@nils_gilman The real fight isn't politics. Rather the imperative to eclipse a puerile Spectacle imagining itself as the highest ground of necessity, probity and significance. We rise not as a political category but as a moral fusion movement obviating a pissing match pointed at a mass grave.
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Copy of tweet: Perhaps the deeper political significance of what are, in essence, maniacal purity cults, is the co-dependent Spectacle of totalizing distraction and denial sustaining the whole shebang. To see is to see through the show. Blake: "it is Burnt up the Moment Men cease to behold it."
@davidrieff @nils_gilman David, hi. Surprised to stumble upon a fundamentally secular community of interest and vernacular addressing "the political and temporal dynamism of eschatology" as it relates to "the possibility of a messianic Politics to Come." Nils' "radical philosophical event" comes to mind.
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