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@EuroConOfficial @EsmeLKPartridge 2/ As for Bulgakov’s “victory of good on the path of world-historical tragedy leading to the final separation of light and darkness"? It embraces a harvest of collective consciousness, disclosure and consequence in cyberspace as much as meatspace. We are a unicity, after all.

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If you knew a society of powerful wizards was trying to summon an alien god to harness its power, but they thought there was a 5% chance it would kill everyone in the world, what would you do? Assume you're only a medium level hero
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Copy of tweet: If you knew a society of powerful wizards was trying to summon an alien god to harness its power, but they thought there was a 5% chance it would kill everyone in the world, what would you do? Assume you're only a medium level hero 7:14 AM · Sep 22, 2023

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 14 Sept 2023

@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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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.”
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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.”

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Quoted by@pauljpastor 1/ So true. That said, I wonder, if however, the decisive role of information technology shaping the direction, form and character of mimesis at the planetary level can ultimately be understood, in Adorno's terms, "only in the light shed on the world by redemption.” For one...Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @Dan_Bowdoin Our call, in practice, is to confront the simultaneity of the enormous force of the Zeitgeist and its primary, expressive medium. I wonder what Ellul, so presciently alert to the transcendent significance of wedded spiritual and media environments, would have made of the Web Era.Quoted by@Dan_Bowdoin Our call, in practice, is to confront the simultaneity of the enormous force of the Zeitgeist and its primary, expressive medium. I wonder what Ellul, so presciently alert to the transcendent significance of wedded spiritual and media environments, would have made of the Web Era.