A Different Deficit

We have a colloquialism, “the deficit,” which means one in particular, namely some number representing what the Treasury has to borrow, to stay in the green.

The annual deficit feeds “the debt” which is the accumulated principal plus interest against which the Treasury must pay. We call this “central banking” for some reason, or maybe not. I leave it to economists to duke it out.

The deficit I’m talking about is different, but we’re free to borrow the same lingo, and even talk about the Debt, which is: 720 degrees or two circles worth of angle.

One needs to go around twice to carve out enough turn, to undo a System, yet another jargon term, or Tetrahedron, to distill it further.

This 720 degrees has been christened Descartes’ Deficit, and that’s what I’m focused upon in this Medium story.

To read further, with comprehension, you need not familiarize yourself with “the deficit” I’ve mentioned above, as it belongs to another namespace, frequented by bankers and Treasury bond dealers.

Consider the Platonics, as a “subclass” of Polyhedron.

In ancient Greek, we say “subclass” or “subset” whereas in Anthropology we speak of “subcultures” or simply “cults” for short. Cultures, more than the sums of their parts, consist of partially overlapping subcultures, or cults, such as we study with Venn Diagrams.

The Platonics comprise an elite cult (subset) indeed, of those Polyhedrons with congruent faces and…