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William Hunter Duncan's avatar

"It’s perhaps instructive that we can see and describe their telos so clearly, while they remain fully blind to our own."

Indeed, a people so willfully blind to the people they think are stuck in the past, delusional and should be ruled over, are themselves the most vulnerable. Self assured in the evil they have embraced, is hubris, which means they are doomed, no matter how all powerful they may currently seem.

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Phillip's avatar

Dueling singularities...what an extraordinary expression. Apt with incredible density of meaning.

The emerging forces are formed, I think, by our reactions to the wider world. There are those who wish to re-engage with the natural world and see its constituents (including humans) as ends in themselves and who accept the limitations inherent in applying the human will to nature and there are those who simply wish to control or exploit it. The latter are refining the mechanistic worldviews and tendencies inherent in our culture, which they use to license their sociopathy. They envisage a soulless world and through processes of autopoiesis they re-make themselves as cyborgs. The former cultivate a degree of empathy and reserve towards modernity. It is a very human dialogue. We are homo faber and we construct individual and social psychologies for ourselves...prosthetic psyches...masks (personae in Latin).

Mark you may be interested in this recent article by the incomparable Alastair Crooke. I have reservations about anyone who casually applies a dualistic take on anything (including myself), but it touches on the theme of dueling singularities.

https://strategic-culture.org/news/2022/11/11/de-conflicting-with-the-west-will-the-valdai-blueprint-work/

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