Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
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@amicusadastra 1/5  McLuhan makes the “demonic complex” intelligible as _environment_ rather than conspiracy. A company of  voices name the deception, but he explains why we barely see it: environments are invisible because we live inside them—so totalizing, they pass for “reality” itself.

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Quoted by@JoshHochschild @jeff_bilbro 20/ If mediated reality is reaching “peak manipulation,” the counter-movement won’t be peak counter-manipulation. It will be reality's slow revolt: people migrating back to what resists forgery—presence, cost, and covenant, borne not rendered. Not nostalgia: resurrection.