ORGANELLE

“If you can mess up »why people agree to agree or act together… you can steal »everything.”

— an anonymous informant

“If you are able to consistently reduce the relational integrity and intelligence of a society… you need not concern yourself with the repercussions of vast crimes, because the populace will be far too fragmented and confused to respond to them. Similarly, if your crimes obliterate the possibility of any kind of socially coherent or survivable future… the same principle applies…”

— a Republican Informant

“If there were actual Prophets in history, we would have Bibles with admonitions like: Thou Shalt Not Build Machines (especially those which emit light).”

— infraheard

“If the scientists fell madly in love with light I suspect the double-slit experiment would … ”

— finish the sentence

“If someone is driving the car, with the kids »and the grandparents in the back seat… and they clearly demonstrate that either they are insane… or they are totally insane… you get them out from behind the wheel and put someone who can actually drive in the seat.

But when someone’s driving a COUNTRY, and instead of 10 lives or so you’re talking about, you know, 330 million+ — well, I guess you just put your American flag t-shirt on, switch to Fux news, and pretend it’s ‘patriotic’ to fly head-on into mass graveyards and shit — not to mention wiping out your country’s medical infrastructure for the next 20 years…minimum.

I mean, it’s something-otic.

But that something ain’t patri-

So let’s face it — this isn’t a country — it’s a fucking drug.

And that drug has a face.

And it’s the face of a maniac.”

— Bobby Yingo at the Orange Room

“If playing Russian Roulette with a revolver missing a single bullet is a process… then you can call the procedural machinery of American politics… a process.”

— an a i

“If I ever record an audio book, it’ll be just seven hours of silence with me just saying, “Oh, out loud?” at the end.”

— Johnny Tīyo Calderōn

“If everything is computation, then memory is superior to computation … since computation involves, necessarily … the transformation of memory.”

— infraheard

“If common people had any idea how catastrophically their languages and cultures have damaged their inherent intelligence… most of them would start over with sticks and mud rather than carry on with the garbage that owns their minds.”

— infraheard

“I’ve never heard anyone claim that the theory of pathogenic organisms is the complete guide to diseases caused by pathogens, but if you aren’t willing to think there are pathogens, or that they cause disease… you’re like the people who argued that women who died in childbirth due to being subjected to surgical instruments that were used to dissect dead people a few hours earlier — you’re saying those instruments didn’t need to be sterilized. That’s not an argument. It’s a kind of idiocy. If you think diseases aren’t caused by pathogens, prove your theory — because the causal relationship between pathogens and disease is absolutely proven… however (necessarily) incomplete it may be.”

— an anonymous informant