RT @nick_routledge: @firstthingsmag This piece misses the deeper unity of Russia and the West within an anti-Christian metaphysics. Both entrust history to sovereign power and the sanctification of violence as a necessary 'path to peace.' Both generate an abomination they then cite as proof of their necessity.
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are we moving towards a new era of militarism, or a reexamination of the nature of international conflict? #LARBDeepDives 1/ "I wouldn’t bet on it being anytime soon." So much for addressing the tangible, immediate threat to planetary well-being posed by nation-state derangement and the global extinction tyranny it maniacally sustains. Subtweet: end/ So, an algorithmically-supercharged vortex of mimetic contagion and, all told, a momentum the prophets universally anticipated would inevitably deliver us to the very threshold of suicidal, planetary cataclysm. Hobbes' 'war of all against all', plus nukes. What next, then No stopping this force? Great question. An effective response? Not so much about 'stopping' an extinction tyranny defining global structures of consciousness and power and the bastard notions of legitimacy, significance and authority it militantly sustains, as much as transcending its occupying ground. Subtweet: 2/ "It has become almost morally impermissible in Western public debate to focus on the conditions for advantageous short-term peace." Clear enough. Time, then, for a planetary response transcending the ontological substrate of Western triumphalism and the reality it maintains. Subtweet: Half-assed, any evolutionary perspective which eschews the function of political theology in 'escaping the overwhelming ideological force of claims about the inevitability of 'the catastrophic present' as professional historians @nils_gilman and @moshik_temkin describe it, below.
Open original document@millinerd I hear that as a real hesitation, not an evasion, kind sir—and I'd be inclined to ask who built the complexity you're pointing to, because it isn't there in the life and message of Jesus.
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