@nydwracu gnosticism, oikophobia, luddism
@soapjackal @nydwracu Modernist-Islamist recapitulating gnosticism: the barely contained rage for the physical.
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@soapjackal@nydwracu That's the final irony: US is at base a peasant society. Foreign elites have always loathed that. -
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@soapjackal@nydwracu In Europe, it seems like the bourgeoisie think of themselves as the only real people, the peasants are just furniture.
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@St_Rev@soapjackal@nydwracu also nb torture in prison will do that to a person -
@St_Rev@soapjackal@nydwracu I do think that to some extent Qutb's eschatology can be usefully understood as a pathology arising from that -
@schakalsynthetc@soapjackal@nydwracu hm, interesting point -
@St_Rev@soapjackal@nydwracu rage at the physical, especially, because torture weaponizes the inescapability of embodiment -
@schakalsynthetc@soapjackal@nydwracu Qutb wrote this essay before being imprisoned though. -
@St_Rev@soapjackal@nydwracu foo. and I did sort of vaguely think "hm, maybe I should doublecheck the chronology before yapping", even -
@St_Rev@soapjackal@nydwracu ah, wait, but he did have chronic health problems so the basic sarcophobia hypothesis still sort of holds up -
@St_Rev@soapjackal@nydwracu did a huge term paper on Egyptian Islamism once so I used to know quite a lot abt it but I've forgotten much - 2 more replies
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@soapjackal@nydwracu The whole distancing-from-animals approach is adorably quaint. Reminds me of Leon Kass.
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