RT @nick_routledge: @RizomaSchool 1/9 I once fessed up to the shepherd of an urbane, sophisticated religious community: “I prefer poor, blue-collar folk—they’re more real in their being, and everything with it.” “Blessed are the poor” isn’t a moral compliment; it’s an ontological claim about how reality is wired.
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The Kingdom is not an external throne but the convergence of inner stance and cosmic telos. To “serve one master” isn't moral bookkeeping; it’s ontological alignment. The Messianic choice isn't an exit—it’s reality rightly ordered when heart and world bow to love's means and end.
@ianbremmer The replies? Mantric dollar-zombiehood—ontic blindness, parading as enlightenment, screeching through the braindead megaphone of late modernity. Make no mistake, the terminal fantasy sustaining “the whole Big Lie that economic logic is the only model that will work” is finished.
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Copy of tweet thread: CEOs on their yachts drinking thousand dollar bottles of champagne getting economic anxiety over the idea of paying their workers like $5 more an hour. Was it Cannes? I forget now. But I do recall the bankers bringing in sex workers in motor launches. Deal-making. QT: · 1/ Trained as an investment banker, I began my working life as a financial journalist in the richest square mile on the face of the planet. My brief? International-capital-markets primary-market syndication, central bank regulation, and sovereign debt.