@Heavylifter57 @BrianZahnd 2/ Some aver the recent, massive, mimetic escalation in technology-accelerated cycles of violence and counter-violence defining geopolitical conflicts perceived by key antagonists in fundamentally existential terms, abrogates the theoretical premise putting a brake on Armageddon.
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Copy of tweet: end/ So, an algorithmically-supercharged vortex of mimetic contagion and, all told, a momentum the prophets universally anticipated would inevitably deliver us to the very threshold of suicidal, planetary cataclysm. Hobbes' 'war of all against all', plus nukes. What next, then?
@Dan_Bowdoin John Milbank, to me, yesterday: "I am certainly a just war theorist and stand with the tradition on this." Polite and cultured, John. Then again, I'm not sure Christian politesse is quite my cup of tea. One man's logic, another man's Auschwitz. Odd, what's been made of Jesus.
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