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@unherd end/ Needs be said, reality's inclusivity is boundlessly vaster than 'the West' and 'Christendom' as Kingsnorth has it. Then again, illumination framed in an essentially occidental, Christian vernacular has its merits. For one, if "everything is religious", This Machine is, too.

Thomas Berry describes anthropocentric autism. "If you do not know the story, in a sense you do not know yourself: you do not know anything."
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Thomas Berry describes anthropocentric autism. "If you do not know the story, in a sense you do not know yourself: you do not know anything."

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 29 May 2022

@leashless I farm. Yes, the Technium cult, largely blind, anthropocentric, diabolically absurd; and Kingsnorth, hands-down, one of our wisest. But he misses a critical, positive, Christological dimension, namely, IT as central to transcendent political intervention at the planetary level.

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Quoted by@bearspeaks Depends what you're about. Even if its positive evolutionary significance remains largely unrecognized, no other platform weds to the peculiar ontological promise of internetworked hypertext as does Twitter. Some get it. Most don't. ?s=20