Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
@johnrobb Given sudden, radical enhancements in state and other large-scale actors' untold capacities to define fabricated, which is to say *manipulated* reality, so our primary geopolitical contestants now aim directly at claiming power over perception itself. Who owns 'proof' owns *you*.
Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 17 Oct 2023
@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.
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