Josh Plovanic's Writings and Thoughts

  Words-as-Politics Language as the Engine of the Political Process I. Politics Begins Before Power Before a vote is cast… Before a law is drafted… Before a revolution begins… There is a word. Politics is not merely the competition for power. It is the competition over meaning . The political process is not first ballots, parties, or parliaments. It is: The negotiation of shared language. Who defines “justice”? Who defines “freedom”? Who defines “security,” “rights,” “equality,” “democracy”? Control the definitions — shape the direction. II. Politics Is Organized Interpretation Take any major political system — constitutional republic, parliamentary democracy, monarchy, federation. None function without language. For example: The United States Constitution does not merely describe a government — it creates political processes. The Federalist Papers shaped the interpretive lens of early American politics. The Communist Manifesto redefined political categor...

  Words-as-Governments Language as the Foundational Architecture of Power I. The First Brick Is a Word Before there is a throne, there is a title. Before there is a court, there is a charter. Before there is a nation, there is a name. Governments are not first made of stone, steel, or soldiers. They are made of words . Every law, every right, every prohibition, every office, every oath — all are structured arrangements of meaning. What we call a “state” is, at its core, a stabilized linguistic system that organizes authority through shared interpretation. A constitution is not primarily a building or a battlefield victory. It is a semantic framework . II. Constitutions as Structured Meaning Consider the United States Constitution It is: Symbols on parchment Clauses and definitions Carefully arranged phrases Interpreted over centuries And yet from those symbols emerge: Executive power Legislative authority Judicial review Federalism Individual rights Th...

Words-as-Dimensions Theory I. The Core Premise A word is not merely a symbol. A word is not merely a set. A word is not merely a field. A word is a dimension of possible experience. To learn a new word is not to memorize a sound. It is to acquire a new axis of perception. II. What Is a Dimension? In physics: 1D → length 2D → plane 3D → volume 4D → spacetime Each new dimension does not replace the previous ones. It expands the degrees of freedom available to movement. Likewise: A mind without a certain word lacks the degree of freedom that word creates. III. The Dimensional Expansion of Vocabulary Consider this: A child who does not know the word “betrayal” cannot perceive betrayal with precision. They feel confusion. When the word appears — a new dimension opens. Suddenly experience reorganizes. What was once noise becomes structured space. The word created a coordinate axis. IV. Words Create Axes of Consciousness Each powerful word introduces: A ...

American Football and World Liberation An Unspoken Training Ground, a National Security Asset, and a Moral Counterpart Introduction: Two Games, Two Kinds of War American football is rarely discussed alongside geopolitics, ethics, or liberation. It is framed as entertainment, school spirit, or physical culture. Yet beneath the helmets, drills, and playbooks sits something deeper: a mass social training system that conditions millions of boys and young men for conflict, hierarchy, sacrifice, violence under rules, and collective purpose— without ever naming itself as such . What follows is not an attack on football, nor a moral panic about sports. It is an attempt to say something that is almost never said out loud: American football functions as an unspoken war-training apparatus , and in doing so provides a quiet but real national security advantage. At the same time, this essay introduces a contrast—an alternative “sport” of sorts—one oriented not toward conquest or dominance,...

  The Center A Coherent Metaphysical, Theological, and Theurgical Synthesis Abstract This paper presents a unified, lucid, and internally coherent framework centered on the Infinite, Perfect, and Transcendent Center of all things —hereafter referred to as The Center . It integrates classical theology, Neoplatonic emanation, modern systems theory, and a participatory theurgical–theosis path grounded in Countless, Bottomless Oceans of divine life and an Infinity of Hierarchies, Systems, and Ideas . The aim is clarity, not obscurity; participation, not domination; healing, not punishment. What follows is not speculative excess, but a disciplined articulation of how being, meaning, value, consciousness, and transformation coherently arise from and return to a single inexhaustible Source. I. The Center Defined 1. What the Center Is The Center is the Infinite, Perfect, and Transcendent Singularity from which all existence, intelligibility, value, and purpose arise. It is: ...

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...