High Level Tags:

Larger structures describing the kinds of writing on this blog.

#essay A piece exploring an idea, enough to make a point.

#longform A longer piece that digs into an idea at some level of depth. May or may not be an essay or a form of poetry.

#linkvomit Somewhere between an essay, a bulleted-list, and poetry – Usually consists of a collection links where they simultaneously explain a narrative, but also use the links as part of the narrative structure.

#poetry “ab·strac·tion” – Explorations of ideas but in the form of various kinds of poetry.

#metaphor “re·ca·pit·u·lation” – Ideas explained with other ideas.

#draft “i·dea vom·it” – Something that got to the point of being somewhat publishable despite not being a complete idea. Usually its because I don't see an easy way to wrap up the idea and it's been incubating too long.

#archive “void” – Older content that I've put here to reference, but not really something I consider featured.

Areas of Exploration

Tags that describe various interests and topics commonly explored in this space.

#politics “copro·phage” – Explorations on political topics, usually it is meta-political, but occasionally there are bits of actual politics. * I consider this tag to be an infohazard due to potential for triggering arguments. Tread with an open mind.

#ants “jag·lav·ak” – Anything about ants because I love ants.

#microbe Explorations of the microbiome and related.

Research Interests

Particularly focused explorations on a topic that could be considered part of the same narrative corpus, I consider these to be akin to “sequences“, but as unordered sets vs of ordered lists

#guide #context #index #map

A swarm of people sharing ideas.
Barking mad at humankind.

On Ownership of Thought.

The worst sin a human can make: is to own an idea.
The best win a human can make: is to own an idea.

To own an idea,
is to possess it as part of the self.
To own an idea,
is to confess it as part of the self.

On Tempering Thought.

The worst sin a human can make: is stealing an idea.
The best win a human can make: is steeling an idea.

To steal an idea,
is to take it for your own.
To steel an idea,
is to make it for your own.

On Amplifying Thought.

The worst sin a human can make: is to boost an idea.
The best win a human can make: is to boost an idea.

To boost an idea,
is to take it for your own.
To boost an idea,
is to make it for your own.

On Offering Thought.

The worst sin a human can make: is to sell an idea.
The best win a human can make: is to sell an idea.

To sell an idea,
is to take it as your own.
To sell an idea,
is to make it as your own.

On Characterizing Thought.

The worst sin a human can make: the idea that ideas are properties.
The best win a human can make: the idea that ideas are properties.

To take an idea as sellable artifact,
is taking apart of an existing in a swarm.
To make an idea as sellable artifact,
is making a part of an existing in a swarm.

On Valuing Thought.

The worst sin a human an make: to profit off an idea.
The best win a human can make: to prophet off an idea.

Stealing an idea, boosting it, treating it as a property of humans,
possessing it, selling it, making it as your own.
Steeling an idea, boosting it, treating it as a property of humans,
confessing it, selling it, taking it as your own.

On Generating Thought.

Confessing an idea possessing my mind,
barking it into the world.

When we be propheting from an idea.
we’re barking it into the world.

When we be profiting from an idea.
We’re hocking it into the world.

Ideas are our pawns, promoting them to create valuable pieces.
Ideas are our pawns, promoting them to create valuable pieces.

The problem of having an idea is when you think they are your own.
When you possess an idea, they possess you.
To have your own ideas is to be owned by them.
You do not own them. They are simply borrowed.

Boosting an idea by having someone steeling it.
Boosting an idea by having someone stealing it.

Borrowing an idea from the network.
Reinforcing it.
Returning it better than you found.
Paying your dues.

On Arbitraging Thought.

The idea that thoughts are properties that can be bought and sold.
The idea that thoughts are properties that can be traded and shared.
it means: that you can steal it.
it means: that you can steel it.
and to profit off it as if your own
and to prophet off it as if your own

To take an idea.
One built for someone else,
One made for somewhere else,
One birthed forth by a community of people.
Bringing it in to one’s own, and selling it.

To make an idea.
One built for someone else,
One made for somewhere else,
One birthed forth by a community of people.
Bringing it in to one’s own, and selling it.

On Thoughts of Thought.

Ideas are not property?
Ideas are communal properties?
Ideas are properties of communities?
A property of a community is having ideas?
they are a property of the community of the minds that created them?

Do they own them?
Do they make them their own?
Are they owned by them?
Who owns these properties?

On Singing Thought.

Those who sing songs.
Singing the songs that were taught to them.
Songs of the minds that stole them from their ancestors.
Recapitulating ideas; barking them out in to the world.
Singing thoughts like the wolf howls at the moon.

Ideas are communities.
Ideas are properties.
Properties of the human condition.
Properties of a way of being.
Properties of existing in swarm.

The double sided nature of the human mind.

A swarm of people sharing ideas.
Barking madness at the human mind.

#poetry #whatarewords #explorations

'Scat Sense' is a personal blog written by Nicholas '@ultimape' Perry. Follow them on the Fediverse here: @ultimape@mastodon.social