I’ve been reflecting on this disappearance of elders thing more. Some good discussions were drummed up around my piece last week, especially at Parallax (that’s the intellectual DEEP web, not DARK web), prompting me to want to dig a little deeper.
As a monk in Thailand I watched corpses being cremated from just a few feet away. Watched the corpse of a very bad person (who did not, apparently, merit a cremation) decompose over the course of about 10 days in a ditch near the monastery.
Smell more than sight is the real kicker when Ultimate Authority is in the room.
Vanishing Mediators UNITE
As a monk in Thailand I watched corpses being cremated from just a few feet away. Watched the corpse of a very bad person (who did not, apparently, merit a cremation) decompose over the course of about 10 days in a ditch near the monastery.
Smell more than sight is the real kicker when Ultimate Authority is in the room.
tell me alex, are you a wave today or a particle?