Chronic Hysteresis

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hysteresis

Trust me, this is going to end quite differently than it starts.

Hysteresis explains how something’s history affects the current state.  Things are as ordinary as much as things can be in weird science topics when repeatable results can be obtained with something like magnetic fields.  Things get a lot crazier and more subjective when hysteresis is applied to economic models like gas prices and unemployment.  People obviously don’t understand that solutions to high gas prices are not immediate.  The global commodities market on oil and gas “do their own thing” based on a sort of democracy.  One country’s problems outside the global state and the history that got them in that position is not going to see an immediate change.  You’re lucky if it’s measured in weeks instead of months.  Lots of time to politically blame “the other side”.

The Chronic Hysteresis of the title is a Doctor Who gimmick in the episode, Meglos. And this is where we transition towards the main focus.  This is from the 18th season and nearing the end of Tom Baker’s run as one of the if not the best Dr. Who actors.  The plot incorporates a series of events that repeat over and over, with enough time for those caught in this chronic hysteresis to comprehend that something is amiss and work on a solution.

At the time new studio execs were making decisions that probably weren’t great.  Hypocritically there was a push for stories that weren’t as silly as some of the more recent serials.  In the meantime the villain of this episode is an alien cactus that combines with an Earth human so the cactus can walk about and interact as something other than an overgrown house plant.  And the signature wardrobe of Baker, the coat, hat and scarf, were altered by inclusion of ❓’s on his shirt.  Which Baker hated, but the execs insisted on that theme carrying through the end of his tenure as the Doctor.

The utter lack of necessity for using the chronic hysteresis is shown in how it’s an old topic.  It’s really just a fancy name for a time loop, a plot point used previously, e.g. how the Doctor tricked the Vardans in the Invasion of Time, getting them to reveal their home planet’s coordinates and time looping it to trap them forever.  I imagine Who nerds might call themselves cooler for using the word hysteresis instead of the phrase time loop.  Little practical value other than sounding sciency and smart.

Ages ago, the gematria crowd dabbled in the use of sciency lingo and topics.  Carbon atoms being evil for having 6 of each of the three subatomic particles.  The endless Pi references extending into Euler’s Number and throwing in references to sines and cosines.  It didn’t stick.  There wasn’t any sort of mass conversion of science literate folks that thought they should suddenly drop their IQ points by 30 points and take up gematria.  The smarter crowd that use gematria are fully invested in the disinformation facet, whether they are a spreader at the top of the food chain or have advanced far enough to be loyal lieutenant material - number lists, date spans, and the other not actually gematria stuff that can make a video more entertaining.  Things beyond xxx=56, JESUITS!!!!!  And now that they have the ? on the shirt it’s time to start that personal video channel as free advertisement for your cult leader.  Crank magnetism will give you all the hot talking points you need.

Recently it’s been mentioned by someone other than me and it’s absolutely true, calling these people conspiracy theorists is way too generous and gives them more credit than they deserve.  They are Hoaxers.  Waiting for the news headlines to say they aren’t true, regardless of overwhelming empirical evidence that they are.  Not just gematria, all the weird conspiracy content.  Flat earth, fake moon landing, anti-vaccination, etc….  It’s all a show to attempt to garner an Attaboy!^TM from the general public instead of just the glorious leader.  And that leader is pretty much the one driving the misguided thought that the ? on your shirt makes you edgy, cool and special instead of a well thought out intellectual position.  Acting like a toddler and saying nothing more than, “You’re wrong it’s a hoax” by itself is not a well thought out position.

In many cases it’s not appropriate to call the Hoaxers anything but that.  Chronic, repetitive disinformation from the same source expose them.  Without addressing the baseless claims as being baseless lies can lead to a state of:

Chronic Hoaxsteresis