I Will Ask You Questions - Now with MORE fantasy ecology!

Piester, I think you are asking for too much.

What non-religious visual symbol do you think has made the largest impact on the world and why?

Two small black circles intersect a larger black circle. They're almost tangent, but not quite. At first you might think it looks like a Venn Diagram, but there's nothing in there. It is incomprehensible when interpreted as a Venn Diagram, so I'm going to deconstruct it a different way.

It's similar to the taoist Taijitu in its simplicity, but visually distinct. Unlike the Taijitu, there is no white. Opposites do not interlock. There is only darkness and the negative space that surrounds it. Though some of us may be big or small, we are all the same. We are all hateful and cruel. But the hate of the powerful has greater reach, more impact, and all around is larger, though the percentage of hate within all of us is the same.

The majority, in this symbol, are the most powerful. The small circles, both a fourth of the mass as the big one, both aspire to become powerful like the big circle. They are blind to the existence of the other small circle. They don't try to get closer to each other. They don't repel each other. They simply exist parallel, oblivious.

Who do we root for in this conflict? The big one, of course. The two underdogs are indistinguishable so there's no appeal to prefer one small circle over another, and certainly not over the big circle. But at the same time, the image would look incredibly bland if the big circle assimilated both small circles into its mass. The big circle is only large because we can compare it to the smaller circles. It is not enough to succeed; others must fail. And since the big circle is more appealing with the smaller circles intersecting it, there they stay, keeping the big circle from being just an ordinary circle.

I like looking at this symbol. It appeals to my dark inner nature, which is also my inner child. My inner child is happy, so awaking the child makes me happy. It almost looks like a head, but I don't have two protrusions jutting out near the top of my skull. I think this is where human evolution is headed in the next million years.

Second place goes to that S with six parallel lines.