@gilduran76 @WIRED 6/ Call it what it is: Antichrist costumed as "the good". The diabolical false equivalency of security sold as salvation, violence as virtue, fear as righteousness—in short, the good religious war pimp's Gospel, and Girard's essential point that sanctified violence feels sublime.
@iyad_elbaghdadi Exactly. The false freedom of a form of subjectively-isolated deferral and denial making for an infantilized, collective experience of psychological security, serenity and affirmation by concealing the humanity of our victims and the truth about the violence inflicted on them.
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Copy of tweet: The bastard appeal of the status quo: the refusal to lament. Hillman: "The capacity to deny, to remain innocent, to use belief as a protection against sophistication of every sort – intellectual, aesthetic, moral, psychological – keeps the American character from Awakening.”