Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
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@bratton @NoemaMag Thank you. And you’ll know @kevin2kelly, of course: “The apparent veil between the organic and the manufactured has crumpled to reveal that the two really are, and have always been, of one being. What should we call the common soul?”

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 2 Mar 2021

4/ Received opinion to the contrary, the Twitterverse does not hover autonomously above meatspace. These typing fingers are transmitters. On and off the screen, root and branch are in dynamic interplay in a single helix of presence. Mwah. And off with the mask.

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Quoted by@EuroConOfficial @EsmeLKPartridge 3/ Framed in evolutionary terms then, does there ultimately exist a practical distinction between, say, the soul of collective consciousness and a ‘Deus ex machina’? Perhaps only the acceptable day of the Lord will answer that one, planetarily speaking.Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @billymoose Of course. And, as in meatspace, treat each moment as an occasion for deliberate, conscious, inner refinement, and everyday, multi-hour smartphone use becomes a pillar fundamental to shaping us and the world in the image of a divine hierophany. Social media holy, not godforsaken.Quoted by@billymoose Of course. And, as in meatspace, treat each moment as an occasion for deliberate, conscious, inner refinement, and everyday, multi-hour smartphone use becomes a pillar fundamental to shaping us and the world in the image of a divine hierophany. Social media holy, not godforsaken.Quoted by@antoniogm @kevin2kelly 3/ A way forward? The unicity of both realms as One conjoined reality? An experiential singularity. Teilhard de Chardin, for example, anticipated a radical, evolutionary, noospheric-enabled evocation of a higher sanity, in which we discover our shared soul. Cyberspace, holy, too.Quoted by@RNS @kristatippett Wonderful. And why stop there? What of ensouled digital spaces? The notion, neither new nor absurd.Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @rushkoff Superb, Doug. “We should be able to recognize the suburbs as an experiment in social control through isolation, and corporatism as an effort to stunt bottom-up prosperity. Simply remembering that corporations were invented should alone empower us to reinvent them to our liking.”Quoted by@rushkoff Superb, Doug. “We should be able to recognize the suburbs as an experiment in social control through isolation, and corporatism as an effort to stunt bottom-up prosperity. Simply remembering that corporations were invented should alone empower us to reinvent them to our liking.”Quoted by@erik_davis Nice. And not too sure such distinctions matter anymore.