Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
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@johnrobb 1/ Yes, even as our tendency to conflate the network's narrative edgeline with 'The State of the World', amounts to a category fallacy of cosmic proportions - as if the totality of planetary history and reality amounts to a downstream, behind-the-times, lesser subset, somewhere.

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David, hi. Surprised to stumble upon a fundamentally secular community of interest and vernacular addressing "the political and temporal dynamism of eschatology" as it relates to "the possibility of a messianic Politics to Come." Nils' "radical philosophical event" comes to mind.

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5/ In eschatological terms, an extinction tyranny of materialist and religious fetishism urges a summons beyond all cultural or religious containment. Time, then, for a fresh start transcending the co-evolutionary limits of the world's secular and religious imaginaries.
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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 22 Sept 2022

@Andrew__Roth end/ Which brings us to the dirt under the fingernails of these, my transmitting fingers, uniting us all, root and branch, flesh and blood, off-screen and on-screen, in the dynamic interplay of a single helix of Presence. It is time, friends. "Eternity utters a day." - Heschel

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Elsewhere..."Think of this as a revolution, not of guns, but of consciousness, which will be won by seizing the key myths, archetypes, eschatologies, and ecstasies so that life won't seem worth living unless one is on the transforming energy's side." #GarySynder
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Quoted bySome three decades ago, my not-for-profit team paid for and established the first web connection into the U.S. Congress, announcing, it transpires, a turn of totalizing planetary and evolutionary significance. In concrete political terms, what does the Web Era mean for us, now?