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Get the Everything Hole mug.The self-defeating nature of a total theory. A "Theory of Everything" in physics seeks to unify all fundamental forces. But the hard problem is that even a perfect physical theory would not explain everything—it wouldn't explain why those particular laws exist, why there is something rather than nothing, the nature of consciousness, meaning, ethics, or beauty. More paradoxically, if a human brain is just a system obeying those physical laws, then the theory itself—and our belief in it—is just a predetermined output of the system. This undermines the very rationality and truth-seeking that produced the theory. Ultimate explanation swallows itself.
Example: Imagine physicists finally write the equation of the Theory of Everything on a blackboard. The hard problem: That equation cannot explain why it, itself, is aesthetically beautiful to the physicists. It cannot explain the feeling of awe they have. It cannot justify why logical consistency is a valid path to truth. It is a description of a meaningless clockwork, in which the clockwork's own description of itself is just another gear turning. A complete theory of the physical world leaves out the theorist, creating a Grand Explanation from which the explainer is mysteriously absent. Hard Problem of Everything.
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Get the blocked them on everything mug.The sociological observation that modern society, thanks to the internet shattering mass media monoculture, has fragmented into countless competing tribes, fanbases, and ideological subcultures that all operate with cult-like dynamics. It's not that actual high-control groups with abusive leaders have multiplied, but that the psychological architecture of cults—fervent belief, "us vs. them" identity, devotion to a leader or ideology, and the conviction that the mainstream is fundamentally broken—has become the default mode for online fandoms, political movements, brand loyalists, and wellness communities. The theory argues we've gone back to a pre-20th century norm where culture is just "a bunch of cults stacked on top of each other".
*Example: "Explaining the Everything Is A Cult Now Theory to my dad, I said, 'You had three TV channels and called it culture. We have 8 million micro-communities on niche apps. Your Star Trek fan club was a dorky hobby; our 'Stanny' Twitter circle that analyzes every Swift lyric for secret messages and attacks anyone who criticizes her is a full-blown digital congregation. Same human wiring for belonging, just a different prophet and a worse holy text.'"*
by AbzuInExile January 31, 2026
Get the Everything Is A Cult Now Theory mug.The radical endpoint of social constructionism: the argument that all of human reality—not just social facts like money, but our experience of time, space, the self, and even seemingly brute physical facts—is mediated through and shaped by the conceptual and linguistic systems we collectively build. It's the realization that we are born into a world that is already thickly pre-constructed, and we spend our lives navigating, reinforcing, and sometimes remaking those constructions.
Example: "Looking at a sunset, I see 'beauty' and 'the end of the day'—both constructed concepts. A physicist sees 'Rayleigh scattering' and 'planetary rotation'—other constructed concepts from a different framework. The Theory of Constructed Everything suggests there is no access to the sunset-in-itself; we only ever experience it through the various reality-tunnels our cultures and sciences have built for us. We live in a house of ideas, and mistake it for the sky."
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