@PageauJonathan 24/ The threshold between mystical and political fuses here. What seems like retreat from the world's systems is actually the deepest form of engagement—not opposing power but embodying an alternative ontology that renders domination obsolete through the sheer weight of presence.
17/ 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.
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Tackled McCarraher's 'The Enchantments of Mammon', yet? And Brueggeman: "How badly we have read the New Testament...The New Testament is essentially about a neighborhood alternative in economics...Jesus was murdered because the Empire is scared to death of a neighborly economy."
And while we're on the topic of abstraction as enslavement...
Thoreau noted a hundred and sixty years ago that we had grown imprisoned by the abstractions we created. His longest chapter in Walden is titled, and decries our growing enslavement to, “Economics."~James Hollis
Jim Corbett, in response, speaking to the Quixotic Principle: “To open the way, a cultural breakthrough need not involve masses of people, but must be done decisively by someone"; together with Helen Caldicott: "Where American media goes, so goes the Earth." As such.
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Copy of tweet here: Tackled McCarraher's 'The Enchantments of Mammon', yet? And Brueggeman: "How badly we have read the New Testament...The New Testament is essentially about a neighborhood alternative in economics...Jesus was murdered because the Empire is scared to death of a neighborly economy." And while we're on the topic of abstraction as enslavement... Thoreau noted a hundred and sixty years ago that we had grown imprisoned by the abstractions we created. His longest chapter in Walden is titled, and decries our growing enslavement to, “Economics."~James Hollis Jim Corbett, in response, speaking to the Quixotic Principle: “To open the way, a cultural breakthrough need not involve masses of people, but must be done decisively by someone"; together with Helen Caldicott: "Where American media goes, so goes the Earth." As such. CEOs on their yachts drinking … [deletion for alt-text limit]