RT @nick_routledge: @mehdirhasan Hence the media's bastard enchantment deriving precisely from its function as an authoritative icon of business-as-usual - specifically, the maniacal promise it represents of an 'unreality' of infantilized, collective experience of psychological security, comfort and affirmation.
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Copy of tweet: 1/ The Spectacle coming apart; the brain-dead megaphone of dominative cultural arbiters ‘defending’ against consequence of every sort – personal, economic, planetary; the hegemony of dollar zombiehood; a ‘de facto’ Death Cult, commanding denial and distraction, whatever the cost. 1/ Last Days. “News is the last addiction before what?” - Delillo. The Eschatological Event, a classic instance of therapeutic ‘intervention’; a substrative shift in global ‘attention span’. Simply stated, where US media goes, so goes the planetary paradigm. Image: 12/17/2001 Cover of Time magazine emblazone with 'The Last Days of the Taliban'
@lukeburgis 1/ Thomas Berry describes the "pathology manifest in the arrogance with which we reject our role as an integral member of the earth community in favor of a radical anthropocentric life attitude," as a form of cultural autism yet to leave the playpen in the nursery of ontology.
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