Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
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@TaraAnnThieke #WalterBrueggemann: "How badly we have read the New Testament. We thought it was about private sin and going to heaven when, in fact, it's essentially about a neighborhood alternative in economics. Jesus was executed because the Empire is scared to death of a neighborly economy."

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 28 Jul 2025

@lukeburgis When capitalism's no longer moored to value in any intrinsic or moral sense, it becomes pure instrumental recursion, regardless of substance. Sports, grief, water, attention, illness—all's grist for the yield mill. This isn't a misfire: it’s metaphysical psychosis made normative.

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Quoted by@sentantiq For thirty years I've refused payment for everything I've done or shared. The Real cannot be transacted. Where has it brought me?