@ThinkingFaith In the Web Era, the reputation destruction that claimed Fisher and More has gone ambient and exponential—not from deception alone, but from algorithmic amplification corrupting the epistemic commons at scale, making trust itself the casualty rather than any particular reputation.
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Copy of tweet here: and In this vein, I always wondered what a First Internet Precept might be. For example, what began as a village solution in our small community became a universal protocol for staying human under strain—adaptable in style, native in any idiom, scalable from households to nations. Subtweet: Universally, speech is understood as subtle architecture—building or breaking the invisible structures we live within. To speak is to shape; to lie or wound is to distort, divide, destroy, desecrate. The common language of a pluriversal practice, then: repairing what is ruptured?
@pauljpastor "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."
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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. 19/ The trust crisis, then, forces a rediscovery—at once pre-modern and post-digital: truth isn't chiefly a statement to be verified but a metabolic process requiring time, bodies, friction, and cost—a way of living together that reopens the space where truth can appear as truth. Essential reading today is you care about what's happening in spirituality work. How Deepak Chopra's AI spirituality is hijacking spiritual hunger Chopra’s AI isn’t an anomaly; it’s the evolutionary endpoint of a global spiritual economy built on mediation—a world system revealing its inner logic precisely as it maxes out its own possibility. And exactly here, the deeper question breaks in. Where, and in whom, is truth? 1/ Notable, the essential 'portability' of dominative religion - the practical shedding of indivisibility with the ground it now hovers above, and the seismic implications such exile from Wholeness effects and requires - so directly correlating with religion's empiric character. 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.
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