Concentric Rainbows

I made this art project based upon a vision. It is three independently-moving, concentric circles. Each circle is divided into 8 equal sectors. The 8 sectors are the same for each of the three concentric circles. The sectors are each a different color, each color having its own symbolic meaning:

• Red, Marxists: socialists, communists, Marxists, Leninists, Maoists, democratic socialists, anti-capitalists, unionists, syndicalists
• Orange, Social Justice Warriors: dissenters, activists, hacktivists, whistleblowers, leakers, independent investigative journalists, protestors, demonstrators, resisters, revolutionaries, participatory democracy, Black Lives Matter, Women's March, Wikileaks, Anonymous
• Yellow, Sensualists: epicureans, hedonists, kinksters, ethically non-monogamists, LGBTQAI+ and straight allies, romantics, travelers, explorers, adventurers, foodies, artists, free spirits, fitness gurus, athletes
• Green, Environmentalists: sustainability, permaculture, green building, New Urbanism, cohousing, biomimicry, systems thinking, regeneration, renewable energy, green economy, voluntary simplicity, restorative justice, non-violent communication, democratic education, deep ecology, indigenous people's rights, animal rights
• Blue, Scientists: natural science, social science, technologists, scholars, futurists, inventors, humanists, rationalists, skeptics, secularists, atheists, agnostics, pantheists, industry disrupters, innovators, and early adopters
• Indigo, Mystics: Tantra, Sufi, Gnosticism, Kabbalah, Neo-Platonism, Hermeticism, Rosicrucianism, shamanism, transcendentalism, theosophy, quantum mysticism, New Age, Hinduism, Buddhism, Daoism, heathens, heretics
• Purple, Intersectional Feminism: anti-discrimination and anti-discrimination and anti-privilege based on gender, caste, sex, race, ethnicity, class, sexuality, religion, disability, weight, physical appearance, and height, etc. #MeToo
• Black, Anarchists: free association organizations, collectives, cooperatives, makerspaces, hackerspaces, toolshares, mutual aid, intentional communities, freegans, radicals, punks, anti-authoritarianism, anti-fascism (Antifa), left-libertarians

White is only represented by the round reinforcing label in the center. It is as though a prism refracts most of the white light into a kaleidoscope of dancing colors. Only near the center do they begin to consolidate into a sort of singularity of ideas.

The above descriptions are only examples of what each color represents and is not exhaustive.

Since the concentric circles move independently, by making a 3-sector turn in the same direction at each layer, you can maximize the integration of the various color components, like so:

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I switched Indigo and Purple from the original so that Indigo is now Mystics and Purple is now Intersectional Feminists.

Some other interesting observations:

• The colors and the ideals they represent support each other for synergies and, perhaps more importantly, act as balancers to prevent any one ideology from becoming too dominant. They are intended to mix and blend and cross-pollinate, so-to-speack. Think of specks of paint of each color overlaid on the base of one another.
• Black and Red compose Society, or what we often think of as government and economy. Together they might be called libertarian socialism.
• Purple and Orange compose Fairness, or what we often think of as the justice system. They form the bounds around Red and Black. Purple is the reflective branch and Orange is the action branch.
• Yellow and Green compose Health and Wellness, what is essential to quality of life. This is lacking in the global industrial patriarchal-capitalist imperialist society.
• Green is the center of the 7 rainbow colors. Green and Black is green anarchy; Green and Red is eco-socialism or eco-communism; Green and Orange is grassroots movements; Green and Yellow is well-being; Green and Blue is green technology and green economy; Green and Indigo is ecosophy; Green and Purple is eco-feminism.
• Blue and Indigo compose Knowledge; Blue concretely, Indigo abstractly. Indigo avoids the dominant control of religion that Empire so often employs. On the other hand, Unitarian Universalism is an inclusive interfaith organization that meshes well with both Blue and Indigo.