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@LAReviewofBooks @QuincyInst 2/ "It has become almost morally impermissible in Western public debate to focus on the conditions for advantageous short-term peace." Clear enough. Time, then, for a planetary response transcending the ontological substrate of Western triumphalism and the reality it maintains.

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 5 Jun 2022

@johnrobb Half-assed, any evolutionary perspective which eschews the function of political theology in 'escaping the overwhelming ideological force of claims about the inevitability of 'the catastrophic present' as professional historians @nils_gilman and @moshik_temkin describe it, below.

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Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @lukeburgis Echoing Gandhi's substrative take, there: "The sphere of spirit and politics is one." Someone in my notes (Heschel? Scholem?), similarly: "It is in concrete reality that redemptive time is actualized. Messianic time therefore constitutes a messianic reality of political change."Quoted by@lukeburgis Echoing Gandhi's substrative take, there: "The sphere of spirit and politics is one." Someone in my notes (Heschel? Scholem?), similarly: "It is in concrete reality that redemptive time is actualized. Messianic time therefore constitutes a messianic reality of political change."Quoted by@ethicalzac @ceisenstein Great question. An effective response? Not so much about 'stopping' an extinction tyranny defining global structures of consciousness and power and the bastard notions of legitimacy, significance and authority it militantly sustains, as much as transcending its occupying ground.Quoted by“We need a worldwide Poor People’s Campaign and a global call to moral revival.” @RevDrBarber. "Ultimately there is only one factor upon which the shape of history depends: the moral conduct of the nations." - Abraham Joshua Heschel @UniteThePoor