ORGANELLE

“He was the consummate customer… emphasis on the role of custom and consumer replacing that of the person…”

— infraheard

“He regards everything that is linked to the cultural, political, religious and theological reality — to institutions and values, language and forms of writing as elements that intensify the severity of his siege and, accordingly, he regards everything that enables him to free himself from them as elements that will enable him to escape this state of siege.”

— Adonis, in Sufism and Surrealism, speaking on the writings of al-Niffari

“He employed… the congregantes pessimi rhetological fallacy, being a fallacy of presuming (or asserting) that some miserable or negligent segment of a population represents the general character of the entire population… or even humanity as a whole.

It is this specific fallacy upon which much of our modern ‘news’ is founded… and popularized. It is also used to create factions within actual populations. (2020)”

— the invention of a new rhetorical fallacy

“Habits without habitat.”

— infraheard

“Growing up, I was constantly labeled as the “good listener.” I was also told to stop “taking things so personally.” I can read other people without them saying a word. I feel everything. All the time. Really deeply.

That’s because I’m a highly sensitive person, or HSP. Sensory-processing sensitivity (SPS) is the trait’s scientific term, and while it’s greatly misunderstood and often mischaracterized, it’s found in 15 to 20 percent of the population.

The terms HSP and SPS originated in the mid-1990s by research psychologist Elaine Aron, who theorized that it’s an inherent trait — an “innate survival strategy” designed to help people with more sensitive nervous systems better cope with the world by being “observant before acting.”

Studies indicate that HSPs actually exhibit increased blood flow in the areas of the brain that process emotion, awareness, and empathy. Since the advent of research into HSPs, biologists have discovered that more than 100 species of animals, including dogs, cats, horses, and even fruit flies, can possess sensory-processing sensitivity.”

“Grief. What are we fighting for? Why do we fucking care that the world is going to be trashed? I care because it hurts. All of it. And so I grieve the ever-living fuck out of it. Or I try to. I suck at it. I need help. But I do cry, a lot. And I try to show love everywhere I can. To the trees. To the moon. To the little girl who looks alone. To the man standing on the side of the road. To you. To my parents. To my friends. I offer empathy. I offer presence. Because we are alive, now! And life, is life! It is so fucking … alive! It cannot be contained in a word. It lives at the center of our being. It is life. And so let us celebrate all that we love. Let us not get too blindsided by that we are on the Titanic that we cannot hold the hand of our loved ones and cry, and laugh at their jokes and hug them. There are a lot of hands that need holding, a lot of people who need hugs, a lot of things we have to celebrate.

And if that quality of love could grow exponentially — like it does with slime mold coming together, like it does with the cells of a caterpillar in a chrysalis, like we have witnessed with our population explosion and the rapid depletion of our fossilized fuels — if we could allow that love for life to grow within ourselves, maybe we could see how we are but seeds of some unknown becoming. And out of a tiny seed, a forest can be born.”

— an anonymous informant (MC)

“Fundamentalism” doesn’t have to be religious … to be catastrophic. It’s a contagion found throughout the entire spectrum of ideologies…

“Fully invest in loss.”

— infraheard

“Fuck place, I am sheltering in blankets. Forever.”

— infraheard

“From my direct experience with a nonhuman intelligences, I discovered that the only species ignorant enough to pose a significant threat to other intelligent species… is ours.

There are no deadly aliens in space.

The deadly aliens are ourselves… because we have alienated ourselves from the vast and largely benevolent communications networks that span not only our world… but the spaces between the stars themselves.”

— an anonymous informant