@ValerieEguavoen @theology_policy @YaleDivSchool The stark truth is that the exceptionalism we face at home is ultimately planetary, interdependent and totalizing - a form of universalized, psychotic absolutism. The poor are suffering everywhere and the solution, as cause, is necessarily global, too.
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The Alston report is the most serious challenge yet to poverty triumphalism, to the political apologias that it has supported, and to the fiction that economies of massive inequality are destroying poverty rather than destroying the poor. @unitetheooor Quote Tweet The World Bank claims that just 10% of people worldwide live in poverty. In reality, the number is likely more than 50%. @TomFStevenson considers the faulty methodologies that led economists to declare global destitution a thing of the past. · Global destitution is immense and real, as is the fiction that economies of massive inequality are destroying poverty rather than destroying the poor. Yesterday’s economic report clarifies the obscenity of accelerating planetary inequity. #unitingtheglobalpoor Quote Tweet Global inequality ‘as marked as it was at peak of western imperialism’ theguardian.com/business/2021/dec/07/global-inequality-western-imperialism-super-rich
@jbralston @uoedivinity @CMSN_Edi 2/ His invocation, democratic. Moltmann avers: "Theology is the business of all God’s people." Moses went further, of course: "Would to God that all the Lord’s people were Prophets." The hermaneutic of @unitethepoor, then? Inclusive, universal, planetary, prophetic, interruptive.
![2/ The gig, no mistake. I'm a theologian of the poor who's spent decades exploring functional alternatives to the interlocking totalitarianism of the world's largest carcereal complex and global structures of power effectively transforming the planet into a universal prison camp.
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5/ A global, militarist matrix with no interest in its abolition. Criminalizing the poor, at home and abroad, through a transnational, totalizing, techno-industrial complex of social control. Functional totalitarianism. Global elites making Gazans of the rest of us.
end/ The blunt truth? Ultimately, nothing will free the captives of the world from the hegemony of the modern control complex, short of transcendent intervention at the planetary level. Universal abolition, the embodiment of God's justice: the Messianic Promise, its advent. [Image]
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2/ The gig, no mistake. I'm a theologian of the poor who's spent decades exploring functional alternatives to the interlocking totalitarianism of the world's largest carcereal complex and global structures of power effectively transforming the planet into a universal prison camp. QT 5/ A global, militarist matrix with no interest in its abolition. Criminalizing the poor, at home and abroad, through a transnational, totalizing, techno-industrial complex of social control. Functional totalitarianism. Global elites making Gazans of the rest of us. end/ The blunt truth? Ultimately, nothing will free the captives of the world from the hegemony of the modern control complex, short of transcendent intervention at the planetary level. Universal abolition, the embodiment of God's justice: the Messianic Promise, its advent. [Image] QT "Neither words of persuasion nor threats of castigation will have any effect...” - Heschel @UniteThePoor