@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.
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Copy of tweet here: Agreed and, frankly, a worldwide contagion: Jihadists, Zionists, Hindutvavadis, 969ers, Crusaders, they're all at it. And whilst we're not the only only ones suffering from this plague, nor are we the only ones God welcomes. This, hardly news to planetary prophetology, of course. Clearly, the supercharged universality of this phenomenon - pat, predictable, cookie-cutter dialectics of ethnonationalism, purity and exclusion, span a dizzying array of languages, cultures and borders, just now - powerfully affirms its common, transcultural, archetypal origins.
@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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