@wyclif @suzania Yup. The infantile consciousness flees vulnerability, complexity, and responsibility; the narcissistic response is compensatory omnipotence. The appeal of authoritarian religio-politics is the psycho-spiritual fantasy it generates in consecrating immaturity disguised as strength.
@MassimoFaggioli Religio-fascism as sacralized infantilism: politics that feels holy precisely because it never has to grow up. 'Daddy will tell us what's right'—innocence laundering doubling as moral regression; toddler denial ordained as faith clarity; the cross a gold star of empire's nursery.
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Copy of tweet here: There are a few things weirdly distinctive about American politics: one of them is politicians who never breathe a word of truth, everything they say is a lie, and people keep voting for them 1/ Not that weird. Their bastard appeal derives precisely from their function as public icons of denial. Such is the maniacal enchantment of the political Deliverer, and their promise of reducing the complexities of life to an 'unreality' of simplistic thought and blind belief. An iconography of denial as much as addiction, perhaps? #JamesHillman: “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.