Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
@urbnscl @SuellaBraverman You know how it goes: the ego will and can rationalize anything. Indeed, all the better when policy violence is clothed in the raiment of patriotic interest and religion. So, we arrive at narcissism exponentiated as the vision of a Pure Land flying a solitary, triumphalist flag.
Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 15 Jan 2021
3/ Where this mechanism for promoting camaraderie & psychological stability is to be enjoyed & extended, its violence is found morally acceptable or ‘sacred’ only by concealing the humanity of our victims and the truth about the violence inflicted on them.
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