What Derrick speaks of is the hole in our ideas about what it means to be alive, awake, or intelligent. For most organisms, if their intelligence isn’t purposive, they get snuffed. Right away. From the feedback in the evolutionary and ecological systems.

These do not care what you say. Your religion? They do not care. Your ideas? They do not care. Your political or scientific affiliations. Zero. They listen to one language. Relation.

And, relationally? We are as interesting as a stab wound in your child’s face. That is how intelligent we are around »nature, intelligence itself, each other, and even language. We are dumber than rocks. Buy we are certain we are the only gods. It’s bizarre, actually.

And familiar, too.

It bears a striking resemblance to a kind of Cancer in your body… that attacks your thinking and beliefs first, so that you will not be able to see that you are doing the attacking, and will blame fictional others.

With humans, we are »even more like cancer. We re-direct the environmental and relational feedback forces that would otherwise snuff us for being proudly stupid (for which we trade our absurd representations of intelligence, as if dolls were better children than ours can be)… back into the ‘body of intelligence that gives us our own. This would be like running into a brick wall as fast as you can, but distributing the damage to every one you know who ever aided you in any way, including the entire living planet. And then, declaring yourself god, and doing that again. And again. And again. Until each pulse killed not hundreds of beings… but thousands. Then millions. Then billions.

We are the apocalypse of rampant stupidity. We either -become purposive intelligences… which is like our own body and every organism on Earth… or we and everything else dies. Our minds first, which is fully in process, and while they die… all that is hidden will be raped into obliteration. Nature first. Then hope. Then children. Mothers. Anyone who speaks against it.

Then speaking itself.

Cancer distributes the pulses of its incredible need for energy and its unthinkable toxicity… to every organ system in the body. It is not a friendly hero. When it shows up as an entire species… ours?

You either turn it around immediately.

Or you wipe it out. FAST.

< P.S: I don't care about Dan Quinn — we must do a lot better than books like his. Fast. >