
20/ Which is exactly why disclosure is so often met by continuity—not just psychologically but civilizationally. Identity, habits, loyalties, meanings and institutions rush in to absorb what would otherwise require total reorientation in the psyche and the social body around it.

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3/ The prophets insist: history is not a blind alley. Beneath its surface runs a hidden trajectory—not toward despair, but disclosure. A truth so stark that no evasion remains. The collapse of illusion under the weight of the Real. A script must end. Will we solve the problem of neoliberal think tanks and authoritarian, transhumanist millionaire activists seizing the power to dictate the future of human life as they build nothing beautiful or good or nurturing of the human? People who yearn to manage other people, to create systems to fit them into, suffer from a terrible lack of moral imagination. Systems management of people is not a fit field for the human soul; it is a temptation to the worst parts of ourselves. The epistemological basis of the Extinction Tyranny, isn't it? A mode of perception and action fundamentally unhinged from concrete reality. No wonder the prophets speak of 'apocalypsis' as a totalizing flip-flop in experience of coherence, authority, significance and legitimacy. The epistemological basis of the Extinction Tyranny, isn't it? A mode of perception and action fundamentally unhinged from concrete reality. No wonder the prophets speak of 'apocalypsis' as a totalizing flip-flop in experience of coherence, authority, significance and legitimacy. end/ "Overthrow the importance principle; turn it upside down. Put down the mighty from their seats and exalt them of low degree. Every throne a toilet seat and every toilet seat a throne." - N.O. Brown. Love's Body, University of California Press, 1966. 1/ N.O. Brown, succinct on ‘apocalypsis’, the moment of vision and decision: “To see through this show; to see the invisible reality; to put an end to politics. The revolution, the revelation, the apocalypse, is vision; which pronounces a last judgment; and brings about the end.”
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@sentantiq 2/ The very figures who positioned themselves as reality's arbiters now seem most unmoored, experiencing a more profound disorientation because the ground they stood on was always about a certain kind of epistemic authority, a particular structure of sovereignty—now in free fall.
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