Is there anyone who doesn't think we're at a crossroads in history? ...
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Replying to @Outsideness
Me. Reagan, Thatcher, Haider, Orban...shifts to the right happen all the time. only new thing is soc media edginess
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Replying to @adornofthagn @Outsideness
this is neither the first nor the most severe blow to cathedralic hegemony - I count at least 4 with German involvement alone
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Replying to @Outsideness
well there's the birth of german nationalism in resisting the already diminished universalism of Napoleon
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Replying to @adornofthagn @Outsideness
which is also the birth of romantic ethnic nationalism in the modern sense
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then you have the sublation of what's left of german liberalism in Prussian imperialism
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then the ultimate unsurpassed blow to internationalism, WWI
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and who could forget forcing virtually all of Europe under an ethno-nationalist regime in an apocalyptic war
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Replying to @adornofthagn @Outsideness
so that's already 4, but we're going into a bonus round of slightly more ambivalent examples
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Those episodes all seem more Cathedralogenic than the opposite.
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Replying to @Outsideness
the Cathedral in its current form is shaped by those events, surely, but that doesn't diminish their cataclysmic nature to it
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Replying to @adornofthagn @Outsideness
current events will change the cathedral, as they constitute change of its immanent opposition
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