Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
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@brad_compton @TornadoNate I wonder if perhaps the greatest shock of all, facing moderns, is that personal and planetary salvation, or whatever we call it, simply can't be lived vicariously. Ultimately, it transpires, we can't outsource Real life. The work ahead, for each of us, is unavoidably hands-on.

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 20 Aug 2022

@LandworkersUK @guardian @GeorgeMonbiot Monibot simply can't be flawed for the degree of his concern, passionate sense of urgency and proven moral courage. Nonetheless, our reality, the sages aver, is as large as our experience. Environmentalism is an intellectual pursuit: homecoming, a somatic encounter with the Real.

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Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @RizomaSchool Bly spoke of, "healing the wound of abstractions". Humanity's root ailment perhaps. “It is an apocalypse of mind and eye we need,” asserts John Moriarty, “an apocalypse that opens the veils of mind and eye, not an apocalypse that pulls down the stars, that obliterates the sea.”Quoted by@RizomaSchool Bly spoke of, "healing the wound of abstractions". Humanity's root ailment perhaps. “It is an apocalypse of mind and eye we need,” asserts John Moriarty, “an apocalypse that opens the veils of mind and eye, not an apocalypse that pulls down the stars, that obliterates the sea.”