by orchaeus | Sep 12, 2020 | Status Update
To acquire proper respect for the endless dangers of various forms of sanity… we must deeply study… and perhaps even experience… it’s counterpart: insanity. Of course, neither overtly exist. They are tropes. Ideas. Ideals. But hidden in the...
by orchaeus | Sep 12, 2020 | Status Update
One can posit a variety of forms of ‘frame collapse’, some of relatively positive character — for example ‘love’. But here we see that words devoid of context are profoundly ambiguous. For what do I mean by this word? Or what ‘is...
by orchaeus | Sep 12, 2020 | Status Update
“When the universe finally breaks through the strange shell of human culture in which we have all become thoroughly enmeshed… it is as if a fish suddenly discovers water. You would think this happens to every fish. In fact, only the rarest of fish are...
by orchaeus | Sep 12, 2020 | Status Update
It’s as if we’ve only ever seen plastic food; the idea of an actual peach or steak would not only be absurd, it would be terrifying. Except that we’ve only seen counterfeit societies. So we’re either blind to the strata of authentic societies...
by orchaeus | Sep 11, 2020 | Status Update
The humans are suffering in the smoke. But the small creatures… especially the flying creatures… are dying. Bees, birds… other insects. I am finding small bird corpses regularly over the past few days. And a lot of dead insects on the ground. We may...
