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RT @nick_routledge: @walterkirn God forbid anyone suggesting that the absolute scripture of American capitalism might be less a providential order than a necropolitical death cult—a counterfeit covenant hollowing bodies and spirits alike, peddling this systematic immiseration to its victims as salvation itself.

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 28 Jul 2025

@lukeburgis When capitalism's no longer moored to value in any intrinsic or moral sense, it becomes pure instrumental recursion, regardless of substance. Sports, grief, water, attention, illness—all's grist for the yield mill. This isn't a misfire: it’s metaphysical psychosis made normative.

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Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @tenshi_anna @thomasowaller @TRIERTIUM 1/2 As it happens, it was life lurking at the highest reaches of global political economy that first turned me toward the apocalypse of the Jesus Event; then 30 years of mendicancy embodying a post-economic ontology. Kingdom prophetology, an essential interpretive lens, I find.Quoted by@tenshi_anna @thomasowaller @TRIERTIUM 1/2 As it happens, it was life lurking at the highest reaches of global political economy that first turned me toward the apocalypse of the Jesus Event; then 30 years of mendicancy embodying a post-economic ontology. Kingdom prophetology, an essential interpretive lens, I find.Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @indexmetals @FT Norway didn’t just blink; it announced the era. If a genocide victim must be cash-flow positive to count, we've privatized reality, downgraded meaning to junk. Sovereignty has migrated to the Cloud. Governance runs as a data-driven API. Civilization has changed operating systems.Quoted by@indexmetals @FT Norway didn’t just blink; it announced the era. If a genocide victim must be cash-flow positive to count, we've privatized reality, downgraded meaning to junk. Sovereignty has migrated to the Cloud. Governance runs as a data-driven API. Civilization has changed operating systems.