@BrianZahnd @Dialecticsoup Juergen Moltmann: "'Messianism is the idea which Israel gave the world,' affirmed Gershom Schloem." Then again, Israel no more owns ‘world messianism’ than Christianity the Gospels. How could any one religion, culture or institution 'own' the planetary sunburst of the messianic?
@brianmclaren Brian, I got to D.C., completing a phase tackling the higher reaches of global political economy, head on. The impression? At every turn, an operative gestalt characterized, at root, by a form of rank, pathological infantilism. Pols, lobbyists, media, the lot. Another way, then.
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Excerpt from tweet thread: “The majority of kings and rulers are stupid” Ἀλλὰ νοῦν οὐκ ἔχοντες οἱ πολλοὶ τῶν βασιλέων καὶ ἀρχόντων #Plutarch Went to DC in the early 90’s to orchestrate/co-chair a Congressional Briefing on Computer Ethics, an effort demanding an honest, noble-hearted, post-partisan engagement with DC political culture. Stupid, their response? Nope. But illuminating. On all counts, utterly infantile. 1/ An aside. A surprise, but when the hicks eventually announced we were over the puerility trip and proceeding regardless, the pols all jumped into line. No matter, the DC experience concluded my efforts to transform the System, on its terms, from within. I was done. 2/
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Copy of tweet thread here: @nick_routledge and @liztheo end/ So, anybody got an answer to the pathological infantilism defining deranged, nationalist shitshows, their full-spectrum, planetary dominance over the moral and ontological imagination, and the immediate threat they represent to the entirety of life on Earth? Hands up, then. Let us wait in hope for how our God might reveal the length and breadth, the height and depth of Divine love for us. (Dan Schutte) Great question. An effective response? Not so much about 'stopping' an extinction tyranny defining global structures of consciousness and power and the bastard notions of legitimacy, significance and authority it militantly sustains, as much as transcending its occupying ground.