Firstly, I love the bad combover metaphor - insightful and simultaneously hilarious! This letter had me musing about “non-binary” and “intersectionality”. It seems we might want to work hard at being non-binary in regard to politics and religion (those fights over dogma). As you refer to central truths, those central points of being, it feels important to remove oneself from striving forward toward the easy demands of “either-or”. Also, intersectionality. True intersectionality, in my humble opinion, is Christ on the cross. The Intersection of God and man being the vertical, and the embrace of our fellow humans made in the image of God on the horizontal. Those feel like the true intersectionality and non-binary. Clearly some demonic force(s) has twisted those concepts in our current frenzied wokeness.
Yes! So many of our most deranged political ideas can be understood as attempts to "bring about, long before their appointed time, conditions which, if all goes well, will rightly obtain in the future." Eric Voegelin described this as "immanentizing the eschaton" which is so obscure and pretentious it actually horseshoes back around to become funny and meme-able. But that's what Ahriman does: tries to immanentize the eschaton. And then you have all these efforts to recreate a simulacrum of the past--I think that's how we can understand the worst excesses of "trad" discourse, among other things.
These are new ideas for me. (And appreciated) But oh, that last line is glorious.
Firstly, I love the bad combover metaphor - insightful and simultaneously hilarious! This letter had me musing about “non-binary” and “intersectionality”. It seems we might want to work hard at being non-binary in regard to politics and religion (those fights over dogma). As you refer to central truths, those central points of being, it feels important to remove oneself from striving forward toward the easy demands of “either-or”. Also, intersectionality. True intersectionality, in my humble opinion, is Christ on the cross. The Intersection of God and man being the vertical, and the embrace of our fellow humans made in the image of God on the horizontal. Those feel like the true intersectionality and non-binary. Clearly some demonic force(s) has twisted those concepts in our current frenzied wokeness.
Yes! So many of our most deranged political ideas can be understood as attempts to "bring about, long before their appointed time, conditions which, if all goes well, will rightly obtain in the future." Eric Voegelin described this as "immanentizing the eschaton" which is so obscure and pretentious it actually horseshoes back around to become funny and meme-able. But that's what Ahriman does: tries to immanentize the eschaton. And then you have all these efforts to recreate a simulacrum of the past--I think that's how we can understand the worst excesses of "trad" discourse, among other things.