by orchaeus | Apr 5, 2020 | Status Update
Some interesting ideas with which I do not precisely agree… “Organizations are literally alive and can be classified and known and analyzed taxonomically and biologically like any other biological organism. One of the reasons that human life and death is...
by orchaeus | Apr 5, 2020 | Status Update
“Corporations are evil by design. They are, in theory, fake people who can own things you don’t want to be caught with, who can commit crimes (typically wage-theft, criminal negligence, reckless endangerment, etc.) you don’t want to be punished for,...
by orchaeus | Apr 5, 2020 | Status Update
Friend who works with goats: I think the goats are really smart. Me: I think so too, but I think their intelligence exists in something like another dimension — one that’s mostly invisible to most humans. And ours exists in a dimension different from theirs as...
by orchaeus | Apr 5, 2020 | Status Update
Many common people appear to have acquired roles (from their commonly experienced contexts) that effectively make them dumber any time they do anything at all. And they get used to this. And then, other people come along and suggest something like ‘the Earth is...
by orchaeus | Apr 3, 2020 | Status Update
“I have to say that I live in a country where, never one time in my life… ever, even once… did I go to the grocery store… and there find any shelf bare. Never. It sounds ridiculous, but I wasn’t prepared for that. The first time I saw...
by orchaeus | Apr 3, 2020 | Status Update
“I have never lived in a world more strange, mysteriously inscrutable, and highly charged with the potential for catastrophe. But the idea of apocalypse, as in ‘the end of the world’ seems somehow far too simplistic for what I am actually...