I’ve found my support group: Meta-Modelers Anonymous (MMA) .
From their web page:
MMA is a support network to help those unfortunate people who are seriously addicted to meta-modelling. You should contact us if you or someone you know suffers from any of the following symptoms. We are here to help. Symptoms:
- Withdrawal symptoms (repetitive constraint writing tendencies) when unable to meta-model.
- Hiding meta-models around the house or workplace.
- Pretending that the document youre reading is not a meta-model, e.g. disguising it as a model.
- Constantly philosophising about your life as an object, or reflecting on the 4-layer meta-model.
- Worrying about where your next meta-model is going to come from.
- Worrying about the spelling of modeller versus modeler and meta-model versus metamodel.
- Putting off important tasks just to meta-model.
- Writing philosophical stories about levels of reality and the meaning of the universe.
- Forgetting whether youre at level zero or level 3. And what is level 0 anyway?
I’d say that members of this group could also benefit from the UML Serenity Prayer
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Ha, ha, ha. I have some of the symptoms.
Since I learned modeling, everything for me is decomposable in layers, links, roles, instances, classifiers, representations, abstractions, etc.
This is a way of face the world. Philosophers should take a course in modeling for both, see/understand and explain their ideas to us (instead of such dense books).
Great to know I’m not the only one.