by orchaeus | May 4, 2020 | Status Update
“So, your species has a disease. You can think of it in different ways, or call it different things… but, effectively, your minds are infected with something I’ll call Formal Representational Cognition. This is what that story about bad things...
by orchaeus | May 3, 2020 | Status Update
My response to people in the newsfeed posting nonsense about ‘Sweden’ ‘it’s just like the flu’ or some other toxically ignorant para-numerical bullshit: There’s a dangerously oversimplified (and contagiously common) ideological bias...
by orchaeus | May 3, 2020 | Status Update
“The thing the waking mind absolutely recoils from… is the sudden, unexpected introduction of ambiguity into the social and relational situation. Into identity. Or value. Into threat or opportunity. This is precisely what it works so hard to kill — when...
by orchaeus | May 3, 2020 | Status Update
#pandemic vs #infodemic
by orchaeus | May 3, 2020 | Status Update
“It’s a constellation of ideological, legal, economic, personal and mechanical behavioral syndromes and the real or implicit agreements that perpetuate them.” — infraheard
by orchaeus | May 2, 2020 | Status Update
I don’t know what love ‘is’, but I know that if you let the monsters of measurement and language into that garden, they will remake the whole context in the image of whatever allows them to dominate it and survive there. And that will be, at best, a...
