Thread by @wretchardthecat

It's ironic how, as the tower trembles and multitudes reach for each other's throats, perhaps the only thing that can save us are the disparaged thoughts and prayers. Our great technological machinery was helpless against the malice which was in our hearts.

Nearly all great historical crises are at heart breakdowns of software, collapses of comity, mutual respect and sanity. We look around our capitals and see gleaming cuties but had we other eyes we would see sewers flowing through them.

In times past we gathered each Sunday to hear cautionary tales of what befell those who thought they were in control and lost their tenuous grip on What Is. Then our lives grew more comfortable; we lost track of the old warnings and turned instead to social media influencers.

Now as our Galaxies and Iphones turn against us; spy on us and lead us where we would not go, we struggle to regain the essence of freedom. "I want to choose something else because it is right ".

Thou shalt not put narratives before the truth.
Thou shalt not bear fake news against they neighbor
Thou shalt not build systems upon covetousness.
Thou shalt not kill.

Both of you.

Nah.