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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick, posts1–4 and nested Ursula Le Guin quotation Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1949629817185349812 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. The true malaise isn't moneytheism but the ontology beneath it—beingness reduced to conditionality; a deep-seated distortion of relation to the Real; posture, inner and outer, sealing life against love. A metaphysical lie so deep it shapes the soul. Materialism is but its shrine. 1/ Turning the tables. Perhaps we imagine our primary conundrum as a species relates to the immutability of political economy or whatever name we give a totalizing foreground with its unshakable priorities and demands holding us captive, at a distance from life and each other. @Gestwa “We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings” - Ursula La Guin, #NationalBookAwards. 2/ Our world is all about the money, it seems. Quid pro quo priorities, principles and perspectives, I tell ya. But what if, at a deeper, more substantive level, it ultimately concerns a moment-to-moment relationship with a transformational as distinct from transactional reality? 3/ The notion, neither so original nor so modern as we might imagine, even as a vast, interlocking, global matrix of trans-national actors profitably, militantly, commonly and similarly vested in commanding us to be fooled by appearances, heralds a recent twist to our captivity. 4/ Jesus? Murdered by a religious and political cabal precisely because He insisted on the ultimate veracity of a transformational, as distinct from transactional compass with regard to life itself. What, then, does a functional alternative to power politics effect and require? Subtweet: 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.