@SherPoint 1/ Our philosophers, theologians and prophets? Moltmann: "This divided world is increasingly capable of turning into a universal prison camp." Wilson: "On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break.”
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Copy of tweet: The cosmic irony, of course, is that the 'Deus ex machina' is not only not deceived, but has an appropriate plot device to hand. McKenna: "And what is the internet? It's a net - a net that can be used to catch some very big game indeed.” De Chardin's noosphere is alive and well.
@Sophiologist_ A chorus of modern voices (Debord, McLuhan, et al.) go further, echoing planetary prophetology's epochal challenge to a form of totalizing, wall-to-wall propaganda (Ginsberg's "official version of history and reality") effectively "eclipsing the messianic experience". (Agamben)
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Copy of tweet here: Exactly. Bly's 'wounds of abstraction' characterizing an all-encompassing pathology of consciousness; the totalizing hegemony this Spectacle of reification invisibly maintains; and homecoming to concrete reality as the salvational pivot returning us, finally, to freedom's ground. Quote 3/ We use the terms 'truth of the neighborly' or 'realocalization' to describe this emphatic, planetary shift in experiential locus, away from mediated Spectacle toward direct, proximate participation in a dynamic mutualism far transcending human limitations, genius and powers.