The Reptile-Bug Matrix

[luka]

Like Beyonce as Mark Fisher once said

 

[version]

Black eyes without inferiority or compassion

Jaws was on last night.

 

[version]

You remind me of a comment someone made about Conor McGregor "he's the only person I've met who's energy is 100% male, he's like a shark."

 

[luka]

Interioriy

 

[luka]

Interiority

 

[version]

Nobody wants to be referred to as a reptile or an insect, even if they think some of the qualities Gus has associated with them are useful or positive ones.

 

[sus]

Worth mentioning Altered States

 

[sus]

Cold-blooded Gus vs. Warm-blooded Luke.

 

[version]

Burroughs is always going on about crab men.

 

[version]

Black eyes without interiority or compassion

 

[sus]

Burroughs is always going on about crab men.

Sartre claimed that after his mescaline trip, crabs followed him around everywhere, students would see him shooing them in and out of classrooms

 

[mixed_biscuits]

Nobody wants to be referred to as a reptile or an insect, even if they think some of the qualities Gus has associated with them are useful or positive ones.

Gordon Gecko

 

[sus]

Gecko! Yes

 

[IdleRich]

Sharks are another one. They have that same icy, machine-like thing about them that reptiles do and that even something like a bear or lion from the mammal side doesn't.

But have you ever seen those videos of orcas meeting a tiger shark or great white or whatever? They kill the fuck out of them in three secs and then eat them - and then they act all sweet cos they are mammals. Probably the sane with all those 'shark' victims, it can't have been that cute 9 ton killing machine that's pretending to be all cute, must have been the glassy eyed special fish that hasn't evolved for a billion years.

 

[Mr. Tea]

There's a phrase of Baudrillard's I love and which sounds ripped straight from Burroughs where he talks about the "blue gelatine of the reptilian brain."

Most version post ever.

 

[sus]

 

[version]

The xenomorph moves around the reptile-bug matrix in the Alien films; more reptile in the first film, total bug in the second.

 

[sus]

Yes xenomorph is key I think

Am example of the reptile as coldblooded perfect rationality evolutionary perfection

But also as parasite

 

[sus]

It's interesting about parasites and psychopaths

Like viruses they can't be too deadly or they destroy their hosts

They are what's called in evo theory "frequency dependent." They are a percentage of an ecosystem. The strategy no longer thrives if everyone is a psychopath. Rather psychopathology requires the majority of people to be 'normal' domesticated mammals to prey on and exploit, to be evolutionarily selected for

 

[sus]

And similarly with reptiles, they're both a lower form and higher form of intelligence, a la Ballard's Drowned World and the Triune brain (lower) or Icke's reptile conspiracy (higher). But to be a reptilian sociopath in the seat of power requires a herd of mammals.

Here, the reptilian rational individual is contrasted with the buglike hive mind of the mammalian herd.

And yet, while reptiles can exploit and prey on ant colonies or human institutions, the mammalian and insectoid as a group outcompete selfish Randian (in the sense of RAND corp and Ayn) reptiles, through organizing and cooperating