Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
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@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.

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 21 Apr 2022

@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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Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @maurosandrini @johnrobb Yes. And the only realistic option, at this point. What form will it take, then? A substrative disruption and migration of the dominant attention span? A circuit-breaker of internetworked 'therapeutic intervention'? The planetary reset to a *renewing* network swarm?Quoted by@maurosandrini @johnrobb Yes. And the only realistic option, at this point. What form will it take, then? A substrative disruption and migration of the dominant attention span? A circuit-breaker of internetworked 'therapeutic intervention'? The planetary reset to a *renewing* network swarm?