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@PageauJonathan 12/ Thresholders never reveal their full hand. They operate by misdirection—not to deceive, but because real truth cannot be coerced or imposed. It must be invited, recognized, received. Their power lies not in self-assertion, but in being rightly discerned by the other.

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 16 Dec 2024

@RobertEllsberg Hark, the cautionary tale of the moon and St. Dilbert, for he is a real heavy cat.

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Quoted by@jonmsweeney Big Leo fan. But celebrityhood itself? Highly problematic. Elevating folk above ordinary social physics, sealing them off in a form of metaphysical quarantine, the breakdown goes both ways, inviting precisely the distortion, substitution and neutralization the Genuine critiques.