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@lukeburgis @JonAskonas @NOV1TATE Timely, yes. @johnrobb ("A world full of nuclear weapons isn't compatible with the way networks drive politics and conflict") as myself, shocked by the dearth of acuity surrounding immediate, related, mimetic trends. I'm quoting Paul, in an eschatological note, too, these days.

Copy of tweet: 2/ Some aver the recent, massive, mimetic escalation in technology-accelerated cycles of violence and counter-violence defining geopolitical conflicts perceived by key antagonists in fundamentally existential terms, abrogates the theoretical premise putting a brake on Armageddon. Copy of tweet: end/ So, an algorithmically-supercharged vortex of mimetic contagion and, all told, a momentum the prophets universally anticipated would inevitably deliver us to the very threshold of suicidal, planetary cataclysm. Hobbes' 'war of all against all', plus nukes. What next, then?
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Copy of tweet: 2/ Some aver the recent, massive, mimetic escalation in technology-accelerated cycles of violence and counter-violence defining geopolitical conflicts perceived by key antagonists in fundamentally existential terms, abrogates the theoretical premise putting a brake on Armageddon. Copy of tweet: end/ So, an algorithmically-supercharged vortex of mimetic contagion and, all told, a momentum the prophets universally anticipated would inevitably deliver us to the very threshold of suicidal, planetary cataclysm. Hobbes' 'war of all against all', plus nukes. What next, then?

@iyad_elbaghdadi My conclusion is that it's not possible for Israel to invade & occupy Gaza or transfer its population outside Israel without breaking the region, destabilizing multiple regimes, causing a long-term rise in worldwide radicalization & polarization, causing an irreparable rift between the West & the rest of the world, causing political crises in multiple countries outside the region, ending whatever remains of the rules-based world order, causing a generational spike in anti-US sentiment, ending all diplomatic ties with Arab states (including Egypt & Jordan), and causing a multi-front regional war that sees the US dragged back into the Middle East for a while. And even then, it's unlikely that they'll even succeed. Last edited 12:58 PM · Oct 20, 2023 · 291.9K Views
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@iyad_elbaghdadi My conclusion is that it's not possible for Israel to invade & occupy Gaza or transfer its population outside Israel without breaking the region, destabilizing multiple regimes, causing a long-term rise in worldwide radicalization & polarization, causing an irreparable rift between the West & the rest of the world, causing political crises in multiple countries outside the region, ending whatever remains of the rules-based world order, causing a generational spike in anti-US sentiment, ending all diplomatic ties with Arab states (including Egypt & Jordan), and causing a multi-front regional war that sees the US dragged back into the Middle East for a while. And even then, it's unlikely that they'll even succeed. Last edited 12:58 PM · Oct 20, 2023 · 291.9K Views

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 21 Oct 2023

@Heavylifter57 @BrianZahnd end/ It's plain enough to see: we may choose the terms of an epochal reckoning - survival - or be delivered to it - annihilation. What's it to be, then? The substrative deception and inexorable march of a suicidal Extinction Tyranny, or the resurrective salvation of Good News?

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Quoted by@NoemaMag @AndrewSorota 31/ Call it the singular Event in history, perhaps: the whole household of earth—biosphere and noosphere, narrative and evolution—converges upon either annihilation as workflow, or the world-scale Advent of the saving power of eternal values arriving as a shared refusal to kill.Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @pauljpastor Comeuppance Day was inevitable, as is the calamity of fragmentation and disarray indivisible from reorienting ourselves to a phase shift of evolutionary proportions as one planetary paradigm crashes and another replaces it. John Lewis called it the 'good trouble' of getting Real.Quoted by@pauljpastor Comeuppance Day was inevitable, as is the calamity of fragmentation and disarray indivisible from reorienting ourselves to a phase shift of evolutionary proportions as one planetary paradigm crashes and another replaces it. John Lewis called it the 'good trouble' of getting Real.Quoted by@BremenBod A diabolical presence and pretense, war. The anti-Christ, the lowest form of violence, they're all at it. And if you thought it was a mess, with Israel bombing Syrian airports, Russia has just opened Khmeimim airbase to Iran.