Why Quantum Matters to Me

 Hello. C J here. I’m going to continue not discussing politics. I’m busy. Yes, I am up on the events of the world very thoroughly and yes I could probably have some intelligent commentary on something. I’m not going to. It’ll take too much time away from doing more important things. I’m continuing to design the card game Quantum in the background while working on drawing the actual backgrounds and background components I need to make the art for Quantum situated in my setting.

Quantum is a game about real life spirituality. It’s designed to be educational about a wide variety of subjects. I’m working on rewriting the old Regency page here because Regency was the previous name of Quantum as a project. That project is now going to be a line of products in the new named game line of cards. I’m working on a list of the first ten or so Expansions and what real life subject matter they discuss. All of this will be free to print yourself at home. I will also be selling the Core Set of cards and some of the Expansions at conventions. I have an industrial quality home printer so it won’t cost that much in ink to print on my end.

Okay, so conventional education kind of sucks. It’s boring. I mean going to school and sitting and listening to all the disrespectful people in the class get all the attention because they want it isn’t how education should be. People should be able to eat and drink water when it’s healthy for them and wake up at a reasonable time. Why in God’s name do we have the expectation that someone in grade 12 should do 120 minutes of homework every night per all eight classes they have and also play sports at the same time? What kind of lunatic designed this system?

I’m not complaining because I didn’t do well in school. I have a perfect auditory memory so I aced everything. I hate them more because of it. Yes, hate. What did I get out of following the rules and doing well? Nothing. There aren’t jobs for people well versed in classic English literature or who need to know how to graph eight million different lines based on a set of known points. Conventional education lacks classes about things like where our food comes from, how to handle money and what a healthy relationship looks like.

And dear God, abstinence only sex education is messed up. There’s no advice on what consent is and nothing even mentioned about relationships that aren’t for reproduction. I grew up in Canada by the way. Canada is considered well educated. Where’s the advice about having a non-binary gender? Where’s the phrase non-binary? Where’s the word gender? I’m aromantic. That word doesn’t exist in our schooling. Tell someone in schooling that you have an identity like that and they’ll tell you you’re wrong.

My family are all educators by the way. We’ve discussed this so many times. We want better curriculum. Better by leagues. So I’m making it. Quantum is my solution to this problem. Quantum is me taking everything I learned and reproducing it but also giving it narrative and meaning. Quantum is me stealing everything that wasn't nailed down from every grade level I’ve passed though and giving it away for free. Quantum is mine and it’s ours. I am trying really hard here to discuss this without doing politics. I want knowledge to be free but only if it’s useful in the real world.

First up is actually useful English education in Roads to the Spirit World. Did you know that all spiritual traditions agree that storytelling is magic? Did you know that different authors have different ratios of how much of their stories are planned verses how much they make up as they go? Did you know how to write a novel? I’m hoping by the time Roads to the Spirit World is out you will. No one cared about my generation having the life skills we need. No one except for the entire world including me, my family, the internet, the actual teachers who tried and the fandom. We’re together in this. We deserve better.

C J Mcpherson