4/ The Cloud Event is not simply connectivity—it's about crossing a threshold velocity where we're no longer adapting to change; we're inside a reaction that's already cascading. The network has achieved something new: a saturation of immediacy imploding into reflexive overdrive.
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Tweet thread here: 5/ 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. 6/ As constructed reality buckles under the crushing weight of its own deceptions, the apparatus that blinded us becomes the mirror that reveals—system and self in the same catastrophic exposure. Under pressure, consciousness becomes reflexive. The Machine doesn't wake up—we do. 7/ The medium of control becomes the mirror of recognition—where unveiling and judgment arrive together, demanding we see ourselves within the same frame. Consciousness awakens to both the flood and our position in its path. 8/ As moral order collapses—Zionist fire, imperial rot, law folding into madness—the Cloud can no longer contain the lie. Gaza bleeds through every algorithmic barrier. Perception itself becomes newly saturated with moral valence, as the rupture reshapes the soul itself.
Open original document@jamespoulos The cosmic irony, of course, is that the 'Deus ex machina' is not only not deceived, but has an appropriate plot device to hand. McKenna: "And what is the internet? It's a net - a net that can be used to catch some very big game indeed.” De Chardin's noosphere is alive and well.
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Screen shot of web page here: 2/ Hardly surprising that Western interpreters, wired fast relative to the world, were first to get to theological grips with the the root, ontological substrate of the WWW. As early as the mid-90's, our sages intuited its arrival as an evolutionary turn of parousiacal potential. At first we described the purpose of the EFF to be, simply, the "civilization of Cyberspace." Now, after almost two years of operation, we also think of ourselves assisting in some Great Work, creating what may be nothing less than the united Mind of Humanity, hard-wiring the collective organism of human consciousness. - John Perry Barlow As Barlow says, "Teilhard's work is about creating a consciousness so profound it will make good company for God itself." - Jennifer Cobb Kreisberg: "A Globe, Clothing Itself with a Brain," in Wired 3.06, June 1995 - map NR - Last updated: July 9th, 1995
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I could try to formulate the same idea from a different angle. A glance at the history of consciousness shows it pendulating between an exaggerated unity, which swallows all variety, and an equally extreme atomism (even if couched in dualistic terms), which makes any ultimate intelligibility impossible and breaks down peace and harmony in the bargain. The great masters and probably the simple folk kept the balanced vision, but the epigones run to extremes. The cosmotheandric experience begins to regain, on a further turn of the spiral, the positive (and not merely dialectical) middle way between the paranoia of monism and the schizophrenia of dualism. - Raimon Panikkar, The Cosmotheantric Intuition