@kenklippenstein Some of us saw the writing on the wall and made the cut, a long time ago.
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Routledge Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: 1/2 Forty years Source: Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @timparrique @AimeTim 1/2 Forty years ago, investigating a white hot trail of systemic, criminal connivance at stratospheric levels of international finance, the UK's Official Secrets Act shut me down. Then again, in complete defeat, my initiation: I'd seen the truest face of global political economy. t.co/WXviTWEpzD
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: sententiae antiquae quoting Juvenal; Nick Routledge Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: Who will police / I can answer / Notes and References Source: Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. Copy of two tweets: “Who will police the police?” Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? #juvenal I can answer that question. No one. My first career? Journalism, with a specialist interest in oversight of the international financial system. 2/2 “Notes and References 10. Nick Routledge, ‘How The Bank of England Failed The JMB Test’, Euromoney, February 1985, pp. 49–56. Google Scholar”
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Routledge Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: 2 A decade later Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1866612149205995877 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @timparrique @AimeTim 2/ A decade later, still on the investigative trail, and by then intuiting that the final and ultimate Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel had been claimed by a Sermon in Palestine 2,000 years ago, I was a wandering, mendicant media-ecologist. t.co/7Q9Q229etY t.co/zkYHqIPRjc
Open original document@nils_gilman I recall a similar epiphany, sitting at a typewriter, in 1984. I got up, wandered down a corridor, knocked on a door, opened it, confronted a senior journalist, asked how many folk he reckoned truly grokked the global financial system. He paused, pondered. 'About 150', he said.
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3/ I don't wish to sound like a polemical ass, but the structures of consciousness and power dictating the defining story about the nature of reality 'own' the global attention span into the bargain. One Media Ecology, monetized and weaponized, in toto. How do we deal with this?