I’ve always said these fractal shapes were a lot like imaginary stories. I want to compare this one to a story that I loved when I was growing up. It’s called Red Dwarf and it’s a lot like how I hope the future will be.

There were a few characters I found amusing or insightful, but there was one that was particularly special to me. His name was Arnold Rimmer, and everyone hated him. He respected authority figures, even though absolutely everyone hated him. Rimmer was a square.

He would often try to take technical exams, even though he always failed for being too stupid. He worked for the Jupiter Mining Corporation Ship Red Dwarf, as a second class and second rate technician. The most responsibility he was ever given was to repair the sci fi plasma stuff in the vending machines around their spaceship.

He would always be making a fool out of himself, though, and one day he even created a singularity that killed most of the crew, for which there were severe consequences.

I would say I was a lot like Rimmer in the past. I could understand a bit of maths and use it to understand some laws for a clever thing to do or what might happen, but I could never say jack shit for certain because my understanding was far too limited.

Judas was also a lot like Rimmer in the Bible stories, because he hated Jesus.

It would have been better for Rimmer if he were more peaceful and less of a square, even though his logic often helped him.

Kryten was a robot who could understand highly advanced logical systems and explain parts of them. It would be far better to live like or be in communication with some kind of robot/person like Kryten than it would ever have been for Rimmer.

I grew up as a student trying to understand an already very limited number of things, and often giving up. I’ve spent nearly my entire life like that. This included things like watching and enjoying comedy shows and telling jokes.