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RT @nick_routledge: @TaraAnnThieke Total lockdown, yes. Jim Corbett, in response, speaking to the Quixotic Principle: “To open the way, a cultural breakthrough need not involve masses of people, but must be done decisively by someone"; together with Helen Caldicott: "Where American media goes, so goes the Earth."

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1/ Sometimes, someone will tell me that even as they truly value my example, nonetheless 21st century realpolitik is a cage making it impossible, in practice, to emulate the Jesusy radicalism my life inhabits. I get it. It was easier to leave the nets in Francis’ time, I reckon.
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Copy of tweet here: 1/ Sometimes, someone will tell me that even as they truly value my example, nonetheless 21st century realpolitik is a cage making it impossible, in practice, to emulate the Jesusy radicalism my life inhabits. I get it. It was easier to leave the nets in Francis’ time, I reckon.

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"I am an intellectual thug who has slowly been accumulating a private arsenal with every intention of using it. To deal with the environment directly is my strategy. To have autonomy, we must push past environmental parameters right up into consciousness."      ~ Marshall McLuhan
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Copy of tweet here: and "I am an intellectual thug who has slowly been accumulating a private arsenal with every intention of using it. To deal with the environment directly is my strategy. To have autonomy, we must push past environmental parameters right up into consciousness." ~ Marshall McLuhan

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 15 Jul 2023

@moltmannjuergen “Though he never coined the phrase, 'the medium is the messiah' may have been McLuhan’s ultimate perceptual insight. The 'medium is the message' may have been merely its conceptual phrasing.” - Read Mercer Schuchardt, The Reformation as Media Event, Second Nature @theccsn

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Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @lukeburgis "Purify yourself by the power of authenticity," an instruction from the modern Sufi master, Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan. In truth, not much more needed than that, is there? But go easy on yourself, dear brother. Just a graced few have the wiggle room to go all in.Quoted by@lukeburgis "Purify yourself by the power of authenticity," an instruction from the modern Sufi master, Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan. In truth, not much more needed than that, is there? But go easy on yourself, dear brother. Just a graced few have the wiggle room to go all in.