@lukeburgis The paywall still hiding the piece, Luke. I'd love to see it. Fwiw, it was sniffing around the highest levels of global political economy, not religion, which first launched me at the Jesus Event and inwards and onwards toward the heartland of the 'realocalization' phenomenon.
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Routledge Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: 1 On it Paul Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1691638163981443579 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. 1/ On it, Paul. Trained as an investment banker, I began my working life as a financial journalist in the world’s richest square mile. My brief? International-capital-markets primary-market syndication, central bank regulation, and sovereign debt. t.co/MOnIqruARH t.co/LU53Jf74Gr
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Routledge Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: 2 Early Source: Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. 2/ Early, it became clear to me that far from merely allocating goods and resources, the Market and the poisonous enormity of its commoditized mechanics of persuasion, guilt & punishment, had become the defining story about the nature of reality. bugs.scribble.com/workthatworks.html
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Routledge Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: 2 Early Source: Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. 2/ Early, it became clear to me that far from merely allocating goods and resources, the Market and the poisonous enormity of its commoditized mechanics of persuasion, guilt & punishment, had become the defining story about the nature of reality. bugs.scribble.com/workthatworks.html
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Routledge quoting Thatcher Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: 3 Thatcher Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1691638163981443579 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. 3/ Thatcher declared, “There is no alternative.” It’s capitalism all the way down & all the better when clothed in the raiment of tradition & religion, a beatific vision of a heavenly city of corporate capital, a pecuniary surrogate for the Eternal Gospel. t.co/EpzUJctMrI
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Routledge quoting Zuboff Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: 4 Well Source: Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. 4/ Well, as it happens, no matter their era or area of origin, our Prophets universally identify moneytheism and its full-spectrum dominance over the moral and ontological imagination, as ‘The Big Lie that economic logic is the only model that will work.’ - Shoshana Zuboff
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Routledge quoting Zuboff Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: 4 Well Source: Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. 4/ Well, as it happens, no matter their era or area of origin, our Prophets universally identify moneytheism and its full-spectrum dominance over the moral and ontological imagination, as ‘The Big Lie that economic logic is the only model that will work.’ - Shoshana Zuboff
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Routledge quoting Brueggemann Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: 5 Why Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1691638163981443579 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. 5/ Why was Jesus murdered, after all? #WalterBrueggeman: "How badly we have read the New Testament. We thought it was about private sin and going to heaven, when in fact the New Testament is essentially about a neighborhood alternative in economics...” t.co/QJkOyCX1X4
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Routledge, Brueggemann quotation and Holy Qur'an Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: 6 Jesus Source: Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. 6/ “...Jesus was executed because the Empire is scared to death of a neighborly economy.” And, the Holy Qu’ran: “And we never sent a warner to a community but its affluent members say, ‘We reject what you were sent with.’”
Open original document@nils_gilman Terrific. Perhaps also worth noting that whereas legacy forms of significance typically dismiss 'neighborly eco-social reality' as a defining, co-evolutionary pivot-point for personal and world transformation, it nonetheless remains our primary, bio-cultural 'space for agency'.
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