RT @nick_routledge: @commentmag @WestLondonMan 1/ Luke’s emphasis on agency and neighboring opens an important possibility: we may have mistaken one dimension of agency for agency itself. We imagine it recovered when ordinary people can once again act effectively upon the immense systems that increasingly act upon them.
@sentantiq Concomitantly, an explosive, global, authoritarian surge correlates with complementary mimetic trends subverting the geopolitical psycho-dynamics historically putting a brake on Armageddon. We desperately need an immediate, radical revisioning of the problem of war.
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Routledge quoting Leon Panetta Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: top quotation Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1838220616291225679 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @kenklippenstein Former CIA Director Leon Panetta: "The forces of war are largely in control right now of what's going on." - August 22, 2024 t.co/HJTsOohqrN
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Routledge Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: So anybody Source: Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. Copy of tweet here: So, anybody got an answer to the Death Cult defining deranged, nationalist shitshows, their full-spectrum, planetary dominance over the moral and ontological imagination, and the immediate threat they represent to the entirety of life on Earth? Hands up, then.
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Routledge Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: 1/ In materialist Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1572941061898801153 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @Andrew__Roth 1/ In materialist terms, the stark truth is that we've been outgunned by a supremacist control complex poised to kill us all - a form of psychotic universalism, imagining itself as the highest, holiest, reigning ground of moral and existential necessity, probity and significance.
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Routledge Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: It perhaps bears noting Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1778470103111381165 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @NaksBilal @ShakiraSecurity It perhaps bears noting that the civilizational encounter represented in this particular catastrophe of a global religio-political control-complex with no operative interest in reconciliatory reformation, summons the advent of planetary prophetology's unifying articulation.
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