4/ This is not distraction or miscommunication but metaphysical deformation and deception at the level of being—a new form of domination. Moral dissonance is shrouded, the truth of the victim erased, witness silenced, and justice deferred, in the silent calculus of the Algorithm.
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Copy of tweet thread here: 5/ The novelty of our moment isn't that capitalism exploits or that militarism kills—it's that digital infrastructure has made mimetic escalation algorithmic. The convergence has become infrastructural. What Girard saw as cultural process is now technological architecture. 6/ Commerce, conflict and communion all circulate in one mediated space, collapsed into the singularity of the Cloud. Longing and lethality, profit and power, marketplace and battlefield are rendered exchangeable. War becomes market. Market becomes war. 7/ Here, weaponization is revealed as not adjacent to capital but as its evolutionary form. The algorithm doesn’t just recommend and sell—it aims and hunts. Every desire is indexed, not to heal but to target. Capitalism mutates into weaponized desire. Predation becomes protocol.