@lukeburgis I once dismissed "possession" and "exorcism" as occult kitsch. But just now, watching rivalrous mimetics—war logic, genocide logic, nuclear logic—go total, seizing minds, narrowing futures, and demanding sacrifice, it lands as hard realism. Apocalypsis reads as exorcism at scale.
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Tweet: Politics cannot do the job of an exorcist Politics are not ethics, and they make really bad religion. Their track record says enough, and brings us to a practical concern with systemic possession. As such, the Messiah: functionally, an exorcism recalibrating identity at the planetary level, establishing an axis of ontological legitimacy restoring individual and cosmic order. Tweet: Barth, Illich, Moltmann, Girard, Ellul, Jung and Hillman among others, are clear: diagnosis requires naming—"the first act of exorcism" (Wink). In the metaphysics of exposure, unveiling and judgment arrive together. The Event unveils both the flood and our position in its path. Tweet: 1/ "When the stakes are life on earth, all else is a diversion," notes the Australian, Roshi Susan Murphy. As such, perhaps we require an exorcism (Rev. Dr. Jacqui Lewis) addressing the existential apostasy or ‘wetiko’ (Algonquian) of an extinction tyranny at the planetary level? Subtweet: "Mainstream media outlets are often unable to tell a story that doesn’t fit within the established narrative. We must tell our own story. Social media afford us multiple outlets for the consciousness-raising that movements have always depended upon. Use them all." - @RevDrBarber
Open original document@alon_mizrahi 7/ When the System metabolizes resistance, eating it, only prophetic speech stands outside—the sole sovereign language left to counter the capture of being itself. It doesn’t argue with psychosis; it interrupts it. Not protest, but eschatology—the voice no model can counterfeit.
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Excerpt from Virtues of Renewal, Wendell Berry’s Sustainable Forms (Culture Of The Land) 2018, by Jeffrey Bilbro. 71. Kaveny, Prophecy without Contempt, 288. Kaveny expands on this claim, arguing that “the rhetoric of prophetic indictment is best understood as a sort of moral chemotherapy, a reaction to a potentially life-threatening distortion in ordinary, day-to-day moral discussion. Deliberative discourse is, in fact, that ordinary form of moral discussion. . . . In some cases, however, our ordinary form of discussion can be gravely corrupted, perhaps by the incorporation of a false major premise, perhaps because of the dependence on a mistaken minor premise. Such mistakes are made all the time in matters small and large. In some few cases, however, the mistake is about such a fundamental matter that it threatens to undermine the very possibility of moral and political reasoning within the community. . . . Prophetic indictment relentlessly—and sometimes ruthlessly—targets the corruption that, left unchecked, would undermine the possibility of sound moral deliberation more generally” (287–88; see also 308–16). Berry’s use of the prophetic mode parallels Walter Brueggemann’s description in his seminal Prophetic Imagination, 2nd ed. (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2001). Other scholars have situated Berry in the context of Old Testament prophecy: see Davis, Scripture, Culture, and Agriculture, and Todd Edmondson, Priest, Prophet, Pilgrim: Types and Distortions of Spiritual 186 Notes to Pages 75–81 Vocation in the Fiction of Wendell Berry and Cormac McCarthy (Eugene, Ore.: Wipf and Stock, 2014), 47–54.
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