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Tweet: 14/ When neighbors share their vulnerability, rather than yielding to divisions keeping them isolated and manageable—a fundamental coherence breaks through. Reality's integrative force discloses its most subversive implications. The edifice of divide-and-control begins to wobble. Quote tweet: 2/ Around larger, cultural polarization, we're grounding conflict resolution in the concrete, local particulars of face-to-face resolution, and universalizing from there. How does local peacemaking, network-scalable to, say, the level of state or planet, appear, in practice? Sub-quote tweet: Nick_routledge In 1999, during a period of pronounced civil unrest in Eugene, OR, I played a central role brokering a concordance between the NRA and anarchists, live, on local public-access television. My impressions? Tweet: 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. Quote tweet edited for space: 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… Sub-quote tweet: 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  x.com/nick_routledge… Image of tweet: 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