@seenunseenmag 10/ Clearly, religio-political nationalism isn’t a uniquely Christian, recent or historically local turn—in the US, Russia, Hungary, Brazil and Poland, with newer expressions in Serbia, Georgia, Romania, Italy and the UK—but an epochal, religio-cultural, planetary formation.
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Copy of tweet here: Cultures differ, but the bastard appeal of a Political Savior remains strikingly universal. The Con? Gone global. Modi, but the South Asian face of a spell of False Deliverers offering up gathering points for national anguish. What nature, then, an effective, planetary response? “A grim warning that the spell cast by the demagogues of our times is profound: It is based on fear and loathing of internal and external enemies, and secured by close personal identification with and deep psychological dependence on charismatic figures.”
@gracie88888 @sidewayskoyote @RizomaSchool Heck, all the pols are at it now. Take the way environmentalism is being aggressively co-opted by modern nationalists. I would say Christo-fascists, but the trend's now transcultural. Modi's at it, for example. Lunatic anthropocentrism, a disease of exile, really, isn't it? x.com/shane_burley1/status/1537857953650266112
