Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
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@shorewalker1 @nils_gilman History tends to the fuller and fuller revelation of the mystery of evil. History, therefore, follows an apocalyptic logic. Not apocalyptic in the sense in which the word is used colloquially to refer to catastrophes but in the word’s original sense of revelation or unveiling.

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Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @johnrobb Hardly surprising. Eschatologically speaking, the web era initiated the arrival of an algorithmically-supercharged parsing mechanism which, ultimately, can only be understood apocalyptically, that is, from a point of view revealing a meaning different from its literal sense.Quoted by@johnrobb Hardly surprising. Eschatologically speaking, the web era initiated the arrival of an algorithmically-supercharged parsing mechanism which, ultimately, can only be understood apocalyptically, that is, from a point of view revealing a meaning different from its literal sense.Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @moshik_temkin In concrete, planetary, geopolitical terms, the messianic interpretation of ‘apocalypsis’ includes the redemption of the future from the power of history.Quoted by@moshik_temkin In concrete, planetary, geopolitical terms, the messianic interpretation of ‘apocalypsis’ includes the redemption of the future from the power of history.Quoted by#WorldDayOfThePoor #COP26 Country club morality, the Whited sepulcher of the planetary death cult. Heschel: “The hunger of the powerful knows no satiety. Power exalts itself and is incapable of yielding to any transcendent judgment; it ‘listens to no voice’ (Zeph.3:2).”Quoted by5/ Heschel spells it out, unambiguously: “Impartiality with regard to history," he says, "is a pretense.” Pivotal to such prophetic discernment is an awareness of 'enlightened being' as existentially indivisible from Teilhard de Chardin’s “irresistible march of evolution.”Quoted by@EElmskid @iyad_elbaghdadi Well said. Colonialism becomes neo-liberalism; slavery becomes gulag culture; and so forth. Meanwhile, entire cultures assume ‘blinkers of decorum.’ Such hidden violence (‘the mystery of evil’) finally revealed, describes the function of ‘apocalypsis’, or ‘unveiling’.