Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
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@iyad_elbaghdadi Exactly. The false freedom of a form of subjectively-isolated deferral and denial making for an infantilized, collective experience of psychological security, serenity and affirmation by concealing the humanity of our victims and the truth about the violence inflicted on them.

Copy of tweet: The bastard appeal of the status quo: the refusal to lament. Hillman: "The capacity to deny, to remain innocent, to use belief as a protection against sophistication of every sort – intellectual, aesthetic, moral, psychological – keeps the American character from Awakening.”
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Copy of tweet: The bastard appeal of the status quo: the refusal to lament. Hillman: "The capacity to deny, to remain innocent, to use belief as a protection against sophistication of every sort – intellectual, aesthetic, moral, psychological – keeps the American character from Awakening.”

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 16 Nov 2023

@UssamaMakdisi 2/ Ultimately, it transpires that the precarious thread of a 'transcendent falsehood' is all that secures the social bonding and psychological stability of societies complicit in collectively sanctioning 'morally-justified violence' against an internal scapegoat or foreign foe.

Copy of tweet here: Niebhur noted that not only is kindness no protection from the prey of delusion, but that kind folk, _especially_, underestimate their own capacity for self deception. Rohr, too, echoes Girard in noting the scapegoat mechanism as mimetic, unconscious, automatic and universal. Quote tweet: ‘Sacred violence provides the state with its legitimacy and fuels the optimism and idolatry of the patriot. It sanctions the judiciary, justifies class distinctions, bestows privilege on the ‘best people’ and dignifies the executioner.’ - Robert Hamerton-Kelly 4/
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Copy of tweet here: Niebhur noted that not only is kindness no protection from the prey of delusion, but that kind folk, _especially_, underestimate their own capacity for self deception. Rohr, too, echoes Girard in noting the scapegoat mechanism as mimetic, unconscious, automatic and universal. Quote tweet: ‘Sacred violence provides the state with its legitimacy and fuels the optimism and idolatry of the patriot. It sanctions the judiciary, justifies class distinctions, bestows privilege on the ‘best people’ and dignifies the executioner.’ - Robert Hamerton-Kelly 4/

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Quoted by@gilduran76 @WIRED 6/ Call it what it is: Antichrist costumed as "the good". The diabolical false equivalency of security sold as salvation, violence as virtue, fear as righteousness—in short, the good religious war pimp's Gospel, and Girard's essential point that sanctified violence feels sublime.Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @lukeburgis The price to be paid, perhaps, for a nationalist fallacy of exceptionalist absolution from the unicity of planetary reality and consequence. The transpersonal psychotherapist John Welwood: "As one spiritual wag put it, 'Self-knowledge is always bad news, at least initially.'"Quoted by@lukeburgis The price to be paid, perhaps, for a nationalist fallacy of exceptionalist absolution from the unicity of planetary reality and consequence. The transpersonal psychotherapist John Welwood: "As one spiritual wag put it, 'Self-knowledge is always bad news, at least initially.'"