@JoshHochschild @jeff_bilbro 18/ As for the apocalyptic irony built into the collapse itself? Precisely by becoming total, representation destroys its own authority. The more perfectly we can simulate presence, the more completely presence reveals itself as irreducible to simulation. The idol judges itself.
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Copy of tweet thread here: This so absolutely true. Quote Luke Burgis we’re entering a world in which the only faculty that will allow a person to distinguish real from fake will not be intelligence, but spiritual discernment The very experience of not knowing what to trust anymore is an apocalyptic grace—judgment on our idolatry of representation. The core question isn’t “how do we patch epistemology?” but, “where does Truth actually live?” And that question, pressed hard enough, is Christological.