@Plough The true crisis is epistemic. When we removed Reality as a category pertaining to God, capitalism filled the void—becoming our theology, our fate. A “monstrously metastasized psychosis,” says Hart, “in its essence, evil.” The Kingdom eclipsed. The eschaton deferred. For now.
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick; unnamed former colleague and Jim Corbett quotations Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1727919136129573108 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @lukeburgis A decade or so since we'd last touched base, an investment banking cohort of old called me, from the other side of the world, 2.00 a.m. his time, drunk as a skunk, miserable. "You were the only one of us who had the fucking balls to get out, Nick," he slurred. "The only one." t.co/n2XwjY4rLa
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick; unnamed former colleague and Jim Corbett quotations Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1565516774782955520 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @TornadoNate Privileged, I began my working life at the highest levels of global political economy. Soon enough, I grokked it. Within a decade, I was a houseless, wandering mendicant, testing wisdom teachings - a deliberate choice. Now, I'm another 25 years further in. Some insights, then.
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick; unnamed former colleague and Jim Corbett quotations Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1581310751498981377 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @nils_gilman As it happens, the 1980's sovereign debt crisis proved a primary factor shaping my trajectory through life. At work, investigating financial fundamentals; at play, hanging with dear pals from business school whose sound business decisions were, as I recognized it, killing people.
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick; unnamed former colleague and Jim Corbett quotations Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1543969405008171008 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @RichardRohrOFM @CACRadicalGrace 1/ Sometimes, someone will tell me that even as they truly value my example, nonetheless 21st century realpolitik is a cage making it impossible, in practice, to emulate the Jesusy radicalism my life inhabits. I get it. It was easier to leave the nets in Francis’ time, I reckon.
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick; unnamed former colleague and Jim Corbett quotations Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1543970225892126722 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @RichardRohrOFM @CACRadicalGrace 2/ "You're right," I'll answer. “I have wiggle room where you do not." And I'll also quote the Quaker, Jim Corbett, speaking specifically of Francis' errantry: “To open the way, a cultural breakthrough need not involve masses of people, but must be done decisively by someone."
Open original document@JMGreerWriter Caught that current forty years ago. “It is my contention that theological language and prophetic call is the only language of justice left to counter the language of the market.” - Laurie Zoloth, "The Coming Storm: Climate Change and Jewish Thought", p.29.
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