Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
Reply to @PhoebeTickell

@solarpunk_girl @alexevansuk 1/ Positive, grounded responses addressing those specific concerns are well in hand, frankly. Our primary challenge is a majoritarian sense of significance powerfully vested in dominant narratives, and the threat of personal salvation as apocalyptic as the doom that hounds us.

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Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @jesuits_ireland @Pontifex 4/ Our present modernity can be characterized by its endless deferral of judgment, “a secularized parody of the Church’s incessant deferral of the last judgment” (Agamben), an institution that can only preserve its own existence by endlessly postponing the judgment it announces.Quoted by@jesuits_ireland @Pontifex 4/ Our present modernity can be characterized by its endless deferral of judgment, “a secularized parody of the Church’s incessant deferral of the last judgment” (Agamben), an institution that can only preserve its own existence by endlessly postponing the judgment it announces.