Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
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@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

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 22 May 2023

@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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Quoted by@MassimoFaggioli 2/ Hardly surprising that Western interpreters, wired fast relative to the world, were first to get to theological grips with the the root, ontological substrate of the WWW. As early as the mid-90's, our sages intuited its arrival as an evolutionary turn of parousiacal potential.Quoted by@RyanHaecker end/ As for the here and now, the transition from experiencing cyberspace as a seamless complement to, and not a separate substitute for concrete reality, similarly stands the test. Presence is eternity radiantly alive. This stuff, here, now, is holy, too.