To submit to the Machine is to submit to a living death. The Machine has no depth (or no nuance) to it – it’s all just ‘action for the sake of action’, ‘control for the sake of control’, ‘making rules...
Continue readingTo submit to the Machine is to submit to a living death. The Machine has no depth (or no nuance) to it – it’s all just ‘action for the sake of action’, ‘control for the sake of control’, ‘making rules...
Continue readingThere are two ways of living life, the linear way and the nonlinear. The first way seems real to us, but it isn't, whilst the second simply doesn't make any sense at all (and is contrary to everything we believe...
Continue readingThe Literal World is the informationally impoverished world which we get trapped in and then rattle around pointlessly in ever after. The Literal World is the Collapsed World - it's a world that has had all the juice squeezed out...
Continue readingThe myth of the institution is that it exists to serve the needs of the individual person - the unpleasant truth behind the myth is that it exists to serve the needs of the 'institutionalized person', which is to say,...
Continue readingLogical systems aren't very spontaneous in nature, obviously. They are in fact the very antithesis of spontaneous. For this reason, existing within a system, without being able to see what lies outside of that system, carries with it an immense...
Continue readingIt's not about ‘the truth’, it's about the inertia of the system. The system has its own version of the truth and this is how its inertia works. The truth - as the system proclaims it - is simply itself....
Continue readingThought is like a room with trick doors so that every time you leave the room you find yourself right back where you started. Only there's another trick in the mix too – another trick which means that we don't...
Continue readingThe more we ‘scale up’ (in terms of our mode of socio-economic organization) the further we move in the direction of creating the Generic World and we are without any doubt at all absolutely committed to upscaling in this way....
Continue readingThe triumph of the replicator is simply to replicate. This is its ultimate achievement, the only achievement it is capable of recognizing. The beauty of this scheme – if we may call it that – is the way in which...
Continue readingWhenever we have a literal belief about the nature of reality then we have fallen victim to the Predator. Whenever we have any kind of belief the Predator is feeding on us, is feasting on us, is dining upon our...
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