by orchaeus | Jul 17, 2020 | Status Update
Every skillful illusionist, magician, and hypnotist — every con artist — understands that a single principle underlies the capacity to pull off an illusion. Illusion is, here, another name for a deception… however, in magic, the audience has effectively...
by orchaeus | Jul 17, 2020 | Status Update
Rights are a fiction. No one really ‘has’ rights. We have putative access to such protections as we can defend — with power, influence or cash. Nothing more. That’s why they’re a fiction. But the idea derives from unity, and mutual concern....
by orchaeus | Jul 17, 2020 | Status Update
If each nation was a person sitting at a table, most of them would be trying to respond intelligently to an array of threats that are powerful enough to obliterate nations … at their roots. But one of them would be stomping around screaming and making absurd...
by orchaeus | Jul 17, 2020 | Status Update
I imagine, for a moment, that each ‘nation’ on Earth is represented by two people at a table Each ‘people’ on Earth, is represented by two people sitting at a table. This pair is the embodiment of the entire history and future of, not precisely...
by orchaeus | Jul 17, 2020 | Status Update
Generalizations are conveniences, that, while of some utility in their appropriate scope, are nearly completely invalid in specific situations. Because they collapse infinite complexities (infinite domains of complexity as well) into finitizations. These appear...
