David Driedger
@davidcldriedger.bsky.social
Mennonite pastor, public theologian, occasional writer, failed academic. Posts are not a pulpit for my profession.
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Mark Carney regularly says he ‘knows how the world works.’ While true this never sat right with me.
Adorno put it into words,
“Anyone who knows the business too well forgets to know it for what it is, his capacity for differentiation deserts him, leaving the threat of a lapse into barbarism.”
Adorno put it into words,
“Anyone who knows the business too well forgets to know it for what it is, his capacity for differentiation deserts him, leaving the threat of a lapse into barbarism.”
November 15, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Mark Carney regularly says he ‘knows how the world works.’ While true this never sat right with me.
Adorno put it into words,
“Anyone who knows the business too well forgets to know it for what it is, his capacity for differentiation deserts him, leaving the threat of a lapse into barbarism.”
Adorno put it into words,
“Anyone who knows the business too well forgets to know it for what it is, his capacity for differentiation deserts him, leaving the threat of a lapse into barbarism.”
I have a new piece up at Political Theology Network. In which I attempt to find an adequate source of authority for the Christian left/liberalism.
politicaltheology.com/the-power-of...
politicaltheology.com/the-power-of...
Our Common Poverty | Political Theology Network
Having demythologized and deconstructed our faith, liberals have rightly discarded conservatism’s cruel damnation while keeping our class status, letting our hearts bleed just enough in public so as…
politicaltheology.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:04 PM
I have a new piece up at Political Theology Network. In which I attempt to find an adequate source of authority for the Christian left/liberalism.
politicaltheology.com/the-power-of...
politicaltheology.com/the-power-of...
One could do worse than commit themselves to a lifetime of studying Gillian and Jacqueline Rose.
November 10, 2025 at 6:31 PM
One could do worse than commit themselves to a lifetime of studying Gillian and Jacqueline Rose.
I suppose when the private wealth and property is sacred then the public and common is profane, disgusting and feared.
November 7, 2025 at 6:34 PM
I suppose when the private wealth and property is sacred then the public and common is profane, disgusting and feared.
We do not have enough to continue making everything an investment demanding maximized returns. Though it should be added, we do have enough for a good life.
November 5, 2025 at 7:43 PM
We do not have enough to continue making everything an investment demanding maximized returns. Though it should be added, we do have enough for a good life.
Can’t help we are now in full bloom of Zizek’s ‘If there is no God nothing is permissible.’
Including its counter point in Trump.
Including its counter point in Trump.
November 5, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Can’t help we are now in full bloom of Zizek’s ‘If there is no God nothing is permissible.’
Including its counter point in Trump.
Including its counter point in Trump.
Read Policing the Crisis in a small group a while back. Thinking of a reboot,
2 much policing for 2 many crises
2 much policing for 2 many crises
November 5, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Read Policing the Crisis in a small group a while back. Thinking of a reboot,
2 much policing for 2 many crises
2 much policing for 2 many crises
Haven’t read it but couldn’t help.
<Adorno intensifies>
<Adorno intensifies>
This is an excellent column: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/o...
Opinion | How to Be a Good Citizen of a Bad Country
www.nytimes.com
November 4, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Haven’t read it but couldn’t help.
<Adorno intensifies>
<Adorno intensifies>
Was thinking of changing who I cheer for in the NFL based entirely on logo and nothing seemed self-evident. Chicago?
November 1, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Was thinking of changing who I cheer for in the NFL based entirely on logo and nothing seemed self-evident. Chicago?
“There are worse ways to spend a night than putting your shoulder to an idea.” - Al Swearengen
October 31, 2025 at 10:54 PM
“There are worse ways to spend a night than putting your shoulder to an idea.” - Al Swearengen
“Thought waits to be woken one day by the memory of what has been missed, and to be transformed into teaching.” - Adorno
October 30, 2025 at 11:56 AM
“Thought waits to be woken one day by the memory of what has been missed, and to be transformed into teaching.” - Adorno
I am increasingly amazed at what the last 10 or so minutes of a movie can do for the movie as a whole.
October 28, 2025 at 5:59 PM
I am increasingly amazed at what the last 10 or so minutes of a movie can do for the movie as a whole.
Out for a walk and had the good fortune to run into a good friend walking to his transit route. We talked about increased enforcement denying transit to anyone without fare (apparently tasers are on the table for these officers).
October 26, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Out for a walk and had the good fortune to run into a good friend walking to his transit route. We talked about increased enforcement denying transit to anyone without fare (apparently tasers are on the table for these officers).
Canada responding to US tariffs: Remember how free trade gutted small towns and the middle class? Let’s double down on it!
October 25, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Canada responding to US tariffs: Remember how free trade gutted small towns and the middle class? Let’s double down on it!
I don’t read much in science but enjoy the occasional account of ‘method’ related to science. I read Kuhn and am reading Feyerabend. Is there anything in the last 10 or so years of similar consequence?
October 21, 2025 at 12:15 PM
I don’t read much in science but enjoy the occasional account of ‘method’ related to science. I read Kuhn and am reading Feyerabend. Is there anything in the last 10 or so years of similar consequence?
Coming up just over a week, I'd love to see you if you're able!
October 14, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Coming up just over a week, I'd love to see you if you're able!
I suspect loneliness is mostly *easier* than being in a durable inter-personal community. Intimate long-term relationships require frustratingly hard work. Which is why ‘easy’ community, whether IRL spaces of cult-like clarity or online echo chambers find success offering a ‘fix’ of communal need.
October 6, 2025 at 2:27 PM
I suspect loneliness is mostly *easier* than being in a durable inter-personal community. Intimate long-term relationships require frustratingly hard work. Which is why ‘easy’ community, whether IRL spaces of cult-like clarity or online echo chambers find success offering a ‘fix’ of communal need.
“Political economy came into being as a natural result of the expansion of trade, and with its appearance elementary, unscientific swindling was replaced by a developed system of licensed fraud - a complete get-rich economy.” - Engels
October 6, 2025 at 1:52 PM
“Political economy came into being as a natural result of the expansion of trade, and with its appearance elementary, unscientific swindling was replaced by a developed system of licensed fraud - a complete get-rich economy.” - Engels
Free speech, of all things, should be built from the ground up. Figuring out local platforms, limits, and accountability. Families and religious orgs still do some of this. But buying, bullying and manipulating the platform ain’t it.
October 1, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Free speech, of all things, should be built from the ground up. Figuring out local platforms, limits, and accountability. Families and religious orgs still do some of this. But buying, bullying and manipulating the platform ain’t it.
Reposted by David Driedger
The Talmud has the original "yo mama" joke. (Megillah 25b:9)
!["״הוֹדַע אֶת יְרוּשָׁלִַם אֶת תּוֹעֲבוֹתֶיהָ״ נִקְרָא וּמִתַּרְגֵּם. פְּשִׁיטָא! לְאַפּוֹקֵי מִדְּרַבִּי אֱלִיעֶזֶר. דְּתַנְיָא: מַעֲשֶׂה בְּאָדָם אֶחָד שֶׁהָיָה קוֹרֵא לְמַעְלָה מֵרַבִּי אֱלִיעֶזֶר ״הוֹדַע אֶת יְרוּשָׁלִַם אֶת תּוֹעֲבוֹתֶיהָ״. אָמַר לוֹ: עַד שֶׁאַתָּה בּוֹדֵק בְּתוֹעֲבוֹת יְרוּשָׁלַיִם צֵא וּבְדוֹק בְּתוֹעֲבוֹת אִמֶּךָ. בָּדְקוּ אַחֲרָיו וּמָצְאוּ בּוֹ שֶׁמֶץ פְּסוּל.
The Tosefta continues: The section of: “Make known [hoda] to Jerusalem her abominations” (Ezekiel 16:2) is read and translated. The Gemara comments: This is obvious. The Gemara answers: This is needed to exclude the opinion of Rabbi Eliezer, who held that this chapter may not be read as a haftara, as it is taught in a baraita: There was an incident with regard to a certain man who was reading the haftara in the presence of Rabbi Eliezer, and he read the section of: “Make known to Jerusalem her abominations.” Rabbi Eliezer said to him: Before you examine the abominations of Jerusalem, go and examine the abominations of your own mother. The Gemara relates that they examined his lineage and found him to have a stain of illegitimacy. His mother had engaged in illicit sexual relations, and therefore he was of questionable lineage."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cmvc2f5b5fou3ijbgagiovlj/bafkreid6vwingdwvsby4i223zap7vikvyfl7rwse73zcqx732oe4dxaqu4@jpeg)
September 30, 2025 at 3:18 PM
The Talmud has the original "yo mama" joke. (Megillah 25b:9)
Reposted by David Driedger
Can’t even laugh at this. The idea of these meatheads skulking around my beautiful, glittering jewel box of a city, looking to tackle every non-white person they see, makes me sick to my stomach. This is the real domestic terrorism.
ICE attempted
and failed to disappear a food delivery guy.
It needed to be scored.
and failed to disappear a food delivery guy.
It needed to be scored.
September 29, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Can’t even laugh at this. The idea of these meatheads skulking around my beautiful, glittering jewel box of a city, looking to tackle every non-white person they see, makes me sick to my stomach. This is the real domestic terrorism.
“Nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them."
Assata Shakur
Assata Shakur
September 28, 2025 at 12:53 PM
“Nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them."
Assata Shakur
Assata Shakur
Don’t forget, last stop for Nuit Blanche is 10am at First Mennonite Church!
September 28, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Don’t forget, last stop for Nuit Blanche is 10am at First Mennonite Church!
Reposted by David Driedger
Every Monday morning I participate in a clergy-led prayer vigil outside of the Dallas ICE Administrative Office. This morning, a sniper stood at the top of an adjacent building and took aim. Press is reporting the victims are detainees being loaded onto a bus for transport to a large facility. 🧵
September 24, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Every Monday morning I participate in a clergy-led prayer vigil outside of the Dallas ICE Administrative Office. This morning, a sniper stood at the top of an adjacent building and took aim. Press is reporting the victims are detainees being loaded onto a bus for transport to a large facility. 🧵
Finally watched Eddington, really enjoyed it. Thought it did a good job not collapsing the ideological binary into a moral one while acknowledging the larger structure that would recuperate both.
Really liked how Brian’s arc was handled.
Really liked how Brian’s arc was handled.
September 20, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Finally watched Eddington, really enjoyed it. Thought it did a good job not collapsing the ideological binary into a moral one while acknowledging the larger structure that would recuperate both.
Really liked how Brian’s arc was handled.
Really liked how Brian’s arc was handled.