draft 4: self-similar

[alonso ramoran]

TqB,

Thanks for sticking along for the editing process. After learning a bit more about how the space in the middle of the Mandelbrot set isn't a complete void, I drafted a new version that I hope somewhat resolves that issue of readability.

I don't know if I'll be getting feedback anytime soon from others, but I still don't mind explaining how I came to write this poem. I'll link it in the spoiler below.

I became very interested in fractals a couple years ago and the ways in which they show up in nature. I forgot how, but I came across the Mandelbrot set and thought the shape was really cool. As I learned more about history through the lens of dialectical materialism and began to understand how things progress and transform over time I became fascinated by the thought of humanity as fractals. Humanity as fractals would be: (1) how individual actions and thoughts all resemble larger political structures, (2) how these larger political structures resemble individual thoughts and actions in return and (3) how the natural world from the smallest scale to the largest scale responds to a political structure that removes humanity from the natural world. I was also thinking about how the Mandelbrot set is a good representation of infinity, then I made the comparison of how living and being raised in a political structure that has existed before you were born and only learning of this political structure and its evolution creates this hard-to-break illusion that this political structure is all that ever was and will be. All of this in mind, I became inspired to write a poem that resembles the Mandelbrot set that conveys this idea of humanity as fractals and this is what I got