@dysangelistes @drkohilathas "Fools with tools are still fools and don't let your Phi Beta Kappa key fool you." - N.O. Brown. Or, as Wallace Stevens anticipated evolutionary trends in dominative, conventional conceptions of authority, legitimacy, credibility, coherence, health and freedom, 'Exeunt omnes'.
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Because this realm of perception and liberating activity exists beyond the ecological/experiential/perceptual reach of the mindsets, cosmologies and social forms which largely dictate what Allen Ginsberg names ‘the official version of reality and history’, the unfolding Garden Conversation remains invisible to the ‘Expert’ State which, accordingly, attaches little or no significance to it. Overlooked, it remains disregarded: conceived naively, it appears naïve. “Hidden enfolded immensities,” Hakim Bey notes, “escape the measuring rod.”
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But don’t let the cosmic oversight of the august academies of big media, law, education, religion, science or otherwise, fool you, friends. The sense of import or significance integral to our culture’s defining ethos is as cockamamie as the distorting mirror from which it derives – powerful yet unspoken values beholden to an ontologically-hamstrung version of the nature of the world and existence, an image-driven Spectacle ‘which commands us to be fooled by appearances’. From the eco-social physician’s perspective then, ‘seeing-through’ the levels of reality well-lit by our dominant cultural arbiters not only confirms the existence of measureless personal and communal potentialities lurking in wait beyond a world contracted to a shadow of its co-creative possibilities, but accelerates our subtraction of allegiance from the old sensibilities and forms which are, as Blake observes, “by reason of narrowed perception…fix’d into furrows of death.”
@samhaselby @moshik_temkin Moving on then, how do we address an Extinction Tyranny - Zuboff's "great lie that economic logic is the only model that will work" - so totalizing in its full-spectrum claim upon the nature of reality that we barely recognize peak modernism for the sheer deception it represents?
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Copy of tweet: Tara Ann Thieke I think it's increasingly obvious that the disasters of the 21st century share a common root in outsourcing perception of reality to models & theories advanced by a highly-paid new pseudo-priesthood. Accountability is impossible in this framework. It's up to us to look away. 4:55 AM · Mar 6, 2023