@pauljpastor Comeuppance Day was inevitable, as is the calamity of fragmentation and disarray indivisible from reorienting ourselves to a phase shift of evolutionary proportions as one planetary paradigm crashes and another replaces it. John Lewis called it the 'good trouble' of getting Real.
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Routledge; Walter Benjamin quoted card Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: Fleeing Paris / For the Messiah / Thesis VI Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1841317336726614472 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. An Open Letter from Palestinian Christians to Western Church Leaders and Theologians From change.org The Planetary Christ laying the smack down on the cursed exceptionalism of the Nordic Christ, in a statement issuing from the Holy Land, the Gospel's epicenter, the very birthplace of Christianity? It had to happen. 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 ... And in this, a powerful correspondence with Fromm’s notion of the messianic event as the product of a this-worldly, historical, human effort, differing dramatically from the catastrophic messianism of, say, Benjamin, Marcuse and Scholem. Frankly, I don’t see why it can’t be both. Subtweet: Fleeing Paris, Benjamin entrusted the Angelus Novus print to Georges Bataille for safekeeping. He handed his 'Theses on the Concept of History' to Hannah Arendt in Marseilles, where she was in hiding, having already escaped the Gestapo in Germany and an internment camp in France. “For the Messiah arrives not merely as the Redeemer; he also arrives as the vanquisher of the Anti-Christ. The only writer of history with the gift of setting alight the sparks of hope in the past, is the one who is convinced of this: that not even the dead will be safe from the enemy, if he is victorious. And this enemy has not ceased to be victorious.” Walter Benjamin, Thesis VI, ‘Theses on the Concept of History’
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Routledge Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: The Angel of History Source: Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. Shortened copy of tweet here: The Angel of History flew with its own wings. Shortly before his doomed flight, Benjamin entrusted the Klee print - his most treasured possession, he claimed - to Georges Bataille. Then, it found its way to Theodor Adorno and, later, to Benjamin's dear friend, Gershom Scholem. "For the rebirth of messianic thinking out of the catastrophe of Christian humanism in WWI, we are indebted to #martinbuber, #ernstbloch; #franzrosenweig, #walterbenjamin; #theodoradorno, #gershomscholem; #margaretesusman, and after WWII... #karllowith; #jacobtaubes." 1/ "Out of the ruins of historical rationality they rescued hope as a theological category. Without their messianic thinking, eschatology today is literally unthinkable." - The Rebirth of Messianic Thinking in Judaism, 'The Coming of God', Christian Eschatology. #juergenmoltmann 2/2 Call it the Planetary Christ laying the smack down but…
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Routledge quoting Moltmann in two posts Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: For the rebirth / Out of the ruins Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1841317336726614472 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. 2/ Any revolution in consciousness is this: the provincial Christ—Nordic, imperial, attenuated, civilizationally enclosed—surrendered for the Planetary Christ: a current irreducible to race, empire, or civilizational myth; unowned, translatable, alive across peoples and worlds. An Open Letter from Palestinian Christians to Western Church Leaders and Theologians From change.org The Planetary Christ laying the smack down on the cursed exceptionalism of the Nordic Christ, in a statement issuing from the Holy Land, the Gospel's epicenter, the very birthplace of Christianity? It had to happen. 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 ... And in this, a powerful correspondence with Fromm’s notion of the messianic event as the product of a this-worldly, historical, human effort, differing dramatically from the catastrophic messianism of, say, Benjamin, Marcuse and Scholem. Frankly, I don’t see why it can’t be both. Subtweet: Fleeing Paris, Benjamin entrusted the Angelus Novus print to Georges Bataille for safekeeping. He handed his 'Theses on the Concept of History' to Hannah Arendt in Marseilles, where she was in hiding, having already escaped the Gestapo in Germany and an internment camp in France. “For the Messiah arrives not merely as the Redeemer; he also arrives as the vanquisher of the Anti-Christ. The only writer of history with the gift of setting alight the sparks of hope in the past, is the one who is convinced of this: that not even the dead will be safe from the enemy, if he is victorious. And this enemy has not ceased to be victorious.” Walter Benjamin, Thesis VI, ‘Theses on the Concept of History’ "For the rebirth of messianic thinking out of the catastrophe of Christian humanism in WWI, we are indebted to #martinbuber, #ernstbloch & #franzrosenweig, #walterbenjamin & #theodoradorno, #gershomscholem & #margaretesusman, and after WWII... #karllowith & #jacobtaubes." 1/ "Out of the ruins of historical rationality they rescued hope as a theological category. Without their messianic thinking, eschatology today is literally unthinkable." - The Rebirth of Messianic Thinking in Judaism, 'The Coming of God', Christian Eschatology. #juergenmoltmannn 2/
Open original document@lukeburgis @JonAskonas @NOV1TATE Timely, yes. @johnrobb ("A world full of nuclear weapons isn't compatible with the way networks drive politics and conflict") as myself, shocked by the dearth of acuity surrounding immediate, related, mimetic trends. I'm quoting Paul, in an eschatological note, too, these days.
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Copy of tweet: 2/ Some aver the recent, massive, mimetic escalation in technology-accelerated cycles of violence and counter-violence defining geopolitical conflicts perceived by key antagonists in fundamentally existential terms, abrogates the theoretical premise putting a brake on Armageddon. Copy of tweet: end/ So, an algorithmically-supercharged vortex of mimetic contagion and, all told, a momentum the prophets universally anticipated would inevitably deliver us to the very threshold of suicidal, planetary cataclysm. Hobbes' 'war of all against all', plus nukes. What next, then?
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@iyad_elbaghdadi My conclusion is that it's not possible for Israel to invade & occupy Gaza or transfer its population outside Israel without breaking the region, destabilizing multiple regimes, causing a long-term rise in worldwide radicalization & polarization, causing an irreparable rift between the West & the rest of the world, causing political crises in multiple countries outside the region, ending whatever remains of the rules-based world order, causing a generational spike in anti-US sentiment, ending all diplomatic ties with Arab states (including Egypt & Jordan), and causing a multi-front regional war that sees the US dragged back into the Middle East for a while. And even then, it's unlikely that they'll even succeed. Last edited 12:58 PM · Oct 20, 2023 · 291.9K Views