Language as Technology
“What was the [dualistic] mechanism?” It has a personality. It seemed almost surprised, as well as eager to take advantage of, the fact that I wanted to learn more about it… It seemed honored, because nobody seems to really care on their own anymore, without being initiated into some sort of order that supposedly “knows things”. Well, not many people, at least, want to understand just for the sake of it the finer threads of the border between the self and environment; from the two things that we somehow have been either split into on a “deeper” level, or conditioned into. The dualistic mechanism itself has a personality. It seems to be the antithesis (by human standards) to The Organic Technology. Nonlinear writing (for example, code) is to The Organic Technology -as- linear, ‘ordinary’ writing and reading is to the dualistic mechanism. ‘It’ wanted me to take a hit.. ‘Come on, do you trust me?” I decided to do it, because I wanted to be the nice. For, it was then...