to make this work, you've gotta be more than

- Mr. Incredible... do you have a secret identity?
Y: Every superhero has a secret identity. I don't know a single one who doesn't. Who wants the pressure of being super all the time?
X: Of course I have a secret identity. Can you see me in this at the supermarket? Come on. Who'd want to go shopping as Elastigirl, know what I mean?
...

- Robert Parr, will you have this woman to be your lawful wedded wife?

X: You're late. When you asked if I was doing anything later, I didn't realize you'd forgotten. I thought it was playful banter.
Y: It was.
X: Cutting it close, don't you think?
Y: You need to be more... flexible.
X: I love you, but if we're gonna make this work, you've gotta be more than Mr. Incredible. You know that. Don't you?
- ...so long as you both shall live?
Y: I do.

- I pronounce this couple husband and wife.

X: As long as we both shall live. No matter what happens.
Y: Hey, come on. We're superheroes. What could happen?

In a stunning turn of events, a superhero is being sued for saving someone who, apparently, didn't want to be saved. The plaintiff, Oliver Sansweet, who was foiled in his attempted suicide by Mr. Incredible, has filed suit against the famed superhero in Superior Court.
- Mr. Sansweet didn't ask to be saved. He didn't want to be saved. The injury received from Mr. Incredible's "actions", ...causes him daily pain.
Y: I saved your life!
- You didn't save my life! You ruined my death.
- My client has no comment.

Another suit was filed by victims of the el train accident. Incredible's court losses cost the government millions. And opened the flood gates for dozens of superhero lawsuits the world over.
- It is time for their secret identity to become their only identity. Time for them to join us, or go away.

Under public pressure, and the financial burden of an ever mounting series of lawsuits, the government quietly initiated the superhero relocation program. The supers were granted amnesty from responsibility for past actions, in exchange for the promise to never again resume hero work.
Where are they now?
They are living among us.
Average citizens, average heroes.
Quietly and anonymously continuing to make the world a better place.

- The Incredibles (2004)

um 180° denken, dann wird's richtig

...muss net, was in den Büchern so genau erklärt wird, nachbeten, sondern selber denken und zwar in die andere Richtung. Was in der Technik ist, musst nur um 180 Grad anders denken, dann wird's richtig.

- Victor Schauberger zum Sohn Walter

better impermanence than finality

Sometimes the house of the future is better built, lighter and larger than all the houses of the past, so that the image of the dream house is opposed to that of the childhood home…. Maybe it is a good thing for us to keep a few dreams of a house that we shall live in later, always later, so much later, in fact, that we shall not have time to achieve it. For a house that was final, one that stood in symmetrical relation to the house we were born in, would lead to thoughts — serious, sad thoughts — and not to dreams. It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.

- Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space

none of these have yet occurred, but they may

I have lived three hundred years, and I long to die.
But death is no longer possible.
I am immortal.

I present now my story, full of mystery and intrigue;
rich in irony, and most satirical.
It is set deep in a possible future, so none of these events have yet occurred, but they may. Be warned, lest you end as I. In this tale, I am a fake god by occupation and a magician, by inclination. Merlin is my hero! I am the puppet master. I manipulate many of the characters and events you will see. But I am invented, too, for your entertainment and amusement.
And you, poor creatures, who conjured you out of the clay? Is God in show business too?

- Arthur Frayn, Zardoz (1974)

Imagine what you'll know tomorrow

- Humans, for the most part, don't have a clue. Don't want or need one. They're happy. They think they have a good bead on things.
- Why the big secret? People are smart. They can handle it.
- A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals. You know it. Fifteen hundred years ago, everybody 'knew' the Earth was the center of the universe. Five hundred years ago, everybody 'knew' the Earth was flat. And fifteen minutes ago, you 'knew' that people were alone on this planet. Imagine what you'll 'know' tomorrow.

- Men in Black (1997)

Energieerhaltungssatz

Es gibt ein abgeschlossenes System ‒ Pan.
Der Energieerhaltungssatz¹ ist der Logos der Existenz all seiner Zustände ‒ Topoi.
Pantopia ist dessen Freiheitsgrad.

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¹Die Gesamtenergie in einem abgeschlossenen² System bleibt konstant.
²Unter einem abgeschlossenen System versteht man ein System ohne Energie-, Informations- oder Stoffaustausch und ohne Wechselwirkung mit der Umgebung.

vom Reality-Design nach Pantopia

Eigentlich ist das Universum pantopisch angelegt. Die Erde ist unbestreitbar ein Teil des Himmels und irgendwie aus den universellen Bedingungen geartet. Zu Recht beobachten wir nach oben, um aus der Vergangenheit des umfassenden Himmels Schlüsse über die eigene Vergangenheit ziehen zu können, aber auch um über die Auswirkungen unseres Handelns in der Zukunft Hinweis zu bekommen. Dort gehen wir von einer Verschachtelung der Periodizitäten immenser Tiefe aus, um unsere Berechnungen zu stützen. In einer Welt aus Kurven, berechnen wir unsere geraden Strecken. Aus der scheinbar grenzenlosen Dimensionierung des Himmels erschliesst sich unsere schier grenzenlose Gesamtrealität. Es gibt einen offenen Raum für alles vorstellbare, den aber die Materie beschreiten muss, um sich von einem Ort zum Anderen zu transportieren. Der Geist ist die erste menschliche Komponente, die sich aus der materiellen Gesetzmässigkeit befreien konnte, um weite Reisen zu unternehmen. Eine geistige Reise resultiert materielle Transformation und zeitliche Gestaltung.
Somit kann alles im Universum auch als geistige Regung einer höheren Ordnung aufgefasst werden, die materielle und zeitliche Gestaltung resultiert. Auf lokaler Ebene ist die Menschheit ein transformativer Zeitpunkt einer niederen Ordnung zur aktiven Teilnahme im kreativen Prozess der höheren, während Kultur und Gemeinschaft die autopoetische materielle und zeitliche Gestaltung dieser Bewegung darstellen. Das menschliche Bewusstsein ist der kreative Aufzug, der mehrere Ordnungen miteinander verbinden kann. Dieser Aufzug erlaubt je nach biologischem Reifungsgrad die Teilnahme im Prozess der Tranformation, deren Ergebnis den Ausgangspunkt der Fortsetzung beeinflusst.

You study, you become enlightened. I study, I become confused.

- There must be something you wanna do.
- Of course. I wanna discover.
- Discover what?
- Everything. I want to discover why I know what's right and still do what's wrong. I wanna discover what happiness is and what value there is in suffering. I wanna discover why men go to war and what they really say deep in their hearts when they pray to God. I wanna discover what it is that men and women feel when they say they love. You see, there's enough to keep me busy. It's hard for you to understand someone like me. Everything is so clear for you. You always know exactly what you must do and you do it.
- Exactly.
- You're different from me. You study, you become enlightened. I study, I become confused. You love, you marry. You believe, you act. There's a war, you serve.
- How wonderful it would be if I really answered to your description.
- You do, I tell you.
- Shall I show you how wrong you are?
- I know you. I'm not wrong.
- Do you know why I'm going to the war? You think it's because I think that Napoleon is a monster? You think I believe that we have any business fighting Austria's battles, 2000 miles from home? You think that I think Russia will be a greater nation when this war is over?
- Then why are you going?
- Because I'm married to one of the most loving and honorable and attractive women in Moscow and I can't stand it.

- War and Peace (1956)

reality design

- What is the most resilient parasite?
A bacteria? A virus? An intestinal worm?
- Uh.. What Mr. Cobb is trying to say...
- An idea.
Resilient. Highly contagious.
Once an idea has taken hold of the brain, it's almost impossible to eradicate.
An idea that is fully formed, fully understood, that sticks.
Right in there somewhere.

- Inception (2010)

multiple-layer-dreaming design

- "I will split up my father's empire."
Now, this is obviously an idea that Robert himself would choose to reject which is why we need to plant it deep in his subconscious. The subconscious is motivated by emotion, right? Not reason. We need to find a way to translate this into an emotional concept.
- How do you translate business strategy into emotion?
- That's what we're here to figure out.
- Robert's relationship with his father...
- ...is stressed, to say the least.
- Can we run with that? We suggest breaking up his father's company as a "screw you" to the old man.
- No, because I think positive emotion trumps negative emotion every time. We all yearn for reconciliation, for catharsis. We need Robert Fischer to have a positive emotional reaction to all this.
- All right, well, try this. Um.... "My father accepts that I want to create for myself, not follow in his footsteps."
- That might work.
- Might? We're gonna need to do a little better than "might."
- Thank you for your contribution, Arthur.
- Forgive me for wanting a little specificity, Eames.
- Specificity? Inception's not about being specific. When we get inside his mind, we're gonna have to work with what we find.

- On the top level, we open up his relationship with his father and say, "I will not follow in my father's footsteps." Then the next level down, we feed him, "I will create something for myself." Then, by the time we hit the bottom level, we bring out the big guns.
- "My father doesn't want me to be him."
- Exactly.
- Three layers down, the dreams are gonna collapse with the slightest disturbance.
- Sedation. For sleep stable enough to create three layers of dreaming we'll have to combine it with an extremely powerful sedative.

- Good night!

- The compound we'll be using to share the dream creates a clear connection between dreamers whilst accelerating brain function.
- In other words, more time on each level. Brain function in the dream will be about ten times normal.
- And when you enter a dream within that dream, the effect is compounded.

- Inception (2010)