In crunch time, everything moves to poles and those divided in the middle pick sides pretty quick. More importantly, we only need "saving" if we think we need it.
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Replying to @suvyboy @Ahimsa_Satya_ and
Liberalism as a political project has been great but accompanying the political project has been a moral philosophy that posits that the path to happiness and meaning is freedom from all societal strictures. It is the second piece that is the problem.
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Replying to @Jed_Trott @Ahimsa_Satya_ and
That second part is total horseshit. The entire point of freedom of religion or freedom of the press is to protect social structures (like religion) from govt, not to eliminate them. Lotsa terrible assumptions being made here.
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Replying to @suvyboy @Jed_Trott and
When you see horseshit somewhere, it's usually that your own stable smells : Freedom doesn't protect anybody or any social structures. Look around
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Replying to @BrunoPerennou @suvyboy and
The other way around, any ideology that claims to give protection does nothing more than restrain, since the individual has already tasted - or smells in the neighbour's garden - "freedom". Mimetic desire destroys dictatorships
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Replying to @BrunoPerennou @suvyboy and
I don't have a Martingale. I only notice that "freedom", as a cardinal value, necessarily leads to alienation: it inevitably remains relative, perpetually unsatisfied, and makes us slaves to the others
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Replying to @BrunoPerennou @suvyboy and
Everything is cyclic and impermanent. As Nietzsche pointed out, all the virtues cannibalize each other.
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Replying to @MimeticValue @suvyboy and
The virtues cannibalize themselves as long as humans cannibalize each other. Urge for domination is the blind spot of mimetic theory, imo
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Replying to @BrunoPerennou @MimeticValue and
I’m not sure, have you read Achever Clausewitz?
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Replying to @Ahimsa_Satya_ @MimeticValue and
I have. Girard applies brillantly mimetic theory to explain the France/Germany conflicts of the last two centuries. But I don't think it can apply to 'all' conflicts
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What about the parts on the 9/11 terrorists and ISIS?
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Replying to @Ahimsa_Satya_ @MimeticValue and
This is a very difficult question! Without entering into geo-political considerations (who started first?), I'd say that Girard position was very careful. I suggest reading
@thePJCV http://trivent-publishing.eu/pjcvI2.2017.html … «René Girard’s Reflections on Modern Jihadism » (by Andreas Wilmes)0 replies 0 retweets 3 likesThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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