“Burroughs suggests that the protohuman ape was dragged through its body to expire upon its tongue’, Barker recounts. For Burroughs, language is a ‘parasitic organism’ that possesses the speaker’s nervous system. ‘The word’, Burroughs characteristically wrote, ‘has not been recognized as a virus because it has achieved a state of stable symbiosis with the host’; and we have ‘no way of ascertaining’ the invasion in such cases of ‘latent virus infections’.
Words propagate through us, we do not make them, they are self-selective and thus have interests of their own, not necessarily coincident with ours. ‘Viruses make themselves real. It’s a way viruses have’. Thus, inspired by the research of the largely forgotten scientist Kurt Unruh von Steinplatz, Burroughs pieced together a detailed ‘linguistic virology’ and ‘viral linguistics’. He liked to remark that language isn’t something you decide to do, it is something that happens to you; it doesn’t belong to you, and it never will.
From symbiosis to parasitism is a short step. The word is now a virus. The flu virus may once have been a healthy lung cell. It is now a parasitic organism that invades and damages the lungs. The word may once have been a healthy neural cell. It is now a parasitic organism that invades and damages the central nervous system. Modern man has lost the option of silence. Try halting your sub-vocal speech. […] You will encounter a resisting organism that forces you to talk. That organism is the word. In the beginning was the word."
(Spinal Catastrophism: A Secret History by Thomas Moynihan)
wish I had found a pdf. unfortunately, not. https://i.nostrimg.com/f59b8eace37ec3467a5886c5ece00765b2a4c6cb04f42088fd725a09522c3384/file.webp
Yeah bought 0.2 BTC, it was beautiful! But then I woke up 🤣🥲
I dont think it's inherently wrong, whoever has the mean$ should be free to do it.
But I also don't think it's ok to belittle and mock those who can't do it, like I've seen some people doing already.
No number required: sell every 30 minutes for maximum sats from unlocked coins 🤜🤛😉
Im happy for you that you were never broke enough that you reached the point where every single sat counts. Not everyone has such luck.
I wanna hug you now
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There you go
One day I shall overcome my pathological shyness and engage in audio conversations with you guys in nests. But it is not this day 😅
I agree with you 50%
I dont think it's any bad to create that option, if you can do it then do it by all means.
But I don't think it's nice to require other people to do it. Only really broke people understand how stacking each single sat can be precious.
Anyways, liked zapped and commented because I feel you 🫂