Josh Plovanic's Writings and Thoughts

Logos-as-Economy A Discussion of an Infinite Economy of Words, Meaning, Symbols, Value, Systems, and Being I. From Scarcity to Logos Most economies we know are scarcity machines . They ration limited goods, enforce competition, and convert value into numbers that can be hoarded, withheld, or destroyed. A Logos Economy flips that premise on its head. The Logos—understood classically through thinkers like Heraclitus , the Prologue of Gospel of John , and later expanded by figures such as Gregory of Nyssa   and Ibn Arabi —is not merely speech or reason . It is ordering intelligence , meaning-in-motion , the architecture of intelligibility itself . To speak of Logos-as-Economy is to say: Reality already runs on an economy—but it is not primarily an economy of money. It is an economy of meaning , relation , intelligibility , and creative participation . This economy is not finite. It is an Infinity of Infinities . II. What Is an Economy, Really? At its root, an economy ...

  THE GREAT PLAYBOOK OF WORLD LIBERATION A Fictional, Ethical, and Strategic Manual for Angelic Green Berets The Sport of Emancipation Across Infinite Existence Definition of the Sport World Liberating is the disciplined practice of identifying, dissolving, and preventing systems that negate agency—while ensuring that no new systems of domination replace them. This playbook exists for simulation, training, and moral sharpening —the way monks use parables and generals use war games. PART I — THE PRIME DIRECTIVE Axiom Zero You do not liberate worlds. You remove what prevents them from liberating themselves. If this axiom is violated at any point, the match is forfeit. PART II — THE FOUR FIELDS OF PLAY Every liberation scenario unfolds across four simultaneous arenas . Neglect one and the system regenerates. 1. The Cognitive Field Beliefs Narratives Language Fear structures Most oppression lives here. 2. The Structural Field Laws Incentives Resource...

  Narrative Hijackers How Certain Stories Seize the Mind, Narrow Reality, and Weaponize Attention I. What Is a Narrative Hijacker? A Narrative Hijacker is not merely a popular topic or a trending issue. It is a subject, story, or frame that seizes disproportionate control over attention , conversation, emotion, and identity—often far beyond its actual scope or importance. Narrative Hijackers do not simply enter the public conversation. They dominate it . They become the thing everyone is talking about: online on social media at family dinners among friends between rivals between ideological enemies They infiltrate every space where meaning is exchanged. Once a narrative hijacker takes hold, it behaves less like information and more like a gravitational anomaly —pulling thoughts, emotions, arguments, and identities into its orbit. And critically: It crowds out everything else. II. The Tyrannosaurus Effect: Why Hijackers Win Attention Think of the Tyrannosaur...

Words-as-Liberators The Emancipatory Power of Language, Meaning, and Idea I. The Oldest Prison Is Not Made of Stone The most enduring prisons in history have not been built with iron bars, concrete walls, or armed guards. They have been built with words . Not always cruel words. Often familiar ones. Inherited ones. Unquestioned ones. A people can be physically free and yet cognitively enslaved. A nation can overthrow a tyrant and still kneel before an idea. A mind can walk the earth while living inside a cage constructed entirely of language. This is why liberation has always been linguistic before it is political, military, or economic . Before chains fall from wrists, they fall from meaning . Before borders change, narratives do. Before history bends, language rewrites what is thinkable . Words are not merely descriptive. They are structural . They do not simply label reality—they configure it. And because words can imprison, they can also liberate . II. Wor...

  Words-as-“the Ground” Language, Meaning, and the Logos as the Foundation of All Existence Prologue: The Question Beneath All Questions What if being itself rests not on matter, nor energy, nor spacetime—but on meaning ? What if beneath particles, beneath fields, beneath dimensions, beneath laws and constants, there exists something even more fundamental: Word. Not merely spoken sound. Not merely ink on a page. Not merely symbols exchanged between finite minds. But Word as Ground . Word as that which makes anything intelligible, differentiable, nameable, relatable, and therefore real. This paper proposes an ontological inversion: Words are not things that exist inside reality. Reality exists inside words. In this vision, words are not decorations placed atop an already-existing universe. They are the conditions of possibility for existence itself —the soil from which worlds grow, the grammar from which laws emerge, the deep structure that allows infinity to a...

Words-as-Currency An Imaginative Exercise and Conceptual Exploration of Language as Value, Wealth, and Exchange I. Opening Premise: What If Words Were Literally Money? Imagine a world—no, an existence —in which words, ideas, symbols, and concepts are not metaphors for value, but value itself . Not representations of wealth. Not tools used to describe wealth. But the actual currency by which reality operates . In this world: To speak is to spend. To understand is to accumulate. To invent is to mint. To deceive is to counterfeit. To remain silent is to save—or to starve. This is Words-as-Currency : a framework in which meaning functions as money , and language is the deepest economy imaginable. II. The Nature of Currency: Why Words Qualify Currency has a few essential properties: It stores value It enables exchange It measures worth It coordinates trust It shapes behavior Words already do all five—just invisibly. A promise stores future value A contract ...