@Sophiologist_ On the one hand, Charles Manson: "You know, a long time ago, being crazy meant something. Nowadays everybody's crazy." And on the other, the Second Advent, in contemporary vernacular, as a form of therapeutic intervention at the planetary level. Friends don't let friends drive.
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Copy of tweet here: And, Fintan O’Toole: "A false notion of greatness must be given a decent burial. If there is really to be a new creation, there must be no doubt that the old world is dead." And Benjamin: “The Messiah comes not only as the redeemer, he also comes as the vanquisher of Antichrist.” If I may interject? “The ways of history do not lead directly upwards to the Kingdom of God, they pass by way of the final unveiling of the anti-Christ who conceals himself under the last mask to be stripped away - the mask of what is good and what is Christian.” - von Balthasar
@Dan_Bowdoin Planetary Prophetology 101, isn’t it? Beyond the mystery, the meaning destined to be disclosed. The advance of a dark corruption simultaneously conjoined with humanity's equally mysterious vocation to betterment until, that is, 'apocalypsis', our moment of vision and decision.
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Copy of tweet here: 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.