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RT @nick_routledge: @cognazor That mantra I've been hearing for decades. Things only worsen. You know why. Ag's but the collateral story. Our righteous challenge? A "monstrously metastasized psychosis, in its essence, evil." - DBH speaking, of course, of capitalism. Moneytheism's an ag matter. One has to go.

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 20 Aug 2024

@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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“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.
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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.

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Quoted by17/ This wasn’t soft resonance. It was structural disruption. Not hovering above politics—but reordering it from below. Ontological messianism means the holy is lived, not legislated. It arises as justice made local, simplicity made durable, presence become political.