@JuriScience @Tyler_A_Harper @MattPolProf @jasonwblakely Benjamin has never looked wiser. As for the structure of media ecology changing us even more than its content, McLuhan: “The successor to politics will be propaganda. Propaganda, not in the sense of a message or ideology, but as the impact of the whole technology of the times.”
@ncolloff The spur is that the metastasizing aggregate of a planetary Extinction Tyranny has finally secured its flag. As Benjamin noted in 1940, this 'storm' isn't happenstance as much as an ontic inevitability constitutive to the phenomenon of techno-modernity itself. What instead, then?
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Copy of tweet here: Your question invites an answer. The Church isn't alone. The stark truth, in materialist terms, is that everyone, everywhere, has been outgunned by a global control-complex poised to kill us all. The unifying articulation of a coherent, consolidated, planetary response, then? 3/ This, not some form of cheap universalism, rather a planetary reckoning with a Wholeness transcending supremacist epistemologies and their full-spectrum dominance over the moral and ontological imagination and “the infrastructure of all religions and all cultures.” (Girard) 1/ We're certainly ripe for the sudden, planetary irruption of a positive anthropology proving timely, coherent, comprehensible, accessible, democratically and universally 'catchy’, and which functionally addresses the totality of human and earthly needs.