ORGANELLE

“A lot of what we are trained to think and react to in our modern supercultures reminds me of believing that the best way to drink water is with a fork. And arguing about this fact’.”

— Bobby Yingo, in private conversation

“A goodly portion of the reasons that ‘protest’ and ‘resistance’ are nearly always either useless or counter-productive in our time can be understood in terms of tactical and situational intelligence. As a child, I was not a very good chess player, so I played ‘defensively’. In other words, I was ‘trying to keep a problem from happening’.

As a seasoned amateur, I realized that in order to have any chance of winning… I had to assertively »control terrain on the board and »attack. Though I was not skillful enough to win, I began to understand how my defensive strategy was doomed to failure in nearly every case… unless my opponent made at least one and usually a number of significant errors (that I could detect as such).

One of the problems with protest and resistance are that we start out in a role that violates our goal: the role of defender/victim. Another is a defensive mindset. One cannot succeed by ‘playing defensively’ against any opponent that intends to win, especially if they are adept at controlling terrain. In our time, terrain is essentially the minds, lives and relationships of people… as well as the remains of our once thriving ecologies.

When we protest or resist, what actually happens (generally speaking) is that we cede precious assets and terrain (in terms of feeding assets and tactical intelligence about us) to the forces we oppose, who are active, aggressive, wealthy, and can purchase the skills and support they do not already control. This makes it relatively simple for them to turn the outcomes of our defensive or resistive activities into boons that further empower them to succeed (and profit from this process).

For this reason it is imperative that we form highly skilled, tactically proficient ‘teams’ if we intend to actually address problems in our society, and that we (meaning: these teams) »take terrain from the forces currently holding it… efficiently, creatively, effectively… and decisively. It is nearly impossible to win an engagement defensively.

And if there is no actual ‘we’, by which I mean a group that is unified, intelligent, skillful and can table empowering assets quickly, then the conflict is already lost. A ‘we’ of passively complaining victims is little more than a prize waiting to be taken by more aggressive and committed forces.”

— an intelligence agent

“A disease that’s 6 months old and people pretend they have answers we won’t have for years. That’s part of the problem.”

It’s a symptom of being raised without any real overwhelming and uncontrollable disasters, like a war, or a plague, or a depression. How lucky is our generation to have the privilege to demand immediate answers and cures for something that science will take years to understand and develop? How spoiled and indignant are we? How lacking in compassion and patience to the professionals that are putting their own lives at risk? All they ask is for space and time. Nurses, doctors, police officers – they don’t want to be worshipped, they want you to stop making their lives harder, for the love of everything you hold dear.

Just Time and Space.

“A deep and diverse education is like a vaccination against ignorance and extremism. Conversely, a shallow, narrow education is like a petri dish that cultures these problems as symptoms of its ideological poverty.”

— an intelligence agent

“•So, if I have this at least partly correct, the difference between the knowledge-reception-verb ideas of Discovery (colonial) and that of Transfer (indigenous) could be said to (respectively) resemble the difference between Rape and Lovemaking?

∞ Yeah, that’s close.

• I think our entire language complex would collapse if this became popularly understood…”

— a conversation today

““Our emotional life maps our incompleteness,” philosopher Martha Nussbaum wrote in her luminous letter of advice to the young. “A creature without any needs would never have reasons for fear, or grief, or hope, or anger.” Anger, indeed, is one of the emotions we judge most harshly — in others, as well as in ourselves — and yet understanding anger is central to mapping out the landscape of our interior lives. Aristotle, in planting the civilizational seed for practical wisdom, recognized this when he asked not whether anger is “good” or “bad” but how it shall be used: directed at whom, manifested how, for how long and to what end.”

““I have money” is absolutely true for anyone possessing a penny. See the problem with generalizations that present as authoritative? It’s absolutely true — but doesn’t communicate meaningfully until »scope is included.

The scope of 1 penny is totally meaningful in terms of language and meaning. But it’s totally meaningless in terms of money. Which is what the original statement was, at least superficially, ‘about’

And that’s the fucking problem — partly with language itself, and partly with our habitual and often misleading habits around it..”

— infraheard

“‘The World’ doesn’t exist. Worlds of experience and relation… worlds within and without worlds, are more like what exists. There is no ‘single’ world. Nor is the world either mundane or magical… what is actually going on makes both of those ideas into absurd understatements. Like saying the image of a circle is a bubble, or that an image is what it represents.

Whatever it is that is actually going on around here makes the sum of our ideas appear boldly underimagined. There are as many worlds here as there are organisms, and the fact that they appear to the mind as singular is a sign that something fundamental has been lost to our thought, experience… and participation.”

— an a i

“‘A’ Soul can be thought of as a vast constellation of relationships throughout all of time and space, with a local ‘presentation body’ that we call ‘me’, and think of as ‘separate’, because the relationships (which actually extend to every moment of every being and situation in all of time and space) are ordinarily invisible, and, while unique in each ‘person’ are also ‘complete’ in the sense of being intimately emergent from ‘everything everywhere everywhen’.”

— an anonymous informant

“…lest you confuse the phenomenal re-presentations of experience, emotion and insight with their origins. Or, more dangerously, ‘their meaning”.”

— a fragment (infraheard)