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"The boundaries between real and fake were already blurring, and soon we would no longer even be able to see them. [...] The sign would no longer point to the signified—it would point to nothing at all. Hyperreality would not simply be confused with reality. It would replace it entirely, and we would all be living in it."
— Mar 10, 2026 08:23PM
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"...the sacred and the digital not only don't mix, but are fatal to each other. They are in metaphysical opposition. That what comes through these screens bleeds out any connection with the divine, with nature or with the fullness of humanity."
— Apr 07, 2026 08:44PM
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"...even relatively simple technologies like the shaduf—a lever for lifting water from the river more efficiently—was not much used, even though it was known about. The issue was not a lack of technological knowledge; it was a concern about what its use might do to the shape of reality. [...] 'even simple technologies had moral and indeed cosmic implications.'"
— Apr 07, 2026 01:52PM
Sam
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"The left wants a world without borders that somehow also contains welfare states, while the right wants to defend the ethnic makeup of nations without acknowledging that traditional notions of ethnicity are increasingly impossible in the high-tech globalised world that has resulted from the capitalist economy they have always defended."
— Mar 13, 2026 10:01AM
