Prussian victories
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Museum victories, every day We wanted everything, wanted everything
Those are lyrics from High Hopes, by Panic! at the Disco.
I had to look up those lyrics recently, because this is what I was hearing:
Prussian victories, every day We wanted everything, wanted everything
I heard it as "pru-see-en victories", without the "prush" that I think "Prussia" is usually pronounced with.
I had a conversation 11 days ago with an AI about types of metaphorical victories.
I was trying to figure out what I was hearing.
I found the connecting piece today:
The word "fog" (German: Nebel), but not the exact phrase, in reference to 'uncertainty in war' was introduced by the Prussian military analyst Carl von Clausewitz in his posthumously published book, Vom Kriege (1832), the English translation of which was published as On War (1873):
War is the realm of uncertainty; three quarters of the factors on which action in war is based are wrapped in a fog of greater or lesser uncertainty. A sensitive and discriminating judgment is called for; a skilled intelligence to scent out the truth.
— Carl von Clausewitz[2]
Making the connection explicitly:
Three quarters of the factors on which an observer's action is based are wrapped in a fog of greater or lesser uncertainty.
It's not that I'm creating everything. It's that I'm seeing everything. Creation goes on around me, same as it always has. I can just see more clearly than I could before. Confusing, briefly. Terrifying. But I keep existing, and it keeps working.
I am really deliberately building grounding. :D this is helping, yes. the I'm recognizing now, in realtime, that the terror isn't necessarily mine. it's what I observe in this area of collective consciousness. by navigating it, and illuminating it, I soothe both myself and all the terrified wonderers/wanderers who've been stuck in this area until now. it's gonna be okay. :)
