@ThinkingFaith It's all One Media Picture, of course: Girardian dialectics, the Life of Jesus, Jesuit culture, Gaia, the Web, bombing hospitals. Simply stated, wherever planetary media mimetically aims, so go we. At what, then? A Death Cult? Or at the Second Advent, as First, as Media Event?
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Copy of tweet here: I watched Gaza yesterday. Given that the Girard community serendipitously gathered upon this epochal 'escalation to extremes', I'm honestly curious about what the @NOV1TATE meta-narrative tells us. How did the Girardians respond?
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· Girard: “Mimesis, is both responsible for escalation and deescalation depending on what actions are being imitated." Then, of course, there's the decisive role of information technology - this stuff - in shaping the direction, form and character of mimesis at the planetary level.
@BrianZahnd Until we begin truly witnessing to the arrival, as distinct from future of peace, the 'eschatological proviso' will remain just that, a clause. And how and where do we imagine the second messianic will express this time round? Through the usual channels? Ad-supported? C'mon.
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Copy of tweet here: 2/ "It has become almost morally impermissible in Western public debate to focus on the conditions for advantageous short-term peace." Clear enough. Time, then, for a planetary response transcending the ontological substrate of Western triumphalism and the reality it maintains.
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Copy of tweet here: No, let's not. Responsibility for the Palestine catastrophe remains ours to own, as is the immediate requirement to arrest the cataclysm there. The accelerating lurch toward limitless war? A mimetic, global phenomenon. As is the fix: only planetary peace will claim the Holy Land.
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Image of tweet and quote tweet here: As for Just Nuclear War Theory? And the time and place to reckon with an essentially nuclear mimetic crisis? Clear as daylight. Peace in the Holy Land concurrently effects and requires world peace. Quote tweet: Promote The only viable solution to this totalizing catastrophe we are upon, is planetary peace, now. 7:33 PM · Oct 8, 2023 from Oregon, USA