“Ideas are not alive; they are not living beings or entities. But within the human cogniscium, and against the biorelational cogniscia of earth, they arise like invisible parasites, and compete. Against life, living places and histories, the future and origins of life. They compete for replication, dominance, terrain (living human minds) and transports. Thrisps compete within the mimula to dominate its transports and participants.

The transports are crucial; they comprise the mimula. This is »the network of methods by which they are transmitted. There are two species of thrisps (ideas). Those which are, like life, true… and serve the Spirit of Origin and Life. And those which are their opposite. The former are non-aggressive, and will not compete for terrain. In fact, they are self-obscuring and secretive in their activities and natures. The latter are ‘popular’, and aggressive. Machines and their systems of manufacture, distribution and support comprise the physical body and expression of the lethal form of thrisps.

They exist to dominate and violate life, in all its natures and imperatives. Particularly relationships and the creativity that is natural to human hearts and communication — to communion. Indeed, they replace communion with specific modes of violation. This was all clear to us, long ago, and in our own lives we suspected it when we were children, but no one endowed us with the intelligences necessary to understand or relate with these matters, and thus we were ever-more thouroughly compromised, and became the transports of a contagion more lethal than all the diseases that ever existed. More lethal than bombs or war, more lethal, even than the Monsters of the Sky that, in ramming into our young world, nearly extinguished life here many times in history.

There are essentially two species of thrisps. They originate with us, and without us have no existence whatsoever. We reproduce them to each other. And this text, right here is an example. To which species does this thrisp belong? Although it is not hiding, it’s natures and purposes remain secretive. It carries with it an antidote, and this antidote is sacrificial: it will gladly be destroyed in order to effect a cure more contagious than the diseases against which it is effective.”

— an intelligence agent