by orchaeus | Sep 27, 2020 | Status Update
~3 year old boy at the periphery of where we are practicing t’ai-chi: “Are you guys nice?” We all decided we were, and said so. But it was such a great question!
by orchaeus | Sep 27, 2020 | Status Update
I was fascinated with language from an early age. It was like a universe of its own, within the human universe. But I quickly realized that the adults »were using it in ways that were pathological. Back then, I presumed the adults somehow ‘knew want they were...
by orchaeus | Sep 27, 2020 | Status Update
“Far from being restricted to a limited number of pathological cases, as American theoreticians suggest, the double bind—a contradictory double imperative, or rather a whole network of contradictory imperatives—is an extremely common phenomenon. In fact, it is...
by orchaeus | Sep 27, 2020 | Status Update
Salesman: Interested in a new car? Customer: Well, sort of. Salesman: What’s your fancy? Customer: Do you have anything that has, like, all kinds of new and unpredictable ways to crash into things, explode, fall apart, and turn ordinary life into a cascade of...
by orchaeus | Sep 26, 2020 | Status Update
Old language: “What’s going on?” New language: “What’s not going on that we’re pretending is?”
by orchaeus | Sep 26, 2020 | Status Update
It struck me that our concerns are like an inner solar system. They are the ‘lights with gravity’ that draw us into thought, reflection, trance, fear, ecstasy, wonder, learning… or, if inverted, become like terrifying absences or confusions…...
