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RT @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?

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 4 Mar 2022

Not a good look. Image: Taghreed Darghouth, (1979), Lebanon, From “Brighter than a thousand Suns” Series, 2014-2015, Oil on canvas, 200 x 200 cm. Courtesy of Ramzi and Saeda Dalloul Art Foundation. Thanks to: @paperpills10

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Quoted by@LAReviewofBooks @QuincyInst 1/ "I wouldn’t bet on it being anytime soon." So much for addressing the tangible, immediate threat to planetary well-being posed by nation-state derangement and the global extinction tyranny it maniacally sustains.Quoted by@caitoz @johnrobb may even have coined the term, 'network swarm.' Of late, his interpretation of the frenetic paroxysm of the 'mimetic crisis' (Girard) driving nuclear escalation has been scarily prescient and lucid.Quoted by@RichardRohrOFM @Pontifex 1/ The threat nuclear nation-state derangement represents is immediate, accelerating and planetary. So, anybody got an effective response to a personification of evil on the very threshold of blowing our world to smithereens? Hands up, then.Quoted by@PaulHRosenberg end/ In the light of his specific agenda, Musk's sudden turn is wholly and immediately relevant to the unfolding Ukraine narrative. @johnrobb is especially alert to the current network swarm and its fast-evolving relationship to nuclear escalation. ?s=20&t=uLmhddNtmLNWXzqmj4dAXA