RT @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.
@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?
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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.