@AimeTim Girard: “Mimesis, is both responsible for escalation and deescalation depending on what actions are being imitated." Then, of course, there's the decisive role of information technology - this stuff - in shaping the direction, form and character of mimesis at the planetary level.
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Excerpt from tweet thread: @nick_routledge Jun 14, 2021 Here’s William James: “...there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different. We may go through life without suspecting their existence; but apply the requisite stimulus, and at a touch they are there in all their completeness...” @ @nick_routledge “...No account of the universe in its totality can be final which leaves these other forms of consciousness quite disregarded. How to regard them is the question...At any rate, they forbid our premature closing of accounts with reality." @nick_routledge Our prophets, of course, universally anticipate just such a bifurcation point at the planetary level - noospheric consciousness coalescing in a sunburst of revelation transcending the mystery of history. Ultimately, Abraham Joshua Heschel notes, “Mystery is surpassed by meaning.”
@amicusadastra @lukeburgis Speak of the devil. History following an apocalyptic logic goes both ways, of course - the advance of a dark corruption, yes, but simultaneously conjoined with humanity's equally mysterious vocation to betterment. Until, that is, 'apocalypsis', our moment of vision and decision.
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