21/ Those who control the sense-making stack control the fundamental parameters of perception, attention, and narrative comprehension. This is not traditional propaganda, it's psychic grooming—warfare on the covenant of perception itself as distinct from mere information warfare.
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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: top May20 Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1924961995197129130 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @alastairmci @paul_bamford35 @nicholadrummond There's no reasoning with the rank, pathological infantilism defining deranged, nationalist shitshows and the full-spectrum dominance their elites presume over the moral and ontological imagination at the planetary level. And they will have no intercessors from among their idols. t.co/1unh3xqxFi
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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: Dust on scales Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1862164735082594394 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @CraigMokhiber Dust on the scales. As if the weaponized exceptionalism of elite, global structures of consciousness and power somehow guarantees its architects existential absolution from the planetary reality and consequence of "a vast and hideous occasion of sin." Yes, there's a Day to pay. t.co/Uvhtyvinrc
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Routledge quoting George Steiner Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: George Steiner diagnosed Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1856199835545935944 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @PhysInHistory @holdengraber George Steiner diagnosed the contagion as, in essence, "the venom of modern history", a fleeting Balkanization of psycho-geography delineated by the basic delusion that reality and morality, interdependence and consequence, somehow disassociate at dividing lines drawn upon a map. t.co/m5sVCovafq
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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: Our prophets Source: Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. Copy of tweet here: Our prophets universally depict this momentous revelation of the monstrous, wholesale moral destitution of our primary, international 'superpowers', as the rending of a well-wrought veil of deceit, a historical bifurcation point defining a providential, planetary dividing line. Folks might also not be aware the Cycle of Unveiling or 'dawr al-kashf' of the Shi'ite Hidden Imam or 'qāʾim', correlates precisely with Judeo-Christian interpretation of the 'apocalypsis' or unveiling of 'the sunburst of the messianic'. And why ever would it not? An astute, anticipated distinction. The original meaning of ‘apocalypsis’? Unveiling. A 'Day' or 'Hour' of vision, decision and liberating experience in which legacy forms of authority, credibility, legitimacy and agency are espistemically demolished by the force of truth itself.
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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: Folks might also Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1571282717450579968 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @mehdirhasan Folks might also not be aware the Cycle of Unveiling or 'dawr al-kashf' of the Shi'ite Hidden Imam or 'qāʾim', correlates precisely with Judeo-Christian interpretation of the 'apocalypsis' or unveiling of 'the sunburst of the messianic'. And why ever would it not? t.co/WfT9pUEVol
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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: An astute distinction Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1723061196083904947 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @medialens An astute, anticipated distinction. The original meaning of ‘apocalypsis’? Unveiling. A 'Day' or 'Hour' of vision, decision and liberating experience in which legacy forms of authority, credibility, legitimacy and agency are espistemically demolished by the force of truth itself. t.co/s3GVTcKZ2N
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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: To see is to see through Source: Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. Copy of tweet: To see is to see through. Realpolitik, the keeper of the prison, which commands us to be fooled by appearances, to respect the Emperor's New Clothes. The blindness is from the blinkers of decorum. ‘Apocalypsis’ strips away the decent draperies on which the whole big lie depends.
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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: Exactly functional totalitarianism Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1722732263404933434 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @DrRezaul_Karim @Jonathan_K_Cook Exactly. The functional totalitarianism of an interlocking, global, techno-industrial control-complex serving the weaponized exceptionalism of elite structures of power profitably and militantly vested in a form of Final Solution to unmanageable social tensions and inequalities.
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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: 2/ It's now endemic Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1722624040563884362 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @omarsuleiman504 @washingtonpost 2/ It's now endemic, of course, the devastating obscenity of a global militarist-media complex wedded through pen and sword to a universalized form of psychotic exceptionalism and its diabolical consecration of a terror war endlessly targeting internal scapegoat and foreign foe. t.co/UMI7w9Rl5s
Open original document5/ But no lie lasts forever. The same saturation that engulfs the scaffold also concentrates awareness. As mediation floods perception, contradictions mount, discordant patterns repeat, and the frame begins to show—not by design, but through exhaustion.
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