@pauljpastor end/ As for timing a theophany of recalibration? Matt 24:36. And the mechanism? Frankly, I'm betting on God's coming and arrival rescuing the planetary attention span from, above all, the power of propaganda. H. Caldicott (IPPNW): "Where American media goes, so goes the Earth."
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Copy of tweet here: I concur, Tara. And what if maddening media's means and ends simultaneously define their essential, constitutive function advancing us toward an appropriate plot device, the 'Deus ex machina' of, a redemptive, truly planetary Media Event; a propitious, perfect, divine turn?
@ThinkingFaith It's all One Media Picture, of course: Girardian dialectics, the Life of Jesus, Jesuit culture, Gaia, the Web, bombing hospitals. Simply stated, wherever planetary media mimetically aims, so go we. At what, then? A Death Cult? Or at the Second Advent, as First, as Media Event?
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Copy of tweet here: I watched Gaza yesterday. Given that the Girard community serendipitously gathered upon this epochal 'escalation to extremes', I'm honestly curious about what the @NOV1TATE meta-narrative tells us. How did the Girardians respond?
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· 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.