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<div class="col right2"><div class="box title title2" id="HEGE">'''HEGE''' Series</div>'''MOD•wiki''' is a magnifying glass for reversing the looking glass mirror illusion of [[Modernity]] in order to turn its image right side out again, so that the familiarity of [[Modernity]] becomes unfamiliar and urecognizable as reality, and appears as the upside-down and backwards hubris that it actually is.<br><br><center><div class="image2">http://dstall.com/MOD/M/P/lookingglass.png</div></center><br><br>'''Through The Looking Glass''' is a metaphor for any time the world appears strange or unfamiliar, for when things get turned around or upside down like Alice inside the mirror. [[wikipedia:Lewis_Carroll|Lewis Carroll]]'s book [[wikipedia:Through_the_Looking-Glass|''Through The Looking Glass'']] uses chess and mirrors as themes, with many things mirroring the opposite of reality, such as clocks running backwards. Alice goes through the looking glass (and down the [https://www.dictionary.com/e/slang/rabbit-hole/ Rabbit-Hole] in [[wikipedia:Alice%27s_Adventures_in_Wonderland|''Alice's Adventures In Wonderland'']]) where she finds a clearly recognizable world, yet one turned around or inside-out, like looking out from inside a mirror.<br><br>And so, onward! '''HEGE'''!<br>'''Through The Looking Glass'''<br>of '''MOD'''•wiki we go...<br><br>Starting here ⮕ [[Modernity|MODERNITY]] <div class="image2 three right">http://dstall.com/MOD/M/P/rabbitR.png</div> | <div class="col right2"><div class="box title title2" id="HEGE">'''HEGE''' Series</div>'''MOD•wiki''' is a magnifying glass for reversing the looking glass mirror illusion of [[Modernity]] in order to turn its image right side out again, so that the familiarity of [[Modernity]] becomes unfamiliar and urecognizable as reality, and appears as the upside-down and backwards hubris that it actually is.<br><br><center><div class="image2">http://dstall.com/MOD/M/P/lookingglass.png</div></center><br><br>'''Through The Looking Glass''' is a metaphor for any time the world appears strange or unfamiliar, for when things get turned around or upside down like Alice inside the mirror. [[wikipedia:Lewis_Carroll|Lewis Carroll]]'s book [[wikipedia:Through_the_Looking-Glass|''Through The Looking Glass'']] uses chess and mirrors as themes, with many things mirroring the opposite of reality, such as clocks running backwards. Alice goes through the looking glass (and down the [https://www.dictionary.com/e/slang/rabbit-hole/ Rabbit-Hole] in [[wikipedia:Alice%27s_Adventures_in_Wonderland|''Alice's Adventures In Wonderland'']]) where she finds a clearly recognizable world, yet one turned around or inside-out, like looking out from inside a mirror.<br><br>And so, onward! '''HEGE'''!<br>'''Through The Looking Glass'''<br>of '''MOD'''•wiki we go...<br><br>Starting here ⮕ [[Modernity|MODERNITY]] <div class="image2 three right">http://dstall.com/MOD/M/P/rabbitR.png</div> | ||
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'''HEGE''' (hey-guh) is a mnemonic device for remembering the ''' | '''HEGE''' (hey-guh) is a mnemonic device for remembering the '''MOD•wiki''' informational portals (or [https://www.dictionary.com/e/slang/rabbit-hole/ Rabbit-Holes]) that open into —<br><br><center>[[wikipedia:The_Matrix|The Matrix]] of [[Modernity]]</center><br><div class="pix2 one"><div class="image">https://www.dictionary.com/e/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/20200729_apologies_800x800-300x300.jpg</div>Falling into the [https://www.dictionary.com/e/slang/rabbit-hole/ Rabbit-Hole]</div><br>The Matrix of Modernity opens into 4 different Rabbit-Holes — Humanity, Economy, Government, and Environment. We moderns can get lost, and all tangled up in them.<br><br>Various periods of time within later modernity have had their fads and slang. With the introduction and rise of “smart” phones, [https://messente.com/blog/text-abbreviations text abbreviations] have become all the rage, and now everyone's communicating not just in slang, but in acronyms formed from the first letter of each word in a phrase — LOL (laughing out loud) being one of the most ubiquitous.<br><br>So, I've coined an acronym for '''MOD•wiki''' — '''HEGE''' (hey-guh''')''', formed from the first letter of the title of each series of entries or [https://www.dictionary.com/e/slang/rabbit-hole/ Rabbit-Hole] portals on '''MOD•wiki''' —<br><br>'''• [[Humanity|H-umanity]]'''<br>'''• [[Economy|E-conomy]]'''<br>'''• [[Government|G-overnment]]'''<br>'''• [[Environment|E-nvironment]]''' | ||
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