The Reptile-Bug Matrix

[Mr. Tea]

It's interesting about parasites and psychopaths

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

Interesting that you're brought up the xenomorph, because strictly speaking it's not a parasite, but a parasitoid.

The former doesn't kill its host as a normal part of its life cycle (e.g. fleas, tapeworms, etc.) while the latter does (like wasps that lay eggs in caterpillars).

 

[version]

Way more ancient than the mammals

Yet we view them as the aliens.

 

[catalog]

It feels like we can integrate fish, birds, animals quite easily into our evolutionary scope and consider eg what it might be like to be one, to swim or fly in that way, move at that sort of speed.

But once you are on the reptile/insect level, it's totally mad.

 

[Mr. Tea]

The internet can make you more of a reptile, more of a bug.

As an aside, the reason we call a computer error a 'bug' is that a very early computer once went wrong after a real bug (a moth, in fact) flew into it and got zapped:

Why do we call software bugs, bugs?

Software bugs is a computer term that refers to a flaw or error in a software program. But why are bugs called bugs? Read this article to find out!

www.dbvis.com

 

[version]

It feels like we can integrate fish, birds, animals quite easily into our evolutionary scope and consider eg what it might be like to be one, to swim or fly in that way, move at that sort of speed.

But once you are on the reptile/insect level, it's totally mad.

Cronenberg's at his most reptilian in films like Crash and Cosmopolis, the stories with detached people dismantling themselves. The Fly, on the other hand, always struck me as very tragic, very human. The transformation's utterly horrifying to both the characters and the audience. There's no cold-blooded disconnect from the violence. We feel every moment of it.

 

[version]

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

Ants being able to turn themselves into architecture - living rafts, towers and bridges.

 

[sus]

Interesting that you're brought up the xenomorph, because strictly speaking it's not a parasite, but a parasitoid.

The former doesn't kill its host as a normal part of its life cycle (e.g. fleas, tapeworms, etc.) while the latter does (like wasps that lay eggs in caterpillars).

Thanks that's useful

 

[luka]

"Mr Tea don't miss"

 

[mixed_biscuits]

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But animals don't wear their exoskeleton, like the baddies wear their hard suits...the foremost characters that have themselves a hard exterior are C3PO and R2D2.

 

[mixed_biscuits]

Really the film that spells this out is Gremlins.

 

[catalog]

hard suits

Throwback to urbanomic and Lee gamble in thd pandemic, on plague pod, talking about "hard pants"

There was a funny thing on those plague pods by urbanomic mackay where he was having a chat with lee gamble and they were talking about how lockdown had seen off ‘hard pants’ ie you were at home so in joggers or pajamas or shorts or whatever, and you would never put hard pants on. Except if you went to the shop and then it became a thing.

 

[sus]

from the Lizard King hisself:

The Celebration Of The Lizard by James Douglas Morrison

Comments & analysis: Lions in the street & roaming / Dogs in heat, rabid, foaming

allpoetry.com

 

[sus]

 

[sus]

Over a long night, Shannon battles his weaknesses for both flesh and alcohol. Charlotte continues to make trouble for him, aided by Hank, and Shannon is "at the end of his rope," similar to how an iguana is kept tied by Maxine's cabana boys. Shannon suffers a breakdown, threatening suicide, and the cabana boys truss him in a hammock, while Hannah ministers to him with poppy-seed tea and frank spiritual counsel. Recovering a degree of rationality and making a magnanimous gesture in a savage world, Shannon frees the iguana from its rope. Hannah's grandfather delivers the final version of the poem that he has been laboring to finish about having heart in a corrupt world and then dies.

 

[sus]

Lizard Brains

I was reading Slate this evening, and came across this paragraph: "Prince of Persia—Ubisoft's adventure of a tower-climbing, cliff-jumping prince and his princess companion that posits that, yes, you actually can craft a romance in a game. The slowly developing flirtation of male and female...

www.dissensus.com

 

[sus]

are there any direct areas where the lizard part of our brains resides?

if so i wonder if there's any evidence to suggest that prolonged use of marijuana or other such mind altering drugs could cause significant brain damage to lizard brain areas. and therefore the user (by default) experiences more thoughts from the neo-cortex area.

 

[IdleRich]

You get this in the Starship Troopers film and it quickly becomes clear the structure of mankind depicted in the film encourages more or less the same thing.

Starship Troopers is better than Alien.

 

[IdleRich]

Starship Troopers is better than Alien.

Ok bug (leaving that typo) claim but it is very good

 

[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.

More like a black sports car with tinted windows containing an assassin.

 

[IdleRich]

Cold wave kinda in the Reptile House