RT @nick_routledge: @ClimateDad77 '...mobilizing mechanisms of dissimulation and self-deception that point toward the direct will to ignorance: [Ed Ayres] "A general pattern of behavior among threatened human societies is to become more blindered, rather than more focused on the crisis, as they fall."' - Žižek
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Copy of tweet: Nick Routledge Unless we better understand what is happening to us, we will continue to be buffeted by wave after wave of this disintegration, reluctant to recognize its scope, unable to appreciate its spiritual meaning, and unprepared to meet its historical challenges. 8/
@moshik_temkin 1/ Not that weird. Their bastard appeal derives precisely from their function as public icons of denial. Such is the maniacal enchantment of the political Deliverer, and their promise of reducing the complexities of life to an 'unreality' of simplistic thought and blind belief.
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