by orchaeus | Nov 14, 2020 | Status Update
Someone at push hands accused me of being studious. I laughed and said, “You’ve got the wrong idea about me.” They doubled down, and said “No, I know you’re studious.” I said, “Well, yes, but only informally…” They...
by orchaeus | Nov 13, 2020 | Status Update
The idea of ‘questing’ was something I picked up from ‘role-playing’ games, such as Dungeons and Dragons. But I quickly realized this was a symbolic encoding of something profound, and accessible to ordinary people in daily life. So I became...
by orchaeus | Nov 13, 2020 | Status Update
Wherever our collectives lack or lose their coherence and integrity… they can be captured for all sorts of catastrophic purposes… by groups, individuals… even ‘information’. This points at the necessity: we must develop »better...
by orchaeus | Nov 13, 2020 | Status Update
“We can intentionally capture what would otherwise be our vulnerabilities, weaknesses, and failings… as a species… and use them to drive civilization toward something truly magnificent… rather than, as is more commonly the case…...
by orchaeus | Nov 13, 2020 | Status Update
Baffling. Utterly baffling.
by orchaeus | Nov 13, 2020 | Status Update
I saw a question in the NF: “Is dying for one’s country a moral duty?” I found it annoying. It’s the kind of question that shows up how bizarre the modern relationships between language, thought and understanding have become. How strangely...
