Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
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@Plough The if that honest faith requires and the if that genuine politics requires are the same if: the willingness to mourn what is actually ending, and to find in that mourning not consolation but the crack where the new thing enters. How does a nation learn to sing new songs?

The bastard appeal of the status quo: the refusal to lament. Hillman: "The capacity to deny, to remain innocent, to use belief as a protection against sophistication of every sort – intellectual, aesthetic, moral, psychological – keeps the American character from Awakening.”
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The bastard appeal of the status quo: the refusal to lament. Hillman: "The capacity to deny, to remain innocent, to use belief as a protection against sophistication of every sort – intellectual, aesthetic, moral, psychological – keeps the American character from Awakening.”

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 16 Nov 2020

1/3 “The kings would do everything but grieve, for that is the ultimate criticism and the decisive announcement of dismantling.” - Walter Brueggemann, The Practice of Prophetic Imagination.

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