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jordinn

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I'm a parish minister in covenant with a progressive denomination, currently taking a walk on the wild side through academia. I live in both Vermont and Newfoundland, study the political economy of public and public-adjacent institutions, and am extremely not into austerity or genocide (and I don't find a lot of daylight between the theology that allows either of those things to occur).

Wondering what happens to make just peace politically tenable. Here for futurity, yours and theirs.

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Starting my summer reading with Robert Bellah has so utterly broken my brain that every time I think about it I look like the conspiracy board meme but I'm just staring into space

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Bellah argues that individualism is the core theology and reflexive practice that makes America, America. With this I do not quibble.

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Bellah argued also, however, that the expressive individualism that gave rise to 60s era civil disobedience and the summer of peace and love is merely the other side of the greed is good individualism that then comes in to steal the show, and which evolves again into the best-life, best-me therapy-and-meds individualism that then pops up to assuage the upper middle class hurting in a gutted society.

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Ok, that was fascinating.

I'm definitely as upset as anyone not IMMEDIATELY personally affected by the ongoing genocide, and/yet no matter how I squint have not been able to get with 'and because I am upset about the wholesale slaughter that the US is funding, I will do my part to make it easier for someone who literally wants Gaza obliterated to win a hotly contested and very close election.'

Through the looking glass.

Thanks very much, village, for quietly letting people answer. 💗 🙌🏻

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NYT on Trump: We COULD refuse to legitimize a candidacy so convoluted by felony convictions that the country's top legal scholars are not certain he should legally be on the ballot, but we decline to make him look unserious as a contender

NYT on RFK Jr: HE HAS A WORM IN HIS BRAIN, LET US REPEAT: A WORM

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Ok. If you are A US CITIZEN (if not, this question ISN'T FOR YOU) and are not voting for Biden, I would like to hear (explain it to me like I'm five) what, in your view, this will accomplish.

Edit: If you ARE voting Biden, please shhh.

I will not argue with you; I'm genuinely interested in what you think the outcome can or will be from your own and others' non-vote.

After I learn this, I will be deleting this Russian troll-bait of a post, though those I am talking to are not that.

Thanks!

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You think that saying yes to your child playing a string instrument is paying for an instrument and also for lessons and then sitting through innumerable bad public performances but hear this it is also asking 'where is your viola' and 'why did you leave it at school' every other weekday for 12 years

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Two decades ago Greg Dening described 'history' as a politically tenable telling of events; I read this last week and haven't stopped thinking about it since

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Huge shout out to the Israeli people who, like many everywhere else, have totally had it and are now out in force demanding a ceasefire, blocking traffic, disobeying their government, trying to bring hostages home, and generally saying ENOUGH.

Every one of them is putting themselves in grave danger from an unhinged regime. GO, brave Israeli peace movement- we are cheering for you, too.

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I do wish, based on the response on this post, that people yearned as intensely and needfully for cheering on and humanizing of the Palestinian people. What would it be like for the same basic human care to be extended in both cases? When you love two people, caring for both is not an attack on either. It is simply what our hearts exist to do.

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realizing that 'All of This is Fine, Actually' is what we can expect from international media along the entire 21st century journey

War: fine
Intensifying inequality: fine
Fascism overtaking social democracy everywhere: fine
Climate change: fine

This isn't a glitch

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Thinking a lot about how many educated 'centrist' Americans view not being impacted by the lives of others as the most clear and desirable form of meaningful freedom

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This is some of what I'm hearing from people in their resistance to (and even outrage regarding) students protesting war. At the current level of disruption, the looming threat is that no one is going to be allowed to simply go about their own business, i.e., not care. 'I shouldn't have to live with this in my face.'

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'I shouldn't have to live with other people's pain in my face' is a morally normative claim about agency, freedom, and relationship. And it does seem to be one of several threads at the very heart of American liberalism.

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The thing is, though, individual disconnection is largely an illusion, one paid for by costs externalized onto others. One person, family, or group's maintained illusion of separation is other bodies' removal, repression, and restriction.

Moreover, it's an illusion that at times of great social stress breaks down to the point that it's difficult or impossible to maintain even for those accustomed to being able to purchase it.

So what do we learn here?

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@CedarTea I guess what I'm saying, and what I imagine, is that increasing systemic instability and unpredictability are likely to break down the infrastructure that forced isolation/separation depends on. I think this will happen again and again, probably with increasing frequency, and possibly with increasing freak-outs from militarized police and those who imagine themselves protected by them. I'm not sure that the separation will hold, even given violently repressive response.

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Thank you, McSweeney's

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https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/a-message-from-the-chancellor-on-the-recent-student-protest

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The media say that students should choose something between dissenting feelings and protest actions but hear me out what if universities chose something between silence and snipers

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Those at the helm of most liberal institutions have been carefully taught that the middle is the way, and that to be in the middle means standing clearly for nothing.

Leadership by abdication of leadership.

It is such a profound mismatch for the urgencies of this moment.

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The resulting moral vacuum and organizational shitshow makes the fascist come-hither all the more seductive for those undecided between 'I want to believe in better-for-everyone' and 'I want to kneecap my neighbor.'

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We gave these kids neutrality and equivocation. We showed them what it looks like to respond to humanitarian calamity with careful gestures assured not to anger money or power.

AND OUR STUDENTS MET THESE EFFORTS BY CONSTRUCTING ENCAMPMENTS ON OUR MANICURED LAWNS.

Sadly, the only option that remains is sniper fire.

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A friend sent me an excerpt from the Incomplete Manifesto For Growth this morning and I dug it.

https://brucemaustudio.com/projects/an-incomplete-manifesto-for-growth/

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Meanwhile, the news: On US campuses students are protesting. There is no reason for this; it's just something that students sometimes do. They could be in class, but instead they are protesting. Protesters are no longer students; we will call them demonstrators. Some professors also became demonstrators. Demonstrators disrupt things. Demonstrators might disrupt graduation. Demonstrators make college presidents sad.

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