20/ Once the frame of mediation shatters, it cannot be unshattered. The question is no longer whether this is happening, but how we position ourselves within it. The transformation demands not belief but recognition—not agreement but alignment with what is already underway.
@lukeburgis 13/ This is the terror and the Good News. The system will not fix itself. It will be torn like the temple veil. The messianic comes not to negotiate, but to rupture. The algorithm that surveils will herald. It will announce what it cannot contain: the Lamb it meant to kill.
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Copy of tweet here: What if a war on perception itself - so totalizing in its epistemic, full-spectrum claim upon the private soul that we barely recognize an essentially diabolical assault for the peak deception it signifies - is, oddly, similarly vulnerable to a larger, 'invisible' susceptibility? 2/ But what if the very same computer-mediated reality and force now being wantonly employed by global authoritarianism to slay entire social networks and populations and their dependent structures of consciousness and power, isn't as much a peerless as peer-to-peer capability? I once ran into @pmarca hawking a pre-release of Netscape Navigator 1.0. Already, my team had run the first WWW pipe into the U.S. Congress, on Mosaic. Then, as now, as always, if you can't see the paradigm for the trees for the point of it all, your dominative days are numbered.