RT @nick_routledge: @RizomaSchool The dynamic, archetypal, mimetic, unconscious. A 'defense mechanism' confronting the pressing psycho-spiritual effects and requirements of epistemic, social transformation. A typically fantastic elaboration of rationalizations and denials characterizing the refusal of ego-death.
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Copy of tweet: Nick Routledge Nick_routledge A single idea, a fixed principle, a unifying theory or a blind belief becomes preferable to the growing tension of opposing forces and conflicting opinions. We flee precisely that awkward point of tension where the transformational alchemy of Awakening occurs. 2/
@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/