@PageauJonathan 4/ Both figures dwell at thresholds—between cultures, classes, epochs. They are not guardians of stability but catalysts of transformation. The trickster dances across boundaries to expose their constructed nature; the hidden prophet is attuned to a current deeper than history.
3/ The prophets insist: history is not a blind alley. Beneath its surface runs a hidden trajectory—not toward despair, but disclosure. A truth so stark that no evasion remains. The collapse of illusion under the weight of the Real. A script must end.
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Copy of tweet here: The epistemological basis of the Extinction Tyranny, isn't it? A mode of perception and action fundamentally unhinged from concrete reality. No wonder the prophets speak of 'apocalypsis' as a totalizing flip-flop in experience of coherence, authority, significance and legitimacy. end/ "Overthrow the importance principle; turn it upside down. Put down the mighty from their seats and exalt them of low degree. Every throne a toilet seat and every toilet seat a throne." - N.O. Brown. Love's Body, University of California Press, 1966. world3.scribble.com/world3/meme1/space2/frstlst.html 1/ N.O. Brown, succinct on ‘apocalypsis’, the moment of vision and decision: “To see through this show; to see the invisible reality; to put an end to politics. The revolution, the revelation, the apocalypse, is vision; which pronounces a last judgment; and brings about the end.”