Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
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@lukeburgis Seems the Rome formation risks a counter-mimetic vanguard—a 'Girardian' circle deploying a sacral warrant for converting the diagnostic instrument into an exemption claim. A more sophisticated, credentialed form of sacrificial violence, fluent in critique and now immune to it.

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 18 Mar 2026

@MassimoFaggioli @oss_romano Mazzarella critiques Thiel’s techno-eschatology; Ehrett, the posthuman right. Yet both remain inside modern cosmology where theology and politics unfold almost wholly within a reactive human frame. What if a coherent, generative response reopens the cosmological dimension itself?

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Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @lukeburgis Quite. As Peter Thiel says, "I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible." He then forges a career as a panopticon lord shopping for a theological alibi. Theoretical lucidity is not redemption. The most dangerous scapegoaters are the ones who have read Girard.Quoted by@lukeburgis Quite. As Peter Thiel says, "I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible." He then forges a career as a panopticon lord shopping for a theological alibi. Theoretical lucidity is not redemption. The most dangerous scapegoaters are the ones who have read Girard.