@MaxJerneck @nils_gilman end/ Cutting to the chase, the moral code built into dominative secular and religious epistemologies and their symbiotic structures of power, ordain and endorse a planet-sized house of endless worship of state violence against the world's poor. Simply stated, we're calling it.
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Barring a republic of excellence, the social contract should, so far as I can make out, reduce, among its participants, the aggregate of pain and of hatred. Our communal and international relations are awash with both. Totalitarian (Hegelian) systems conscript hatred and institutionalize pain. They marshal, they direct them towards the internal scapegoat and the foreign foe. Bureaucracies of menace and abjection use pain at every level. The social order depends on the fact that these two instruments are a state monopoly. Open and democratic societies are therapeutic. They endeavor to alleviate pain and lessen hatred. George Steiner ~ Ultimately there is only one factor upon which the shape of history depends: the moral conduct of the nations. Abraham Joshua Heschel
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Copy of quote tweet: Nick Routledge 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. Quote Tweet Nick Routledge ‘Sacred violence provides the state with its legitimacy and fuels the optimism and idolatry of the patriot. It sanctions the judiciary, justifies class distinctions, bestows privilege on the ‘best people’ and dignifies the executioner.’ - Robert Hamerton-Kelly 8/ 11:24 AM · Jul 25, 2020 ·Twitter Web App
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Copy of quote tweet: Nick Routledge Until? So, how's it going? An answer, that is, to the pathological infantilism defining deranged, nationalist shitshows, their full-spectrum, planetary dominance over the moral and ontological imagination, and the immediate threat they represent to the entirety of life on Earth? Quote Tweet Nick Routledge 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. 4:26 AM · Aug 7, 2022 from Oregon, USA·Twitter for iPhone
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Copy of tweet 12/ Behold, the nations are like a drop from a bucket, And are accounted as the dust on the scales;... All the nations are as nothing before Him, They are accounted by Him as less than nothing and emptiness. #Isaiah 40:15,17 #UnitingTheGlobalPoor @UniteThePoor