by orchaeus | Nov 15, 2022 | Status Update
I set a dime on its edge blew gently upon it and died right there before it failed to fall the sun dove inside me and was wet everything’s wings and eyes, tongues and bashings the perfection of turmoil
by orchaeus | Nov 9, 2022 | Status Update
Mechanophrenia: The catastrophic misapplication of class and set that leads to seeing living beings as ‘mere instances of mechanical principles’. A form of madness brought on by the combination of the loss of the participatory perspective and the metaphors...
by orchaeus | Nov 9, 2022 | Status Update
Honestly, I just want all the things and objects and machines to go away. Because I want lived experience, actual relationships, and meaningful roles and activities…
by orchaeus | Nov 9, 2022 | Status Update
I realized the other day, while reading Owen Barfield’s Saving the Appearances (A Study in Idolatry) that Schizophrenia and other forms of psychosis/mental divergence — may have to do with the attempt by the mind to ‘participate’ (as the ancients...
by orchaeus | Nov 5, 2022 | Status Update
In Elementary school, they taught us to treat disembodied language as if it were always intrinsically true. “Johnny got an apple’. But there is no Johnny. There is no getting. There is no ‘past tense’ because the sentence is in non-tense. There...
by orchaeus | Nov 1, 2022 | Status Update
Part of why taking ‘explanations of humanity’ from ‘findings in science’, particularly related to metabolism and the brain… is absolutely backwards. “Deprived of an explanation in terms of a final cause the reason that makes sense...
