@holdengraber Wonderful. And notable, his echo of Girard that no political force is capable of creating a new path forward. Our challenge, yes, far greater than politics is equipped to address even as worldly powers will clearly not surrender their caricature of realism for the common good.
@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