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RT @nick_routledge: @Plough "And how to translate that judgment into an agency immanent to history, one sufficiently powerful to disrupt the rule of capital before nothing remains to be saved, is the great question of all political thought of any real substance in the modern world." So?

Copy of tweet here: “Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies ... those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end...” — C.S. Lewis I love Lewis (especially A Grief Observed and the Four Loves), but this feels like something said by someone who was never oppressed by robber barons. Precisely. Where the Eschatological Event - by no means a peculiarly Christian phenomenon - ends the cosy, exceptionalist, privilege defining that particular moral code and the perpetual oppression of the world's poor its symbiotic religio-secular apologetics blindly sanction.
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Copy of tweet here: “Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies ... those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end...” — C.S. Lewis I love Lewis (especially A Grief Observed and the Four Loves), but this feels like something said by someone who was never oppressed by robber barons. Precisely. Where the Eschatological Event - by no means a peculiarly Christian phenomenon - ends the cosy, exceptionalist, privilege defining that particular moral code and the perpetual oppression of the world's poor its symbiotic religio-secular apologetics blindly sanction.

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 23 Jun 2024

@AimeTim Sufis call the human soul the 'Nafs Natiqa', the speaking soul. As for the radical devalution of the market, a planetary prophetological wedding of World Soul and Word proclaims "an eschatological state of affairs, a reversal of fortunes and transvaluation of values" - Ben Meyer

Copy of tweet thread here: I am becoming increasingly convinced that the abstract concept of "the economy" is a demonic principality. Not even joking. You're not alone. No matter their era or area of origin, planetary prophets universally identify moneytheism and its full-spectrum dominance over the moral and ontological imagination, as ‘The Big Lie that economic logic is the only model that will work.’ - Shoshana Zuboff Quote tweet: 6/ “...Jesus was executed because the Empire is scared to death of a neighborly economy.” And, the Holy Qu’ran: “And we never sent a warner to a community but its affluent members say, ‘We reject what you were sent with.’”
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Copy of tweet thread here: I am becoming increasingly convinced that the abstract concept of "the economy" is a demonic principality. Not even joking. You're not alone. No matter their era or area of origin, planetary prophets universally identify moneytheism and its full-spectrum dominance over the moral and ontological imagination, as ‘The Big Lie that economic logic is the only model that will work.’ - Shoshana Zuboff Quote tweet: 6/ “...Jesus was executed because the Empire is scared to death of a neighborly economy.” And, the Holy Qu’ran: “And we never sent a warner to a community but its affluent members say, ‘We reject what you were sent with.’”

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Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @cognazor That mantra I've been hearing for decades. Things only worsen. You know why. Ag's but the collateral story. Our righteous challenge? A "monstrously metastasized psychosis, in its essence, evil." - DBH speaking, of course, of capitalism. Moneytheism's an ag matter. One has to go.Quoted by@cognazor That mantra I've been hearing for decades. Things only worsen. You know why. Ag's but the collateral story. Our righteous challenge? A "monstrously metastasized psychosis, in its essence, evil." - DBH speaking, of course, of capitalism. Moneytheism's an ag matter. One has to go.Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @Plough Dust on the scales. As if a vast, interlocking array of global structures of religious and secular consciousness and power somehow guarantees existential absolution from the planetary reality and consequence of "a vast and hideous occasion of sin." There's a Reckoning Day to pay.Quoted by@Plough Dust on the scales. As if a vast, interlocking array of global structures of religious and secular consciousness and power somehow guarantees existential absolution from the planetary reality and consequence of "a vast and hideous occasion of sin." There's a Reckoning Day to pay.