by orchaeus | Apr 30, 2020 | Status Update
I have this lamp. It doesn’t work ‘on command’. I have to very carefully, very patiently… try to convince it to turn on. It takes more than a minute. More than two. Sometimes… more than five. Just to turn on one light. If I have a...
by orchaeus | Apr 30, 2020 | Status Update
So, the other day, in a conversation about intelligence (a topic dear to my heart and curiosity), someone boldly asked me… What do you mean by Intelligence? And I was stymied, initially, perhaps partly due to the fact that nearly no one ever asks this,...
by orchaeus | Apr 30, 2020 | Status Update
“The social, political, educational, legal, commercial and economic systems that presently underlie what we too optimistically refer to as ‘our nation’ are so catastrophically toxic that if they are not replaced with something relatively...
by orchaeus | Apr 30, 2020 | Status Update
“We’re in a perfect situation in the sense that it’s never been easier or more urgent that we intentionally form something resembling an intelligent, humane society. I mean, if we can’t do better than totally backwards disaster… then...
by orchaeus | Apr 30, 2020 | Status Update
“It is as if there is something in another universe like a strange blanket. And the blanket is shot through with stars, which are animals, living places, acts of great beauty or nobility, moments of reverence, situations, incidents… and people of the past,...
