Nick Routledge@nick_routledge

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 3 Feb 2022

@NoemaMag @nils_gilman @claire_i_webb Thank you so much for this. And the murder of the orphan would appear to be the likely prospect of the moment. So, anybody got an effective, planetary response to address the immediate threat of totalizing nuclear annihilation? Hands up, then.

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Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @johnrobb end/ So, an algorithmically-supercharged vortex of mimetic contagion and, all told, a momentum the prophets universally anticipated would inevitably deliver us to the very threshold of suicidal, planetary cataclysm. Hobbes' 'war of all against all', plus nukes. What next, then?Quoted by@johnrobb end/ So, an algorithmically-supercharged vortex of mimetic contagion and, all told, a momentum the prophets universally anticipated would inevitably deliver us to the very threshold of suicidal, planetary cataclysm. Hobbes' 'war of all against all', plus nukes. What next, then?Quoted by@johnrobb Pray for transcendent political intervention at the planetary level?