@SherPoint 1/2 In contemporary vernacular then, the Eschatological Event or 'Day' or 'Hour' represents a form of 'therapeutic intervention' at the planetary level, arresting the existential apostasy of a form of psychotic universalism and the extinction tyranny it functionally entails.
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Copy of tweet here: 1/ 'Wetiko' (Algonquian) is how our First Nations Peoples identify the toxic, all-encompassing enormity of this ancient enslavement and the dollarzombiehood, weaponized, of its commoditized mechanics of persuasion, guilt and punishment. A fix? Planetary prophetology names it. Echoes likewise in Illich, whose leading thesis is that Western modernity represents a perverted attempt to encode and institutionalize the NT's principles as rules of behavior, duty, and laws in a corrupting structural deception so pervasive that we no longer realize it’s there.
@UssamaMakdisi 1/ Essentially, we've arrived at a 'paradigm apocalypse' - a reckoning with a form of civilizational exceptionalism characterized by structures of consciousness and power functionally consistent with the rationalizations of a kind of universalized, psychotic absolutism.
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Copy of tweet thread: As Adorno observed in MINIMA MORALIA, the catastrophic present demands visions of the future “that display and estrange the world, reveal it to be, with its rifts and crevices, as indigent and distorted as it will appear one day in the messianic light.” This seems impressively meaningless. Care to offer a translation? History tends to the fuller and fuller revelation of the mystery of evil. History, therefore, follows an apocalyptic logic. Not apocalyptic in the sense in which the word is used colloquially to refer to catastrophes but in the word’s original sense of revelation or unveiling.