@NoemaMag @AndrewSorota 31/ Call it the singular Event in history, perhaps: the whole household of earth—biosphere and noosphere, narrative and evolution—converges upon either annihilation as workflow, or the world-scale Advent of the saving power of eternal values arriving as a shared refusal to kill.
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Tweet: I don’t know about you, but intuition long ago suggested the Eschatological Event would ultimately manifest as a transcendent political intervention at the planetary level around nuclear confrontation. “Danger itself invites the rescuing power.” - #Holderlin Subtweet: Thank you so much for this. And the murder of the orphan would appear to be the likely prospect of the moment. So, anybody got an effective, planetary response to address the immediate threat of totalizing nuclear annihilation? Hands up, then. Nils Gilman @nils_gilman - 8/7/20 Nuclear weapons remain the greatest threat, by far, to long term human well being and civilizational integrity paul bassett davies @thewritertype - 21m There's plenty to be despondent about this #HiroshimaDay, but given the grotesque assortment of festering despots, lethal clowns, and howling nut jobs currently in power all over the world, we're fucking lucky any of us are still here at all. Noam Chomsky Quotes @chom... - 7/29/21 It's hard to contest the conclusion of the last commander of the Strategic Air Command, Gen. Lee Butler, that humanity has so far survived the nuclear age “by some combination of skill, luck and divine intervention, and I suspect the latter in greatest proportion.”
Open original document@lukeburgis @JonAskonas @NOV1TATE Timely, yes. @johnrobb ("A world full of nuclear weapons isn't compatible with the way networks drive politics and conflict") as myself, shocked by the dearth of acuity surrounding immediate, related, mimetic trends. I'm quoting Paul, in an eschatological note, too, these days.
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Copy of tweet: 2/ Some aver the recent, massive, mimetic escalation in technology-accelerated cycles of violence and counter-violence defining geopolitical conflicts perceived by key antagonists in fundamentally existential terms, abrogates the theoretical premise putting a brake on Armageddon. Copy of tweet: end/ So, an algorithmically-supercharged vortex of mimetic contagion and, all told, a momentum the prophets universally anticipated would inevitably deliver us to the very threshold of suicidal, planetary cataclysm. Hobbes' 'war of all against all', plus nukes. What next, then?
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@iyad_elbaghdadi My conclusion is that it's not possible for Israel to invade & occupy Gaza or transfer its population outside Israel without breaking the region, destabilizing multiple regimes, causing a long-term rise in worldwide radicalization & polarization, causing an irreparable rift between the West & the rest of the world, causing political crises in multiple countries outside the region, ending whatever remains of the rules-based world order, causing a generational spike in anti-US sentiment, ending all diplomatic ties with Arab states (including Egypt & Jordan), and causing a multi-front regional war that sees the US dragged back into the Middle East for a while. And even then, it's unlikely that they'll even succeed. Last edited 12:58 PM · Oct 20, 2023 · 291.9K Views