RT @nick_routledge: @lukeburgis @JuddBaroff As McLuhan noted, "the Prince of this world, Satan, is a very great electrical engineer." The peculiar, sudden danger is that our lived environment is now being scripted by principalities and powers scaling toward total seizure of the metaphysical faculties of discernment itself.
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‘Thus we Christians today are placed in the most difficult of all situations. We have to repudiate both the spirit of the age and the means that it employs. If we do not, if we yield even a fraction to those forces, we will betray Jesus Christ.’ —Jacques Ellul, What I Believe Our call, in practice, is to confront the simultaneity of the enormous force of the Zeitgeist and its primary, expressive medium. I wonder what Ellul, so presciently alert to the transcendent significance of wedded spiritual and media environments, would have made of the Web Era. 2/ As for Bulgakov’s “victory of good on the path of world-historical tragedy leading to the final separation of light and darkness"? It embraces a harvest of collective consciousness, disclosure and consequence in cyberspace as much as meatspace. We are a unicity, after all. Tweet: Sanity keeps the minutes; fascism writes the outcomes. The mimetic lock-in of this theo-authoritarian complex admits no defeat within its runaway cultic logic—hence its air of inevitability. It cannot be argued down: only interrupted by truth disclosed at scale. Apocalypsis. Quote tweet: Per Girard: mimetic rivalry now outpaces mediation, collapsing the political order itself. Neither politics nor its reform can save us—only an epistemic-ontic rupture: another measure of reality breaking into the present, reordering how we recognize what's real and act upon it.
Open original document@alon_mizrahi 3/ Our world system doesn’t merely echo psychosis; it operationalizes it. Mimetic contagion fuses with institutional capture: virus and vector converge. A self-sanctifying, civilizational-delirium-complex locks in as a single extinction stack—consuming the civic psyche as fuel.
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Thread: 11/ In effect, what the global polycrisis represents is reality itself reasserting its metaphysical right to adjudicative authority. What collapses is the entire referential frame that defines credibility as a political commodity, rather than a sacrament of reality itself. 12/ The transfer of governance is from appearances back to consequences: claims weighed by fruits and coherence—not by declarations, optics, sentiment, clerical credentials, market good, slogans, or spin—the Spell crowning what’s publicly staged as “the real deal.” 13/ When the hidden frame that made all the old mapping between words, measures, reality 'valid' fails—who counts as witness, what counts as evidence, which metrics proxy the good—the result is not gradual refutation. Invalidation is systemic and simultaneous. A phase change. 14/ The rupture then, is an intelligibility shock. Not a contest of ideas—that would be but theater—but an epistemic habitat transition. A change in the substrate that ideas must live in. Judgment in Scripture doesn’t win an argument; it changes what “winning” means. Quote tweet: 13/ When a previously obscured dimension of truth becomes unavoidably present to embodied awareness, that's not just new content added to an unchanged substrate—a "Media Event." The substrate itself transforms. A transfigured order of reality, being and knowing is revealed.
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