Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
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@SophiaCycles Theodor Adorno: “Triviality is evil - triviality, that is, in the form of consciousness and mind that adapts itself to the world as it is, that obeys the principle of inertia. And this principle of inertia truly is what is radically evil.” What matters now more than ever, then?

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 21 Mar 2023

@nils_gilman This state was howling for blood and the psycho-dynamics haven't changed. Meanwhile, modernity at large can be characterized by its endless deferral of judgment, “a secularized parody of the Church’s incessant deferral of the last judgment” (Agamben). Why? A tackle ends the game.

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So, first, a statistic to tell a story: male life expectancy in Washington, DC, is lower than it is the Gaza Strip [CIA statistics]. Second, a ratio, 878:1.
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A survey conducted by FAIR of the sources on the ABC, CBS and NBC nightly news in the first two weeks of the war found that of 878 on-air sources, only 1 was a representative of a national peace organization—B. Monning, of Int. Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War.
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Copy of tweet and quote tweet: So, first, a statistic to tell a story: male life expectancy in Washington, DC, is lower than it is the Gaza Strip [CIA statistics]. Second, a ratio, 878:1. 2/ Quote Tweet A survey conducted by FAIR of the sources on the ABC, CBS and NBC nightly news in the first two weeks of the war found that of 878 on-air sources, only 1 was a representative of a national peace organization—B. Monning, of Int. Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War.

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