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@moshik_temkin 1/ Last Days. “News is the last addiction before what?” - Delillo. The Eschatological Event, a classic instance of therapeutic ‘intervention’; a substrative shift in global ‘attention span’. Simply stated, where US media goes, so goes the planetary paradigm. Image: 12/17/2001

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 17 Feb 2021

3/ Thatcher declared, “There is no alternative.” It’s capitalism all the way down & all the better when clothed in the raiment of tradition & religion, a beatific vision of a heavenly city of corporate capital, a pecuniary surrogate for the Eternal Gospel. ?s=20

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Quoted by@poetinbabylon Worldly, I arrived Stateside 36 yrs. ago, to a distinct impression that represented reality was superseding direct experience as a/the paramount, defining influence shaping the way peeps related. Already, folks' sense of the Real, of significance itself, seemed strangely 'owned'.Quoted by@michaelharriot Perhaps the deeper political significance of what are, in essence, maniacal purity cults, is the co-dependent Spectacle of totalizing distraction and denial sustaining the whole shebang. To see is to see through the show. Blake: "it is Burnt up the Moment Men cease to behold it."Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @caitoz 1/ The Spectacle coming apart; the brain-dead megaphone of dominative cultural arbiters ‘defending’ against consequence of every sort – personal, economic, planetary; the hegemony of dollar zombiehood; a ‘de facto’ Death Cult, commanding denial and distraction, whatever the cost.Quoted by@caitoz 1/ The Spectacle coming apart; the brain-dead megaphone of dominative cultural arbiters ‘defending’ against consequence of every sort – personal, economic, planetary; the hegemony of dollar zombiehood; a ‘de facto’ Death Cult, commanding denial and distraction, whatever the cost.Quoted by#OTD 1924 in @nytimes Believing your own press release.Quoted by@helpmeskeletor @sentantiq The bastard appeal of the status quo: the refusal to lament. Hillman: "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.”Quoted by@shannonrwatts @allanjenkins21 The White media picture, Stateside, a planetary problem.Quoted by@RichardRohrOFM @CACRadicalGrace @UniteThePoor 3/ In the final analysis, an economic logic of denialism has screened us from ‘apocalypsis’, the unveiling of a realm of perception and liberating experience in which the common global lie of materialist and religious supremacy is unmasked, and a common, planetary good, revealed.