Outline-organized Cybercabin Entries

Cybercabin Diary--

Outline of Recurrent Themes:

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To the Cybercabin

[1] Immediate reasons for my escape

[2] Deficiencies found in standard urban living

[3] Simple, authentic living is the best way

[4] My final admission that life in society is proper and should not be shunned

I began developing this structure back in 1998, after I had a great many entries to sort. Its founding principles follow a few basic "rules":

The overall, upper-level hierarchy is to remain fixed as new entries fill the "leaf" subcategories.
Entries remain at their initial placements, despite their secondary relevancy to other existing and newly-emergent subcategories.
No subcategory shall be allowed to have more than 7 entries; such a subcategory is split into two or more parts.
The new subcategories must each have two or more entries. Though this permits as many as 4 new parts, the typical split is into two--a 4-4 or 5-3.
A split subcategory retains no "generic" entries; all are moved into the sub-parts.

The effect of such rules is that the structure grows outwards like a tree. Furthermore, the activity in various subcategories mimics a living plant in that certain branches produce more entries and grow while others stay in place. There is a distinction, also, between the earlier classifications, with no entries, and the lowest-level, entry-containing subcategories, just as trees are composed of wood towards the root and leaves at the ends of branches.

I am not sure what it would be like to read the entries in the order of the hierarchy. I suspect they do not have sufficient transition from one to the next to make a very good flat text. But what I do have is a description of my world view, and the reasons for initially resenting such a world but eventually finding that I need a way to live with it and within it.