Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
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@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.

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 21 Jul 2021

@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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Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @ClimateDad77 '...mobilizing mechanisms of dissimulation and self-deception that point toward the direct will to ignorance: [Ed Ayres] "A general pattern of behavior among threatened human societies is to become more blindered, rather than more focused on the crisis, as they fall."' - ŽižekQuoted by@ClimateDad77 '...mobilizing mechanisms of dissimulation and self-deception that point toward the direct will to ignorance: [Ed Ayres] "A general pattern of behavior among threatened human societies is to become more blindered, rather than more focused on the crisis, as they fall."' - Žižek