@DoubleDownNews Pete Berkman: "When the environment is invisible, the path of least resistance is determined by the medium itself. Our plans plan us. In order to recover human agency over technique, the invisible environment has to be made visible. “Apocalypse,” McLuhan says, “is our salvation.”
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Copy of tweet here: @nick_routledge Exactly. The functional totalitarianism of an interlocking, global, techno-industrial control-complex serving the weaponized exceptionalism of elite structures of power profitably and militantly vested in a form of Final Solution to unmanageable social tensions and inequalities. @nick_routledge · Nov 9, 2023 Replying to @nick_routledge and @washingtonpost 2/ It's now endemic, of course, the devastating obscenity of a global militarist-media complex wedded through pen and sword to a universalized form of psychotic exceptionalism and its diabolical consecration of a terror war endlessly targeting internal scapegoat and foreign foe. Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? “Ultimately there is only one factor upon which the shape of history depends: the moral conduct of the nations." - Abraham Joshua Heschel
@johnrobb 2/ Final Computing Solutions. "World War III will be a guerilla information war, with no division between civilian and military participation." McLuhan in a 2017 Atlantic Council report on radically enhanced capabilities of AI-driven computational-propaganda for mind manipulation
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Subscribe Post Gaza Genocide, we went from tens of millions of views per week on Facebook to zero. Hopefully, Facebook's 180° turn towards 'free speech' and promoting political content applies to journalism that holds Israel's crimes against humanity to account. We won't hold our breath. [Graph of views of @DoubleDownNews views going from 21 million on Oct 7, 2023 to almost zero in 24 Jan 2024.]