Nick Routledge@nick_routledge

Indeed. As in cyberspace, so below. As in meatspace, so above. On all sides, the murderous dismissal of the Other, experienced and promoted as coherent and socially beneficial, powerfully defines the anthropology of modernity. A hall of mirrors. The war of all against all. 1/ x.com/CarolSansour/status/1362754643009372164

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Quoted by@FreakinDeacon99 The response, a storm in a teacup, except that it reveals Christian theology as demonstrating precisely the "mimetic, unconscious, automatic and universal" mechanism sustaining "the essential complicity between violence and human culture" (Girard) which Jesus came to end.Quoted by@ceisenstein And, of course, there’s Covid’s place within the larger planetary framework of a ‘war of all against all’ that Girard, Steiner and others, anticipated as inevitable, if we do not end the essential complicity between violence and human culture, once and for all.Quoted by@stewartdantec Back to Baldwin. ?s=20Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @spulliam I’m a neighborhood covid medic moving equally among left and right, fundies and secularists, active non-mask wearers and home-isolators. Both sides, dearest of friends and allies. Both sides equally deluded, equally judgmental.Quoted by@spulliam I’m a neighborhood covid medic moving equally among left and right, fundies and secularists, active non-mask wearers and home-isolators. Both sides, dearest of friends and allies. Both sides equally deluded, equally judgmental.