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Nick Routledge
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Gardener, farmhand, Oregonian, treasuring life, kind friends, kind food. "A friend to all and an enemy of none." @agrariansharing @unitethepoor
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Whatever lens we use, the Parousia/radical philosophical event/Shift/Great Reset/etc. signals the breaking of a spell vastly more determinative than the epistemic frameworks maintaining the momentum of contingent social and political association: the cult of modernity itself. x.com/nick_routled...
Copy of tweet and quote tweet here: https://x.com/nick_routledge/status/1707162423252439348 |end/ The psych's archetypal, and its direction harrowingly predictable. And half-assed, any effort to address this escalating mimetic, global pattern of self-justifying violence amped up to the nation-state level, without factoring in conclusive intervention at a planetary scale. @nick_routledge Apr 10, 2023 Replying to @MassimoFaggioli 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? Image of tweet: Nils Gilman @nils_gilman “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.” https://bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-04-20/narendra-modi-owns-india-s-covid-19-disaster…
September 9, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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Then again, it isn't over until the fat lady sings.
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Copy of tweet here: https://x.com/jamespoulos/status/1882561713607975144 @jamespoulos Jan 23 Nobody tell him Quote tweet: @jimcramer Jan 23 Nothing can stop Palantir, nothing
July 2, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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Hans, never mistaken for a gardener. #TheTotalChrist exists only as a wholeness perfecting itself in the Paradisal unicity of human AND earthly #Resurrection. Only the Kingdom gives access to the New Earth but only the #NewWorldCreation renders the Kingdom fully incarnate. x.com/nick_routled...
May 22, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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Concomitantly, this vastly-accelerated, planetary unraveling correlates with complementary mimetic trends subverting the geopolitical psycho-dynamics historically putting a brake on Armageddon. We desperately need an immediate, radical revisioning of the problem of war. x.com/nick_routled...
Copy of tweet here: https://x.com/nick_routledge/status/1555757247396868096 @nickroutledge #HiroshimaDay2022 The US nuclear stockpile currently comprises some 3,700 deployed bombs/warheads, equivalent to about 58,039 Hiroshima-sized bombs. Explode one of those bombs per minute and it would take 40.3 days to use them all. @nils_gilman Nuclear weapons remain the greatest threat, by far, to long term human well being and civilizational integrity @thewritertype There's plenty to be despondent about this #HiroshimaDay, but given the grotesque assortment of festering despots, lethal clowns, and howling nut jobs currently in power all over the world, we're fucking lucky any of us are still here at all. Noam Chomsky Quotes It's hard to contest the conclusion of the last commander of the Strategic Air Command, Gen . Lee Butler, that humanity has so far survived the nuclear age “by some combination of skill, luck and divine intervention, and I suspect the latter in greatest proportion.”
May 17, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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Epistemic, such refusal to confront reality and, concomitantly, a trivializing 'depthlessness' (Jameson) 'allergic to meaning' (Eagleton) incapable of recognizing, never mind enacting, a coherent response to our polycrisis. So, we rise as 'a new form of revelation.' (Panikkar) x.com/nick_routled...
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May 17, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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"The path we’re on now is the path of least resistance: a slow slide into deepening digital dependency, where we continue to cede control of our attention and our autonomy to the Simulation and the mysterious algorithms that power it." World War III, exactly as McLuhan saw it. x.com/nick_routled...
@nick_routledge Pete Berkman: "When the environment is invisible, the path of least resistance is determined by the medium itself. Our plans plan us. In order torecover human agency over technique, the invisible environment has to be made visible. “Apocalypse,” McLuhan says, “is our salvation.” @nick_routledge 1/2 So obvious we cannot see it. Our media, McLuhan noted, 'own' us in strangely concealed, "invincibly persuasive" ways. As such, ‘apocalypse’ (in its original sense of 'unveiling') makes the visible Real, freeing us from an all-enveloping enchantment. And the Cloud's role here? @nick_routledge McLuhan saw it as crucial to push past an experiential ‘environment’ invisibly dictating the limits of our questions, positing technology and consciousness merging, in effect, in a Cloud-enabled apocalypse transcending such limits to birth 'a new form of revelation’ (Panikkar). @nick_routledge “It is, therefore, a simple maxim of communication study that any change in the means of communication will produce a chain of revolutionary consequences at every level of culture and politics.” ~ Marshall McLuhan, ‘A Historical Approach to the Media’ (1955)
April 30, 2025 at 3:33 AM
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With great effects coming of "the least” of beginnings. The yeast of the butterfly effect of the Spirit, the Word within the enspirited word voiced as a form of enraptured articulation, unleashing the grace of a tipping point toward extraordinary transition. Spiritual uprising. x.com/nick_routled...
Copy of tweet thread here: https://x.com/nick_routledge/status/1600499024054087681 @nick_routledge Dec 7, 2022 On restoring the correspondence between God and word? In one of his last letters from prison, before the the Nazis murdered him, Bonhoeffer wrote, “The day will come when men will once more be called so to utter the word of God that the world will be changed and renewed by it...” @nick_routledge “... It will be a new language, perhaps quite non-religious, but liberating and redeeming as was Jesus’ language; it will shock people and yet overcome them by its power.” 2 Thessalonians 2:8. James Hillman: "Words, like angels, are powers."
April 25, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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And then, of course, there's Moltmann, very biblically incorporating traditional designation of “Holy Spirit” into the wide field of “the Spirit of Life” we 'get' in Jesus and that we may both receive and conceive: the resolute tending to the truth process, the very yeast of incarnation.
"There is no mediation between Christ and the kingdom of God except the present experience of the Spirit, for the Spirit is the Spirit of Christ and the living energy of the new creation of all things." - Juergen Moltmann
April 25, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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I'm reminded of Catherine Keller in 'On The Mystery' speaking not of effortless magic, but also not mere toil and trouble, rather a synergy of effort and grace.
The parable invites. It does not compel. It calls and does not coerce. Grace is not irresistible but amazing. The lure might be called, in the terms of John Wesley, “initiating grace.” That practical theologian of grace put it carefully: “God does not continue to act upon the soul unless the soul re-acts upon God.”18 Not because God withholds grace but because grace is simply not a unilateral force. The influence of the yeast requires the massaging effort of the woman and the interaction with the flour. Or, the treasure must be found and extreme measures taken to acquire it. Or, the soil must actually let the seed ger￾minate. Grace—fishy as it seems to predestinarians—needs our cooperation. It is not a power over us, but an empowerment of us: “We can do all things in the light and power of that love, through Christ which strengtheneth us.” For Wesley another name for that grace is the holy spirit.
April 25, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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It's DRAFT INSTANT, y'all!!
~ Image: Raimon Panikkar, Opera Omnia (Vol. 1) - The Christian Language x.com/nick_routled...
3. The experience of resurrection takes away the fear of death, and this is perhaps its most visible aspect, since the fear of death cannot be overcome through willpower alone. However, it is also something more than just Platonic immortality. I know I am mortal, and I am not comforted by the knowledge that I have an immortal soul if I am going to be separated from it at a future point. Neither am I satisfied with believing I shall rise again after death or perhaps in some final moment that I shall not be able to experience. The experience of resurrection is here and now—in tempiternity. Those who are risen live the novelty of life in every instant. They do not get bored or anxious about time passing. Is this not the work of the Spirit that "makes all things new"? Resurrection is an act that is in constant renewal. If we die every day, as the apostle says, we rise again in every moment. The experience of continuous creation, and even more so of continuous Incarnation, brings with it that of resurrection in every instant.
April 24, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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A cartoon caricature functionally enculturating as mass consciousness was predictable, I suppose, given how secular modernity so thoroughly constitutes a P$eudo-Event. The question remains, however. Is there a 'more real' Reality to hand and, crucially, how may we access it? x.com/nick_routled...
Copy of tweet here: https://x.com/nick_routledge/status/1567181174849830914 @nick_routledge Worldly, I arrived Stateside 36 yrs. ago, to a distinct impression that represented reality was superseding direct experience as a/the paramount, defining influence shaping the way peeps related. Already, folks' sense of the Real, of significance itself, seemed strangely 'owned'. Second tweet here: https://x.com/nick_routledge/status/1831739547199402185 @nick_routledge Sep 5 Replying to @NealSpackman and @silvopasturist Yup, we walk among zombies. Then again, if inhabiting the Real comes fully within reach (only) in assent to the truth of the neighborly, there's nothing finer to claim each one of us than awakening to a fully personalized, home-field advantage. Home is where we live, after all.
April 14, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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So, how and where is this vast, interlocking array of trans-cultural, trans-national structures of religious and secular consciousness and power militantly vested in a symbiotic, aggregate, existential imperative to eclipse the sunburst of the world messianic, countered? x.com/nick_routled...
Copy of tweets here: https://x.com/nick_routledge/status/1848013005839360299 @nick_routledge Aug 20, 2022 Replying to @nick_routledge @jesuits_ireland and @Pontifex 4/ Our present modernity can be characterized by its endless deferral of judgment, “a secularized parody of the Church’s incessant deferral of the last judgment” (Agamben), an institution that can only preserve its own existence by endlessly postponing the judgment it announces. And here: https://x.com/nick_routledge/status/1904908968277008875 @nick_routledge1 Mar 26 Replying to @epaphfras The Second Advent, then, as a _planetary_ pedagogical method equal to the gospel transmission of a radical transformation in the meaning of power in the unitive core of the human being, whereby all the heart’s quests are revalued and hierarchies of history reversed.
April 14, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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A 2007 anthology, 'The Politics to Come', offers a lucid appraisal of political possibilities transcending exhausted, shopworn symbioses of secular and religious imaginaries and containment: the Iranian political scientist, Ali Shari’ati, adds mightily to the advance, too.
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To be sure, modernity famously expels Judaeo-Christian messianism to the margins of thought – by variously labeling it dogma, superstition, fanaticism, false consciousness or ressentiment – but it does so precisely by taking as its own the political and temporal dynamism of eschatology... Yet, at the same time, it is possible to detect what, with apologies to Kant, we might call a newly arisen ‘messianic tone’ within contemporary thought. For Jacques Derrida, to take only the most prominent recent example, it is clear that the messianic represents the last – and perhaps even the best – means of keeping open a relation to an absolute, unforeseeable future in the face of every political, theological or economic attempt to foreclose upon that future: what he calls a ‘messianism without messianism’ becomes the best way of articulating ‘the “yes” to the arrivante(e), the “come” to the future that cannot be anticipated. What does it mean, then, to speak of ‘a Politics to Come’ today? Where does it come from? And why has it emerged now? Is it – to be crude – a step backwards into premodern theological dogma? Is it – equally crudely – the final nail in the coffin of an exhausted Enlightenment utopianism or communism? Or could this wary messianism – which despite every attempt to assimilate it still remains somehow stubbornly irreducible to the sovereign order of neo-liberal modernity – perhaps represent a way of thinking the theologico-political condition of modernity otherwise? Why has the possibility of a messianic Politics to Come reasserted itself now? Is it a ‘turn’ or a ‘return’? Is it a monstrous anachronism, postmodern kitsch or the logical outworking of modernity’s own theological origins? To what extent might it be the basis of a new political theology – or the sign of an irreducible theological remainder within the political? The Politics to Come: Power, Modernity and the Messianic, - Arthur Bradley and Paul Fletcher, Editors. INTRODUCTION: SAVING HOPE, THE WAGER OF MESSIANISM Anna Glazava and Paul North 1. Some well-known recent books that announce or promote an end to secularity and a “return” to or of religion in society in general, and in the human and social sciences in particular, are Charles Taylor, A Secular Age (Harvard, 2007); Michel Henry, I Am the Truth: Toward a Philosophy of Christianity (Stanford, 2003); and Luc Ferry, Man Made God: The Meaning of Life (University of Chicago, 2002). A sampling of critical analyses of the processes and idea of secularization include: Michael Allen Gillespie, The Theological Origins of Modernity (University of Chicago, 2008); Talal Asad, Formations of the Secular: Christianity, Islam, Modernity (Stanford, 2003 Marcel Gauchet, Tbe Disenchantment of the World: A Political History of Religion (Princeton University Press, 1097). Works by Jean-Luc Marion fall by and large into a border-zone between theology proper and phenomenological revisions of theological categories. To the latter class belong Visible et le révélé (Cerf, 2005), De surcroit: études sur les phénoménes saturés (Presses universitaires; de France, 2001), and Etant donné: Essai d'une phénoménologic de la donation (Presses universitaires de France, 1997). These have been translated as Visiible and the Revealed (Fordham, 2008), Being Given: Toward a Phenomenology of Givenness (Stanford, 2002), and In Excess: Studies of Saturated Phenomena (Fordham, 2004). Two books may be considered the mothers of all critiques of secularity: Carl Schmitt, Political Theology (1921; University of Chicago, 2006), and Karl Lovwith, Meaning in History: The Theological Implications of the Philosophy of History (University of Chicago, 1949). 2. Uncovering motifs, concepts, images, and motivations traditionally associated with religion or theology persisting in purportedly secular thought has a rather long tradition. Marx's critique of Feuerbach is one of the earliest in post-Kantian thought, Heidegger's critique of ontotheology one of the most far-reaching. Resuscitation of the messianic theologou-menon in particular has a fairly limited genealogy. Epimessianic writing first fans out in the twentieth century. One strand revitalizes eschatological themes identified as Jewish and loosely responds to political Zionism: Franz Rosenzweig, Der Stern der Erlisung (J. Kauffmann, 1921); Walter Benjamin, “Theological-Political Fragment” (probably 1922-23), Ursprung des deutschen Trauerspiels (Rowohlt, 1928), “Franz Kafka: On the Tenth Anniversary of His Death” (1934), and “Historical-Philosophical Theses” (1940); Jacob ‘Taubes’s dissertation, Abendlindisches Eschatologie (A. Francke, 1947); certain fragments in Theodor Adorno’s Minima Moralia: Reflexionen aus dem beschii- digten Leben (Suhrkamp, 1951); Gershom Scholem’s 1959 and now infamous and much-cited lecture “Toward an Understanding of the Messianic Idea in Judaism” (in The Messianic Idea in Judaism, Schocken, 1971). Transformations of the concept of “futurity” among thinkers identified as “Jewish” can be found in Pierre Bouretz's Witness for the Future: Philosophy and Messianism (Johns Hopkins, 2010). Another strand of epimessianic writing attempts to revitalize Paul of Tarsus as the savior of theory. Some texts in this genre that focus on or include messianism are Daniel Boyarin, A Radical Jew: Paul and the Politics of Identity (University of California, 1994); Alain Badiou, St. Paul: The Foundation of Universalism (Stanford, 2003); Jacob Taubes, The Political Theology of Paul (Stanford, 2004); Giorgio Agamben, The Time That Remains: A Commentary on the Letter to the Romans (Stanford, 2005)... …Jacques Derrida’s Specters of Marx (Routledge, 1994) and “Marx & Sons,” published in translation in Ghostly Demarcations (Verso, 1999) do not fall directly along any of these strands. 3. Much of the analysis of the “turn” or “return” has been carried out by Hent de Vries, first and most directly in Philosophy and the Turn to Religion (Johns Hopkins 1999), which was preceded by Theologie in Pianissimo, a study of theological figures in Adorno and Levinas (Peeters, 1989), translated into English as Minimal Theologies: Critiques of Secular Reason in Adorno and Levinas (Johns Hopkins, 2005). De Vries’s study of the renewed theophilosophy, Religion and Violence: Philosophical Perspectives from Kant to Derrida (Johns Hopkins, 2002), was published amid a stream of anthologies edited by him on the topic of the “return”: Post-Theism: Reframing the Judeo-Christian Tradition (Peeters, 2000, with Henri A. Krop and Arie L. Molendijk), Religion and Media (Stanford, 2001, with Samuel Weber), Political Theologies: Public Religions in a Post-Secular World (Fordham, 2006, with Lawrence E. Sullivan), and Religion beyond a Concept (Fordham, 2008). Along this trajectory one notes a turn in de Vries’s focus. At first he seems to be responding to the reappraisals of philosophemes traditionally considered religious, but later he seems to be reevaluating religion itself. A good introduction to the “turn” in French philosophy is the collection Phenomenology and the Theological Turn (Fordham, 2000). In it there are important contributions by Dominique Janicaud, Jean- Francois Courtine, Jean-Louis Chrétien, Michel Henry, Jean-Luc Marion, and Paul Ricouer.
March 19, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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What if a war on perception itself - so totalizing in its full-spectrum claim upon the nature of reality that we barely recognize this fundamentally epistemic assault for the peak deception it represents - is, oddly, similarly vulnerable to a larger, 'invisible' susceptibility.
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Sadly, I think we need to see ourselves as already fighting a war: This is a new kind of war — a total war. It is not simply a military operation involving guns and tanks. This is, first and foremost, a consciousness war — a war fought inside our minds — that has a military dimension as one of its theaters of operation. I would say it is a total war because it is an Orwellian war that ultimately seeks to reshape subjectivity itself into abject compliance. Right now we are fighting a kind of total war for the future of humanity. But the vast majority of people in the West don’t seem to realize this yet. They are still floating along, sleepwalking, unaware. They continue to focus on trivialities while the war to define our future is being waged both in public (within the US government, Ukraine, and Israel at the moment) and behind the scenes (through social media algorithms, manipulated news, and weaponized AI). It is being waged through transformations of language, elisions of words, deletion of websites. - @DanielPinchbeck, March 15, substack
March 17, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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Character and essence?
March 13, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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Twitter today.
March 12, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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It begins, of course, with 2 Cor. 10:5 but finds fulfillment only in the “costly grace” of Bonhoeffer which requires action, “for faith is only real when there is obedience, never without it, and faith only becomes faith in the act of obedience.” First, hear the Kingdom aright. x.com/nick_routled...
Copy of tweet here: https://x.com/nick_routledge/status/1843351054479700455 @nick_routledge · Oct 7, 2024 Replying to @Plough "...the commandment to hear aright...must be first fulfilled in order that we may then become obedient to it. The word of Jesus places one in decision, the decision of hearing aright, [whereby] one “does” the word, or of hearing falsely, in which case one “does not do” the word." 1/7 The hermaneutic, deeply vexing, though, isn't it? How on earth do we sensibly communicate an experience of the staggering meaningfulness and plenitude of a Depth Realm conceived and experienced only through an obedience to love turning the world upside down? (Acts 17:6) @nick_routledge We only have the first fruits of the Kingdom in this world, but we experience enough to know that it’s the only thing that will ever satisfy us. Once we have had the truth, half-truths do not satisfy us anymore. In its light, everything else is relative, even our own life. -Rohr @nick_routledge Jun 2, 2024 Ragaz: "Not only does Jesus not bring a new religion, he does not bring any religion at all. One can't make this fact clear enough. He does not want a new religion, but rather a kingdom, a new creation, a new world." Thus, "We must teach spiritual things spiritually," 1 Cor. 2:13 @nick_routledge Feb 5 Replying to @nick_routledge and @Dan_Bowdoin end/ Panikkar: "The ultimate religious fact does not lie in the realm of doctrine or even individual self-consciousness... subordinating reality to mind. The ultimate basis for the method will have to be the very reality which the method helps to disclose." (Lk. 17:20-21)
March 8, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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The dark invocation of no-delay, no-nonsense excoriation and elimination? That would be ethno-nationalism's central, existential premise, promise and priority. So, just how many ethnic-cleansing projects might authoritarianism's global surge manufacture sufficient consent for? x.com/nick_routled...
Copy of tweet here: https://x.com/nick_routledge/status/1738647023438712896 @nick_routledge Where India, or nice, White, Christian America for that matter, may yet make Gaza seem a teddy bear's picnic by comparison. What then, when a global politico-media complex fuses across state borders to significantly "other" a culture or race? Where is the archetypal trend headed? Such platitudes, a psychotic derivative of nationalist exceptionalism, aren't they? A Balkanization of psychogeography, delineated by the basic delusion that morality and reality, interdependence and consequence, somehow disassociate at dividing lines drawn on a map of the world. @nick_routledge Replying to @UssamaMakdisi Our prophets universally depict this momentous revelation of the monstrous, wholesale moral destitution of our primary, international 'superpowers', as the rending of a well-wrought veil of deceit, a historical bifurcation point defining a providential, planetary dividing line.
February 24, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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And yet, for many, if not most who agree with Gregory, the dynamic, participatory reality, here and now, of the unequivocally supernatural intelligence, power and presence of the Living God, has been reduced to the 'elsewhere category' of an abstraction, glorified though it is. x.com/nick_routled...
Copy of tweet here: https://x.com/nick_routledge/status/1792052342084575319?s=46 @nick_routledge Replying to @brianmclaren and @trippfuller Thank you. Might we then give ourselves permission to conceive of new world creation not as 'theology', but as an actual Energy Event wedding heaven and earth, embracing all that an incarnate metaphysic yoking this world to the Reign of God synergistically and positively affords?
February 22, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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In the US, Israel, India, Turkey and elsewhere, religious identification increasingly characterizes the populist radical right. Religio-fascism is, indeed, inveterate to our very epoch and, as a constitutively archetypal planetary phenomenon, no national unilateral fix exists. x.com/nick_routled...
Copy of tweet, image and quote tweet here: https://x.com/nick_routledge/status/1590919179821256704 @nick_routledge Here we are, then, upon the threshold of a transcultural, transnational, religio-political complex of fascist universalism and its demonic perversion of an authentic, planetary yearning offering us the only way out of our 'war of all against all', rightly called salvation. @nick_routledge Replying to @MassimoFaggioli Agreed and, frankly, a worldwide contagion: Jihadists, Zionists, Hindutvavadis, 969ers, Crusaders, they're all at it. And whilst we're not the only only ones suffering from this plague, nor are we the only ones God welcomes. This, hardly news to planetary prophetology, of course. Quote Tweet @nick_routledge Replying to @nick_routledge and @ceisenstein Clearly, the supercharged universality of this phenomenon - pat, predictable, cookie-cutter dialectics of ethnonationalism, purity and exclusion, span a dizzying array of languages, cultures and borders, just now - powerfully affirms its common, transcultural, archetypal origins. @nick_routledge Replying to @SophiaCycles 1/ Hence the fundamental nature, role and promise of the political liberator, savior or Great Emancipator, here to revision the bodies, minds and souls of men in a bastardized, religio-nationalist image of the messianic hopes of our times. The transcendent function, perverted. Quote Tweet @nick_routledge Replying to @nils_gilman In other words, the bastard appeal of such ethno-nationalist analogs is universally paradigmatic. How then, to effectively address the immense planetary forces encouraging the emergence and powerful enchantment of such personalities and their platforms? @sophiacycles Hardly news, even as the illuminating recognition that no one culture, creed, philosophy, religion, nation or otherwise can save us, inevitably requires a planetary reckoning with an inclusive eschatology. We're saved, finally, by the beauty and brilliance of our togetherness.
February 20, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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Then, of course, there's precisely what's massively intensifying just now - the scapegoat mechanism ("automatic, unconscious, ingrained and mimetic" - Girard) exponentiated to the level of nation-state psychodynamics and with it, crucially, the state's monopoly on violence. x.com/nick_routled...
Copy of tweet here: https://x.com/nick_routledge/status/1880647126218416400?s=46 Contemporary genocide scholarship, current American trends and the messianic reality of the Eschatological Turn. Part One: a perspective spoken from the steps of #OccupyICE, Portland, OR, July 1, 2018. @youtube..."
January 31, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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2/ What, then, of the catastrophic decline in US childhood health predating social media's arrival, and its impact on the very foundation of national welfare? Does our ruling cla$$ honestly give two cahoots about what truly matters? What, in essence, is the fa$t-food algorithm? x.com/nick_routled...
Copy of tweet and quote tweet here: https://x.com/nick_routledge/status/1349865607219523585 @nick_routledge Jan 14, 2021 Replying to @nick_routledge Child nutrition. How's it going, General Myers? @nick_routledge Sep 22, 2020 In the US, as many as 40% of recruits were rejected during World War II due to malnutrition. Today, “71 percent of youth between the ages of 17 and 24 are ineligible for military service. One of the main medical disqualifiers is malnutrition.” https://strongnation.org/articles/1335-breaking-point
January 22, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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1/2 Geopolitical network warfare specialists (@johnrobb, say) aver that little distinguishes TikTok attention-grabbing or target effect from that of its competitors, even as the West's, I'll add, have a history fomenting war. The deeper issue here? Who targeted TikTok and why? x.com/nick_routled...
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January 22, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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I recall him saying somewhere that not religion, but its anthropology, was his concern - his radical contribution, in effect. Few understand, as he, that in His execution, properly considered, the Second Advent does not amount to the rubber stamp many presume their lives upon. x.com/nick_routled...
Excerpt of tweet thread beginning here: https://x.com/nick_routledge/status/1362787356395196417 Nick Routledge @nick routledge - Feb 19,2021 What, then? The murder of Jesus, viewed as a sacred duty by the religios and legally righteous by the pols, reveals the perverse, foundational complicity between cultural status quo and the scapegoat function, declaring the absolute centrality of the position of the Victim. 9/ Nick Routledge @nick routledge - Feb 19, 2021 In the final analysis, denying the truth of the Victim has screened us from ‘apocalypsis’, the unveiling of a realm of perception and liberating experience in which the common lie of dominative materialist and religious denial is unmasked, and the Great Lover revealed. 10/ Nick Routledge @nick _routledge - Feb 19, 2021 In other words, what is thrown off by the Crucifixion narrative is ultimatelythe mechanism for maintaining cultural order and psychological stability, “the infrastructure of all religions and all cultures,” as Girard puts it. 11/ Nick Routledge @nick routledge - Feb 19, 2021 “The blindness is from the blinkers of decorum. Apocalypse strips away the decent draperies on which the whole big lie depends, the false front, the screen or wall.” N.O. Brown 12/ Nick Routledge @nick routledge - Feb 19, 2021 Because. Because. It has taken until now to realize the staggering anthropological and co-evolutionary significance of the Cross because the moral, intellectual, and epistemological effects of the Gospel revelationhave of necessity developed gradually. 13/ Nick Routledge @nick routledge - Feb 19, 2021 Xo Last words, from Rene Girard: “..beyond all that disfigures it in our eyes, the truth of the victim that we at last possess is the greatest, most fortunate event in the history of religion and the whole of humanity.” @unitethepoor /end
January 21, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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Have I got a joke for you. Remember January 31st, 2018?
December 24, 2024 at 11:40 PM