geopolicraticus
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Recent twitter posts run through Wordle:
7:04 PM Dec 2nd
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Our ordinary is the other's surprise; the other's ordinary is our surprise.
6:54 PM Dec 2nd
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The essential novelty of the other is revealed in our surprise at that which seems most ordinary and most obvious to the other.
5:50 PM Dec 2nd
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What is more completely unexpected than to be asked the kind of question one would never ask oneself, and which one would never ask others?
5:31 PM Dec 2nd
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Promises remain mere promises until they are redeemed by actions; we never know until after the fact whether a promise was genuine.
1:25 PM Dec 1st
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Utopianism and dystopianism between the two of them exhaust modernity's modes of apprehending the future.
11:18 PM Nov 26th
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Love it or hate, modernity and the culture of modernity sees itself primarily in relation to the future; the past is now an afterthought.
11:14 PM Nov 26th
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In contradistinction to the adversarial relation apocalypticism has with the future, utopianism sees the future through rose-colored glasses
11:13 PM Nov 26th
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Castles in the air, however unreal and insubstantial, are more appropriate to the living than tombs in the earth, however substantial.
12:20 PM Nov 24th
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I, for one, am not ready to dig my own grave, and I don't notice that many who claim to expect the End of the World have taken up a shovel.
11:54 AM Nov 24th
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If we believe in apocalypticism (truly believe it in our bones), the only appropriate response is to dig one's own grave and lie down in it.
11:33 AM Nov 24th
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The darker the hour the more we must needs scan the horizon for the first signs of dawn.
11:15 AM Nov 24th
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Apocalypticism's adversarial relationship to the future has the effect of prejudicing all ordinary human activities that look forward.
10:32 AM Nov 24th
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Or we could say that the only sins for which we will be punished will be our lapses in imagination that prevent us from seeing the future.
10:25 AM Nov 24th
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We will not be punished for our sins, but we will most certainly be punished for our lack of imagination, historical or otherwise.
9:36 AM Nov 24th
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It is an unforgivable lack of historical imagination that sees the End of the World behind every turn of events.
2:06 AM Nov 24th
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Freewill and determinism are not mutually exclusive states of being, but alternatives that arise as part of the rhythm of life.
11:23 AM Nov 23rd
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The individual, being embedded in an existential matrix, can only be an active agent when that matrix is not in ontological abeyance.
10:53 AM Nov 23rd
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Any agent in ontological abeyance is deprived of acting of its own volition; i.e., freewill and determinism are dialectical alternatives.
10:43 AM Nov 23rd
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That which is not suspended in ontological abeyance, that which is the active principle of the moment, acts directly, of its own volition.
10:32 AM Nov 23rd
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