@BrianZahnd True, and yet the full-blown advent of messianic reality involves the concrete reality of totalizing, political change, the planetary shedding of "the demonic complex" (D.E.H. Whiteley) realized upon God's Day. The Kingdom came to put an end to politics. This, we may _live_ now.
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Excerpt from tweet thread here: Clearly, if we have a future, there's a choice to be made. What's it to be, then? A suicidal cataclysm of materialist and religious fetishism, or the world-renewing truth of the Messiah's example and message? The irrecusable catastrophe of the false sacred, or a fresh start? Some might have us believe otherwise, but the incarnational life isn't rocket science. Rather, a wholly democratic social experience universally accessible through a workaday adventure reconciling and reinvigorating ourselves, the Earth and the Beautiful, in the same breath. The messianic era? Coming home to the transcendent fullness of empirical Earth-bound life, effectively completing a co-evolutionary circuit freeing us to a planetary realm of measureless, enfolded, promise and potential. A new world co-creation, in this realm of existence.
@richvillodas A form of universalized, psychotic absolutism, isn't it? Girard, then: "Politics can no longer save us." Our recourse? Concrete reality as the covenantal realm redemptive time comes to ground. N. Brown: "The real fight is not the political fight, but to put an end to politics."
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Copy of tweet here: The real fight isn't politics. Rather the imperative to eclipse a puerile Spectacle imagining itself as the highest ground of necessity, probity and significance. We rise not as a political category but as a moral fusion movement obviating a pissing match pointed at a mass grave. Copy of tweet: Perhaps the deeper political significance of what are, in essence, maniacal purity cults, is the co-dependent Spectacle of totalizing distraction and denial sustaining the whole shebang. To see is to see through the show. Blake: "it is Burnt up the Moment Men cease to behold it." David, hi. Surprised to stumble upon a fundamentally secular community of interest and vernacular addressing "the political and temporal dynamism of eschatology" as it relates to "the possibility of a messianic Politics to Come." Nils' "radical philosophical event" comes to mind.