@SohrabAhmari You still reason within partisan alignments and competing sovereignties, when what is now actually under judgment is the political’s pretension to ultimacy itself—a form of metaphysical cosplay mistaking itself for realism. "It is Burnt up the Moment Men cease to behold it."
@BMcGrewvy @IVMiles You speak of civilization as if it were a stable subject. But the frame itself—a total complex whose very existence hardwires flight from sight—never mind recognition—of any politic not undergirded by business as usual, exceptionalism and violence—is under eschatological audit.
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Tweet thread here: 4/ Because it saturates everything, it doesn't appear as one option among others—it appears as 'the Real.' Its structures (media, markets, law, expert discourse, security doctrine, even religion) define what counts as obvious, serious, rational, realistic. As common sense. 5\ The scandal is this: what the demonic complex trains us to treat as “unreal”—mercy, enemy-love, gratuitous forgiveness, shared bread—are concrete sites where another sovereignty is operative, the Kingdom already here as counter-environment: the deeper order present yet unread. 9/ Under the Spell, claims live in a sealed habitat, a self-referential frame that defines significance, certifies its own credibility, and calls it truth. This is the system that politics administers: the importance-regime that crowns appearances and calls its hierarchy ‘real.’ 10/ To overthrow the Spell is to see through this significance-allocation regime and to reject the reality principle which commands us to be fooled by appearances—"respect the Emperor's New Clothes". It means withdrawing from the artificial apparatus assigning value to power.
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