Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
Reply to @dbessner

@dbessner @nils_gilman @stephenwertheim The idea of ‘limitless’ violence, long scorned by sophisticated Westerners, suddenly looms up before us. For the 1st time, humanity faces a perfectly straightforward and even scientifically calculable choice between total destruction & the total renunciation of violence. #girard

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Quoted by5/ “People all over the world are employing intellectual, moral, and rhetorical ingenuity in an effort to endow the violence they favor with culture-founding authority, and all over the world they are failing” - Gil Bailie