@pauljpastor Well-noted, Paul. Evil, it is. And whereas it bears noting that the *monetization* of our attention span is, at this juncture, barely distinguishable from its *weaponization*, the 'powers of the air' have, correspondingly, never before represented such a choice, ready target.
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Copy of tweet and quote tweet here: Yup, vast resources of immense, competing, dominative powers of war and profit, actively shaping universal attention span in the pathological image of division and outrage. Media ecology, fixed into furrows of death, applied as a diabolical claim upon the private soul. 2/ The attention span is, of course, the salient currency of the Web Era. Enough has already been spoken about the economic logic of feeding it outrage. White, which is to say ‘dominative’ religion, but the conjoined twin pillar of the supremacist Spectacle, in this regard.
@drvandanashiva end/ Once we perceive authoritarian trends within a fuller, constitutive, evolutionary context (that is, in archetypal terms, defining the meaning of reality itself) their full-blown expression obviously invites and enables epistemic demolition by the force of truth itself.
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Copy of tweet thread: “We are in an existential battle for truth in the digital domain.” Indeed, why would it not be our primary epistemological battleground? As in the parable of wheat and tares, algorithmic injustice, post-truth politics, fake news, etc. are intermingled & concomitant with truth until 'apocalypsis', the moment of vision and decision, is reached.