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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 2 Sept 2025

@lukeburgis 15/ What dominative discourse and ideological superstructures render unthinkable incarnates where people meet and share basic needs for agency, safety, and participation—ordinary life itself disclosed as the cosmos at work, its living power and hidden intelligence made tangible.

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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Routledge Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: Also1999 Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1708140991545565295 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @Fyodor34664866 @caitoz Also, it was around the 1999 DC 'NATO enlargement summit' that a formal Russian effort at grassroots outreach, speaking of the existential threat to everyone they clearly perceived in NATO's eastward push, came Stateside to plead directly with American citizens, face-to-face...

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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Routledge Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: Surprisingly rare Source: Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. Tweet: 1/ It's perfectly clear once you see it, of course: the spiritual derangement of a modernist worldview offering no exit strategy other than the common, explicitly stated right and readiness to blow the world to smithereens, presents every last one of us with an epochal conundrum. Subtweets: 'a tiny flaw in the plan.' Also, it was around the 1999 DC 'NATO enlargement summit' that a formal Russian effort at grassroots outreach, speaking of the existential threat to everyone they clearly perceived in NATO's eastward push, came Stateside to plead directly with American citizens, face-to-face… Surprisingly rare, such plain-spoken, common sense. Then again, our key predicament remains. *How*, practically, do we address a form of 'sleepwalking' currently affording us no realistic *waking* - which is to say *exit* - strategy, other than catastrophic nuclear annhiliation? Final words: "We've gotten into a fix now where we're living in a common predicament and we ought to recognize this common predicament." ~ Rheinhold Niebuhr For the record, I once asked the Kremlin's then foremost nukes advisor (on a non-NATO expansion tour of the US; which brought me to dinner with her and, later, a public question) how long it would take to de-alert the entire US-USSR arsenal. Her answer? Interesting... 8:48 AM · Aug 7, 2020 [This image, a graphic edit for the original image here: to fit the total image on a smartphone. No elements are altered, except their graphic representation.] Second Tweet here: Do not fret because of the wicked; Do not envy those who do evil: For they wither quickly like grass And fade like the green of the fields. #Psalm37 10/10 Subtweet: Her delivery surprised me more than the final answer, frankly. Essentially post-partisan, it was lengthy, lucid, highly technical and extremely thorough. Very clearly, she'd done the research, and relished an opportunity for a major download. As for wrap up? '24 hours,' she said. []

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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Routledge quoting Rheinhold Niebuhr Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: Final words Source: Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. Tweet: 1/ It's perfectly clear once you see it, of course: the spiritual derangement of a modernist worldview offering no exit strategy other than the common, explicitly stated right and readiness to blow the world to smithereens, presents every last one of us with an epochal conundrum. Subtweets: 'a tiny flaw in the plan.' Also, it was around the 1999 DC 'NATO enlargement summit' that a formal Russian effort at grassroots outreach, speaking of the existential threat to everyone they clearly perceived in NATO's eastward push, came Stateside to plead directly with American citizens, face-to-face… Surprisingly rare, such plain-spoken, common sense. Then again, our key predicament remains. *How*, practically, do we address a form of 'sleepwalking' currently affording us no realistic *waking* - which is to say *exit* - strategy, other than catastrophic nuclear annhiliation? Final words: "We've gotten into a fix now where we're living in a common predicament and we ought to recognize this common predicament." ~ Rheinhold Niebuhr For the record, I once asked the Kremlin's then foremost nukes advisor (on a non-NATO expansion tour of the US; which brought me to dinner with her and, later, a public question) how long it would take to de-alert the entire US-USSR arsenal. Her answer? Interesting... 8:48 AM · Aug 7, 2020 [This image, a graphic edit for the original image here: to fit the total image on a smartphone. No elements are altered, except their graphic representation.] Second Tweet here: Do not fret because of the wicked; Do not envy those who do evil: For they wither quickly like grass And fade like the green of the fields. #Psalm37 10/10 Subtweet: Her delivery surprised me more than the final answer, frankly. Essentially post-partisan, it was lengthy, lucid, highly technical and extremely thorough. Very clearly, she'd done the research, and relished an opportunity for a major download. As for wrap up? '24 hours,' she said. []

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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Routledge Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: For record Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1291763109145665537 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @nils_gilman For the record, I once asked the Kremlin's then foremost nukes advisor (on a non-NATO expansion tour of the US; which brought me to dinner with her and, later, a public question) how long it would take to de-alert the entire US-USSR arsenal. Her answer? Interesting...

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