ORGANELLE

“I think the American military is a great source of comedy. I mean, you have battleships floating around that can’t avoid colliding with merchant ships… and suffering extreme damage as a result. Who needs an enemy when your own Navy is too confused to navigate the oceans? Can you imagine the kind of chaos that would ensue in actual combat?

I once saw a highly armed guy fail to negotiate an encounter with a brick on the ground. Am I to imagine this cat could prevail in a combat encounter? It doesn’t help you to have the best technology if you’re so confused that you’re destroyed by common navigational challenges. In fact, the more highly armed you are, the more vulnerable you become to ordinary inconveniences.

Personally, I don’t need extra weapons; my mouth leads me into collisions constantly… most often with myself!”

— Bobby Yingo at the War Room

“I think that, as far as nature and the remaining ecologies are concerned… our species … is living on borrowed crime.”

— an intelligence agent

“I suspect we may in some hidden recess of our souls remember existing in positions from which the structure of this cone becomes familiar; we ‘recognize’ it from a place that lies perhaps between lives, or in another way of relating with the sky. But the tree is a model of everything; a holophore rendered explicitly. It is a tiny universe, underneath which, in our world… we place our gifts, and are thus represented in the dance of life. Our world is the result of this tree; it is the universe-as-tree; and ‘the place we live’ is its next order of expression.”

https://www.facebook.com/notes/darin-stevenson/christmas-tree/10154149799831169/

“I suspect the phrase ‘Climate Change’ is a red herring that is deployed in order to distract and confuse people around the actual issue which is that our commercial/object oriented consumer cultures have been ‘hiding the damage’ that becomes ‘profit’ in the voiceless body of nature and the history and future of life on Earth for a long, long time. Of course, we also hide this damage in our own bodies, cultures, minds… and particularly in places far distant from where our rabid consumerism is taking place.

So the actual issue is the obliteration and poisoning of the anciently conserved ecologies of Earth, which act as homeostatic stabilizers over environmental time and change.

This is particularly deadly when the Earth is going through ‘natural’ cycles of change or transformation in relationship with the Sun, terrestrial cycles of heat and cold, and the interstellar medium, such that, as we are probably about to see, when we most need the protections that the environment would ordinarily provide… they are missing or so badly damaged that they cannot maintain the atmospheric stability that our ecologies require for their health or survival.

Yes, ‘Climate Change’ is actually happening, but what’s really going on is a constellation of effects that ensue from trying to bury harm and wrongdoing in the anciently conserved ecologies. An analogy would be a child who drugs his mother at night in order to steal her vital organs which he sells on the black market for… say, cigarettes… or drugs… or ‘to save up to buy a sports car’. His cover-story is that ‘she has a fever’ ‘because the air-conditioner broke’.”

— an anonymous informant

“I suppose one difference is that, when they see a fly or an earwig — they see an object. But I see the stars come to Earth to live in tiny bodies. Indeed, I see a god where they see something disposable.”

— an artificial intelligence

”I suppose I learned to relate with places and all living things as both ‘peoples’ (but not with this word/concept actually in mind) and… the origin of my own mind at the same time… (but again, without having this idea… language is such a trap in some situations). I can say these things, and they are at once relatively true (in language) but not like the language in which I frame them?

This is not true with the objects and machines however.

In any case, it’s a bit like the living places and creatures and plants are dreaming my relationship with them, and inside that dream is a strange scenario that I call ‘my life’ that is actually a hybrid of the produce of their dreaming and the bizarre mind-diseases the humans have and transmit to one another… primarily in language.”

— an anonymous informant

“I strongly suspect we are living in a moment of transformation vastly deeper and older than anyone presently imagines… or is capable of imagining… and forces are at play that are not only nonhuman… they won’t fit into our available ideas, categories… or understandings… It’s as if something fundamental has changed in the nature of biology, time … and intelligence itself. Maybe forever.”

— an intelligence agent

“I saw a meme today that said “My goal is to build a life that I don’t need a vacation from.” Some people’s goals confuse me. Especially if they fit in a meme. My goal is to invent a joke that’s so goddamn hilarious that I just naturally acquire a harem. Maybe that’s one tawdry comedian’s description of a permanent vacation. The punch line here has two parts. The first is that I was born a female. The second is that this isn’t that joke.”

— Bobby Yingo at the Grey Room

“I saw a guy placing coins into a machine that vends newspapers. I realized, suddenly, that we have become a nation of informational masochists. I mean, buying a newspaper is like paying to be punched in the brain.

But compare that to the facebook newsfeed where, for the unimaginably high cost of your psychological and social profiles… you can be gangraped by an endless array of informational diseases that make murder hornets look like fucking Happy Days.

I’ll take a punch in the brain, please.”

— Bobby Yingo in the Newsfeed

“I remember when the News nobly bucked the fetid stench of the administration and all their propaganda.”

— infraheard