social theory

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Office of Economic Stability By: Scrasamax

Also known as the OES, one of the last efforts of the United States of America during the decline of the Petroleum Era and the Resource Wars, also a contributing factor the growth of arcologies and arco-cities

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The Feeds By: Scrasamax

Also known as the streams, online, the cognosphere, and a dozen other terrible, dumb, or attempted copyright names, it is the output of the CogNet

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Smart Currency By: Scrasamax

A different approach to issuing currency and how the power that issues it would retain control over it

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The Triad Games By: Scrasamax

Riffing on things like the Hunger Games and other YA dystopian games to the death for fun and profit.

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Gamma Psychosociosomantic Disorder (GPSSD) By: Scrasamax

The Petroleum Era was a time of enormous social stress, and a variety of social psychotic diseases emerged, a side effect of unregulated and increasingly sophisticated social communication and hive mind technology. GPSSD is also known as Wrong Way Distortion, or Hyperaggresssive Progressive Antagonistic syndrome.

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Cultural Catharis By: Scrasamax

Catharsis is the act of purging stress and tension. Most commonly used in psychiatric diagnosis, it is also demonstrated to absolute effect in the movie The Purge.

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Intersectionality and Protoculture By: Scrasamax

Intersectionality is the nebulous web of privilege and discrimination that is the crux of social justice/injustice, and protoculture is the passing of behaviors from one generation to the next among non-human primates

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