RT @nick_routledge: @AimeTim Ahmari diagnoses regime failure but misses the deeper pathology—the disorder is ontological, not procedural: power untethered from ends, speech severed from truth, decision-making eroding the very conditions for rationality. More warped than misrule, it is diabolical inversion.
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Copy of tweet here: ma questi qui sono pazzi da legare A self-reinforcing loop of high status symbolic power decoupled from empirical reality and from the long-term survival of the species it claims to steward. Self-amplifying structural psychopathology 'consecrating' anyone useful to the demonic inversion. Selecting for extinction.
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.