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Aral Balkan
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I mainly post on my blog at https://ar.al  (RSS: https://ar.al/index.xml ) and interact on my Mastodon https://mastodon.ar.al . Please follow me there.

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    1. Aral Balkan‏ @aral 10 Apr 2015

      If our species is to survive the Anthropocene, we must abandon the mass psychosis that is religion.

      5 replies 6 retweets 19 likes
    2. Aral Balkan‏ @aral 10 Apr 2015
      Replying to @aral

      Tolerance of 2,000-year-old ignorant ramblings & our current technological means to destroy our own habitat are fundamentally incompatible.

      2 replies 1 retweet 12 likes
      Aral Balkan‏ @aral 10 Apr 2015

      Systemic inequality is the core issue of our time. We cannot tackle it while also perpetuating the ultimate, absolute privilege of religion.

      3:33 AM - 10 Apr 2015
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        2. Aral Balkan‏ @aral 10 Apr 2015
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          The topology of the Anthropocene must be distributed. Sustainable; w/out centres. No place for religion or monarchy in a distributed system.

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        3. Aral Balkan‏ @aral 10 Apr 2015
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          Either we relegate our primitive, centralised structures to the history books, or they will relegate us to the same.

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        2. P.O.K.‏ @request_d 10 Apr 2015
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          @aral suspect latter results from former rather than other way round.

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        3. Aral Balkan‏ @aral 10 Apr 2015
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          @request_d Feedback loop.

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        4. P.O.K.‏ @request_d 10 Apr 2015
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          @aral think inequality node amplifies feedback more than religion #gutfeeling

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        1. Lawrence Meckan‏ @absalomedia 10 Apr 2015
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          @aral religion should not be privileged. Like every other idea it should stand or fall on its own merits

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        2. X.I.‏ @songsofroland 10 Apr 2015
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          @aral Since the Enlightenment, we've experienced the falling away of tradition, while the idea of the domination of reason over nature 1/6

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        3. X.I.‏ @songsofroland 10 Apr 2015
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          flourished. This selfreflexive modernity not only suffers from unintended and unforseen side effects (e.g. climate change, nature 2/6

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        4. X.I.‏ @songsofroland 10 Apr 2015
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          fighting back), but also from an identity crisis. No longer is our identity, whether personal or cultural, based on a story or heritage 3/6

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        5. X.I.‏ @songsofroland 10 Apr 2015
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          or in any way bound by location. Instead we tell different stories about ourselves in the different economic spheres we operate. 4/6

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        6. X.I.‏ @songsofroland 10 Apr 2015
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          This is our modern freedom, which in essence is a ground for indifference towards each other. The weakness of modern liberal democracy 5/6

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        7. X.I.‏ @songsofroland 10 Apr 2015
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          is that it only requires us to obey the law, there is no longer a moral backbone to society. This is something that religion could offer. 6

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        1. Orinoco Flowdan.‏ @EXECUTIVESTEVE 10 Apr 2015
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          @aral I'm as atheist as they come but surely religion is an excellent starting point for conversations about inequality?

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