Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
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@johnrobb Why stop at Twitter? With the fusion of military and corporate functions in a single, conjoined mediasphere, vast computing resources - increasingly, at a machine level - aimed at dominating perception of reality itself, define planetary war at the level of total consciousness.

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 29 Jun 2023

@JasJohl @nils_gilman Bingo. *Choice* excerpt, Nils. Peculiar, isn't it, the evolutionary ontology of a noospheric, algorithmically-supercharged claim upon the private soul, and the planetary harvest of consequence, consciousness and disclosure it radically enhances, remaining, as a rule, unobserved.

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Quoted by@ncolloff In this light, Buddha's admonition to "place a sentinel at the doors of perception", not unwise. McLuhan, as a correlative, with regard to media: "The successor to politics will be propaganda." Dark genius, seducing the attention span: ravenous wolves, enslaving the private soul.