Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
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@moshik_temkin Daniel Pinchbeck. "In our society, the media functions as a collective nervous system or immune-response task force, inoculating the social body against any new pattern or incoming information that might threaten conventional values and biases." Why, what and where instead, then?

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 31 Aug 2020

8/ No wonder the emergent New Paradigm has remained unseen by a dominant culture largely obsessed with a suicidal brawl pointed at a cold grave. Our new version of perception & liberating activity so fully casts irrelevancy upon dominative materialist & religious worldviews.

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Quoted by@BillCorbett Nowhere, besides The Atlantic, in the print news today, and I mean nowhere. T.S. Eliot? “Humankind cannot bear very much reality.” Press included, apparently.Quoted by@stewartdantec Couple of thoughts. First, “Those who commit the murders write the reports.” - Ida Bae Wells. As with so much else, supremacist denial mimetically and automatically defines the content, structure and direction of the dominant attention span, religious emphasis included.Quoted by@Jayarava A dominative epistemology and all it sustains, depends on it. “It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on not understanding it.” #UptonSinclair And #Goethe “A person hears only what they understand.” The paradigm shift comes out of left-field.