@lukeburgis Echoing Gandhi's substrative take, there: "The sphere of spirit and politics is one." Someone in my notes (Heschel? Scholem?), similarly: "It is in concrete reality that redemptive time is actualized. Messianic time therefore constitutes a messianic reality of political change."
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Copy of tweet here: Relatedly, Schmitt is notable for his claim that political concepts are secularized theological concepts, whereas Taubes flip-sided the political aspect of theological claims. Moving on, Girard has more fully integrated the theo-political dimensions of the friend-foe mechanism. Quote tweet: Nick Routledge Precisely. And then, of course, there's the scapegoat mechanism exponentiated to the geopolitical level of nation-state dynamics. Country Club derangement.
@LAReviewofBooks @QuincyInst 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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