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RT @nick_routledge: @UssamaMakdisi It's a familiar, repeating, civilizational pattern, of course - psychic elements completely scotomized from consciousness succumbing to a form of psychotic absolutism and the mimetic frenzy of the mob; a precarious order of false transcendence imposed by the scapegoat mechanism.

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 7 Mar 2025

@unherd @bencobley The anti-Semitic bigotry of 1930's German media, a useful case study in asymmetric paeans to systematic group-hatred, and the deaf, blind admixture of obsession, innocence, transference and denial embodying the very prodigalities of division and discord it professes to abhor.

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Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @CTmagazine @jeff_bilbro 1/4 Klavan seems media illiterate. First, crucially, Illich: "The ability to disguise sin defines anti-Christ." And, Nietzsche's warning against fixating on what one opposes: "Whoever fights monsters should see to it that he does not become a monster." Bad faith actors live it.Quoted by@CTmagazine @jeff_bilbro 1/4 Klavan seems media illiterate. First, crucially, Illich: "The ability to disguise sin defines anti-Christ." And, Nietzsche's warning against fixating on what one opposes: "Whoever fights monsters should see to it that he does not become a monster." Bad faith actors live it.Quoted by@alastairmci @BarbaraPym1 @KiszelyPhilip Thanks for your series of responses, Alastair; a beautiful reminder. Stateside, we're confronted by own particular flavor of deep vexation, even though its fundamental causes and effects are, of course, as in the UK, planetary and shared. Perhaps, ultimately, a solution is, too?Quoted by@moshik_temkin And we've seen it all before.