@NoemaMag @AndrewSorota 30/ This offers a dimension transcending an extinction path tied irrevocably to national interest: a formation that travels into every domain where ultimate stakes are present, offering nuclear powers what mimetic rivalry cannot—a way to honor what matters beyond survival itself.
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If you trust me on one thing, trust me on this: America and the West are in deep trouble if the incoming administration neglects to consult and trust at least one person who understands from the inside out all three of technology, geopolitics, and Orthodox Christianity. Ah, the nuclear issue, you mean. And patently facile, of course, to assume that Russian Christo-nationalist rhetoric and policy relating to nuclear weapons is a one-way street. Such theologico-political perversion, multilateral. In witness and response, a greater perspective may be more fully apropos, then? Never mind the Samson Option, what of a truer perspective of Empire apologetics including the Orthodox-Russian axis and, in that light, 'sacerdotal cover' taking the form of a distinctively ecumenical mushroom cloud? Clearly, there's a role for the Planetary Prince of Peace, yet.
@PageauJonathan The point being keep Girard for diagnosing the fallen field, but Christ (and metaphysics) for naming the goal of desire: participation in God, not just deconstructed rivalry? That is, don’t let culture warriors turn mimetic theory into a cold, post-Christian power epistemology?
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Cartoon of two pundits speaking, "Heidegger, Girard, Nietzsche. Like so many others in tech, I draw inspiration from completely misunderstanding those authors."