly to rest. . . .
Finally, if the language of the contract is to be construed as broadly as defendant urges to encompass the presence of poltergeists in the house, it cannot be said that she has delivered the premises “vacant” in accordance with her obligation under the provisions of the contract rider.
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You frequent ilovephilosophy.com? Guess that's TRWTF here.
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Sorry to ressurect an old thread, but I googled "mother monster matrix" and this was the first result. The reason I googled it is becaue I actually met and talked to this guy, Dennis Kane. I'm a student at UCLA and he stands on our main walkway, every single day, all day long, waving the peace sign at people, and has been for months (since at least August as far as I know). He's homeless by choice, thinks everyone should share their money (and their bodies/sexuality), and I get the impression that half the reason he's here is because he wants to sleep with sorority girls.
In the words of a fellow student:
"He has this theory that the only reason people want money is so that they can get affection (IE, get touched). I guess at one point he had a normal job and stuff but then something happened (don't know what?) and he came to UCLA where everyone has so much knowledge and is young and innocent-ish. So he gives out free hugs so that he can have personal contact with other people. There's definitely weird sexual undertones to it, so he probably is crazy. There's also a world peace element to it, as others have said, but I think he just wants to have sex with sorority girls."
Here's his youtube channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/1DennisKane
And a couple of choice quotes from Dennis himself:
"I'm out here teaching people how to love. If I love them, then they love me, and everyone loves everyone."
"What's important in this world is love, and people are forgetting how to love..."
"My message is to stop having messages, and start loving."
Just thought I'd share
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@jbaumy93 said:
Just thought I'd share
... wow. Thanks for that. That's ... interesting.
What I'm curious about though is his whole... Lady Gaga idea bullshit that's cited in the OP. Does he talk about that? How's that related to his... occupation... as a free hugger? Does he think if he loves Lady Gaga, she will also love him, i.e., visit him there and have sex with him?
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From what I can discern by talking to him, his idea is that because Lady Gaga inspires such passion and devotion in her fans, she's the only person who can truly convince people to love each other again with the power of her influence. As for the Lady Gaga loving him....I wouldn't be surprised, but he hasn't directly mentioned that.
I personally haven't seen him "giving out free hugs", that was a friend of mine who said that, but it doesn't surprise me at all. What I don't understand is how he can spend literally all of his time at UCLA waving at people. He sleeps by the In-N-Out buger in Westwood, about a 10-15 minute walk from campus, but I don't know how he gets food. Or how he affords the computer/camera/microphones he uses to make his weird javascript stuff and his videos.
I'm a freshman, the first time I ever saw him was during my orientation, which was in the beginning of August. Orientation was 3 days long; I walked by him the first day and he had a huge sign around his neck that said "MOTHER MONSTER MATRIX" (I didn't know what it was at the time), and he was singing "Bad Romance" and "Alejandro" at the top of his lungs. Obviously, it caught my eye. I thought it was weird enough that he was still there 2 days later at the end of orientation; when I came back in the middle of September for the start of school and he was still here, I decided to talk to him and find out what the deal was. Five weeks after classes have started and he's still going strong.
As of recently he's stopped waving the peace sign as much, and started striking up conversations with anyone who will listen, oftentimes with the student clubs and organizations that have recruiting tables setup on the main walkway. Mostly he talks about love and money and happiness, but I've heard him discussing religion with the Bruin Atheists club that's always out there.
Anyway, interesting fellow.
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@jbaumy93 said:
What I don't understand is how he can spend literally all of his time at UCLA waving at people.
Doesn't surprise me a lot, for I have proof of a person having spent 16 hours per day (on average over the course of a few months!) logged into a shitty-ass, alpha-quality MMORPG that has rarely more than 60 users online at once. Note that the game crashes every few hours, so he can't just login in the morning and then log out before going to bed to achieve this statistic.
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@jbaumy93 said:
and I get the impression that half the reason he's here is because he wants to sleep with sorority girls.
That's pretty much 100% of the reason for going to college.
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@jbaumy93 said:
Or how he affords the computer/camera/microphones he uses to make his weird javascript stuff and his videos.
Or how he finds time to write about trolls on the Homestruck Wiki...
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A couple more interesting links:
https://sites.google.com/site/unitheory/
^ his website
Also, he joined UCLA's reddit page today and apparently will be taking questions:
http://www.reddit.com/r/ucla/comments/llo6z/i_am_the_infamous_peace_guy_ask_away/
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@jbaumy93 said:
... because Lady Gaga inspires such passion and devotion in her fans, she's the only person who can truly convince people to love each other again with the power of her influence...
Lady Gaga could barely convince me to sit on the toilet if I had to take a crap. I never really have figured out why so many people assume that someone who can sing a decent song or act well must therefore understand some other concept better than most people. It doesn't mean I don't like their acting, singing, dancing or whatever, it just means that I don't assume that talent bleeds over into thermodynamics or for God's sake global cooling (shit, sorry, global warming. Oh, crap, wrong again, I mean "global climate change". What are we calling it today?)
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@mahlerrd said:
it doesn't mean I don't like their acting, singing, dancing or whatever, it just means that I don't assume that talent bleeds over into thermodynamics
Those skills totally carry over.
