I found another source that I worked off of earlier, which is five wikipedia articles: wood, fire, earth, metal, water. They paint a stronger picture of the difference between wood and fire (I would fill this with examples of people if I thought we knew the same people; I’d be very surprised if you knew Steve, for example).
I noticed a thing that seemed cruxy for me, which is that the MTG color wheels have, at their heart, goal-methodology pairs, which the Wu Xing doesn’t have. Blue looks like the consequence of an optimization process, whereas Water looks more like an empirical cluster. This feels like an additional constraint that is more likely to reduce than increase the color pie’s alignment with reality, while perhaps making it more compelling / memorable / or so on.
Which brings up that it seems like the MTG color wheel could be instead a goal-methodology matrix, where you consider the five goals combined with the five motivations. It seems like all of “peace through acceptance,” “peace through action,” “peace through ruthlessness,” and “peace through knowledge” are real things. Things with very different flavors, to be sure, but it’s not obvious to me that “peace through order” would seem more real than “peace through ruthlessness” without the priming of MTG. (Legalism is more real than Confucianism, for example.)
I found another source that I worked off of earlier, which is five wikipedia articles: wood, fire, earth, metal, water. They paint a stronger picture of the difference between wood and fire (I would fill this with examples of people if I thought we knew the same people; I’d be very surprised if you knew Steve, for example).
I noticed a thing that seemed cruxy for me, which is that the MTG color wheels have, at their heart, goal-methodology pairs, which the Wu Xing doesn’t have. Blue looks like the consequence of an optimization process, whereas Water looks more like an empirical cluster. This feels like an additional constraint that is more likely to reduce than increase the color pie’s alignment with reality, while perhaps making it more compelling / memorable / or so on.
Which brings up that it seems like the MTG color wheel could be instead a goal-methodology matrix, where you consider the five goals combined with the five motivations. It seems like all of “peace through acceptance,” “peace through action,” “peace through ruthlessness,” and “peace through knowledge” are real things. Things with very different flavors, to be sure, but it’s not obvious to me that “peace through order” would seem more real than “peace through ruthlessness” without the priming of MTG. (Legalism is more real than Confucianism, for example.)
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