[johnnybgoode]

I don't think I would distinguish between z and y. In other words, a high z is the same as a high y, and of course either one causes a high x.

[noonespecial]

Or -y is what happens when you don't have any y and so its an absolute value of y modified by some vector function v as to which sections of public life y (or the absolute value thereof) extends into...

For some metaphor m that is extended beyond a limit l, it becomes increasingly r, ridiculous. :)

[johnnybgoode]

Well, let me put it this way: Warlords have political power.