As we enter the final lap of 2025, the above YouTube wins the race for the most views to date, garnering about 3.3K.
It's not the most viewed overall; it's the runner up in that respect, with the most views overall award going to Learn Python, a 45-second pilot test of a cartoon generator controlled by single letters (I think the underlying app has gone away).
However, let's remember these are accumulative buckets that go online at vastly different times. The 45-second animation is sixteen years old, whereas the embedded lecture on Synergetics, and the concept of Dimension therein, is only six years old, posted October 19, 2019.
As we round out 2025, with a new New Year's ball on Times Square, let's look back on the race so far. Many milestones.
In terms of hypertoons, I've been cycling through the noirs, thanks to Movie Madness, picking up on the tropes and how they interconnect. A noir movie features erotic attraction through several layers of deception, and a happy ending is oft construed as a kind of getting away with out over the border, beyond the scope of enemy reach.
In two movies now, a conniving female has plunged to her death after her crimes were confessed and/or exposed (one was a Bogart, Dangerous Passage, the other was called Too Late for Tears wherein she'd made it over the border already).
The Geometry of Melodrama might be an interesting way to introduce some Spaghetti Monster approach to history, by which I mean to allude both to the Pastafarian deity, and to the "partially overlapping scenarios Universe" meme familiar to Synergetics readers, the latter (Universe) being "eternally aconceptual".
You get this from the military-minded quite a bit, when this or that face-off reminds them of this or that other wartime situation. We tend to prophecy by analogy, another way of saying we're akin to Bayesian inference engines doing our best to predict and adapt. Engineers debate over when to say "engine".
I've been preparing a Winter Term pathway through the world's fairs and expos again, starting with a couple AI aksings and a YouTube documentary on the World's Fair in St. Louis, which came after Chicago's and featured the same Ferris wheel.
We make our way, as if in a theme park dark ride, to Montreal 67, and thence to EPCOT. We're not taking the maudlin line (already explored) that Fuller got gypped somehow, in their not having him cut some ribbon or whatever.
He was close enough to the Spaceship Earth operation by then to know he was no more in danger of being forgotten than Mickey Mouse.
