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People assume batteries create energy.
They do not.
Batteries store energy.
They hold a charge gathered from somewhere else.
That is what makes Rick and MortyRick and Morty — Television SeriesRick and Morty is Adult Swim’s animated science-fiction series centered on Rick Sanchez and Morty Smith.Read full entry →’s battery universe so disturbing. Rick does not merely build a device. He builds a world where civilization itself becomes the stored charge. Cities, labor, science, ambition, invention, and daily life all become usable energy.
The people inside the battery do not understand themselves as fuel.
They understand themselves as alive.
That is the hidden violence.
In ancient myth, OsirisOsirisIn Geomytha, Osiris names reflected presence: Am — awareness reflected as living consciousness without yet becoming ownership.Read full entry → carries this same mystery. He is the green god, the grain god, the one who dies and returns. His body is broken, scattered, buried, recovered, and made fruitful again. He is not only a king…
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