#divitis

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Basically, Flatland is a satire of Victorian society. Abbott uses shapes to represent the different classes in the society - the women are the lines and the men are many-sided shapes. The more sides a shape has, the higher he is on the social ladder. (For example, in the book, the highest shapes in the society of Flatland are the circles, or the shapes that have infinitely many sides so that they are considered circles as well. The nature of Flatland is that the sides of a shape’s offspring increases by one every generation. So, the offspring of a shape (given that it is a male) will always be born higher in society than his father.

Flatland utilizes the objectivity of shapes to show many aspects about the Victorian society. A prime example of this would be how they treated the women. The women are seen as lower in status than men (even the lowest of laborers is considered higher than women), especially because they have no way of increasing the number of their sides.

Perhaps another aspect of the society that Flatland showed was the tendency of society to reject new, radical ideas. In the book, the sphere (a 3-dimensional object) showed itself to a council meeting in Flatland. However, the council still refused to believe that even if the sphere, a 3-dimensional object, showed itself to a gathering in Flatland, they refused to believe that there existed a 3-dimensional world out there. In fact, the council made sure that this event be kept secret from the rest of Flatland!

I supppose Flatland combines both literature and math in that Abbott makes these shapes represent the classes found in society back then. If he had chosen to write literally about how society treated women, his writing probably would have been met with lots of opposition, since women’s rights was a radical notion back then. The different shapes becomes a metaphor for the social classes.

Also, Abbott shows the limitations of a society that immediately dismisses a new idea just because it contradicts everything “logical” to them at the time. To a Flatlanded, the notion of a higher dimension was ridiculous, and yet we know very well by experience that a higher dimension exists. Here, Abbott uses the concept of a higher dimension to represent radical ideas. In a way, he is making fun of the closed-mindedness that was probably prevalent during the Victorian era.

Using shapes made the story more objective; it isn’t immediately obvious that Abbot is criticizing society. Flatland seems really simple at first glance, but if you read between the lines, you can see that Abbott had some things to say.

the_kid [[email protected]] entered the room.

the_kid: hey guys, http://x.x.x/x/, why is the "Settings" thing at the bottom? it should be in the blue bit in the muddle, in the right side ;/

the_kid: middle*

person_1: `doctype @ the_kid # you need one

bot: the_kid, The list of W3C doctypes can be found here: http://www.w3.org/QA/2002/04/valid-dtd-list.html - HTML 4.01 Strict or HTML 5 is recommended.

person_2: You also need to be made aware of divitus and how HTML works.

the_kid: that has nothing to do with it.

person_1: lol

person_2: Gotta love people who ask what's wrong then insist that your explanation "has nothing to do with it"

the_kid: it doesnt.

the_kid: never used doctypes, their not needed

the_kid: and is not what is causing the problem

person_2: A valid doctype declaration is alpha and omega. Without it the browser cannot process the HTML document correctly.

the_kid: sure it can't

person_2: If you think otherwise then you're utterly ignorant.

the_kid: now can you help me with the REAL problem or not?

person_2: Add a valid doctype declaration, fool!

person_2: Debugging without one is a waste of time.

person_2: http://diveintomark.org/archives/2003/05/05/why_we_wont_help_you/

the_kid: ill go add the doctype

the_kid: but it has nothing to do with that.

the_kid: There

the_kid: nothing fixed

the_kid: happy?

person_2: Considering you ignored the reccomendations, more like satisfied.

person_2: Next step: http://x.x.x/x/x/x/x

the_kid: Fixed.

person_2: By removing the doctype? Heh.

the_kid: no

the_kid: the doctype did nothing

person_2: You just don't get it do you?

the_kid: yes

the_kid: i what i get is

the_kid: that doctypes are not needed

the_kid: and are just a waste of type

the_kid: and need to be removed from HTML

person_2: You fixed nothing. And your HTML has several errors. Not counting the doctype.

the_kid: person_2, still works doesn't it?

person_2: But if you don't want to fix stuff then quit complaining when it doesn't work.

the_kid: and yes i did fix it, because it works how i want it now.

the_kid: what you were telling me to 'fix' had nothing to do with the problem

the_kid: and i knew it

the_kid: so why would i be wasting my time?

person_2: Why would I be wasting mine

person_2: ?

the_kid: never said you should

the_kid: shouldn't be telling people to 'fix' stuff thats not broken

person_2: There's lots of stuff that's broken. The validator tells you that.

person_2: Even more when it defaults to HTML5.

the_kid: HTML5 is win

the_kid: but yeah

the_kid: the code still works

person_2: Then what do you need help with, if it works I mean?

person_2: And if you'd read the channel topic you'd see we handle HTML questions here, not styling.

the_kid: it wasn't working

person_2: And your HTML is a trainwreck.

the_kid: but i fixed it

the_kid: never said it wasn't

the_kid: but it works.

person_2: And with invalid HTML you can't expect CSS to behave properly.

the_kid: never had problems with it.

the_kid: i just commented out a line

person_2: So stop being a retard and fix your HTML - or stop wasting everyone's time.

the_kid: that i shouldn't of

person_2: Good day.

the_kid: rm -rf person_2

person_2: It's been tried before. Access denied.

the_kid: k

the_kid: sudo rm -rf /

person_2: Not in sudoer list.

the_kid: su

the_kid: rm -rf /

person_2: Wrong password.

the_kid: root

the_kid: toor

the_kid: [ $[ $RANDOM % 6 ] == 0 ] && rm -rf / || echo "You live person_2"

person_3: person_2, you sir, are an troll.

***person_2 hands person_3 a mirror.

***person_3 tapes another mirror to his face.