Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
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@alastairmci @BarbaraPym1 @KiszelyPhilip Thanks for your series of responses, Alastair; a beautiful reminder. Stateside, we're confronted by own particular flavor of deep vexation, even though its fundamental causes and effects are, of course, as in the UK, planetary and shared. Perhaps, ultimately, a solution is, too?

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 13 Mar 2025

@UssamaMakdisi It's a familiar, repeating, civilizational pattern, of course - psychic elements completely scotomized from consciousness succumbing to a form of psychotic absolutism and the mimetic frenzy of the mob; a precarious order of false transcendence imposed by the scapegoat mechanism.

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Quoted by@alon_mizrahi 4/ Sure, the U.S. defines a fulminant apex of this derangement vortex, but the fever is epistemic, virulent, networked, global and, clearly, fast-metastasizing. No nation or culture can—or will—extract itself from such an epochal, totalized psychosis, in isolation.