At what point does a civilization's capacity to justify and scale violence beyond moral reckoning cross from political pathology into what theology names as "demonic"? And has a planetary threshold already been crossed into what apocalyptic theology calls "dragonic"?
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Copy of tweet here: oldeuropeanculture When St George finally reached the cave of the dragon who terrorised the world, he had his way barred by an angry mob consisting of people who lived around the dragon's cave and who fed off dragon's scraps who shouted "Long live the dragon!" and "Death to the dragon killer!". And they aided the dragon in its fight against St George. And they still do... Image of St. George slaying the dragon.
@serbiaireland No priest, pandit, or mullah sanctions the messianic. No politician, pundit, or scholar gives assent. It arrives without permission—healing, yes, but also riding against the dragon’s throne, the official mythos, the Antichrist consensus, the entire order keeping it all intact.
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Copy of tweet here: Is it any wonder then that St. George (or the Eliatic figure of Khezr as he's known in Islam) represents a common, universal, trans-historical, trans-cultural, prophetic prototype, and his dragon-slaying, a liberating, evolutionary turn within total, planetary experience? Jung, again: "We have to discover our shadow. Otherwise we are driven into a world war in order to see what beasts we are." Perhaps the momentous revelation, just now, of the monstrous, wholesale moral destitution of the world's primary polities, denotes just such a recognition? And, ultimately, as dominative, global structures of consciousness and power are claimed by such personalities, the diminution of world culture and society, too. Take Palestine, for example, as major state and media actors cave 'en masse' to a form of systemic moral destitution.