Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
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@rushkoff An iconography of denial as much as addiction, perhaps? #JamesHillman: “The capacity to deny, to remain innocent, to use belief as a protection against sophistication of every sort – intellectual, aesthetic, moral, psychological – keeps the American character from Awakening.”

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 5 Apr 2019

The tendency to reduce the complexities of life and insist upon an absolute way of seeing things becomes stronger as the reality of a culture coming unstuck in the stormy seas of dissolution increasingly departs from our fixed notions about the way things are or should be. 4/

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Quoted by@moshik_temkin 1/ Not that weird. Their bastard appeal derives precisely from their function as public icons of denial. Such is the maniacal enchantment of the political Deliverer, and their promise of reducing the complexities of life to an 'unreality' of simplistic thought and blind belief.Quoted by@SophiaCycles It’s what we do with our fear of reality, isn’t it? Squash it. ‘Every angel’s terrifying.’ - Rilke